Author: Henry

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…

Olivia Bowen and her husband Alex have finally moved into their stunning Spanish villa, after a ‘far from perfect’ journey to purchase the property. The couple have been documenting their quest to purchase a holiday home where they can ‘make memories’ with their two children Abel, four, and Sienna, 10 months. Olivia shared a video of their new home and its outside terrace on Instagram, including a private pool and an outside BBQ, after building it ‘from scratch.’ The sweet video showed herself and Alex embracing as they soaked up the move, with Olivia telling her followers in the caption it had…

From a bear posing on a Carpathian wall to the geothermal pools of Iceland, readers have been sharing the road trips that stayed with them long after the engine cooled. The accounts, submitted to The Guardian, range across Europe and closer to home, but they share a common thread: the journey itself, rather than any single destination, is the holiday. Few routes capture that spirit better than Romania’s Transfăgărășan Highway, which one reader, Joe, picked out for its sheer drama. Snaking over the southern Carpathian Mountains in a succession of hairpin bends and steep climbs, the road was once described…

Former professional cyclist Rohan Dennis has allegedly been caught driving while disqualified, with two children in the car. South Australia Police said they stopped a 36-year-old Medindie man just after 4pm on Thursday, after officers saw him driving a vehicle with the two youngsters inside. The man’s vehicle was impounded for 28 days and Dennis would be summonsed to appear in court at a later date, police said. Dennis was banned from driving for five years following the traffic incident in which his wife, Olympian Melissa Hoskins, died in December 2023. A 17-month prison term was suspended on a two-year good-behaviour…

SpaceX has said shares should sell to the public for at least $135 (£100) when it becomes a publicly traded company on Friday, in what is expected to be the highest-value stock listing in history. The estimated price is the same as the space exploration and artificial intelligence (AI) company set a week ago, lifting the firm’s valuation to nearly $1.8tn. SpaceX is aiming to raise $75bn through its initial public offering (IPO). Should shares sell at the suggested price, or more, depending on market supply and demand, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk – already the richest man in…

A sinister code has appeared on the National Mall just weeks before Donald Trump is set to host Fourth of July celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary. The numbers ’86 47,’ used by left-wing activists to refer to assassinating Trump, were burnt into the lawn by a ‘deranged vandal’, the administration told the Daily Mail. US Park Police and National Guard troops were spotted on Thursday investigating the markings near the World War Two memorial at the western end of the mall. It appears that the numbers were scorched into the grass, with the light brown color contrasting with the surrounding green of…

An Arizona therapist has insisted he accidentally kicked an autistic five-year-old boy in the head, but surveillance footage told a different story, prosecutors said.  Adolfo Salas, 42, an employee at Soar Autism Center in Peoria, about 14 miles northwest of Phoenix, was allegedly caught kicking a boy in the head around 2pm on on June 1. Moments afterward, the child could be heard crying in pain. The registered behavioral technician then allegedly sent another employee an ‘SOS’ message, stating: ‘I accidentally kicked him in the face.’ He later told police he meant to kick the chair, not the boy, who is non-verbal, Law…