Ford faces a strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW) that could cripple it financially and set it back in its critical race to become an important player in the electric vehicle (EV) market. Rival Tesla does not face either of these. It does not have union workers, and its EV production continues to grow. This year, it will launch […]

Rising crude oil prices and muted passenger traffic in the July-September quarter (second quarter, or Q2) of 2023-24 (FY24) have raised concerns about the profitability of listed aviation players. These two concerns have caused the stock of InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo), the largest player in the sector, to slip by 11 per cent since its highs at the end of July. […]

Restaurant Brands International Inc. is teaming with Dubai’s fashion and lifestyle retail conglomerate Apparel Group to develop and open more than 100 restaurants under its Firehouse Subs brand across UAE and Oman over the next 10 years. The agreement marks the global expansion of Firehouse Subs, a strong and growing player within the Quick Service Restaurant or QSR sandwich category […]

Last week H&B relaunched its entire food range – the biggest shake-up of that part of the business in its history – with more than 300 new own-brand lines and 200 branded lines, including healthy ready meals, vegan “blue cheeses” that apparently taste like the real thing, and chocolate bars that contain the compound Affron to alleviate menopause symptoms. Executive […]

Autumn is edging closer, and the return to a more regular office schedule looms for many people — and with it, the waiting time for transportation, meetings and appointments. Games, reading, social-media scrolls or just zoning out are common ways to spend these spells, but if you want more mental stimulation, why not boost your brain with brief lessons in […]

Ezra Knight has been reelected president of SAG-AFTRA’s New York Local in a landslide victory that also gave his running mates a clean sweep of the election. Knight received nearly 73% of the votes cast in a four-person race for president. His four vice presidential running mates – Linda Powell, Anthony Rapp, Jim Kerr and Liz Zazzi – were also […]

Director Ryoo Seung-wan’s Smugglers has been acquired ahead of its Gala Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Flawless, along with XYZ Films and Tea Shop Productions, announced today their acquisition of the South Korean crime-action epic. Deadline reported in May that Flawless, co-founded by filmmaker Scott Mann (Fall), had partnered with U.S. seller and distributor XYZ Films (Run Rabbit Run) […]

When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project to recover it. To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help of Howard Hughes, who provided the agency cover, the guise being that the deep ocean activity was part of his company’s mining exploration. The […]

The United States government employs thousands of American men and women across multiple law enforcement and espionage agencies. While the specific duties of these federal employees vary, both across and within agencies, at the most fundamental level, their job is to protect American citizens. Federal law enforcement jobs, such as those with the Treasury Department, the Department of Homeland Security, […]

The torrid summer of 2023 is drawing to a close, and according to the European Union-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service, the planet had its hottest three months ever. It was the hottest August on record (global mean surface air temperature), and the second-hottest month ever after July 2023. (Here are the hottest inhabited places on Earth.) To identify the hottest […]