A model of Angry Birds character ‘Red’ sits on display inside the reception area of the Rovio Entertainment Oy headquarters in Espoo, Finland, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japanese gaming giant Sega announced Monday it has made a 706 million euro ($776 million) offer for the maker of the
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Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced by Moscow’s city court to 25 years in jail after it found him guilty of charges including treason and spreading misinformation about Russia’s military. A long-time opponent of President Vladimir Putin, he was arrested last year after criticising the war in Ukraine and the heavy-handed tactics deployed by Russia’s military.
A US Air National Guardsman has been charged after allegedly registering with a spoof hitman website and agreeing to murder someone for $5,000. Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, is said to have met an undercover FBI agent to collect photos and details of a fictionalised target for him to murder. Prosecutors say he also submitted a
Gerry Hutch has been found not guilty of murdering a man at a Dublin hotel in 2016. The 50-year-old stood trial accused of the murder of David Byrne who was shot six times at a crowded boxing weigh-in event at the Regency Hotel. It was one of the first deadly attacks of the Hutch-Kinahan gangland
Sega Sammy, the gaming firm behind Sonic the Hedgehog, has agreed a deal to buy rival Rovio Entertainment – best known for Angry Birds. The pair confirmed that the Japanese firm would pay €706m (£625m) for Rovio just days after takeover talks were revealed. The acquisition comes as Sega seeks to accelerate its growth in
Elon Musk’s SpaceX made final preparations early on Monday to launch its powerful new Starship rocket system to space for the first time, on a brief but highly anticipated uncrewed test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas. The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet (120 m) high, was
The European Space Agency is sending its first ever dedicated mission to Jupiter. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will launch from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket. Sky’s Science and Technology Editor Tom Clarke tells you everything you need to know. #skynews #jupiter #europeanspaceagency SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews
Attorneys representing Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham say that he intends to challenge the subpoena that he was issued by an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. CNN’s Sara Murray reports. #CNN #News
7:27 PM ET Another weekend of European football is in the books and plenty of action to sink our teeth into. Aston Villa are making a late-season surge for a Champions League spot, Borussia Dortmund slipped up once more, and PSG are marching onto another league title despite bad form. Elsewhere, Inaki Williams ensured Athletic
The Phantom Of The Opera is no longer in New York – and has taken its final bow after a record-breaking 35-year run on Broadway. The show, which tells the story of a disfigured phantom who haunts a Paris opera house and falls in love with a singer there, was Broadway’s longest-running show, and ended
6:51 PM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Kyle Larson never thought he would tame the half-mile, paperclip-shaped track at Martinsville Speedway. And then came Sunday. Larson passed Joey Logano with 29 laps to go and went on to win his second Cup Series race of the season on a day when NASCAR welcomed back
A disability campaigner has told police forces they should “do more” to combat a rise in hate crimes targeting people with disfigurements. It comes after “sobering” research shows 33% of people with visible differences or disfigurements said they had experienced a hate crime – compared with 28% in 2019. The Changing Faces survey also suggests
This morning, Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors unveiled its next-generation EV architecture that will be the backbone to future models going forward. XPeng states the new SEPA 2.0 platform will not only shorten future models’ R&D cycles, but offer a modular, interchangeable, end-to-end solution that will support a multitude of vehicle types – like its
Sales of the sub-$30,000 Chevy Bolt, being assembled here in Orion Township, Michigan, allowed GM to recently pass Ford as a distant No. 2 behind Tesla in EVs. Joe White | Reuters From the headlines, car buyers might think the most important force driving down the cost of electric vehicles is the $7,500 tax credit
Government spending on storing personal protective equipment (PPE) in China increased by £2.35m in the year to January – as households struggle to make ends meet amid the cost of living crisis. According to data revealed by the Labour Party, the taxpayer paid £23.5m to store life-saving protective equipment from February 2021 to January 2022
Barclays is joining the ranks of global investment banks taking the axe to jobs amid a slowdown in dealmaking and stock market flotations. Sky News has learnt that the British lender will this week cut more than 100 roles in its investment bank, with sources saying the layoffs would not be confined to a single
Hamburg’s fire brigade has issued an “extreme danger” alert as a cloud possibly containing “chemical components” drifts towards the city centre. The German city’s authorities are advising people to avoid the area and told residents to close doors, windows and ventilation. It comes after a fire at a storage facility in the Rothenburgsort district forced
LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams join CNN’s Anderson Cooper to share the harrowing details of their kidnapping by a Mexican cartel. #CNN #News #Shorts
11:32 AM BST South Africa head coach Jacques Nienaber is to quit his role after the Rugby World Cup in France this year to join Irish side Leinster, where he will replace senior coach Stuart Lancaster. Nienaber was assistant coach with the Springboks when they won the 2019 World Cup in Japan and was elevated
In this article VORB SPCE ASTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Virgin Orbit started as a program of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in 2012, before being spun off into a separate company five years later. In the private space race, Virgin Orbit contended its method of launching its rockets — known as “air launch”