USA: Stripe plots European expansion after $95bn valuation

America’s most valuable start-up, Stripe, is plotting a major expansion in Europe. The firm, which is worth $95bn (£68bn), plans to add 1,000 jobs in Ireland alone over the next…

USA: Elon Musk changes job title to ‘Technoking of Tesla’

Elon Musk has dropped his chief executive job title and crowned himself “Technoking of Tesla”. Mr Musk will still retain his position of chief within the company, the US Securities…

Finland: Nokia to cut up to 10,000 jobs worldwide

Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years as it cuts costs. It is unclear where the bulk of the…

LeBron James becomes partner at Liverpool FC owners

LeBron James has become a partner in Fenway Sports Group (FSG), the owners of Liverpool FC. FSG announced on Tuesday the basketball legend has invested in the group, which also…

USA: Demi Lovato says she was raped as a teenager in new documentary

Demi Lovato has said she was raped as a teenager while working for the Disney Channel. The 28-year-old revealed in her documentary Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil that the…

USA: Eight killed at three spas in Atlanta

Eight people, many of them women of Asian descent, have been killed in shootings at spas in the US state of Georgia. Police said the shootings took place at a…

USA: Indianapolis deadly shootings ‘started after stimulus cheque row’

A US man allegedly shot dead three adults and a child at a house after arguing with his girlfriend about her stimulus cheque, court records show. The cheques are part…

Hungary: Manchester City beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 booking a place in Champions League quarter-finals

Manchester City moved into the Champions League quarter-finals for a fourth successive season by completing a comprehensive aggregate victory over Borussia Monchengladbach. Leading 2-0 after the first leg, the Premier…

AstraZeneca vaccine: More countries halt use of the vaccine

13 European countries have paused their use of the vaccine. Denmark was first, followed by Norway and Iceland. Germany, France, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Latvia and Sweden are the latest to…

Covid: Australia to send AstraZeneca to Papua New Guinea.

Australia is to provide 8,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Papua New Guinea as the island nation is reported to be struggles with an outbreak of coronavirus. Eleven European countries have…