Month: January 2020

Click:貼頂風扇燈BANGKOK, Thailand —  World shares fell Monday as financial markets were rattled by escalating tensions in the Middle East following the killing by a U.S. airstrike of an Iranian general. Germany’s DAX dropped 1.9% to 12,968.93 and the CAC 40 in Paris gave up 1.3% to 5,967.66. In London, the FTSE 100 lost 1.1% to 7,540.92.…

Saturday’s tea party by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts turned into quite a star-studded affair. Laura Dern, a supporting actress nominee for “Marriage Story,” strode down the corridor on her way to the event. En route, she spotted Ted Danson of “The Good Place” and Mary Steenburgen of “On Becoming a God…

View this post on Instagram Every year @goldmeetsgolden gets more incredible. I grew up watching the Olympics pretty religiously, and I always love meeting the athletes who I’ve admired most of my life, and a lot of the new ones representing us this year. More pictures forthcoming in stories. This song , sung by @cynthiaerivo…

Cynthia Erivo, the star of “Harriet,” made a memorable entrance at the 2020 Golden Globes on Sunday night, partly because she was one of the first nominees to hit the red carpet, and partly for the simple but stunning custom-made, hand-beaded Thom Browne off-the-shoulder gown she wore, which included floral embroidery both inside and out.…

NAIROBI, Kenya —  Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counter-terror forces in Kenya before dawn Sunday, killing three American Department of Defense personnel and destroying several U.S. aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled, U.S. and Kenyan authorities said. The attack on the Manda Bay Airfield was the Al Qaeda-linked group’s first…

CARACAS, Venezuela —  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó was violently blocked Sunday from presiding over a special session of congress where rivals tried to install a substitute in what was condemned as a hijacking of the country’s last democratic institution. Guaidó led a small group of lawmakers trying to access the neoclassical palace where the opposition-controlled…

WASHINGTON —  It was 1943. Across a battle theater of tiny, far-flung Pacific island chains and vast reaches of open ocean, U.S. forces were locked in desperate, bloody warfare with Japanese troops. And American military strategists had Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the surprise attack 16 months earlier on Pearl Harbor, in their sights. In a…

TOKYO —  Japan’s justice minister vowed Monday to strengthen border departure checks and review bail conditions after Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, fled the country. Masako Mori told reporters at a news conference the ministry has already acted to prevent a recurrence but declined to give details. She was asked about reports that Ghosn had hidden…

Mattia Binotto was handed a host of new responsibilities when he took the helm of Ferrari’s Gestione Sportiva a year ago, including the task of rigorously managing the Italian outfit’s finances. Following a restructuring of the Scuderia’s top brass at the start of 2019, Binotto took over from Maurizio Arrivabene, a move many perceived as…

Le jeu des chaises musicales à la télé à son apogée! David Pujadas remplacé par Anne-Sophie Lapix, cette décision de France Télévision a fait couler beaucoup d’encre. Mais le mercato du petit écran s’amuse au jeu des chaises musicales et de nombreux bouleversements sont à prévoir pour la rentrée. Comme Cyril Hanouna produira la Nouvelle…