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Apple Music has raised its subscription prices for the first time in nearly four years, according to prices listed on the Apple Music website. In the U.S., the price for the individual plan rose from $10.99 to $11.99 per month, while the family plan increased from $16.99 to $19.99 per month and the student plan rose from $5.99 to $6.99 per month. Related This marks the first hike in Apple Music subscription prices since October 2022, when the company cited increased licensing costs. Representatives for Apple Music did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Rival streaming platform Spotify…
“It spun up like crazy,” Xander Schauffele said as he just hit the ball out of the rough, as caught by the on-course mics. What makes this interesting to me is that he said this as the ball was not even at its apex. As amateur golfers, we tend to focus on the results and are a bit mystified by the actual process that led to it. How many of us can feel what Schauffele was describing? Few, I’d guess. We’d see where the ball landed and then decide whether it was a good swing or not. It highlights the…
High inflation is not good. It is a hidden tax on citizens, it saps business confidence and it acts as a brake on investment. At the national level, a country that persistently runs higher inflation than another tends to end up with a weaker currency, higher interest rates, more volatility and a long-run loss of competitiveness and real incomes relative to the lower-inflation country. For decades, that has been exactly the case of Mexico and the United States. Mexico has always had higher inflation and, partly as a result, a weaker currency and higher interest rates. In fact, part of…
Iran renews attacks on Gulf states after another night of US strikes
The years that directly succeeded the COVID pandemic were marked by a dire, almost apocalyptic view on the future of cinemagoing. Audiences who were already thinning out before global lockdowns became even scarcer, with streamers growing their market share and smaller arthouse cinemas closing down as audiences failed to return through their doors once they reopened. Yet, in the last two years, this sentiment of sheer doom has slowly and steadily begun to give way to a tentative yet very much present hope. The same pandemic years that decimated older arthouse audiences have brewed a new generation driven by a…
Australia’s Spilt Milk festival has officially confirmed its return for 2026, kicking off its next festival campaign with a teaser video after months of silence following last year’s sold-out edition. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Shared across the festival’s social media channels on Friday (July 17), the clip features members of the public being asked to name their favorite Australian music festivals before cutting to footage of a packed festival crowd and a large-scale stage production. The video ends with the confirmation that Spilt Milk will return in 2026, though organisers have yet to announce dates, locations or…
Hydration breaks were, Fifa said, introduced to benefit player welfare, and sporting integrity meant they must be used equally in every single match.Even in the air-conditioned stadiums of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Vancouver.TV companies outside the UK switched to ads, which were allowed to begin 20 seconds after the referee blew the whistle and must have end 30 seconds before the action started again.As the tournament went on, the boos from supporters got louder, such was the frustration at the stoppages.Experts told BBC Sport that an average 30-second World Cup ad slot on Fox Sports in the US costs between…
President Claudia Shenbaum traveled to Quintana Roo Thursday evening for a weekend trip focused on reviving Tulum’s tourism industry, tackling a sargassum seaweed crisis that has fouled the region’s beaches and mediating a dispute over entrance fees at Jaguar National Park. She gave her Friday press conference from the troubled tourist hotspot, which has seen a slump in tourism over the past year, amid elevated levels of violence last year and massive arrivals of sargassum. Estamos en Tulum, Quintana Roo. Mañana daremos noticias en la mañanera. pic.twitter.com/DvzJoavKkQ — Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) July 17, 2026 At the conference, Tourism Minister Josefina…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.For UK policymakers who have spent years trying to revive interest in the London stock market, it is easy to look with envy at recent news from across the Atlantic. While New York enjoys a glut of new listings, led by the record-breaking SpaceX IPO, Downing Street officials have been calling in private equity executives to probe them about a lack of deals. But comparison, as they say, is the thief of joy. Keep the focus closer to home, and things are…
Director S.S. Rajamouli‘s Varanasi is getting a first look at Priyanka Chopra in her new role. Two new stills from the upcoming film have been released, featuring Chopra as Mandakini. The new images were dropped as a celebration of Chopra’s birthday on Saturday, July 18. Varanasi takes place over thousands of years and in locations around the world, from Antarctica to Africa to the titular city in India. The action-adventure film stars Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra and Prithviraj Sukumaran and is the follow-up to Rajamouli’s last feature, RRR, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the acclaimed…