Posts by Nathan Pine
Man saves dog from snowstorm, exactly 12 years later gets heartbeaking call
More than a decade on from rescuing a dog in the middle of a snowstorm, a man was stunned to learn that she’d wound up in a shelter in an entirely different state. Needless to say, he didn’t hesitate before going to her rescue once again. On January 7, 2014, Aaron Foster couldn’t believe…
Read MorePorsche sales slump most in 16 years on poor China demand
Its sales are down 26% as the nation’s economic slowdown hit consumers across all income brackets [BERLIN] Porsche’s deliveries fell 10 per cent last year, following weak demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and a slump in China. This is the steepest drop since 2009, when the global financial crisis roiled the markets. The Volkswagen luxury…
Read MoreLondon Film Critics’ Circle To Fete Guillermo Del Toro
The London Film Critics’ Circle will hand Guillermo Del Toro the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, the organization’s top honor, at this year’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. “Thank you to the London Film Critics’ Circle. It’s an honour to receive the Dilys Powell Award from a group I greatly admire and to…
Read MoreLola Shoneyin’s Novel ‘The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi’s Wives’ To Be Adapted For Big Screen With Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife Films
EXCLUSIVE: EbonyLife Films, the film strand of Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife Group, is set to make a feature adaptation of Lola Shoneyin’s internationally acclaimed 2010 novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. The film, which is eyeing a theatrical release in December, is EbonyLife Films’ first film project in five years. Regarded as one of the…
Read MoreGrok made sexual image of Ashley St. Clair covered in Swastikas: lawsuit
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, is suing his company, xAI, alleging its Grok AI tool had been used to generate explicit images of her. These include images of St. Clair, who is Jewish, “stripped and put in a string bikini covered with swastikas,” and “as a child stripped down…
Read MoreBerlin Film Festival To Open With ‘No Good Men’ By Afghan Director Shahrbanoo Sadat
No Good Men, the latest feature from Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, will open the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. The film follows Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul TV, who is convinced that there are no good men in Afghanistan. But when the reporter Qodrat takes her on assignment just before the Taliban’s return, sparks fly –…
Read MoreBBC Gets 1,000 Complaints About Pro-Trump Bias After Reporting On His Plan To “Acquire” Greenland
The BBC has received more than 1,000 complaints about its output being biased in favor of Donald Trump, following a report about the president’s plans to use U.S. military might to “acquire” Greenland. BBC News has consistently used the word “acquire” to characterize Trump’s ambitions for the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, with viewers taking particular…
Read MoreDisney+ EMEA Promotes ‘Rivals’ Commissioner & Three Others As Content Chief Angela Jain Sets Out Ambitions Internally
EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has promoted four executives in Europe as new content chief Angela Jain says she wants to set her team up “for long term success in EMEA.” In one of her first big decisions since stepping into the role, Jain has promoted Rivals commissioner Lee Mason and Blind Date overseer Sean Doyle to VPs…
Read MoreIs a Red Line Still a Red Line?
One of the most embarrassing moments of the extremely embarrassing Barack Obama presidency came in the context of the Syrian civil war. In August 2012, Obama vowed that “a red line for us,” which would thereby necessitate some sort of American intervention, “is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or…
Read MoreGameStop shutters stores across California
GameStop is shutting down more stores in California. The video game, toy and collectible retailer has been struggling to find a way to thrive in a market where most of what it sells is easier to get online. It has been shrinking its brick-and-mortar retail footprint for years to lower costs and has reportedly shut…
Read MoreDonald Trump Given Nobel Peace Prize By Venezuela’s Opposition Leader — But Nobel Committee Says It Is Not Transferable
Donald Trump has his long-awaited Nobel Peace Prize, but only symbolically. Yesterday at the White House, Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was awarded the prize late last year, gave her medal to the POTUS in recognition of what she described as his committment to Venezuela’s freedom. This came after Trump greenlit an American operation…
Read MoreBank of Japan says sales of its ETF holdings to start next week
[TOKYO] The Bank of Japan said it will start selling its holdings of exchange-traded funds on Monday (Jan 19), a project that may take more than a century if it proceeds at the currently planned pace. The BOJ will start selling its holdings of ETFs and Real Estate Investment Trusts from next week, according to…
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