When Kathleen Smith died at the grand old age of 90, she would have been proud to leave behind a successful son, four beautiful grandchildren and a six-figure inheritance to make life for them that little bit easier.
‘She bought a retirement flat for £124,000 in 2006 and died eight years later, probably thinking it had gone up in value like most other properties in the country,’ says her son, Michael, an Oxfordshire-based academic. ‘Isn’t that what we all want
A Lib Dem peer and former Facebook vice president has today claimed the social media firm’s name change to Meta has been a ‘long time coming’ and is not related to the company’s whistleblower scandal.
Lord Richard Allen, who worked with the US tech giant for 10 years, says the firm’s announcement is about addressing ‘confusion’ between Facebook the company and Facebook the product.
Currently the overarching company behind Facebook is called Facebook Inc and operates the social media site,
A hundred years ago, on the Saturday before Labor Day, Roscoe Arbuckle drove his plum-colored Pierce-Arrow to San Francisco for a weekend of partying. At two hundred and sixty-six pounds, Arbuckle, known to movie audiences as Fatty, was the Chris Farley of silent cinema, beloved for his pratfalls and for his skill at throwing custard pies in people’s faces. By September, 1921, he had appeared in more than a hundred and fifty films, often in his trademark outfit of baggy
Once, it was said that the eyes were the windows to the soul. Now the cellphone is. Consider Jeffrey Burrill, a man who regularly logged in to the gay dating app Grindr and whose cellphone emitted signals marking his visits to gay bars and a Las Vegas gay bathhouse. Hardly a story there, you might say.
Except Jeffrey Burrill was Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the secretary-general of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. And his July 20 resignation was forced
VALDOSTA, Ga. — There is no joy in Titletown, as this South Georgia city calls itself.
The Valdosta Wildcats are undoubtedly one of America’s most successful high school football teams, with more than 900 victories, two dozen state titles and its star players seemingly on a conveyor belt to football meccas like Georgia and Alabama. Greatness is a given here.
So the Wildcat faithful can only bemoan the scandal suddenly unfolding before them, one involving mysterious hirings and firings, rampant
