Nvidia, the leading manufacturer of artificial intelligence chips, said it will buy a $5bn (£4bn) stake in Intel – a lifeline for its struggling rival on the heels of a separate investment from the US government. The deal, announced on Thursday, will involve a partnership between the two American companies to make personal computer and…
Two ambulance workers have been arrested over the deaths of six adults, police have said. The investigation was launched in 2023 and last year a man in his 30s, from West Wiltshire, was arrested on suspicion of six counts of gross negligence manslaughter and four counts of ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a care worker….
Alden GonzalezSep 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. LOS ANGELES — It was the middle of June, the San Diego Padres were in town for what promised to be a heated series…
It’s José Luis Rebordinos’ penultimate year in charge of the San Sebastian Film Festival after 15 editions as director. The Spaniard eats, sleeps and breathes this fest. And that’s exactly why he’s leaving. “I want to write, I want to work [at other] festivals, I want to work for friends,” the programmer tells The Hollywood…
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Bill ConnellySep 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019. One of the lessons we learned in last season’s Champions League league phase was that there’s little sense in playing for draws. Twenty-six teams won at…
Stephen Colbert pulled out all the stops in defending his late-night competitor and friend Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday. That included pulling out his old Comedy Central character: Stephen Colbert the political pundit and host of The Colbert Report. Cue the bald eagle screech. “Hello, nation,” Colbert said in character. “Daddy’s home.” The faux Colbert jumped…
The Ambalat Block sits in a remote corner of the Sulawesi Sea, but the choices Indonesia and Malaysia make there will echo far beyond Borneo. After years of stop-start talks and periodic flare-ups at sea, both sides now say they plan to pursue joint economic development of the block’s rich oil and gas reserves, with…
The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment. Some 140 books by women – including titles like “Safety in the Chemical Laboratory” – were among 680 books found to…
The European Union, born out of the ruins of a continent twice shattered by war, was founded upon the conviction that economic interdependence could achieve what centuries of diplomacy and deterrence had failed to secure: lasting peace. Its architects believed that when coal, steel, and commerce were bound together, the drums of conflict would fall…
