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YANGON: Myanmar authorities failed to auction off Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside mansion on Tuesday (Apr 29) – the fourth time the sale of the jailed Nobel peace laureate’s property has attracted no bidders. A court-appointed auctioneer emerged from the rusty gate of the sprawling two-storey pile on Yangon’s leafy University Avenue Road to offer it at a discounted US$128 million starting price. Surveyed by a gaggle of journalists and around a dozen police, the auctioneer asked for bidders three times before proclaiming: “We hereby announce that the auction is not successful”. Aung San Suu Kyi has been jailed since…

The last time Beyoncé performed “Daddy Lessons,” the stomping, biting number from her 2016 album, “Lemonade,” was at that year’s C.M.A. Awards, in a blistering rendition alongside the Dixie Chicks (now the Chicks).Not everyone in country music embraced Beyoncé’s experimentation. “I did not feel welcomed,” she wrote in album notes leading up to the release last year of “Cowboy Carter,” her eighth solo album, an exploration of the many tendrils of American roots music and their connections to Black music of all stripes and generations.So it was meaningful, and pointed, that at the opening night of the Cowboy Carter Tour…

Residents of a neighborhood plunged largely into darkness by a widespread electricity blackout celebrated on Monday evening as the lights turned back on. After the nearly 18-hour outage, the power was back in most of Spain and Portugal, but the cause remained unclear.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Months after facing backlash for performing at the Liberty Ball in celebration of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Nelly is calling for unity as Trump reaches his 100th day in office. “I’m all for everybody staying positive about any and everything,” Nelly, who performed at Stagecoach over the weekend, told Fox News Digital. “I’m a glass half full type of guy. I’m more empowered by bringing people together and making sure that we all get what we need, when we need it and why we need it.”Ahead of his performance in January, the rapper…

Follow live updates on the Trump administration.House Republicans are proposing to charge migrants $1,000 to claim asylum, one of a series of new or increased fees on immigrants seeking to gain legal entry into the United States that is part of their effort to curb immigration and pay for the Trump administration’s border crackdown.The fees on immigrants are one of several proposals in legislation released on Monday by the House Judiciary Committee to be included in the major domestic policy bill Republicans are putting together to implement President Trump’s domestic agenda.The application fee would be the first time the United…

CEO of PayPal Alex Chriss speaks during the Semafor 2025 World Economy Summit at Conrad Washington on April 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty ImagesPayPal reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter, but the company missed on revenue and reaffirmed its guidance for 2025 due to macro uncertainty. The stock fell more than 3% in pre-market trading.Here’s how the company did compared with Wall Street estimates, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $1.33, adjusted vs. $1.16 expectedRevenue: $7.79 billion vs. $7.85 billion expectedWhile sales increased just 1% from $7.7 billion a year earlier, PayPal said the…

United Airlines Polaris lounge in ChicagoUnited AirlinesUnited Airlines’ top-tier airport lounge reopened in Chicago on Tuesday, featuring a 50% larger space and Crate & Barrel furnishings as carriers’ battle for higher-spending customers becomes more crucial.The 25,000-square-foot-Polaris lounge is in Terminal 1 at United’s home hub, Chicago O’Hare International Airport. It has seating for 350 passengers, six additional bathrooms, a second “speakeasy-style” bar and 50 seats for sit-down dining.United opened its first Polaris airport lounge in 2016 along with its new long-haul, business-class cabin of the same name. The lounge is reserved for customers flying internationally in the Polaris cabin, and…

When a military judge threw out a defendant’s confession in the Sept. 11 case this month, he gave two main reasons.The prisoner’s statements, the judge ruled, were obtained through the C.I.A.’s use of torture, including beatings and sleep deprivation.But equally troubling to the judge was what happened to the prisoner in the years after his physical torture ended, when the agency held him in isolation and kept questioning him from 2003 to 2006.The defendant, Ammar al-Baluchi, is accused of sending money and providing other support to some of the hijackers who carried out the terrorist attack, which killed 3,000 people.…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 29, 2025 10:07 am Updated April 29, 2025 10:21 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared a man not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Justice Éric Downs has accepted the joint recommendation of criminal non-responsibility from the Crown and the defence in the…

Canada’s main opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat in the country’s general election, results from Elections Canada showed, as the Conservatives were beaten by the incumbent Liberal Party.Poilievre, 45, failed to retain his seat in the Ontario district of Carleton, losing it to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.The Liberal Party’s victory means Prime Minister Mark Carney, former head of the central Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, will lead a minority government.The Liberals secured 168 seats, short of the 172 required to form a majority government.The opposition Conservatives, led by Poilievre, won 144 seats.That was an improvement on…