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Elon Musk was no longer a trillionaire by the time markets closed on Wednesday. Plunging shares in Tesla and SpaceX dragged the tech magnate down to billionaire status. As of 4pm ET, Forbes listed Musk’s net worth as $970.2bn.Musk reached trillionaire status on 12 June after SpaceX’s historic initial public offering. The rocket, satellite and AI company’s debut on the stock market made Musk the first person with a net worth of more than $1tn. His fortune continued to hover around that gigantic figure in the weeks following the initial public offering (IPO).A global stock selloff this week led to…

Published On 25 Jun 202625 Jun 2026Two powerful earthquakes have struck northern Venezuela, killing dozens of people, injuring hundreds and destroying homes and infrastructure. These images show the damage, rescue efforts and grief in the affected communities.

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Jun 24, 2026, 07:53 AM ETSweden’s Felicia Schröder is one of the best young strikers in Europe already. Maurizio Lagana/Getty ImagesReal Madrid have signed 19-year-old Sweden forward Felicia Schröder from BK Häcken, in a move that the Swedish side (and Schröder’s agent, Linus Gunnarsson) said broke the world transfer record for a women’s player.In truth it’s a bit more complicated, as a Häcken spokesperson told Reuters that the fee was more than the $1.5 million Orlando Pride paid to Tigres for the signing of Mexico playmaker Lizbeth Ovalle last August, yet FIFA documentation shows that London City Lionesses actually set a…

The Locarno Film Festival will honor and celebrate the Belgian-born actress Virginie Efira with the Leopard Club Award at its 79th edition this August. Efira will receive the award in the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande on the evening of Friday, Aug. 7. In the fest program, she will also present Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain), for which she won the Palme for best actress at Cannes and for which she learned to act partly in Japanese. “Over the past decade, Virginie Efira has become a defining presence in French-language cinema,” Locarno said on Thursday. “In 2023, she earned…

On a recent afternoon in Paris, a woman was having her eye color changed from brown to green.She was lying supine on the operating table, her left eye clamped open with an ophthalmic speculum while a doctor used a scalpel to slowly inject the pistachio green, mineral-based pigment into her cornea.Observing the surgery was Dr. Francis Ferrari, the French ophthalmologist at the New Eyes Paris clinic who invented the cosmetic process, called Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Annular Keratopigmentation, or FLAAK, just over a decade ago.He rolled his stool closer to the monitor, which projected an extreme close-up image of the eye. “Not…

Residents in Venezuela’s capital and nearby cities described scenes of terror and confusion as buildings collapsed, windows rattled, and homes lost power when two major earthquakes struck the country on Wednesday evening.“I’ve never felt something so strong,” María Barco, 24, said from the city of San Felipe, near the earthquake’s epicenter, describing a strong shake that seemed to last 60 to 90 seconds. Her daughter screamed, she said. The back part of her house fell in, she said, leaving the family unable to get back in, and they were without internet or electricity.The extent of the damage was not yet…

When the ground beneath Venezuela started violently rocking on Wednesday evening, Verónica feared the walls of her Caracas apartment would bury her.”I thought I was going to die,” she told BBC Mundo.She was at home celebrating a national holiday with her mother when tremors from two earthquakes hit the city, seconds apart, around 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT): the first at a magnitude of 7.2 and the second at 7.5.More than 30 people have been confirmed dead so far and hundreds more are injured – but authorities have warned they have not even begun to gauge the losses in some…

The average retail price paid by Nigerians for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, rose to ₦1,596.25 per litre in May 2026, reflecting the continued pressure of high fuel costs on households and businesses across the country. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed this in its Petrol Price Watch report released on Wednesday, showing that the average pump price increased by 55.31 per cent when compared with ₦1,027.76 recorded in May 2025. The latest figure also represents a 4.13 per cent increase from the average price of ₦1,532.93 per litre recorded in April 2026. The data indicate…

The US government has opened a second federal investigation into a recent crash of a Tesla that reportedly had driver-assistance technology engaged, struck a Texas home and killed a resident.Meanwhile, the family of Martha Avila, the 76-year-old resident who was killed, has sued over the wreck.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday that it was launching an investigation into the 19 June crash that killed Avila in the Houston suburb of Katy.That came two days after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was investigating the crash as well.Furthermore, lawyers for Avila’s family said they had…