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Blockchain firm Radix Tokens has raised $10 million in fresh funding ahead of the introduction of its Babylon mainnet, which will allow smart contract capability on the Radix network for the first time.The funding round was led by market maker and investment firm DWF Labs and gives Radix Tokens a valuation of $400 million, the Jersey-based firm said in email on Thursday.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. proved he could drive fast in the front seat of his daddy's stock car on short tracks throughout the Carolinas.Jeff Gordon was trading paint in quarter midgets in Northern California 11 years before he was old enough to have a driver's license.Most NASCAR drivers got started in similar ways.

The final part of the Sussexes' controversial Netflix documentary airs on Thursday, with claims the Palace briefed against Harry and Meghan to deflect attention from less favourable coverage of other royals.The royal family and Palace aides will be steeling themselves for bombshells in Volume II of the Harry & Meghan series after the royal household faced accusations it leaked negative stories as part of a war against Meghan.

A wealthy Russian businessman has been arrested at his multimillion-pound London home by officers investigating potential criminal activity by oligarchs.The 58-year-old man, who has not been named, was held by the National Crime Agency (NCA) on Thursday on suspicion of offences including money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Home Office and conspiracy to commit perjury.

Keanu Reeves, left, in "John Wick: Chapter 4." (Murray Close/Lionsgate)(3.5 stars) Is "John Wick: Chapter 4" the best John Wick movie in the franchise, as early reviews suggest?Quite possibly.But what does that even mean?Readers who have never seen Keanu Reeves as John Wick, who don't even like violent action movies - especially not ones about an elite assassin in a fantastical hierarchy of three-piece-suited assassins that is run like an efficient corporation, on the run from his co-workers, and with a multimillion-dollar bounty on his head - won't understand why the film deserves the star rating I've given it.

Realtor.comThose of us who like our sunlight hours to extend into the evening will appreciate the upcoming transition to daylight saving time-as well as houses that take full advantage of it.We've found five gorgeous glass houses that look out on some of the most glorious landscapes in the country: the mountains around Sundance, scenic Lake Placid, and the Mojave Desert's Joshua Tree, just to name a few highlights.

Realtor.com / Getty Images A California home renovated by HGTV stars Heather Rae and Tarek El Moussa popped up on the market recently.This home was featured on the second episode of the couple's new series, "The Flipping El Moussas."On the show, Tarek works on flips with his new wife, Heather Rae, a real estate agent on the Netflix reality show "Selling Sunset."

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prince Andrew is in despair that the King has not shared out their mother's inheritence, according to reports.King Charles was the sole beneficiary of the Queen's 650million estate, under a 1993 agreement meaning no inheritance tax was owed.

"Solidarity, from coffee shop to coffee shop," Starbucks Workers United wrote ahead of the Peet's union vote.A Peet's Coffee worker fills takeout orders for customers on the sidewalk in Oakland, California, on May 18, 2020.Jane Tyska / Digital First Media / East Bay Times / Getty Images In a win for workplace democracy, employees at a Peet's Coffee & Tea located in Davis, California formed the chain's first unionized shop in the United States on Friday.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A disgraced property tycoon must hand over 92,500 after a donation he made to a leading independent girls' school was returned when he was jailed for fraud.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Eva Green suggested pretending to be in hospital if she was called to make a later-abandoned multimillion-pound sci-fi movie, the High Court has been told.

Like so many kids of the 1970s and '80s, I'm grateful for the hero just out of the frame.And it's not because Steven Spielberg launched "Indiana Jones" and "E.T." and wrote about a Mikey ("The Goonies") just like me who finds the treasure to save his family.It's because nobody mines the heartbreak and alienation of the dual citizen that is the child of divorce any better than Spielberg, and I'm guessing nobody ever will.

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Yes, Cocaine Bear is a real movie.And after it opens in theaters Friday, it might even be a hit.Since the trailer first debuted for Elizabeth Banks' very, very loosely based-on-a-true-story R-rated comedy has stoked a rabid zeitgeist.

Let me tell you about the very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote in 1926.They are different from you and me.Maybe so, but when the rich person in question was the billionaire Sumner Redstone the former chairman of Paramount Global, who died in 2020 and is at the center of Unscripted, a new expose by the Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams he apparently wasn't so different from a 15-year-old kid at summer camp in terms of his romantic crushes and his libido.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Johnny Depp bought three guitars, a skull-encrusted vase and an easel to furnish his new London home during a surprise visit to an antiques centre in Lincolnshire on Friday.

Boris Johnson has declared a nearly 2.5 million advance payment for speaking events.According to the MPs' register of financial interests, the former prime minister received 2,488,387.53as an advance for speaking engagements arranged via the Harry Walker Agency, which has an address in New York.Mr Johnson also once again declared concessionary use of accommodation for me and my family in January, valued at 10,000 and provided by Lady Carole Bamford.

Sir Keir Starmer has been given a 2m boost from a major New Labour era donor, as dozens of top business leaders are asking how to get on board with the Labour Party ahead of the next election.Labour confirmed that David Sainsbury, the former supermarket chair who withdrew his financial support for the party during the Jeremy Corbyn era, has provided his first multimillion-pound donation since 2016.

Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to announce a mini reshuffle of his Cabinet as soon as Tuesday.The Prime Minister is expected to appoint a new Tory Party chair, after he sacked Nadhim Zahawi over his tax affairs more than a week ago.The potential overhaul could be relatively limited, with a domino effect caused by the naming of a successor for Mr Zahawi, The Times reported, citing a Government source.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be braced for further questions about Nadhim Zahawi in the Commons as the Tory chairman fights for his political future.Mr Sunak will face MPs at Prime Minister's Questions after launching an investigation into Mr Zahawi over his tax affairs.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is likely to seize on the fallout from the multimillion-pound settlement with HM Revenue and Customs at a time when Mr Zahawi was chancellor when he goes head-to-head with Mr Sunak in Parliament on Wednesday.

The chairman of the Conservative Party, Nadhim Zahawi, is coming under increasing political pressure to fully explain the circumstances of a multimillion-pound tax settlement.The BBC has been told Mr Zahawi paid a penalty over previously unpaid tax while he was chancellor.But despite acknowledging the tax issue, Mr Zahawi has left some questions unanswered.

Scotland's First Minister has urged Nadhim Zahawi to step down after it was revealed he paid a penalty to resolve a multimillion-pound tax dispute.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ordered an investigation on Monday, asking new ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus on Monday to assess whether the former chancellor breached the ministerial code with the HMRC settlement, with Mr Sunak saying clearly in this case there are questions that need answering.

A landmark Belfast city centre office building has reopened following a multimillion-pound refurbishment.The Riverside Tower building at Lanyon Place houses over 2,000 employees of BT Group.The new building boasts state-of-the-art technology and marks Belfast as a significant long-term location for the communication company.

Alex Murdaugh was at the center of this trial.Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool The five-week trial of Alex Murdaugh has dominated headlines and cable news channels, and the murders have been the subject of podcasts and even two documentaries.It comes amid a frenzy of interest in true crime media, that can be both incredibly popular and also problematic.

Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico's former public security secretary and architect of its deadly and protracted war on drugs, was found guilty in federal court in New York on Tuesday of taking bribes from the drug cartels he had sworn to combat, the US Attorney's Office said.The former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico, who served as his country's equivalent of the FBI director from 2006 to 2012, was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn on five counts of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.

A leading independent girls' school attended by actress Sienna Miller named its theatre after a fraudster following a 250,000 donation from the proceeds of crime, a court has heard.Francis Holland School, next to London's Regent's Park, removed the plaque and returned 92,500 after Achilleas Kallakis, 54, was jailed over a sophisticated five-year property and luxury yacht scam in 2013.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is asking Illinois state legislators for $54 million to help fund emergency services to asylum-seeking individuals and migrants.Lightfoot made the request in a letter to state legislators from Chicago, obtained by the Tribune.She noted that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration sent a letter to the city saying the state is "out of funds and will no longer be able to support city migrant services efforts as of February 1, 2023."

The government has refused to accept a proposed change in the law to stop super-rich oligarchs from using their fortunes to exploit British courts to intimidate and silence investigative journalists.Tom Tugendhat, the minister of state for security, on Thursday refused to accept an amendment to the economic crime bill that would have given judges the power to dismiss legal cases brought against journalists if they found them to be strategic lawsuits against public participation (Slapps) designed to chill public-interest journalism.

Jackie Rogers, a fiery American model and aspiring actress whose experience mingling with the elite of Europe and the United States during the jet-setting 1960s, along with her eye for elegance and her boundless (if at times abrasive) personality, fueled a five-decade career as a go-to couturier for film stars and socialites, died on Jan. 29 in Manhattan.

Eva Green was described as fragile, volatile and likely to combust ahead of the collapse of a multimillion-pound sci-fi film, a movie financier has told the High Court.Financier and executive producer Alastair Burlingham said he believed Ms Green had become increasingly hard, if not impossible to manage during the pre-production of dystopian thriller A Patriot.

A number of staff at Queen's University and Ulster University took part in what they have termed a depressingly long strike over pay, conditions and pensions.Some students joined staff on the picket lines on Wednesday.It is set to be the first of 18 days of strikes organised by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) at 150 universities across the UK across February and March.

Leaseholders living in former council homes are facing refurbishment bills of thousands of pounds, despite a legal cap introduced nine years ago.Campaigners told the BBC that they were facing bills of up to £65,000, for works they say are not needed.A £15,000 cap for council refurbishment costs was introduced in 2014 but it is not clear that it has ever been used.

The nonprofit Trust for Public Land on Friday completed the purchase of an oil field that sits atop the coastal bluffs of Newport Beach, guaranteeing the property will be cleaned up and preserved as open space.The 384-acre Banning Ranch property, whose future was at the center of an intense decades-long fight in Orange County, is considered the last piece of undeveloped coastal real estate left in Southern California.

Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the former lover and business partner of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif. on Dec. 7, 2022.Jeff Chiu/AP A federal judge in California sentenced former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar fraud involving Theranos and its now-disgraced CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, who received an 11-year sentence in a separate trial.

Prince Andrew may not have enough money to challenge his settlement with Virginia Giuffre and his strategy to clear his name is high risk, friends of the duke have warned.Sources close to Andrew say he risks going down a lonely path of more legal bills as he weighs a bid to overturn the multimillion-pound settlement reached with a woman who accused him of sexual assault and even force an apology.

Amber Heard has announced that she has settled her defamation case against ex-husband Johnny Depp.The Aquaman star, 36, shared a post to her Instagram page calling the decision to settle with Depp very difficult, and something that had required a great deal of deliberation.After a great deal of deliberation I have made a very difficult decision to settle the defamation case brought against me by my ex-husband in Virginia, she wrote.