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Ronald Bruner Jr., Cameron Graves, Miles Mosley, Tony Austin, Kamasi Washington, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, and Ryan Porter. |
Left, by Erika Goldring, right, by Andrew Lepley, both from Getty Images. |
Sammy Miller (center) and the Congregation. |
Courtesy of Sammy Miller and the Congregation. |
TOKYO Carlos Ghosn's sudden emergence on Twitter, a day before he was re-arrested on Thursday, has raised questions about whether the former Nissan Motor boss violated the strict terms of his $9 million bail - something his lawyer has denied. |
TOKYO Carlos Ghosn's sudden emergence on Twitter, a day before he was re-arrested on Thursday, has raised questions about whether the former Nissan Motor boss violated the strict terms of his $9 million (£6.8 million) bail - something his lawyer has denied. |
TOKYO International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach says he cannot remember a host city being as well prepared as Tokyo, a little more than 600 days before the start of the 2020 Summer Games. |
FUKUSHIMA, Japan A statue of a child wearing what appears to be a hazardous material suit unveiled near the site of a Japanese nuclear disaster has drawn a barrage of criticism from residents and forced the sculptor to apologise. |
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - Even a price hike can't slow Netflix down. |
On a conference call with analysts, Netflix executives admitted to being surprised by the company's current level of success. |
"We've outperformed the business in a way we didn't predict," David Wells, Netflix's CFO, said on a conference call with analysts Monday. "The business has grown faster than we expected." |
Much of that growth is now coming from overseas. The vast majority of the new subscribers last quarter, nearly 5.5 million, came from outside the United States as Netflix continues to gain ground in international markets. |
Netflix expects to have 700 programs available for customers in 2018. But there's at least one area it's not planning to expand into: news programs. |
"We're not looking to expand into news beyond the work that we're doing in shortform and longform feature documentary," Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, said on the call. |
All that original content doesn't come cheap. The company expects to spend as much as $8 billion on shows and movies this year, up from $6 billion in 2017, according to the earnings report. |
Nat Rothschild last night launched a last-ditch bid to save his coup at coal miner Bumi, after a shrewd manoeuvre by his bitter foes left the financier staring defeat in the face. |
Bankers at Morgan Stanley, Rothschild’s financial adviser, are understood to be asking three companies who bought a combined 10 per cent of Bumi earlier this week to join his side. |
The move will raise eyebrows because the new investors are expected to vote with Bumi’s co-founders, the Bakrie family. |
The two sides fell out last year over corporate governance amid an investigation into ‘financial irregularities’ at the coal miner. |
Their war has divided big City battalions, with 3.94 per cent shareholder Schroders lining up to support Rothschild and Standard Life, with 2.2 per cent, coming out in favour of the Bumi board. |
The three new investors bought their stake from former director Rosan Roselani in a deal that all but dashed Rothschild’s hopes of victory. |
The Takeover Panel had ruled Roeslani to be ‘in concert’ with the Bakries, an Indonesian political dynasty and sworn enemies of Rothschild. |
The decision meant that while the anti-Rothschild alliance held a combined 43 per cent stake, they would only have wielded 30 per cent of the votes at tomorrow’s critical shareholder meeting. But the trio who bought Roeslani’s stake have not been deemed by the Panel to be in concert with the Bakries, meaning the shares... |
Assuming the new investors vote against Rothschild, the ruling leaves him and his supporters with 31 per centc of the votes. |
The Bakries would have more than 40 per cent before the votes have begun being counted. |
Rothschild needs more than 50 per cent of the votes to succeed in ousting 12 of 14 directors and installing new ones, including himself. |
The new investors – Argyle Street Management, Flaming Luck Investments and Avenue Luxembourg – are expected to vote with the Bakries. |
Sources close to Rothschild said he expected a move designed to swing the balance in favour of the Bakries, but had not expected the Panel to lift voting restrictions on the Bakrie group. Despite their connections to the Bakries, bankers at Morgan Stanley are thought to be trying to persuade the new investors to switch... |
The Bumi board wants to remove the Bakries from the company and is supporting a proposal by the Indonesian family that they say is worth £385m to shareholders. |
The Bakries have said they will not co-operate with the exit plan if Rothschild wins the vote. |
Responding to the attack, Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, "Hmmm... God bless those who threw ink at me. I wish them well." |
For the second time, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had ink thrown at him in Bikaner while visiting former party treasurer Krishna Kant Seveda. |
LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. — At approximately 2:57 a.m. this morning, North Lebanon Police responded to a report of gunshots fired in the area of 2000 Weavertown Road. Shortly after the initial dispatch, officers were told that the resident at 1995 Weavertown Road was reporting that someone had forcibly entered the rear door ... |
During the investigation, officers also found that Garage #4 at 2000 Weavertown Road had been forcibly entered and items belonging to Batista and another person were found inside. It was also discovered that Batista had been in the yards around the residences at 1995 and 2000 Weavertown Road. |
Batista was charged with 2 counts of Criminal Trespass and 1 count of Loitering and Prowling at Night, and was transported to Lebanon County Central Booking, where he is currently awaiting arraignment. |
The investigation into the reports of gun shots is continuing. Anyone who may have information on this incident is asked to contact the North Lebanon Police at 717-273-8141 or Lebanon County Communications at 717-272-2054. |
By almost any measure, Oscar Pistorius is a monument to man’s capacity to overcome adversity. In 1986, he was born in Johannesburg without fibulas in both legs. Eleven months later, both were amputated. But rather than destroy his sense of self-worth, his amputations defined it. Disability forged confidence. Shortcomin... |
But Pistorius has never faced a challenge like this. More than one year after he blasted four bullets through his bathroom door, killing his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, Pistorius explained what had occurred that night. |
Pistorius, who referred to himself as “charitable,” detailed the depression that has swallowed him. He has nightmares. He can’t sleep, nor does he want to. When he wakes, he smells his dead girlfriend’s blood. He’s haunted. |
Pistorius, who pleaded not guilty last month, claims he thought an intruder had broken into his Pretoria mansion and, feeling vulnerable without his prosthetic legs, he fired his 9mm pistol to protect himself. Prosecutors, meanwhile, allege Pistorius murdered Steenkamp — who once told him, “I’m scared of you sometimes”... |
Pistorius’s version of events has repeatedly been cast into doubt over weeks of trial. The state has called several witnesses who say they heard shouting the night Steenkamp was killed before the gunshots, impugning Pistorius’s claim that yelling had only occurred after he’d realized Steenkamp was dead. |
Guns entered his life early. He said his mother was frightened. His father was often away, and he claimed they didn’t live in a nice area. His mother kept a pistol at home, the athlete added. |
A New York man alleges that the voice-activated digital assistant on the iPhone 4S doesn't do nearly as much as Apple portrays it doing in various ads and online marketing materials. |
Is Apple's Siri digital assistant on the iPhone 4S everything it's advertised to be? Not according to a New York man who is suing the iPhone-maker for what he alleges are intentionally misleading Apple ads promoting Siri's capabilities. |
Frank Fazio filed a class-action suit on March 6 with the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., claiming that in its marketing efforts, Apple is primarily differentiating the iPhone 4S from earlier iPhone models with the addition of its new voice-activated digital assistant. The problem, the suit alleges, is that Si... |
"Through an extensive and comprehensive nationwide marketing campaign, Defendant has conveyed the misleading and deceptive message that the iPhone 4S's Siri feature, a so-called voice-activated assistant, performs useful functions and otherwise works as advertised. |
"For example, in many of Apple's television advertisements, individuals are shown using Siri to make appointments, find restaurants, and even learn the guitar chords to classic rock songs or how to tie a tie. In the commercials, all of these tasks are done with ease with the assistance of the iPhone 4S's Siri feature, ... |
Fazio, who is represented by Robbins Geller, lists several Apple ads and online marketing materials that he alleges his own experience using Siri has shown him to contain false portrayals of the tecnology's functionality. |
"Promptly after the purchase of his iPhone 4S, Plaintiff realized that Siri was not performing as advertised," the suit states. "For instance, when Plaintiff asked Siri for directions to a certain place, or to locate a store, Siri either did not understand what Plaintiff was asking, or, after a very long wait time, res... |
Fazio alleges that Apple's ads promoting Siri on the iPhone 4S are "fundamentally and designedly false and misleading," thus "rendering the iPhone 4S merely a more expensive iPhone 4." |
The suit further claims that "continuous Siri usage dramatically increases an iPhone 4S users' monthly data usage, and can easily push users over their monthly data plans," while dismissing Apple's notification that Siri is in "beta" as being "buried in Apple's website." |
Fazio claims Apple's advertising violates California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act and the state's Unfair Competition Law. |
Apple had not responded to a request for comment on Monday. |
For more, see What You Need To Know About Siri on iPhone 4S, Siri, Are You Anti-Abortion?, and Siri Is Dumb. There, We Said It. |
Wicklow Port and Arklow Harbour are being assessed by SSE, the developer of the proposed Arklow Bank Wind Park, as possible locations for a future onshore service base for the offshore wind energy project. |
Specialist Irish geotechnical engineering and marine consultancy Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) Ltd. has been appointed by SSE to assess the suitability of Wicklow Port and Arklow Harbour as possible locations for an onshore base which could create 60 full-time jobs. |
GDG was originally established in Co Wicklow eight years ago and has substantial expertise in offshore wind engineering, having worked on projects across Europe. |
SSE is currently progressing plans to develop the Arklow Bank Wind Park off the coastline of Co Wicklow. When fully completed the new offshore wind farm, which is consented to a minimum installed capacity of 520MW, will be capable of generating enough renewable electricity to power around half a million homes each year... |
The project will require a land-based hub for servicing and maintaining the offshore wind farm, and as a base for around 60 full-time employees who will be recruited to work on its operation and maintenance. |
In addition, the development will support various companies across the supply chain, including those involved in vessel services, fuel, technical inputs, and loading and unloading of project cargoes. |
The development of a new service base and associated long-term employment represents an opportunity for significant new investment and ongoing economic activity at existing maritime facilities in Co Wicklow. |
The site selection process involves an engineering appraisal of individual port-side facilities in both Arklow and Wicklow against a set of constraints and development requirements identified by SSE and wind turbine suppliers. |
The study is currently under way and is considering the marine infrastructure required for the project, such as the type and number of crew transfer vessels necessary to support the wind farm, and the layout and requirements of any permanent quayside operations buildings. |
It is anticipated the study will be completed in the coming months, with a preferred location in either Wicklow or Arklow selected by summer. |
Development plans for the new operations and maintenance facility will be subject to the normal planning application and consultation process. |
'At SSE, we know the positive impacts that offshore wind projects can deliver to coastal communities. In north-east Scotland, where we are currently developing the 588MW Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm in the Moray Firth, we have seen the creation of a major new operations base in nearby Wick Harbour to support the wind fa... |
Mr O'Hara said that the company is currently engaging with community representatives in Arklow and Wicklow in order to have 'full regard for the technical requirements of the proposed base, as well as local stakeholder interests'. |
'Ultimately, this study will identify the optimum location for the Operations and Maintenance facility. Our ambition, however, is that regardless of the final location of the service base, the overall delivery of our Arklow Bank Wind Park project will bring long-term economic and employment benefits to coastal communit... |
Myles Buchanan Wicklow County Council has already taken ownership of the former Sonas building on Fitzwilliam Road in Wicklow town and intends for it to be run as a family hub for homelessness. |
Staff and pupils of Newtownmountkennedy Junior School marked the end of an era by holding a special celebration to honour the retirement of Principal Carmel Dempsey. |
Niamh O'Connor Kay - a pony heavily in foal that was rescued from Arklow with an horrific neck wound last month - is making a good recovery with the Irish Horse Welfare Trust. |
02:59 Taylor Swift to release new song called ME! |
Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Mongolia tomorrow will encourage closer alignment of China's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative with Mongolia's Prairie Road program, according to a senior official from the Foreign Ministry. |
Li's visit to Mongolia from tomorrow to Thursday will be the first by a Chinese premier in six years, and the first by any Chinese leader since the recent formation of Mongolia's new government. Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Kong Xuanyou said on Monday that the trip will strengthen bilateral relations and lead ... |
Li will hold talks with Mongolian Prime Minister Jargaltulga Erdenebat and they will jointly meet the press, said Kong. Li will also meet with Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and Chairman of the State Great Hural (Mongolia's parliament) Miyegombo Enkhbold. |
Li and Erdenebat will exchange views on dovetailing the two countries' economic corridor initiatives, and more cooperation in trade, industrial capacity, energy, finance, agriculture and animal husbandry. |
FORMER BSI banker Yeo Jiawei has been found guilty on all four counts of perverting the course of justice. |
The court on Wednesday found that while he was released on bail, Yeo had urged witnesses to lie to the police. |
Yeo, 33, was arrested on March 17 in connection with Singapore's largest money laundering probe linked to the 1MDB scandal. |
A separate trial, where Yeo faces seven other charges including money laundering and cheating, is expected to begin next year. |
The CBI and Enforcement Directorate Friday asserted before the Delhi High Court that custodial interrogation of Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram was required in the INX Media cases. |
The submission was made before Justice Sunil Gaur who was hearing the plea of Chidambaram seeking anticipatory bail in the corruption and money laundering cases relating to the INX Media scandal. |
The High Court reserved its order and the interim protection from arrest granted to Chidambaram will continue till the decision is passed on his plea for anticipatory bail. |
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected the appeal of a German couple who have been fighting for years to home school their kids, saying the government was within its rights to temporarily remove their children. |
Home schooling is illegal in Germany and the Strasbourg, France-based court noted it had already upheld that law in previous decisions. |
But Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, who are in their early 50s, had argued their rights to privacy of home and family life were violated by Hesse state authorities when their four children were taken from them in 2013. They were returned three weeks later after the couple agreed to send them to school. |
In a unanimous decision, however, the court found that there was "relevant and sufficient reasons for the withdrawal of some parts of the parents' authority, and the temporary removal of the children from their family home." |
Robert Clarke, an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF, a U.S.-based Christian legal advocacy group, who argued the Wunderlichs' case, said the Darmstadt couple was considering an appeal. |
"Petra and Dirk Wunderlich simply wanted to educate their children in line with their convictions and decided their home environment would be the best place for this," he said in a statement. |
The couple's children, whose names weren't released in line with privacy laws, are now 19, 18, 16 and 13. When the eldest reached school age in 2005, they refused to register her in a school, paying regulatory fines and accepting court decisions against them, but without changing their behavior. |
Between 2008 and 2011 they lived abroad with their children, and then returned to Germany. In 2012, the Darmstadt family court withdrew the Wunderlichs' right to determine their children's place of residence and right to take decisions on school matters and transferred those rights to the youth office. |
After appeals, the children were taken from them on Aug. 29, 2013, and placed into a children's home. They were returned Sept. 19, 2013, after they had been assessed and it was determined "the knowledge level of the children was not alarming" and the parents agreed to allow them to go to school. |
After they attended school for the year of 2013-2014 they were again taken out of the system, and the European court said Hesse state education officials have filed a criminal complaint against the parents for again failing to comply with the rules on compulsory school attendance. |
The court noted that at the time the children were taken from the couple, Dirk Wunderlich had made statements that "he considered children to be the 'property' of their parents" and that "on the information available at the time, the authorities reasonably assumed that the children were isolated, had no contact with an... |
It added that the "actual removal of the children did not last any longer than necessary in the children's best interest, and was also not implemented in a way which was particularly harsh or exceptional." |
"The domestic authorities struck a proportionate balance between the best interests of the children and those of the applicants (parents), which did not fall outside the margin of appreciation granted to the domestic authorities," the court concluded. |
Dirk Wunderlich called it a "disheartening day for our family" in the statement from the ADF. |
"After years of legal struggles, this is extremely frustrating for us and our children," he said. |
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