Founder of Asian super-app Gojek sentenced to years in jail for corruption
BBC NewsThe case against Gojek founder Nadiem Makarim relates to a laptop deal made during his term as Indonesia's education minister.
Read Full Story →The case against Gojek founder Nadiem Makarim relates to a laptop deal made during his term as Indonesia's education minister.
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Read article →Netflix's Human Vapor is a sprawling conspiracy story filled with intruiging turns built on one of Toho's most beloved Showa era tokusatsu films.
Read article →Derek Lam has more than 31,000 followers on TikTok and nearly 40,000 on X as of this writing. He is shirtless a lot, he dances a lot, and he is shirtless dancing a lot, which may explain how he got so many fans. His c...
Read article →Grab your baker boy caps; an immersive “Peaky Blinders” experience is coming to London, U.K.The experience, called “Peaky Blinders Underworld,” will transport guests into the shadowy criminal world of Thomas Shelby (p...
Read article →Modern Warfare 4 isn't coming to Game Pass on its release date this year, and the latest ads are reminding players of that.
Read article →When President Donald Trump moved from a stance of military confrontation with Iran to seeking a ceasefire and engaging in diplomatic talks, many commentators highlighted the political motives behind this change. Some...
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Read article →Estonia's parliament voted 55 to 34 on June 20, 2023, to legalize same-sex marriage, making Estonia the first Central European country — and the first former Soviet republic — to do so. The legislation amended the Family Law Act to allow marriage between any two adults regardless of sex, and also granted same-sex couples full adoption rights. The law took effect on January 1, 2024. The vote reflected a significant shift in Estonian society: polls showed 53 percent of the population supported same-sex marriage at the time of passage. The milestone was seen as a meaningful departure from the broader pattern in Central and Eastern Europe, where same-sex marriage remains illegal across most countries that were once part of the Soviet bloc.
Read Full Story →Andrew Callaghan is the creator and host of Channel 5, a YouTube-based street journalism operation that has become one of the most distinctive voices in American media. Starting with "All Gas No Brakes" — a series launched in 2019 in which he drove an RV across the country interviewing people at fringe events — Callaghan developed an interviewing style that is non-confrontational, curious, and deeply empathetic.
Read article →Rod McKuen was, by any commercial measure, the most successful poet in American publishing history. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he sold more than 60 million books of poetry and 100 million recordings worldwide, filled Carnegie Hall annually on his birthday, and wrote songs for Frank Sinatra. His plain-spoken, romantically accessible verse attracted a devoted mass audience.
Read article →Tarn Coffey is an Anchorage-based entrepreneur who made an unlikely bet: growing sweet corn commercially in Nenana, Alaska. After noticing that the region's long summer days produced enough heat to mature corn outdoors, Coffey spent a decade growing it in his backyard before scaling up. In 2022 he won 225 acres of state land at auction and planted his first commercial crops in spring 2023.
Read article →In May 2023, Ireland's Data Protection Commission issued Meta Platforms a record €1.2 billion fine — the largest penalty ever handed down under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation — for systematically transferring the personal data of European Facebook users to servers in the United States in violation of GDPR rules.
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