# Tom Cruise se jongste rolprent, Digger, kan dalk nagenoeg vier-miljard-rand by die loket verloor, ná teleurstellende kaartjieverkope. Die rolprent het wêreldwyd slegs 35-miljoen-dollar in sy eerste twee naweke verdien, terwyl kaartjieverkope in Noord-Amerika die tweede naweek met 60-persent teruggesak het. Dit het na raming 4,6-miljard-rand gekos om te vervaardig en te bemark. Ontleders meen […]
# Die regering van Pakistan het die hoofminister van ‘n provinsie onder beheer van die voormalige eerste minister Imran Khan in hegtenis geneem nadat ‘n noodreël ingestel is. Khan is tans in die tronk. Reuters berig die minister van Binnelandse Sake, Talal Chaudhry, het gister bevestig Sohail Afridi en ander kabinetslede is in voorkomende aanhouding. […]
# Tom Cruise’s latest film, Digger, is forecast to lose about 4-billion-rand after disappointing audiences at the box office. The dark comedy took just 35-million-dollars worldwide in its first two weekends, while ticket sales in North America fell by 60-percent in the second weekend. The film cost an estimated 4.6-billion-rand to make and market. Analysts […]
# ‘n Brand het Parys se oudste onderdak voedselmark vernietig. Die geskiedkundige mark in die Marais-distrik van die Franse hoofstad dateer uit die vroeë 1600’s en bestaan al langer as 400 jaar. Die mark is vroegoggend deur vlamme verswelg. Brandbestryders kon dit onder beheer bring, maar die struktuur is grootliks vernietig en ‘n deel het […]
# Pakistan’s government has detained the chief minister of a province controlled by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party, following the imposition of emergency rule. Reuters reports Interior minister Talal Chaudhry confirmed Sohail Afridi and some cabinet members were taken into preventive custody yesterday. President Asif Ali Zardari declared the emergency, citing security concerns […]
# A fire has destroyed Paris’s oldest covered food market. The historic site dates back more than 400 years. The Marché des Enfants-Rouges in the French capital’s Marais district was engulfed by flames early this morning. Firefighters brought the blaze under control, but the market’s structure was destroyed and part of it collapsed. No deaths […]
# ‘n BBC-ondersoek toon die rekenmeesters Deloitte het gehelp om dokumente te vervals om die Russiese miljardêr Roman Abramovich se rykdom te verberg en belasting te ontduik in Brittanje. Luukse seiljagte, herehuise en privaat vliegtuie van 11,1-miljard-rand het verdwyn uit die onderneming se rekords nadat finansiële dokumente terugdateer is. BBC Panorama en die Buro vir […]
# Die Amerikaanse ekonome Robert Hall en Michael Woodford is bekroon met 2026 se Nobelprys vir Ekonomiese Wetenskappe vir hul werk oor ekonomiese bestendiging. Hul navorsing het gelei tot die ontwikkeling van raamwerke wat regerings en sentrale banke help om ekonomiese hoogte- en laagtepunte te bestuur deur rentekoerse, staatsbesteding en ander beleidsmaatreëls. John Hassler van […]
# American economists Robert Hall and Michael Woodford have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on economic stabilisation. Their research has helped develop models used by governments and central banks to manage economic ups and downs through interest rates, government spending and other policy measures. The Nobel Committee’s John […]
