El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption as legal tender triggers start of market recovery June 9, 2021 Crypto markets show some signs of recovery as El Salvador becomes first country to make Bitcoin legal tender.
Judge orders Danish tax authority to foot £46m legal bills in failed litigation June 9, 2021 The Danish tax authority has been ordered to pay £46m in legal bills by a London court after its attempt to sue a British former hedge-fund investor failed. The Danish taxman put a $1.9bn (£1.5bn) fraud claim through the UK courts against Sanjay Shah and more than 100 other individuals and companies accusing them of [...]
Chris Tremlett: England should ditch negativity and return to more positive approach in second Test with New Zealand June 9, 2021 England were accused of passing up the chance to win the first Test of an important summer against New Zealand last weekend. And I can understand why. New Zealand made a brave declaration, and England’s target of 273 from 75 overs on a good wicket looked achievable. I was surprised that England didn’t chase hard [...]
Smacron! French president slapped in the face during walkabout June 8, 2021 He’s not the first and won’t be the last, but Emmanuel Macron has become the latest politician to discover that interactions with the public don’t always go to plan. Whilst on a walkabout earlier today outside the small south-western city of Vallence, Macron was slapped in the face as he shook hands with a group [...]
World’s biggest websites back online after Fastly-linked crash June 8, 2021 A major server issue which saw thousands of news, social media and government websites including Bloomberg and the New York Times crash today has been fixed. The issue was confirmed to be a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly, who identified and fixed a major disruption issue. Amazon, CNN, Reddit, the Guardian, the [...]
Internet outage: What is Fastly and how can a glitch bring down the world’s biggest websites? June 8, 2021 The internet was plunged into a temporary blackout this morning as thousands of websites were hit by a global outage. Some of the world’s biggest news sites, including the BBC, Guardian and Financial Times, were hit by the glitch, as well as streaming service Spotify, ecommerce giant Amazon social media platform Reddit and even the [...]
Crypto markets crash despite Latin America rushing to Bitcoin June 8, 2021 Bitcoin has again found strong support at just above $32k this morning after dropping 10 per cent over the last 24 hours, while Ethereum (ETH) has also again managed to again bounce back at $2,500 following a similar fall in price.
Post-winter split: 21 per cent more applications in March than January dispel divorce myth June 7, 2021 The number of divorce applications filed in March was 21 per cent higher than January, dispelling the belief that January is peak divorce month. From 2003 to 2020, there were 219,778 divorce petitions filed in the month of March, the largest number of petitions filed by month across the period, according to Ministry of Justice data analysed by law firm Boodle [...]
Private equity giant CVC in talks to invest in OneTennis, a proposed merger between of the men’s ATP Tour and women’s WTA Tour June 7, 2021 CVC Capital Partners is in talks to buy a stake in a proposed new entity that combines the men’s and women’s tennis tours, according to reports. OneTennis would unify the ATP Tour and WTA Tour under one organisation, with CVC taking a minority shareholding in the new commercial vehicle. Approval for the merger could come [...]
Chase away the blues with a glass of delicious… blue wine June 7, 2021 This Saturday is National Rose Day, but perhaps it’s time to get a bit more adventurous and celebrate with something blue instead? You see, there are more than 900 vineyards in the UK but only one makes dry sparkling blue wine… Adgestone Vineyard on the Isle of Wight, among the oldest continuously operating vineyards in [...]