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On a staff call this week, a senior Ernst & Young executive delivered an exhortation to the troops: Bill clients “every hour we can get our hands on.” A failed breakup attempt cost the company $600 million. Employees are angry. But that might be the least of it: The outlook for EY’s business of charging for advice and accounting is getting weaker in the U.S. by the month. On a staff call this week, a senior Ernst & Young executive delivered an exhortation to the troops: Bill…

While India has a large number of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, many public roads go through these restricted areas. Such areas see a high number of conflicts between elephants and humans. Here is one such incident where the travellers in a bus came across a massive full-grown elephant and were so scared that they started chanting mantras. The incident is from the southern part of the country. The video, which is taken from inside the bus shows the massive elephant approaching the bus as it tries to carry on…

The Labor Department’s inflation reading Tuesday will inform the Federal Reserve on price pressures in the economy as the central bank confronts bank failures.The inflation rate has cooled from a recent peak last June, but has remained stubbornly high. The consumer-price index, a closely watched measure of inflation, advanced 6.4% in January from a year earlier, just edging down from December’s 6.5% increase.  The Labor Department will release its February CPI report at 8:30 a.m. ET Tuesday.…

The Ghana summit is aimed at achieving deeper economic integration between African states and outlining its industrialisation priorities. As fast changing geopolitical realities and health crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic have brought to light Africa's over-reliance on global supply chains, the Ghana Summit sharpens…

via Marvel Studios The fifth and sixth assemblies of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are in development and on the way, but Avengers: The Kang Dynasty already has a significant advantage over Secret Wars, the latter of which was recently delayed by six months. The former has Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton poised to wield the megaphone, with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania scribe Jeff Loveness on screenwriting duties. The latter has Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse…

As online gaming platform Roblox confronts a lawsuit alleging it enabled a California girl's exploitation, its chief scientist said finding dangerous content in the company's virtual world is nothing like spotting it in video."It's such a challenge to moderate 3D," said Morgan McGuire in an interview at the Reuters Momentum conference in Austin on Tuesday. He had no comment on the recent lawsuit but said Roblox was built with safety and civility at the forefront.San Mateo, Calif.-based Roblox is deploying bots to patrol…

Accompanying the book of the same name, Iain Sinclair extends his psychogeographic franchise out to the New World in this lightly dramatised documentary, which traces the 1891 trek of his great-grandfather Arthur Sinclair into the Amazon jungle to set up a coffee plantation for the Peruvian Corporation of London. Kicking off with testimony from the Asháninka people whose land was hijacked, his stated aim is a Conradian voyage upriver – only reversing the “romance” surrounding the colonial plunder of the time and still…

This painful British drama part-fictionalises the life of Paul Connolly, abandoned in a dustbin as a two-week-old baby and then later abused at the notorious St Leonard’s children’s home in Essex. The effects of childhood brutality and the cost of growing up being told you’re nothing: it’s all there in This Is England actor Michael Socha’s performance as Connolly in adulthood, a violent man carrying invisible scars.We first meet Connolly as a child of about 11 or 12 (played by newcomer Mitchell Norman). “You’ll end up in…

via RLJE Films As anyone with a streaming subscription knows, true crime is all the rage these days, and has been for quite some time. At-home audiences love nothing more than curling up to revisit horrific murders committed by some of the most notorious killers in history, so Ted Bundy tale No Man of God was always going to appeal to a large audience. In a bizarre set of circumstances, the infamous inmate has become one of the most heavily-adapted real-world figures in recent memory, with Luke Kirby starring…

In a new interview, Brad Pitt doesn’t specifically address the very public collapse of his marriage to Angelina Jolie, or his nightmarish, ongoing, six-year legal fight over custody of their six children, but the legendary actor reveals to British GQ  that the breakup of his family in 2016 prompted him to give up drinking and to eventually give up smoking. Single again and with his brain and body cleared of substances, Pitt, 58, said he began to face some pretty hard truths about himself. In doing so, he explained he has…