The European Commission has fined Google €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) for breaching E.U. antitrust rules and preventing rivals from placing their search advertisements on third-party websites. The E.U. antitrust regulator said that Google, which is supposed to play an intermediary role for advertisers, imposed restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites. “Today the Commission has fined Google €1.49 billion for […]

MILLIONS of households will be hit with a council tax increase of up to 4.99 per cent this April – but there are ways to cut costs now. Local authorities are allowed to hike council tax bills by up to 4.99 per cent in the 2019/20 financial year. That's made up of 2.99 per cent for the general local authority […]

March is Women’s History Month, which means for the past few weeks, education-focused websites have been full of lessons plans and ideas for teaching children about women in history. What happens in kids’ history books the other 11 months of the year, when women are not a focus, is another story, data shows. Approximately one woman for every three men […]

Britain is set to be hotter than Madrid as warm air blows in from the Azores and sends temperatures close to 20C, some forecasts claim. Wednesday is the first day of spring, and the season is getting off to a mild and relatively calm start just days after much of the country was hit by strong winds and heavy rain […]

A Superman entrance! The incredible moment a baby pulls the iconic hero pose seconds after being born via C-section – and it was captured on camera by his father Bree Jessica from New South Wales gave birth to baby Harry via C-section The first time the mother saw her baby he entered the world with his fist in the air […]

Even by the standards of network television, NBC’s “The Village” wears its inspiration boldly and openly: It’s “This Is Us,” except set among the disparate residents of an apartment building rather than the members of a family. “The Village” leans, hard, into the “This Is Us” formula of trauma-as-drama, deriving its tone from its characters perpetually making their way through […]

Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ Entertainment has amped up its overseas filmmaking efforts to the point that it is now producing more movies outside Korea than at home. At FilMart in Hong Kong, CJ unveiled a slate of 13 new titles hailing from the U.S., Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. “Our aim is to find hidden gem-like creators in local industries, […]

Well, don’t say we didn’t warn you. This Wednesday’s full moon will be a doozy — and not just because it’s the third consecutive supermoon to come our way this year. Also known as the Worm Moon, the March 2019 full moon will reach its peak on the 20th in Libra, a sign deeply preoccupied with relationships of all kinds, […]

Nearly 1,500 Brits have signed up to assisted suicide clinics in ­Switzerland to end their own lives. The two main facilities used by people travelling from the UK have their highest British membership yet – more than a 75% growth combined over the past four years. British clients of Dignitas stood at 1,341 last year and Life Circle, the country’s […]

Scams are all the rage these days. Whether it’s watching one of the two competing Fyre Festival documentaries on Netflix or Hulu or tweeting about how every new scam making headlines needs to be made into movies, people can’t get enough. And if you love diving into a scam or con artist movie yourself, there are plenty for you to […]