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Morocco fans crashed the pitch to protest a late goal by Argentina at the opening match of the Paris Olympics men’s soccer tournament, an angry and bizarre scene that left the game suspended for nearly two hours with only minutes remaining. Moments before play resumed, the goal was disallowed by VAR for offside, and Morocco held on for a 2-1 victory. But not before a furious reaction from Morocco fans who thought they’d been denied a critical win.

Hundreds of protesters are rallying within sight of the Capitol building, denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hours before he is set to address members of Congress. Vice President Kamala Harris will not be in attendance, as she is back on the campaign trail. She will head to the solidly Republican state of Indiana on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Joe Biden will address the nation at 8 p.m. ET. Donald Trump is holding his first public campaign rally since Biden’s exit from the 2024 race.

BMW is recalling more than 291,000 SUVs in the U.S. because the interior cargo rails can detach in a crash, increasing the risk of injury. The recall covers certain X3 SUVs from the 2018 through 2023 model years. The company says in documents posted by U.S. safety regulators that dealers will replace the rear cargo rail bolts that attach to the vehicle body. The company expects to notify owners by letter starting Aug. 30. The documents don’t say whether anyone has been injured due to the problem. Читать дальше...

Budget takes an untested approach to job creation

Simplifying taxes will improve collection

Officials overturn Argentina goal that prompted Morocco fans to invade pitch and pause play in Olympic soccer opener.

Finance Secretary said the figure of 3% for fiscal deficit does not take into account the specific dynamics of a fast growing economy like India

Vice President Kamala Harris is ramping up her campaign stops, with plans to give remarks to the one of the largest historically Black sororities on Wednesday.

AMC's preliminary results revealed revenue down more than 23% during the period and a net loss, compared to a profit during the same period a year earlier.

Unionized workers at Disneyland have reached a tentative labor agreement with their employer Walt Disney Co., an employee bargaining committee said Wednesday — a move that would secure wage increases and other protections while avoiding a strike.

Wales is set to get its first female leader. Eluned Morgan was chosen Wednesday to lead the governing Welsh Labour Party. She succeeds First Minister Vaughan Gething, who stepped down last week as party leader over a campaign donation scandal. Morgan is currently the Welsh health minister and was the only candidate to replace Gething. She was announced as the new party leader on Wednesday and will become first minister after a confirmation vote in Wales’ parliament, the Senedd. Gething quit amid... Читать дальше...

Netflix has given a formal greenlight to His & Hers, a psychological thriller starring and executive-produced by Tessa Thompson (Creed,Thor). The six-episode limited series, adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel, comes from writer/executive producer Bill Dubuque; writer/executive producer Dee Johnson (Fellow Travelers, The Good Wife), who serves showrunner; filmmaker William Oldroyd, who serves as a writer […]

"Moonward" features Critical Role main cast members Liam O'Brien and Marisha Ray, on a sojourn to find what's left of Midst's destroyed moon.

Paul Feig is set to helm a new movie for Blumhouse based on William Brennan’s New York Magazine article which inspired the Netflix unscripted television series Worst Roommate Ever. In the pic, a newly single woman finds a seemingly perfect gentleman to sublet the spare room in her dream home, but she soon learns that his deceit […]

The American singer’s experience of fame was very different from my own, writes ‘Bernard’s Watch’ star David Peachey, who turned his back on a promising acting career in his teens to retrain in a very different profession…

With the share of physical assets rising, the responsibility to free up resources to fund corporate capex shifts to the government

Renowned British conductor John Eliot Gardiner has announced he is quitting the orchestra he has led for six decades. It comes almost a year after he allegedly hit a singer backstage after a concert. Gardiner said he was stepping down as leader and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra “with a heavy heart.” Gardiner, 81, allegedly hit William Thomas after the bass singer left the podium on the wrong side at the Festival Berlioz in France in August 2023. Gardiner withdrew from all his engagements soon afterwards. Читать дальше...

Confusion also reigned at Paris 2024 over whether the match was completed or suspended after the pitch invasion that followed Argentina’s equaliser in the 16th minute of injury time

Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal matter. The two clusters each contain thousands of galaxies and are located billions of light-years away from Earth.

Bank stocks are on a tear in July – and it’s a rally with legs beyond the recent rotation out of Big Tech stocks, according to Capital Economics.

The Nasdaq dropped sharply as earnings from Tesla and Google parent Alphabet missed investors' expectations.

Like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg says OpenAI's name is "somewhat ironic" and "a little funny" since its AI models are closed-source.

It is the highest number since comparable records began 17 years ago, according to PA news agency analysis of Home Office data.

No suspects in death of Ayden Rose Burt have yet been identified by police in Texas