Author: Henry

Dylan Phelan, 21, handed himself in at a police station in Leeds, where he told officers he had encouraged the suicide of Travis Dyer, who lived in Louisiana, and had been drawn into dark groups on the online messaging platform Discord. A British man has been jailed for more than six years for encouraging a 21-year-old American to take his own life with a shotgun during a video call. Dylan Phelan, also 21, was sentenced to six years and four months in prison at Leeds Crown Court after pleading guilty in March to encouraging the suicide of Travis Dyer in Louisiana on…

Trading in shares of Elon Musk’s rocket ship company SpaceX blasted off on Friday, marking the dramatic debut of the biggest initial public offering in history. Late on Thursday, SpaceX priced 555.6 million shares at $135 each – instantly valuing the company at $1.77 trillion dollars, making more valuable than Musk’s side gig, Tesla – and the seventh most-valuable US public company. With around $75 billion in stock being floated on the Nasdaq today, the debut will create 4,000 new millionaires. A lucky inner circle of around 400 employees stand to earn as much as $100 million each – a…

This is the moment police found a violent thug cowering in a hidden compartment in a loft – after he was given shelter by the property’s occupants. Kurt Horton and Tracey Hoff allowed James Pedley to hide in their loft as police sought him over a vicious assault which saw his victim repeatedly stabbed. Officers were called to Morvern Avenue in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and found the man in his 40s lying on the floor. He underwent emergency surgery in hospital. Nottinghamshire Police said a trawl of CCTV footage and other inquiries identified 41-year-old Pedley as a suspect, and two days…

Celebrated British artist David Hockney has died aged 88, his publicist has confirmed. Hockney was best known for his important contribution to English pop art – and for his avid passion for smoking – and was one of the country’s most famous modern day artists. The artist, who was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II with the Order of Merit in his lifetime, died yesterday at his home.  In a statement released today, publicist Erica Bolton said: ‘The celebrated British artist David Hockney, one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away…

The face of the U.S. men says he’s “just going to try to live in the moment” while trying to lead the team deep in the global soccer tournament. When the U.S. men’s national team opens its World Cup bid on Friday in Los Angeles, all eyes will be on Christian Pulisic. The 27-year-old star is widely considered the most talented American player of his generation and — rightly or wrongly — tasked with delivering the best result in the country’s history this summer on home soil. He says he’s not letting that pressure get to him. “I think no…

The Trump administration said it wanted to drop its criminal fraud charges against Gautam Adani, one of the world’s wealthiest people. A judge hasn’t yet signed off. Democratic senators are questioning why the Justice Department moved to drop fraud charges against billionaire Indian businessman Gautam Adani, a significant reversal in a high-profile case. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wrote a letter asking acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about the “reportedly ‘transactional nature’” of the decision to forgo the case. Adani, who is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion and was considered the richest person in India, was indicted…

How to think about the latest big number to make headlines. You’ve started reading.We’ll track how long you spend with this article. When you reach the end, we’ll show how much money you would win if you were awarded $1 billion for every second you spend on this page. Elon Musk, worth $696 billion as of Wednesday, is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire when SpaceX goes public Friday. But what does 1 trillion actually mean? Here’s how to think about its immensity and the power it represents. SpaceX’s projected IPO valuation of $1.77 trillion is nearly 10 times that of Alibaba’s in…

An American was left shocked after Scottish football fans arrived at an Airbnb across the road from his home and then started playing the bagpipes at 6.30am. Members of the Tartan Army arrived at the property in Massachusetts ‘in the dead of night’ on Wednesday, bedecked it in Scotland flags and treated the neighbourhood to a musical performance early the next day. Mike Morrison, a director of communications for hospitals in Boston who lives opposite the house, took to social media to share a clip of the group. Three men were seen outside the home, one wearing a kilt and taking selfies, while a…

Olympic gold medalist Kyle Chalmers has revealed he has forked out $5000 just to compete at the ongoing Australian Swimming trials. Chalmers, a nine-time world champion, won his 100m freestyle event, which has now booked his place in the Australian team for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Despite the positive feat, Chalmers has sounded the alarm for young swimmers, and urged them on the side of caution on their journey to the top. ‘It’s such a hard sport … you make a lot of very hard decisions and sacrifices for what I feel is very little reward,’ Chalmers told reporters. ‘I…

Millie Bobby Brown has opened up about future motherhood plans, one year after announcing she and husband Jake Bongiovi adopted a baby girl. The 22-year-old Stranger Things sensation was a guest on Kylie Kelce’s Not Gonna Lie podcast this week, where she revealed she’d always planned to adopt. ‘[I] always, always wanted to adopt,’ Brown stressed on Thursday’s episode. ‘It was always part of my childhood dreams. Every time I was at home and I was, you know, five, six years old, my parents were like, “You had your baby dolls. They were all adopted.” I never had any of them myself. And I never pretended…