US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. He told the Wall Street Journal that he also favoured allowing young … Read more
Construction has started on a Toy Story Land at Shanghai Disneyland to open in 2018, the resort said yesterday. Leaders from the joint venture’s two shareholders, The Walt Disney Company and the Shanghai Shendi Group, broke ground on the new themed area — the resort’s 7th themed land — in what was described as a … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. He told the Wall Street Journal that he also favoured allowing young … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. He told the Wall Street Journal that he also favoured allowing young … Read more
Actor Robert Vaughn, best known as the secret agent Napoleon Solo in The Man from UNCLE, has died aged 83. Vaughn was also famous for his role as Lee in the Magnificent Seven, and television roles in Hustle and Coronation Street. The iconic actor died after a battle with acute leukaemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, … Read more
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq came under pressure on Friday as lower oil prices weighed on energy companies and a drop in shares of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ. N) and Pfizer (PFE.N) hurt healthcare stocks. The S&P 500 healthcare sector .SPXHC was down 0.78 percent after having risen for the past five trading days. … Read more
Construction has started on a Toy Story Land at Shanghai Disneyland to open in 2018, the resort said yesterday. Leaders from the joint venture’s two shareholders, The Walt Disney Company and the Shanghai Shendi Group, broke ground on the new themed area — the resort’s 7th themed land — in what was described as a … Read more
Most journalists were convinced that Donald Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton. A day and a half later, a sense of shock still pervades newsrooms. To unpack what went wrong and what might happen next, I listed these 52 questions in Thursday morning’s “Reliable Sources” newsletter about the media: — What do readers and viewers … Read more
Apple boss Tim Cook may find himself at odds with Mr Trump’s views on security Now the shock is beginning to subside, attention is moving to how Donald Trump’s policies will play out over his four, possibly eight-year stint as president. Barack Obama’s policies on technology were considered pro-innovation, with a view to using technology … Read more
Tencent Holdings Ltd’s main movie arm plans to spend at least 2 billion yuan ($295 million) investing in Hollywood and Chinese films in the two years through 2017 to expand its presence in global entertainment production, according to people familiar with the matter. Tencent Pictures, which helped finance domestic smash Warcraft and the upcoming Kong: … Read more
Ghanaian dancehall artist Stonebwoy is on a fast lane and perhaps a world of his own at this moment. From winning awards including Artist of the Year at VGMA, AFRIMMA, BET and several others, the Problem hit maker is heading towards the Grammys as his 2016 VPAL Music released album LIVINGSTONE is already up for … Read more
FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Sunday the agency hasn’t changed its opinion that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges after a review of new emails. Comey had dropped a bombshell 11 days from the election when he informed Congress that the FBI had discovered emails in its separate investigation of Anthony Weiner, the … Read more
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump headed to North Carolina on Thursday in a final effort to shore up support in the swing state as polls showed Clinton maintained her lead nationally just days ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. Clinton was leading Trump by 6 percentage points, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on … Read more
Despite notions that music albums are currently suffering low patronage on our markets, popular Ghanaian rapper, Dadie Opanka, who recently launched his debut album titled Akwaaba, has opined otherwise. Talking to Flex newspaper, the Me Pe No Saa artiste said he does not agree with people who claim music albums are no longer selling in … Read more
Pay television company SuperSport have ended their three-year association with the Ghana Football Association as the official broadcast partners of the Ghana Premier League. SuperSport refused to extend their three-year deal with the GFA for the Ghana Premier League and the MTN FA Cup after the contract came to an end last month. The two … Read more
Donald Trump criticized the Obama administration’s move to normalize relations with Cuba as a “very weak agreement,” though he said some sort of a deal is “fine,” in an interview with a local CBS station in Miami over the weekend. The Republican nominee also said he would do “whatever you have to do to get … Read more
Standup comedian and actor Kevin Meaney, who made numerous appearances on late-night TV and was famous for delivering the line, “That’s not right,” has died, his agent said Friday. Meaney was found at his home in Forestburgh, New York, agent Tom Ingegno said. His age and the cause of death weren’t immediately known. Meaney was … Read more
The US telecoms giant AT&T has announced that it will buy entertainment group Time Warner for nearly $86bn (£70bn). The deal was agreed at a meeting of the two boards on Saturday but will still need to be approved by regulators. Correspondents say it is the biggest deal in the world this year. It reflects … Read more
The apparent lack of interest in Twitter Inc by potential suitors may force the social media company to consider a route anathema to aspiring tech startups: a major restructuring and cutting some its nearly 4,000 employees. The popular but money-losing micro-blogging service spent aggressively on product development and marketing in recent years, betting that it … Read more
How the West changed its mind on Libya’s Gaddafi In the 42 years that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya, Western views went from considering him a cartoon villain to believing him a model of international conduct – and back to villain again, when the West backed an armed rebellion against him. The Libyan Army officer … Read more