Image copyright Getty Images The city of Paris is suing Airbnb for €12.5m (£11m) over 1,000 adverts for what it says are illegal rentals. Homeowners in the city can rent out their properties for only 120 days per year. They must register themselves as a business and display their registration number on any advertising. Under …
Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s largest current account provider has reported problems with its online banking service. Lloyds Banking Group said some customers with Lloyds’ accounts faced “intermittent issues” when trying to log onto the online system. It has apologised and says it is trying to resolve the problem urgently. App services are working …
The film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has been nominated in the production design and visual effects categories at the 2019 Bafta Film Awards. Joint visual effects supervisor, Christian Manz, of Framestore, spoke to Al Moloney about some of the challenges the company faced in helping to make the film. The awards ceremony will …
Image copyright Getty Images The UK economy expanded at its slowest rate in six years in 2018. Growth in the year was 1.4%, down from 1.8% last year and the lowest since 2012, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. It blamed slower factory output and car production for the slowdown, among other factors. It …
Robert Rodriguez’s latest stint as director is on the sci-fi blockbuster Alita: Battle Angel. The film was written and produced by James Cameron, who originally planned to direct it. Rodriguez says he made the movie for half the price Cameron would have, but with a reported budget of $200m (£154m), it still cost considerably more …
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Image copyright Reuters Philip Hammond must spend billions extra to end austerity, says think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). To maintain per capita spending across government departments which don’t have ring-fenced budgets, he must find an extra £5bn a year by 2023, it adds. And maintaining spending on unprotected services as a share …
Image copyright Getty Images A reported investment by Chinese tech giant Tencent in Reddit has sparked a backlash on the popular community news site over censorship fears. Last week reports said that Tencent would be investing $150m (£115m) into the platform. China has a strict internet censorship regime known as the Great Firewall and Reddit …
Abu Taher says his son was always a “good kid”. For years, Mr Taher ran a small clothing shop in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He retired with little money and became reliant on his son and daughter for financial support. “My wife and I had to go through a lot of hardship to raise our son,” Mr …
Image copyright Getty Images People on zero-hour contracts are more than twice as likely to work night shifts, and are paid a third less an hour than other workers, the TUC says. After polling 3,287 workers – 300 of them zero-hour staff – it concluded the “exploitative” system should be banned. It says the flexibility …