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Home Countdowns (Image credit: NASA) Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won't corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Yet conspiracies do exist. In the corporate…

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has named The Last Duel and West Side Story as two of his favourite films of the year. Every year, the former leader releases his list of favourite films, TV shows and books on social media, and he kept up the tradition on Thursday, when…

The monarch asked George Osborne to tell the US president ‘it’s late and I want to go to bed’, former UK chancellor George Osborne has claimed The Queen allegedly wanted to end a 2011 state banquet with Barack Obama because “she wanted to go to bed” (Image: Getty Images) The…

Former US President Barack Obama took to the COP stage to declare that the US is ready to lead the world again in fighting climate change, after helping to navigate the Paris agreement in 2015. But the real business of the summit has been working out how to give immediate…

Former President Barack Obama’s foundation said Monday it has received a $100 million donation from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that it says is the largest individual contribution it has received to date. Separately on Monday, NYU Langone Health, a medical center affiliated with New York University, said it has received…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donated $100 million to the Obama Foundation, the largest individual gift ... the organization has ever received. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is on a giving spree. The second-richest person in the world on Monday committed $100 million to former…

Steven Rattner, head of the Auto Industry Task Force under former President Barack Obama, is the latest Obama-era economic aide to sound the alarm on inflation, asking how the Biden administration could have gotten “this critical issue so wrong,” warning the Build Back Better plan could exacerbate inflationary pressures. Rattner…

John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, right, touches the arm of Alok Sharma President of the COP26 summit during a stocktaking plenary session at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday.Photo: Alberto Pezzali (AP) GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Every Democrat in Glasgow for the United Nations…

Alok Sharma was hardly a household name in Britain, let alone the rest of the world, when appointed to lead the UN climate talks now reaching a climax in Glasgow. But with the planet's future at stake, the COP26 president has had to emerge from the shadows to stand in…

Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma speaks at The Procedural Opening of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. (Image: AFP) The nickname is modelled on the former US president, Barack Obama.AFP LondonLast Updated:November 12, 2021, 18:41 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Alok Sharma was hardly a household name in Britain, let…