The prolific author James Patterson has signed with United Talent Agency for literary representation worldwide, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Patterson, the world’s best-selling author with more than 450 million books sold to date and more than 100 New York Times #1 bestsellers (a Guinness world record), will now be represented by the agency, which…
Michael VoepelJan 7, 2026, 08:30 AM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Thirteen years have passed since Texas Tech last made the women’s NCAA tournament and had a…
Reuters Cold weather payments have been triggered across 697 postcodes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as temperatures plunged across the UK. Households on certain benefits are entitled to the money when there is a prolonged period of below-zero temperatures. In Scotland, those on low incomes and benefits may receive a separate winter heating payment,…
Warner Bros Discovery has told its shareholders to reject an “inferior” updated bid from Paramount Skydance to buy the company. It is the second time in less than a month the Warner Bros board has urged its shareholders to say no to the Paramount offer, after announcing on 5 December that Netflix was buying the…
Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The desktop Office suite has not been rebranded to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The web-based version was renamed Microsoft 365 in 2022. Microsoft still has a bad reputation for naming and renaming its products. Microsoft has a bad reputation when it comes to…
Tatsuji Sugimoto, who stepped down last month as governor of Fukui prefecture in central Japan over sexual harassment, had sent some 1,000 harassing texts to staff, an investigative report by lawyers said on Wednesday. Among the messages were those in which Sugimoto sought sexual relationships with multiple female staff and commented on their physical appearance….
Emer MoreauBusiness reporter Getty Images Learner drivers could have to wait six months before booking a practical test The UK government has launched the first major road safety strategy in over a decade, aimed at lowering the number of people who are killed or seriously injured on the roads. The changes only apply to England…
Reuters Emotions are still raw outside the bar Families of the victims of a fire at a Swiss bar on New Year’s Eve have expressed shock after officials admitted the venue had not undergone safety checks for five years. Romain Jordan, who represents some of the families, said the “staggering number of breaches and shortcomings…
A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s military leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, has been thwarted, the West African nation has announced. The sophisticated plan had been hatched by Lt Col Paul Henri Damiba, the military officer ousted by Traoré in September 2022, the security minister said in a late-night broadcast. “Our intelligence services intercepted this operation…
An elderly cleaner was injured after being struck by a left-hand drive car with a trade licence plate at a Hong Kong public housing estate – the second street-worker accident in just over a week. Police received a report at 6.18am on Wednesday that a Geely multipurpose vehicle (MPV) was making a right turn out…
