Monthly Archives: December 2016

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German hotel booking site Trivago updated its plans for a U.S. IPO in a filing that came out on Monday. The company expects to price its shares between $13 to $15, a $428 million offering at the top end of the range. Officially named Travel B.V., the company will change its name to Trivago to […]

“Since 2010, the number of people living in poverty has fallen by 300,000 but we know there is more to do. We are increasing the National Living Wage and taking millions of people out of income tax, to make sure it always pays to be in work,” a government spokesman said. Ahmed: Theresa May’s poverty […]

Oakland, California (CNN)The city of Oakland received repeated complaints over the years about the Ghost Ship warehouse, where 36 people were killed in a fire last week. The site, along with an adjacent lot, had become cluttered with old cars, oil containers, pests and trash, according to those complaints. The Ghost Ship was a coveted […]

Canadian supreme court decision to ban links of fake company worldwide could allow countries to regulate internet outside borders, civil liberty groups say More than two dozen human rights and civil liberty groups have thrown their weight behind Google as the tech giant challenges a Canadian court decision it warns could stifle freedom of expression […]

As our countdown continues, Peter Bradshaw pays tribute to Ira Sachss New York-set drama about the lost friendship and the true cost of gentrification Iall composed with scrupulous observational care. Greg Kinnear and The 50 best films of 2016 in the US Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/dec/07/the-50-best-us-films-of-2016-no-8-little-men

Gavin Millar QC, who is heading the BBC’s legal team, said: “It is denied that the claimant is entitled to damages or compensation as alleged at all. “It is admitted that the claimant suffered distress.” He added: “The BBC has already told the claimant it is very sorry that this was the case.” ‘Public interest’ […]

LGBT Mormons have long struggled to gain acceptance in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But a new, inclusive family and youth center opening in Provo, Utah hopes to offer the kind of sanctuary LGBT people have at times found lacking in their church. The Encircle LGBT center, scheduled to open in February 2017, […]

Artists and housing activists say that safety matters, but crackdowns on warehouse spaces will displace already vulnerable communities The devastating Oakland warehouse fire has provoked threats of mass evictions of artist communities and low-income residents, raising concerns that real estate developers will exploit the tragedy to shutter old buildings and displace vulnerable tenants. Just days […]

(CNN)First came Wikileaks, then the NSA data hack, and now a series of “football leaks” has thrown the tax arrangements of two of soccer’s biggest personalities under scrutiny. The alleged tax avoidance schemes of Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo and the Spanish’s club former coach Jose Mourinho, who is now manager of Manchester United, have […]