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One newspaper has gone so far as to admit it got things wrong in prioritising Bill over the first woman to ever receive a presidential nomination from a major US party.
Another volatile day on the markets as investors continue to worry about the European banking system and the possibility of America slipping into another recession.
The UK’s most senior police officer appeared to fire a parting shot at the prime minister as Rebekah Brooks was bailed last night following 12 hours questioning.
No playdates, no TV, no computer games, no sleepovers and absolutely no excuses for bad grades: How Chinese mothers raise stereotypically successful kids.
LARRY ELLISON, Barry Diller and Steve Jobs are some of the word’s top paid CEO’s over the past decade with total compensation in the billions.
Ellison, the CEO at software firm Oracle topped the Wall Street Journal’s list receiving a pay packet of over $1.84bn in the past ten years. And while some of these execs presided over huge gains for their respective companies, that’s not the case with everyone.
Oracle shareholders saw the value of their stock triple, while shareholders of Apple saw their stock soar nearly 12 times over. Others weren’t so lucky. Shareholders at computer manufacturer Dell, lost over 66% of the value of their stock during the decade, while CEO Michael Dell brought home over $454 million.
The analysis of included CEO’s salaries, bonuses, perks and gains from stock options.
Several of the world’s richest men aren’t among the top earners. Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway took home only a nominal salary while Bill Gates stepped down as an employee of Microsoft in 2008.
ALMOST 6,000 GREYHOUNDS were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017, a new RTÉ investigation claimed yesterday.
The RTÉ documentary, which was broadcast last night, claims that in 2017 a consultancy firm was paid €115,000 to carry out a review of the industry on behalf of the Irish Greyhound Board.
The review found 16,000 greyhounds are born every year. It found that 5,987 of those are killed because they fail to make qualification times or their performance declines.
Greyhound racing is set to receive €16.8 million in funding this year with supports coming from the Department of Agriculture.
So, today we’re asking: Should the government stop funding greyhound racing?
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