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Singer and entrepreneur Rihanna has been awarded a national honour from her homeland Barbados as the Caribbean country celebrated becoming a republic. Rihanna, who grew up in the island nation, witnessed the historic ceremony that broke Barbados’s centuries-old ties with the British monarchy and swore in its first president Dame Sandra Mason, ending […]
Michael Carrick will stay in charge of Manchester United for their clash against Arsenal this week as interim manager Ralf Rangnick awaits his work visa, the Old Trafford club said on Tuesday. Rangnick on Monday agreed to join United from Lokomotiv Moscow, where he was the head of sports and development. But he will […]
Barbados ditched Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic on Tuesday with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island. At the strike of midnight, the new republic was born, shortly after Queen Elizabeth’s royal […]
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter, says he has resigned from his role at the company Dorsey announced his resignation in a Twitter post on Monday. In his exit note, Dorsey said Parag Agrawal, the company’s chief technical officer will replace him as the new CEO. “I’ve decided to leave Twitter […]
Twitter on Monday announced the appointment of Parag Agrawal as the new chief executive officer (CEO), replacing Jack Dorsey. Before the appointment, Agrawal was the chief technology officer of the company. Dorsey also announced his resignation from the social media platform he co-founded in 2006 — an announcement that caused a stir on the […]
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has expressed deep concern over the restrictions imposed on travellers from southern African countries due to the emergence of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant, Omicron. Guterres, in a statement on Monday said, people of Africa should not be blamed for the immorally low level of vaccinations available in the continent. […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role, CNBC reported. Twitter stock was up on the news before being halted due to news pending. Shares of the microblogging platform surged 9% in early trading, while those of digital payments firm Square Inc (SQ.N), of which Dorsey is also chief […]
Japan on Monday said it would ban all new foreign arrivals from Tuesday, Kyodo news agency reported. The Japanese government had earlier said it was considering reviving a blanket ban on foreign arrivals due to concerns regarding the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Japan’s border restrictions were eased in early November, allowing students, […]
American designer and men’s Artistic director for Louis Vuitton , Virgil Abloh is dead. He died on Sunday, at the age of 41, after battling with cancer. This was disclosed on his Instgram account. However, after being diagnosed in 2019 with a rare, aggressive form of cancer known as cardiac angiosarcoma, the CEO of […]
A group of Bayern Munich fans are putting pressure on the club to end their controversial Qatari sponsorship deal amid claims of human rights abuses. Bayern signed a five-year sponsorship deal with state-owned Qatar Airways in 2018 which the German media claim is worth around 20 million euros ($22.5 million) per year to the […]
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