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Manchester City
organizationManchester City thrashed RB Leipzig 5-0 at the Etihad Stadium. Erling Haaland scored five, with Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin De Bruyne also on target. City advanced to the final eight with a 8-1 aggregate win after a 1-1 draw in first leg. FC Porto will face Inter Milan after a first leg 1-nil defeat.
Facebook parent company Meta to cut around 10,000 jobs globally. Comes just four months after it laid off 11,000 workers in the UK. Since December, Meta has trimmed 24 percent of its original 86,000 staff.
Meta
organizationFacebook parent company Meta to cut around 10,000 jobs globally. Comes just four months after it laid off 11,000 workers in the UK. Silicon Valley firm will first cut the size of its recruiting team.
Silicon Valley Bank
organizationSilicon Valley Bank suffered a $1.8 billion loss last week. Tech startups withdrew $42 billion from the bank. Advocacy groups are blaming the failure on the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010.
Kai Fagan
personKai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan, both 24, won Love Island 2023. The couple beat out Lana Jenkins and Ron Hall to the £50,000 prize. Ron and Lana were pipped to the post to finish second.
Harvey Weinstein
personHarvey Weinstein will not be re-tried in Los Angeles for the rape and sexual assault charges jurors failed to reach a verdict on. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench granted a request by the disgraced movie producer's attorneys to dismiss those charges.
Imran Khan
personPolice fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse supporters of Imran Khan. Clashes erupted between police and PTI workers when the former approached Khan's residence. Officers arrived to serve a warrant for the 71-year-old opposition leader to appear in court later this week.
Eleanor Williams
personEleanor Williams, 22, claimed she was victim of rape in Barrow-in-Furness. Claimed she had been abused by Asian grooming gang 'for years' Went as far as faking her own injuries on Facebook. Post was shared more than 100,000 times and led to police probe. Williams sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison.
Silicon Valley Bank
organizationUS authorities swooped in and seized the assets of SVB, a key lender to US startups since the 1980s. It’s the second-largest bank failure in history, behind the collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008.
Daniel Kwan
person"Everything Everywhere All at Once" wins seven Oscars. Daniel Kwan becomes the third winner of Asian descent to win a directing Oscar. Michelle Yeoh becomes the first ever Asian woman to win best actress.
Daniel Scheinert
person"Everything Everywhere All At Once" wins best feature film. Michelle Yeoh wins best lead actress. Brendan Fraser wins best actor for "The Whale" Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert win best director.
Rihanna
personRihanna is set to perform her nominated hit "Lift Me Up" The song was written in tribute to "Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020.
Casemiro
personManchester United will not appeal the red card shown to Casemiro. The Brazil international was initially booked for a tackle on Charly Alcarez but the yellow card was upgraded to red after a VAR review. He now faces a four match ban, ruling him out of Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final against Fulham and Premier League fixtures against Newcastle, Brentford and Everton.
Guneet Monga
personGuneet Monga and Kartiki Gonsalves' documentary movie The Elephant Whisperers has bagged the Oscars in the Short Film category. Song 'Naatu Naatu' from SS Rajamouli directed movie 'RRR', won the best original song.
HSBC
organizationDeal ensures security of 6.7 billion pounds ($8.1 billion) of deposits. HSBC told tech investors it will pump £2billion of liquidity into Silicon Valley Bank’s UK unit.
Kartiki Gonsalves
personIndian documentary The Elephant Whisperers has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film. Kartiki Gonsalves dedicated the award to her "motherland India" The plot of producer Guneet Monga's documentary revolves around a family who adopts two orphan baby elephants in Tamil Nadu.
The Silicon Valley Bank
organizationUS-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed suddenly on Friday. Popular among tech companies and start-ups, the bank was the 16th largest in the USA at the time of its collapse. US financial authorities also shut down another financial institution, New York-based Signature Bank.
Oscars
organizationTwo of the three films nominated for the 95th Academy Awards won this year. Naatu Naatu from SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus RRR has won the Best Original Song Award. Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian performer to win an Oscar 'best actress' award.
BBC
organizationGary Lineker will front the BBC's FA Cup coverage next Saturday. Alan Shearer and Ian Wright will also return to the programme. Director General Tim Davie said he recognized it had been a “difficult period for staff’
RRR
organization'Naatu Naatu' from RRR and the film The Elephant Whisperers created history by winning in their respective categories. This is the second consecutive year where an Indian documentary has secured its place in the category. The electrifying song was also performed by singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.