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In April 1970, Mr. McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, initiating a famously nasty split. Still, Badfinger remained in their orbit. The band played on Mr. Harrison’s triple album “All Things Must Pass” (1970), for example, and Mr. Molland and Mr. Evans backed John Lennon on some tracks of his watershed 1971 album, “Imagine.”Badfinger eventually signed with Warner Bros., although their affairs had turned nearly as nasty as the Beatles’. The band became entangled by fierce battles over money with their manager, Stan Polley, who was embroiled in a messy legal tangle with Warners. At one point, the…

SEOUL: The North Korea Foreign Ministry said US-South Korea joint military exercises are “a dangerous provocative act”, state media KCNA reported on Monday (Mar 10). Annual South Korean and US military exercises called Freedom Shield are due to begin on Monday and run until Mar 20. They aim to strengthen the readiness of the alliance for threats such as North Korea, the South Korean military said earlier. North Korea has traditionally called for these joint exercises to be called off, branding them as a prelude to invasion. “This is a dangerous provocative act of leading the acute situation on the Korean…

Amid a generational crisis in Canada’s relationship with the United States, the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday chose an unelected technocrat with deep experience in financial markets to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader and the country’s prime minister, and to take on President Trump.Mark Carney, 59, who steered the Bank of Canada through the 2008 global financial crisis and the Bank of England through Brexit, but who has never been elected to office, won a leadership race on Sunday against his friend and former finance minister, Chrystia Freeland.He won a stunning 85.9 percent of the votes cast by…

A person walks past the entrance to a Google building in Dublin, Feb. 15, 2023.Artur Widak | Anadolu | Getty ImagesAfter landing internship offers from Amazon, Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco.But he won’t be joining any of those companies.Instead, Lee will be building his own startup that offers a peculiar service: helping software engineers use artificial intelligence to cheat in their technical job interviews. “Everyone programs nowadays with the help of AI,” said Lee, a 21-year-old student at Columbia University, which has opened disciplinary proceedings against him, according to documents viewed…

A customer at a food market in Palma, Mallorca, Spain.Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAs economists ring alarm bells over the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy on consumers and the U.S. economy, there’s a group of Americans who may benefit: tourists traveling abroad.That’s due to the impact of tariffs on the U.S. dollar and other global currencies. Economists expect tariffs imposed on foreign imports to strengthen the U.S. dollar and potentially weaken major currencies like the euro.In such a case, travelers would have more buying power overseas in 2025, economists said. Their dollar would stretch further on purchases like…

“The U.S. government hasn’t actually paid us since the end of December. We have about $12 million that we’ve delivered. We wonder if that’s — is the U.S. government still good? Is their word still good?” Just weeks after he took office, President Trump took aim at U.S.A.I.D. “The whole thing is a fraud. Very little, very little being put to good use.” But his mission to cut foreign aid spending could cost thousands of jobs at home. “Here we have sugar coming out of Florida, sometimes from Tennessee. We have peanuts from Georgia, obviously. We have canola oil from…

It’s time for another round of the tested, trusted, completely objective, never-been-questioned, all-math, no-bias MLB franchise rankings.First, a change: Rather than span the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) as we have done previously, the franchise rankings will henceforth cover the past 25 years, a floating time frame that feels right to start this year — 25 for ’25. The scoring system we borrowed years ago from football writer Bob Sturm and tweaked to fit baseball postseason structure has not changed since last year’s edition.Winning the World Series (WS): 9 pointsLosing in the World Series (WSL): 6 pointsLosing in the Championship…

Residents of parts of Los Angeles County on Sunday afternoon felt a minor earthquake centered west of Malibu, Calif. Preliminary estimates showed that the quake had a magnitude of 4.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The authorities said they had no reports of any injuries or damage in the immediate aftermath of the quake. The Los Angeles Fire Department said the earthquake was not strong enough to have triggered an official earthquake response.Alan Delarosa, 47, a manager at Geoffrey’s, an open-air restaurant in Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was in an office when the quake occurred, shortly after 1 p.m.…

Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, unveiled $272.1 million in new funding on Sunday for foreign aid projects in Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific region. “Canada continues to fiercely strengthen our long-lasting friendship with Bangladesh and the wider Indo-Pacific region with our long-standing people-to-people ties,” Hussen said in a statement. “By supporting vulnerable communities’ healthcare services, empowering women and addressing climate change, we are creating a brighter tomorrow for the global community.”The money, to be spent alongside contributions from other foreign partners and donors, will provide new funding for 14 different projects in Bangladesh and other countries in the Indo-Pacific…

The Kiwi star of Virgin River is warning fans to be wary over hundreds of fake accounts posing as him on social media.