Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery store chain, one of his most notable campaign promises, will offer deeply discounted kitchen staples. With overwhelming overhead costs, some local businesses may struggle to compete. The mayor said stores will offer a 30% discount on the “most common and critical foods for families,” such as fresh produce, meat and dairy.
European football’s governing body UEFA and Prime Minister Andy Burnham have criticized FIFA’s proposals to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup. FIFA, sport’s world governing body, said it intends to expand “football development funding” to more than $10 billion (£7.5 billion) and invite third parties to invest in a new company.
But “he didn’t act until well into his thirties,” Huntington-Whiteley explained, “so he had a big part of his life where he was a painter and a decorator and he was on the doorstep of clubs and on the market stall, trading.” His years of improvisation meant that “he’s got that real foundation,” he summed
As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends to full-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online connection: social networks without algorithms, without ads, and without public content. Yope’s app, now backed by a $12.3 million round led by Northzone,
The rocket, named after Vikram Sarabhai, considered the father of India’s space programme, is small and has the capacity to carry payloads of up to 350kg, Skyroot co-founder and CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana told the BBC. Chandana says today that access to space remains “a major bottleneck, as satellite operators often wait months or even
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