Kyle Sandilands repeatedly berated Kiis FM executives, the radio station’s censors, critics of the Kyle and Jackie O Show and the Melbourne audience in expletive-laden rants, according to federal court documents. The details of the alleged tirades, which aired months before the shock jock was sacked and accused of “serious misconduct” by ARN, are contained…
Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second-largest city, lies within a network of narrow valleys in the country’s northern highlands. Though the historic city is known for panoramic views of the surrounding mountains, clear skies have become less common. In recent decades, smoke has increasingly darkened the skies during the dry season, particularly in March and April. A…
For the fourth time in five games, the Los Angeles Dodgers were losers Wednesday night, falling to the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park (SF 3, LA 0). Patrick Bailey’s seventh-inning three-run homer provided the game’s only runs. The Dodgers have scored one run in the first two games of their series with the Giants….
One of the best parts about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Australian tour last week is the fact that Australians refuse to engage with the royalist media’s Sussex Tax. I started using “Sussex Tax” to describe the British media’s obsession with asking every single person about what they think about Harry and Meghan, and…
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Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore Thursday that international financial institutions were “spectacularly ill-adjusted” to respond to modern day issues. “You can look to different places around the world to realize that those institutions, whether it was the WTO or the IMF or what have you, aren’t necessarily…
The number of billionaires in the world could reach nearly 4,000 by 2031, figures suggest, as the super-rich accumulate wealth at an accelerating rate. There are now 3,110 billionaires globally, according to analysis by the estate agent Knight Frank. This is forecast to rise by 25% over the next five years, taking the total to…
How trading houses Vitol, Trafigura and Mercuria have managed to get some of their oil tankers out of the Gulf
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Iran’s Revolutionary Guards released video footage earlier today purportedly showing their forces seizing two vessels in the strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it seized the vessels for what it called maritime violations, and escorted them to…
