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Tesla has proposed a massive new $1 trillion compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks he needs to hit are simply watered-down versions of promises he’s spent years making about the company. That’s not the picture Tesla’s board of directors paints in the company’s annual proxy statement, where they revealed the proposed pay package. Instead, the board focuses on how it plans to create “the most valuable company in history.” To be sure, if Tesla accomplishes all that it aims for with this deal, it will look like a much different company at the end…

MGM+’s “Godfather of Harlem,” Paramount+’s “PD True” and Netflix’s “American Murder: Gabby Petito” were among the winners on Saturday at the 4th annual Clue Awards. The event, hosted by Ice-T, was held during the annual CrimeCon event in Denver. Among honorees were the families of Liberty German and Abigail Williams (victims of the Delphi murders) and Lead Investigator Lt. Jerry Holeman of the Indiana State Police, who received the 2025 Crimefighter of the Year award — as presented by last year’s recipient, John Walsh. Also Sgt. Julissa Trapp of the Anaheim, Calif., Police Department was named 2025 “America’s Greatest Detective” for…

A global roundup of some of last week’s events.

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureToday’s WSL fixtures, all at midday.ShareArsenal got their WSL season underway with a London derby win.ShareBarney Ronay was impressed with Andorra’s aptitude at spoiling.ShareJacob Steinberg made Elliott Anderson his man of the match.ShareEngland fall-out from that grinding win over Andorra. Thomas Tuchel was happy enough.ShareGood morning, footballHello there, it’s Sunday, the morning after the night before, and England are on 12 points in their World Cup group but the game against Andorra was a real grind. The WSL is wel underway now with wins for Chelsea and Arsenal. To…

Centre-left 45-year-old politician gets new mandate to manage the South American nation’s newfound oil wealth.Published On 7 Sep 20257 Sep 2025Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali has been re-elected for a second term, according to the country’s electoral body, after a vote that gave his party a mandate to manage the South American nation’s newfound oil riches amid a territorial dispute with Venezuela.The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) said in a statement released late on Sunday night that Ali’s People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) had won the general election, held on September 1, securing 55 percent of the 65-seat parliament.Recommended Stories list of 3…

Published On 7 Sep 20257 Sep 2025Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to resign to avoid a split within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the broadcaster NHK is reporting.The announcement on Sunday comes weeks after Ishiba denied reports he planned to resign over a historic defeat his LDP-led coalition suffered in a July election, losing its upper house majority, saying he wanted to make sure the tariff deal struck with the United States was appropriately implemented.More to come…

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been travelling around the United States on his Fighting the Oligarchy Tour — a series of town halls aimed at engaging progressive voters nationwide.On Saturday evening, he brought that message to his alma mater, Brooklyn College, for a joint town hall with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listSeated beside the longtime progressive politician, Mamdani drew 1,700 people as the clear frontrunner in the city’s mayoral race — a contest now drawing national attention as progressives view him and candidates like him as a way to energise their…

An AI company is to reconstruct the missing portions of Orson Welles’ legendary mutilated masterwork The Magnificent Ambersons, it has been announced.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Showrunner platform is planning to use its AI tools to assist in a recreation of the lost 43 minutes of Welles’ 1942 film, removed and subsequently destroyed by Hollywood studio RKO.Edward Saatchi, CEO of interactive AI film-making studio Fable, which operates Showrunner, said in a statement to IndieWire: “We’re starting with Orson Welles because he is the greatest storyteller of the last 200 years … So many people are rightly skeptical of AI’s…

South West Water is being taken to court over a parasite that infected the water supply in parts of Devon last summer and left dozens sick.More than 140 people were confirmed to have the diarrhoea-type disease, which also causes stomach pains and vomiting, typically lasting for about two weeks. Four people were hospitalised at the time.About 16,000 households and businesses in the Brixham area were told by the water company not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling it first.A water tank at Hillhead reservoir had been found to contain the parasite, the company said at the time.…

It is hard to imagine anyone less like the slovenly, has-been MI5 agent Jackson Lamb than his creator, Mick Herron. “He must come deep out of my subconscious,” the 62-year-old thriller writer jokes, sipping mineral water at a rooftop bar in his home city of Oxford, a world away from London’s Aldersgate where his bestselling Slough House series is set. In a “blue shirt, white tee” (fans will get the reference), he is softly spoken with a hint of a Geordie accent. Herron is often described as the heir to John le Carré and “the best spy novelist of his…