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Norwegian police say the husband of former Prime Minister Erna Solberg, will not face investigation over his stock trading during her two terms in office

The landmark fraud trial against Sam Bankman-Fried came to a swift end Thursday night as the jury found him guilty on all counts after mere hours of deliberation.

Kang the Conqueror, touted as the MCU's next formidable adversary in the wake of «Avengers: End Game,» saw its trajectory disrupted by the embroiled actor, Jonathan Majors. This unforeseen conundrum left Marvel Studios pondering whether to persist with Majors as the emblematic face of their next formidable villain or explore an alternative path. Recent revelations now indicate that Marvel executives contemplated shifting towards a Doctor Doom storyline following the actor's arrest in March.

«Echo», which will premier on January 10, is the first Marvel production to launch simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu, the first which will be available for binge-watching and the first to carry a TV-MA rating. Director and executive producer Sydney Freeland emphasizes the significance of representation as the series revolves around Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), Marvel's first superhero series featuring a deaf and Native American character. “Representation was extremely important to myself and to everyone on the crew,” Freeland said at a press event for the series in October, where she was joined by executive producer Brad Winderbaum (who’s also head of streaming, television and animation at Marvel).

Congress circles in Delhi are watching with growing unease and bewilderment the almost daily bickering among senior ministers in the Karnataka government over the leadership issue, less than six months after the Siddaramaiah government assumed office. Congress galleries are abuzz as the inhouse debate on how long Siddaramaiah would last and demand for 3-4 deputy chief ministers have continued despite AICC's September order to senior ministers not to squabble in public. IT and tourism minister Priyank Kharge, better known as the son of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, added spice to the party feud on Friday. Just a day after Siddaramaiah asserted that he would remain CM for five years, Kharge junior not only tried to dismiss it as the CM's personal view but expressed readiness to be the CM if the high command so wished.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) inside the Banaras Hindu University campus from the rest of the varsity, following a female student's molestation was criticised by a section of BHU students. Massive protests had broken out on Thursday at IIT-BHU after a student complained that she was molested by three unidentified men on a motorcycle late on Wednesday night when she was taking a walk in the campus with a male friend. According to her complaint, the accused kissed her forcibly, stripped and made videos of her.

A new MacOS malware, known as KandyKorn and linked to the notorious Lazarus Group, has recently been identified. The malware was discovered by the Elastic Security Labs.

Jess Glynne on Friday confirmed their relationship after they were sharing while strolling arm in arm in Central London on Friday. The two were seen laughing together before they and locked lips after which Scott and Glynne went their separate ways at Great Portland Street station. The public outing for Scott, 39, and Glynne, 34 comes amid months of speculation about their relationship. The same have been spotted together at numbers of events in recent months. This week, the duo also attended The Haunted House of Friends Halloween party presented by Casamigos Tequila in London. As per their close friends, the pair posed separately for photos but went home together. They two were also seen sitting next to each other at the 2023 Attitude Awards in Camden last month.

Remote workers flooded Book Club Bar, a popular bar/café/bookstore in Manhattan’s East Village, when pandemic restrictions were lifted in June 2021.

car crash detection feature, identified initially by Android Central, is now supported in five additional countries according to Google's Pixel phone support page. These newly listed countries are India, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and Switzerland. As per a report by Gadgets 360, the feature is not currently accessible in Indian languages.

Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, the fielding medal ceremony post-match was a cut above the rest with it getting a 'legendary' touch. The occasion was graced by none other than legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar virtually. The 'God of Cricket' lauded captain Rohit Sharma and the team management for coming up with a such team bonding exercise.

KPMG India, KPMG US, and KPMG UK are in talks to merge their advisory practices—consulting, risk, tech consulting, and deal advisory—in an industry-first move to scale up its consulting services, which have been driving the firm’s growth in India, said multiple people with knowledge of the matter. The combined entity will invest aggressively in scaling up the India advisory practice and growing client servicing capabilities in India. Notably, the tax and audit practice—managed through affiliate BSR & Co— will likely remain separate, although this detail is still under discussion.

FTX imploded. In its heyday the exchange was one of the world’s largest, with millions of customers and billions of dollars in customer funds. It was seen as the future of the crypto industry—a high-tech offering from a brilliant wunderkind who wanted to play nicely with regulators and usher in an era in which crypto could really go mainstream.

Adapted from “Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets" by Jeff Horwitz, to be published on Nov. 14, 2023, by Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2023 by Jeff Horwitz. Write to Jeff Horwitz at [email protected]

air quality levels deteriorating significantly, the Delhi government will likely bring back its 'odd-even' policy for restricting the movement of vehicles in the capital city. «We are not delaying (for odd-even). The Supreme Court has given the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) the mandate to take the decision.

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Crews began the arduous process of removing layers of rubble and debris from a collapsed coal mine preparation plant in eastern Kentucky Thursday

Elon Musk who alone owns around 13% of Tesla’s equity (source: Nasdaq), Apple’s insiders hold only 0.07% of its pie (source: Yahoo Finance), so Apple’s ownership is less concentrated. This also means Apple’s senior managers have less of an incentive to make decisions in their own interest, making the company better disposed to shareholder-value maximization. Shareholder diversity helps align decision-making with the interests of all shareholders, which could also explain why its shares are highly valued.

In what appears to be a part of pro-Palestinian protests in the U.K., live rodents were released inside three separate McDonald’s restaurants. In one incident the animals looked to be spray-painted red, black and green – the colours of the Palestinian flag.

Law must be forged on the anvil of foresight, but even the farthest foresight cannot prevent it from being laden with gaps and ambiguities that may be exploited by the unscrupulous. This is the reason why lawmakers often have to engage in the process of revamping laws. However, in the pursuit of making the laws foolproof, sometimes laws can become a tad too complicated or burdensome on those governed by them. Hence, lawmakers must regularly assess the practicability of the norms laid down and consider toning them down, wherever necessary.