UK box office forecast to top £1bn in 2025 after year-on-year fall
The UK box office is forecast to surpass £1bn next year for the first time in six years, but cinema bosses still say moviegoing will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2026. The
The Indicators of this year and next : Planet Money
Kenny Malone, Jeff Guo, and Adrian Ma/NPR Kenny Malone, Jeff Guo, and Adrian Ma/NPR This year, there was some economic good news to go around. Inflation generally ticked down. Unemployment more or less
Prosecutors find workers in ‘slavery like’ conditions at Chinese car comp
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site in northeastern Brazil, where Chinese electric vehicle
Streamers like Netflix, Disney Plus get court reprieve from paying for Canadian conte
Canada In June, the CRTC said foreign streamers like Netflix and Disney Plus must contribute five per cent of their annual Canadian revenues to a fund devoted to producing Canadian content — a
Nigel Farage offers to work with Peter Mandelson to secure US-UK trade deal
Nigel Farage has said he would be willing to help Peter Mandelson negotiate with the Trump administration, after the Labour grandee was confirmed as Westminster’s new ambassador to the US. Lord Mandelson has
Heavy travel day starts with brief grounding of all American Airlines flights
WASHINGTON — American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide Tuesday because of a technical problem just as the Christmas travel season kicked into overdrive and winter weather threatened more potential problems for those planning
Hundreds of American Airlines flights were temporarily grounded on Christmas Eve
American Airlines did not have a good start to its Christmas Eve. A “technical issue” led to the temporary grounding of hundreds of flights on one of the busiest travel days of the
Starbucks workers’ strike before Christmas is part of a trend of short strikes
Short duration strikes are starting to become the norm. They mean a lot less financial pain for the workers, but they don’t have same kind of leverage as an indefinite work stoppage. Source
After fighting virus, storms and Republicans, departing North Carolina Gov. Cooper fo
RALEIGH, N.C. — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leaving his job after eight years in which the southern Democrat picked his moments against a Republican-dominated legislature, winning big
Rolling Starbucks strike grows to include workers at hundreds of shops
A rolling strike of Starbucks baristas has grown since kicking off Friday to include about 300 of the coffee giant’s shops across the U.S., according to the union organizing the work stoppage. The