Family releases AI-generated video of Gaza hostage asking Trump to free his body from HamasAhead of the Trump-Netanyahu meeting, the fate of the last remaining Israeli hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, has become a sticking point in the move to the next phase of Trump’s Gaza peace plan. CNN’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Matthew Chance examines a new AI video – authorised by the family – with a powerful message to the US President.
From tokens to cardsNew York City subway’s iconic tokens were the default form of fare payment before the MetroCard was introduced. Cards also came with a massive perk that tokens didn’t: free transfers. One swipe of a MetroCard on a bus or subway meant riders didn’t have to pay again if they transferred to another bus or subway train. A collector’s itemBut just as New York subway tokens became icons of the city, so did the MetroCard. (The MTA didn’t respond to CNN’s request for comment.)
“Michael, if he had one failing in the dot-com cycle, it was being early to the process. The housing bubble? It was being early to the process,” said Michael Green, a former hedge-fund manager who is now chief strategist at the active-ETF manager Simplify Asset Management and who, like Burry, has warned against popular trends—in his case, passive investing. “This is a significant issue, right? How quickly does this end?”
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A selection of the best music videos released in 2025 VevoAs the debate rages on about whether or not music videos are still relevant in the 2020s, this year saw plenty of prolific stars proving that there’s still plenty of life in the artform yet. AdvertisementHere are 25 of the must-see clips released in 2025 proving that there’s nothing quite like a music video when it’s done right…25. By the end, the whole music video descends into a montage of unpredictable chaos which definitely has replay value. Little Simz – YoungDirected by Dave MeyersWhat’s very apparent while watching the Young music video back is that Little Simz had an absolute blast making it. Chappell Roan – The SubwayDirected by Amber Grace JohnsonAdvertisementAfter completely foregoing music videos for her hit singles Good Luck, Babe!
Have you ever had a dream that you couldn’t quite shake off for the rest of the day? Apparently, according to dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley Ph.D, this is called a ‘carry-over effect’ and it’s actually quite common. AdvertisementWriting for Psychology Today, he says: “Carry-over effects are feelings, sensations, and bodily responses from dreaming that are still experienced even after awakening. It’s like a part of the dream world manages to seep into the waking world.”Some dreams just are more memorable than othersWhile the researcher admits that “some dreams are simply impossible to forget”, the physical sensations experienced with these kind of dreams may also have their part to play. He explains: “This variety of carry-over effects shows that dreaming is not just a complex mental process, but a complex bodily process, too.
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/joyful-adult-daughter-greeting-happy-surprised-senior-mother-in-garden-3768131/With many of us opting for a quiet Christmas this year, chances are that we’ll be extending these restful vibes to the New Year and who better to enjoy that with than elderly relatives? AdvertisementSo, what can you do with your elderly loved ones this year? Do a daytime celebrationSome elderly people sleep a lot earlier and won’t make it to the famous midnight bells. Decorate the table with festive items like party hats and noisemakers to add to the holiday spirit. “Include activities like sharing favourite memories from the year or setting lighthearted resolutions for the next one.”
An intermunicipal bus in Guatemala veered off a road and fell into a deep ravine, killing 15 passengers and injuring at least 15 othersGUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala -- An intermunicipal bus veered off a road in Guatemala and fell into a deep ravine, killing 15 passengers and injuring at least 15 others, authorities said Saturday, and declared three days of national mourning. The accident happened Friday night outside the town of Totonicapan along a route known as the Interamerican Road. Officials said it took rescue workers more than two hours to recover the corpses from the crash site and rescue injured passengers. “I profoundly regret the tragedy which happened along the Interamerican Route,” President Bernardo Arevalo said in a social media statement. Those accidents resulted in 111 deaths and more than 600 people injured through October.
This matters now because the pause, reported on December 17, 2025, interrupts licensing talks and raises fresh questions about Meta’s XR rollout timetable. What Meta’s Horizon pause means for headset makers in 2025Meta paused Horizon OS sharing on December 17, 2025; licensing talks stopped immediately. paused Horizon OS sharing on December 17, 2025; licensing talks stopped immediately. Who’s reacting to the Horizon OS pause, and why now? Meta’s halt to Horizon OS sharing tightens the software moat and slows partner launches, which could keep prices higher and limit device variety through 2025.
In the end, Tinkov lost almost $9 billion (£6.5 billion) of his once-rich fortune and fled Russia. The period before the invasion was very bad for Russia's billionaires, and so were its immediate consequences. Their collective wealth ($580 billion) was only $3 billion less than the peak recorded the year before the invasion. "The West did everything possible to ensure that Russian billionaires gathered around the flag," says Alexander Kolyandr of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). All of this effectively helped Putin mobilize the billionaires, their assets and their money, and use them to prop up the Russian war economy," he tells the BBC.
Peter Thiel is one of the sharpest entrepreneurs and investors of his generation, and he has an interesting heuristic on deciding how to promote employees. Keith Rabois, a longtime Thiel collaborator who served as COO at PayPal and went on to become a prominent venture capitalist and executive at Square, LinkedIn, and Khosla Ventures, recently shared a lesson he learned from Thiel about organizational design. Image source – www.forbes.com“I actually learned from Peter Thiel back at PayPal that you only really want to promote someone when there’s a significant delta between that person’s performance and the next best person,” Rabois explained. “The bigger the delta, the easier it is to promote somebody. Otherwise, you’re better off as an executive leading an organization to leave things flat until the gap is just unmistakable.
The NFL’s regular season is ending soon, which means that fantasy football seasons are also coming to a close. New York Giants star wide receiver Malik Nabers was drafted in the first round by many players, but the second-year wide receiver tore his ACL in Week 4. Click Here For More Sports Coverage On Foxnews.comNabers and IHOP partnered to make a hilarious commercial, which made fun of his injury and the impact it had on fantasy football players. "Every year, thousands of fantasy football leagues make their last-place team spend 24 hours at IHOP eating pancakes," Nabers said. Original article source: Giants star Malik Nabers pokes fun at own season-ending injury, fantasy football in hilarious commercial
Apple (AAPL) edged up after China-linked data and a legal development in the Apple Watch dispute. [21] Track Tesla’s safety probe headlinesNHTSA’s evaluation into allegedly hidden emergency releases creates an ongoing headline stream risk. [22] Keep Apple’s China data and Apple Watch litigation in focusThe November jump in foreign-branded phone shipments in China is a sentiment lever, and Apple’s Apple Watch import win reduces (for now) a near-term disruption risk. That’s the window when the biggest liquidity and price discovery typically occurs for Big Tech stocks. [27]References1. www.reuters.com, 2. www.reuters.com, 3. www.reuters.com, 4. www.barrons.com, 5. www.reuters.com, 6. www.reuters.com, 7. www.reuters.com, 8. www.reuters.com, 9. www.reuters.com, 10. www.reuters.com, 11. www.barrons.com, 12. news.bloomberglaw.com, 13. www.latimes.com, 14. www.investors.com, 15. www.washingtonpost.com, 16. www.washingtonpost.com, 17. www.reuters.com, 18. www.reuters.com, 19. www.nasdaq.com, 20. www.schwab.com, 21. www.reuters.com, 22. www.latimes.com, 23. www.reuters.com, 24. www.schwab.com, 25. www.reuters.com, 26. www.nyse.com, 27. www.reuters.com
Louisville, Kentucky (AP) — A Cuban immigrant who had built a new life working at a Kentucky scrapyard died on Christmas Day from severe burns suffered in last month’s UPS cargo plane crash, raising the death toll to 15, officials said. Andy Beshear and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg confirmed his death via social media. Colina embraced the company’s culture and life in Louisville, even becoming a University of Kentucky fan. Colina had been with a customer and a coworker who died, Garber said. Colina was a good man, Garber said, with a big heart who cared about the business, customers and his family.
