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Thor star Chris Hemsworth has apparently decided to swap out Mjolnir and Stormbreaker for drumsticks after surprising fans by playing the drums at Ed Sheeran's concert in Bucharest, Romania. In a video shared by Sheeran, the Grammy Award winner can be seen revealing the drummer at the concert. “He's been playing with us onstage the whole time. Can you play some sounds for Chris Hemsworth?” Sheeran says in the video. Hemsworth performed with Ed Sheeran onstage at Bucharest's National Stadium on Saturday night. The actor was filming an episode for the upcoming second season of the National Geographic/Disney+ series “Limitless…

Starmer and Scholz are 'on the same page' Published at 08:09 BST08:09 BSTImage source, PA Media Image caption, Starmer signed the guest book for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and is due to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz later.Nils Schmidt, foreign affairs spokesman for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, told our colleagues on Radio 4's Today programme.He said Mr Scholz and Mr Starmer were “more or less on the same page” when it came to Britain's relationship with the EU.”The German government is constantly working to bring the UK closer to Europe and to boost cooperation between the UK and the European…

Klarna plans to hire half as many employees as it did last year, betting on using artificial intelligence to boost efficiency and cut costs.CEO Sebastian Šmiatkowski said in a statement to the Financial Times that the company could operate efficiently with half its current staff. The Swedish “buy now, pay later” company has reduced its workforce from 5,000 to 3,800 over the past year, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.The company plans to further reduce its workforce to about 2,000 over the next few years. Mr. Siemiatkowski said the company's use of AI will enable it to “do more with…

advertisementWith the end of the summer holidays and the ‘rentrée’ approaching, here is Euronews’ guide to what to expect from tech policy in the coming months, as well as what you may have missed over the summer holidays.Future plans:(New?) Digital Affairs CommissionerThe European Parliament is due to approve new commissioners in October, revealing who will replace Thierry Breton, the Internal Market Commissioner in charge of various digital files. Breton, who was nominated for a second term, may be looking to replace himself, as most of the other candidates lack technology experience. The newly elected commissioners are due to take office…

LONDON — European markets were set to open modestly higher on Wednesday as investors looked to the latest earnings and economic data for clues about the outlook for global stock markets. The UK's FTSE 100 is expected to open at 8,375, up about 21 points in the latest instalment, Germany's DAX is expected to rise 17 points to 18,717, France's CAC is expected to rise 15 points to 7,587, and Italy's FTSE MIB is expected to rise 87 points to 33,969. That came after a choppy trade on Tuesday when the pan-European stock index, the Stoxx 600, closed slightly higher.…

La Defense business district in Paris, France, February 6, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — European markets were set to open modestly higher on Wednesday as investors looked to the latest earnings and economic data for clues about the outlook for global stock markets.The UK's FTSE 100 is expected to open at 8,375, up about 21 points in the latest instalment, Germany's DAX is expected to rise 17 points to 18,717, France's CAC is expected to rise 15 points to 7,587, and Italy's FTSE MIB is expected to rise 87 points to 33,969.That came after a choppy trade on…

The Government needs to ban flavoured and disposable e-cigarettes to protect children from the growing epidemic of vaping in the UK, doctors have argued. The British Medical Association says bold action is needed and e-cigarettes have no rightful place in young people's lives. The company says children are targeted with colors, brands and flavors, such as bubble gum and cotton candy, to market products that may lead to nicotine addiction. It is estimated that about 8% of 11-17 year olds use e-cigarettes. It is already illegal to sell e-cigarettes to anyone under 18, but Professor David Strain, chairman of the…

Since the pandemic, the US has been especially focused on addressing the ongoing mental health and loneliness crisis, especially among teenagers. While we understandably worry about teenagers, another group's struggles with depression and anxiety have gone essentially unnoticed. Many young people in the US are anxiously searching for a sense of purpose and finding the transition to adulthood difficult. And many of them are doing so alone.”Young people are more vulnerable than ever before.” Adolescence may be “a time of great growth and potential,” but many young people say they “feel neurotic, lonely, disoriented and worried about their economic security,”…

She then announced that the cancer had progressed and spread to her bones.”Jiaju, your mother will never see you again. I'm sorry,” she wrote.The boy was five years old when he was abducted the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2015 while playing with a friend in a field near his rural home.The boy's parents have distributed hundreds of thousands of posters in an effort to find him. Photo: WeiboLi had been working in another city in Guangdong province to support her family financially and pay for treatment for her younger daughter, who was diagnosed with autism in 2016.She called…

South Asia remains the most air-polluted region in the world. A new report says air quality in South Asia unexpectedly improved in 2022, leading to a drop in pollution globally, with better weather likely being the contributing factor. But the region still breathes some of the most polluted air in the world, reducing the average life expectancy of its residents by more than 3.5 years, the annual Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) warns. And globally, most countries either have no pollution standards or do not meet the standards that have been set, exposing their citizens to air pollution that causes…