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“I don’t know if you ever finished ‘Idol,’” Mr. Tesfaye said, with a good-natured smirk, during the conversation at his home in Los Angeles.“I don’t know if you got to the end yet, but I’ll help you out: By the end, our main character, Jocelyn is in a stadium in front of a crowd of people giving a speech. That was a real stadium. We shot right before I went onstage the first night. Lily did her speech to a confused audience. They thought that was part of the show,” he said.Mr. Tesfaye then went out and performed as the…
A Nobel Prize-winning economist has told Sky News the recently announced UK-US trade deal “isn’t worth the paper it’s written on”.Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump announced the “first-of-a-kind” agreement with a live, televised phone call earlier this week – and the British prime minister hailed the deal as one that will save thousands of jobs in the UK. Politics latest: Tories criticise proposals to tackle immigrationBut leading economist Joseph Stiglitz has told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips he “wouldn’t view [the deal] as a great achievement”.”Any agreement with Trump isn’t worth the paper it’s written on,” he said, pointing…
Her friends called her Millie. The future pope called her Ma.Mildred Prevost, whose youngest son, Robert, would one day take the name Pope Leo XIV, cut her own extraordinary path of ambition, talent and religious devotion through her hometown of Chicago.Born Mildred Agnes Martinez, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1947 and attended graduate school at DePaul University, an academic path that was unusual for women at that time. She waited until she was in her mid-30s, Cook County records show, to marry Louis Prevost, who was eight years her junior. Mrs. Prevost was in her…
Mentoring is becoming a more popular option for supporting and assisting employees with their professional growth, and studies illustrate the genuine benefit mentoring can offer an organization. Executive mentoring is becoming a common feature of learning and development procedures in massive organizations. A more senior employee onboarding a less experienced colleague to advance and develop their talents is known as Executive Mentoring. A wide range of persons can gain from executive mentorship, including aspiring promotees, junior executives seeking to develop their leadership abilities, and retiring CEOs coaching the next-chairman of a company. Executive mentoring is a structured training program designed…
The artist and silversmith Leo Costelloe’s cutlery appears to be made from silky ribbons, his keepsake boxes are topped with hanks of human hair and his hand-forged sterling vases take the shape of bodega-style paper bouquet wrappers. “I am playing with function and the expectations of an object,” says the London-based Costelloe, 31, who grew up in Australia, studied jewelry design at Central Saint Martins and worked as a florist before starting to sell his own pieces in 2021. “Of all the metals, silver is the most adaptable, and it’s so reminiscent of textiles, which I love.” While the silver…
The prices of strollers and car seats are skyrocketing as companies race to adjust to President Trump’s tariff policies. Federal support for a major campaign to promote safe infant sleep habits appears to have been cut. Measles outbreaks are terrifying parents of young children, even as the nation’s health secretary undermines vaccines.The Trump administration’s policies are reaching ever deeper into the lives of American families, transforming routine and apolitical parts of some parents’ days — trips to the pediatrician, conversations at swim classes, chatter on online baby gear forums — into scenes of anxiety and anger.For a Democratic Party still…
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ROMANIW GREW UP near Swansea, Wales, and was raised by her mother, a police officer working on domestic violence cases, and her grandparents. Nobody in her family was especially musical, but there was something operatic about her Ukrainian grandfather, a confident, eccentric character who would break into song regularly while walking down the street.She moved to London to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama without having ever seen an opera. (Verdi’s “Falstaff,” her first, was a fun introduction. “Then I saw ‘Capriccio,’” she said with a laugh. “I still can’t get into it.”) In just her second year…
Kyiv on Sunday said that Moscow had launched more than 100 drones into Ukraine at night, shortly after a Russian 72-hour ceasefire had ended at midnight. Kyiv had not reported any drone attacks since Thursday, when the Russian ceasefire came into effect, although it did accuse Moscow of violating the truce hundreds of times. Russia also accused Ukraine of not observing the ceasefire. “On the night of May 11 (from 2:00 am on May 11), the enemy attacked with 108 Shahed attack drones and various types of imitator drones,” Kyiv’s air force said, adding that it had downed 60 of…
THE once-dormant land auction market in Chengdu, the sprawling capital of Sichuan province, has sprung back to life this spring with a flurry of record-breaking deals.In mid-March, China Merchants Property Development secured a residential plot in the city’s High-Tech Zone after an intense 130 rounds of bidding. The state-owned giant beat off a dozen of its rivals, paying a record 31,700 yuan (S$5,705) per square metre (sq m) of floor space – a 70 per cent premium over the starting price.The record was shortlived. Only two weeks later, C&D Real Estate, another state-backed developer from Xiamen, East China’s Fujian province,…