Brexit helps New York take top finance spot from London: Survey
LONDON: Fallout from Brexit has helped New York overtake London to become the world’s pre-eminent financial center, a survey of financial executives by Duff & Phelps showed on Tuesday. The consultants said their annual Global Regulatory Outlook survey contacted 180 executives in asset management, private equity, hedge funds, banking and brokerage. They were asked where […]
U.N. expert says Julian Assange is suffering psychological torture
Julian Assange has been subjected to drawn-out “psychological torture”, a UN rights expert said Friday, accusing the United States, Britain, Ecuador, and Sweden of “collective persecution” of the WikiLeaks founder. The United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, also warned that if London agrees to an extradition […]
New Documents in Jussie Smollett Case Reveal Police Told Deal in Works a Month Before Charges Dropped
New documents on the Jussie Smollett case show that prosecutors told Chicago police detectives a possible deal with the Empire actor was in the works a month before charges against him were dropped. Thursday reveal that Cook County prosecutors were investigating investigating Smollett’s case that a deal with the actor could include a $ 10,000 fine and […]
#MeToo: Vikas Bahl cleared of sexual harassment
Bollywood director Vikas Bahl, who was asked to step away from the under-production Hrithik Roshan-starrer Super 30 after an employee accused him of sexual harassment, has been cleared of all charges, Indian Express reports. Bahl has been cleared by production company Reliance Entertainment’s internal complaints committee, which was investigating the harassment complaints made by an unnamed employee late last year. The […]
Boney Kapoor confirms Mr India 2
Late Sridevi’s hit film Mr India (1987) is going to get a sequel, and this time it’s happening. Boney Kapoor confirmed the news to Mid-Day. “The idea is to create a reboot first, and then, make a franchise of it. It needs to be made more contemporary. We have a basic structure in mind. We haven’t decided on […]
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton May Launch a Film and TV Production Company
LOS ANGELES: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton are in negotiations to come up with their own film and TV production company. Hillary and Chelsea are likely to explore the idea of launching a film and television production company and they will focus on stories that revolve around women, […]
At least 4 killed in gun rampage in northern Australia
SYDNEY: A gunman killed four people and wounded one in the Australian city of Darwin on Tuesday, authorities said, in one of the country’s most violent attacks in years. This is one individual who has acted individually and, unfortunately, taken the action they have,” Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw told reporters. Kershaw said a 47-year-old man, […]
Indian-origin woman in US gets 22 years in jail for killing stepdaughter
Shamdai Arjun will spend 22 years to up to life behind bars for the August 2016 killing. An Indian-origin woman in the US has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison for strangling her nine-year-old stepdaughter to death in a bathtub, a crime described as “unimaginable” by the court. Shamdai Arjun, 55, of Queens, […]
Federal lawsuit filed against Arizona anti-immigrant groups
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against a pair of Arizona-based anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups accused of “threatening” and “harassing” religious communities working with migrants and refugees. The lawsuit filed against several members of Patriot Movement AZ and AZ Patriots seeks unspecified punitive damages and asks a federal judge […]
German Nurse Convicted of Murdering 85 Patients
Niels Högel, a 42-year-old nurse in Germany, was found guilty of murdering 85 of his patients on Thursday and sentenced to life in prison. Authorities say while Högel was working at clinics in the northern German towns of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg between 2000 and 2005, he injected deadly doses of drugs on his patients to […]
