Jury deliberated whether tweet artificially inflated automaker’s share price A U.S. jury has cleared Elon Musk of wrongdoing for 2018 tweets in which he declared he had financing to take Tesla private. The nine jurors found the Tesla Inc. CEO his company were not liable for misleading investors when he tweeted in 2018 that he had lined up funding to take the electric car company private. Plaintiffs had claimed billions in damages and the decision also had been seen as important for Musk himself, who has aggressively defended his ability toRead more

Magistrate says offence was at low end of seriousness for common assault, was not premeditated Nick Kyrgios had suffered severe depression, suicidal ideation and insomnia in the past, a psychologist told a court on Friday when the Australian tennis star pleaded guilty to pushing a former girlfriend to the ground two years ago. The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up pleaded guilty in the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates Court to assaulting Chiara Passari during an argument in his hometown of Canberra in January 2021. Magistrate Jane Campbell didn’t record a conviction against KyrgiosRead more

Spanish designer spent most of his life in France and rose to prominence in the 1960s Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his fashion house announced on its website Friday. “The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain,” the statement from Puig said. Le Telegramme newspaperRead more

Soundtracks for Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty titles among the nominees Long relegated to the margins, video game score soundtracks are finally getting recognized with their own category at this year’s Grammy Awards. Five nominees will compete at Sunday’s show, out of the 70 original scores submitted for the category’s maiden year. The nominees are composers Austin Wintory for Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Stephanie Economou for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, Bear McCreary for Call of Duty: Vanguard, Richard Jacques for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Christopher Tin for Old World. The success of video game music coincides with the overall growthRead more

Jafar Panahi among several artists, sports stars detained for speaking against regime Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was released on bail Friday, two days after starting a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment last summer, his supporters said. Panahi was arrested last July and later ordered to serve six years on charges of propagandizing against the government, a sentence dating back to 2011 that had never been enforced. He is among a number of Iranian artists, sports figures and other celebrities who have been detained after speaking out against theRead more