Taylor Swift closes Singapore concert romantically with Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift performed her fifth night of the Eras Tour at the Singapore National Stadium Taylor Swift closes Singapore concert romantically with Travis Kelce  Taylor Swift once again didn’t shy from packing on PDA with Travis Kelce. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end attended his pop star girlfriend’s Eras Tour that closed its fifth night … Read more

Victoria Beckham Closes Her Paris Fashion Week Show on Crutches With a Kiss for David Beckham

The show must go on, broken foot or not! Despite a recent injury that forced her to move with crutches, Victoria Beckham showcased her latest collection on Friday at this year’s Paris Fashion Week.  The 49-year-old introduced her Autumn/Winter 2024 show while dressed in an all-black ensemble to match her crutches. The fashion designer’s family showed up to lend … Read more

Denmark closes probe into Nord Stream blasts saying there’s not enough grounds for a criminal case

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark on Monday joined Sweden in closing its investigation into the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines, with authorities saying they concluded there was deliberate sabotage but “not the sufficient grounds” to pursue a criminal case. Danish authorities said the probe “has been both complex and comprehensive.” Copenhagen police, … Read more

Strike at the Eiffel Tower closes one of the world’s most popular monuments

PARIS — Visitors to the Eiffel Tower were turned away on Monday because of a strike over poor financial management at one of the world’s most-visited sites. A sign was posted at the entrance in English, saying, “Due to a strike, the Eiffel Tower is closed. We apologize.” The hugely popular 330-meter (1083-foot) landmark in … Read more

Partech closes its second Africa fund at $300M+ to invest from seed to Series C

Partech has closed its second Africa fund, Partech Africa II, at €280 million ($300 million+), just one year after reaching its first close. At that size, Partech Africa, which originally targeted €230 million before its fundraising efforts started, solidifies its position as the largest fund dedicated to African startups.  Amidst a backdrop of global VCs … Read more

Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4

Meta’s latest update to its code generation AI model, Code Llama 70B, is “the largest and best-performing model” yet. Code Llama tools launched in August and are free for both research and commercial use. According to a post on Meta’s AI blog, Code Llama 70B can handle more queries than previous versions, which means developers can … Read more

French small launch startup Latitude closes $30M Series B

French small launch developer Latitude has closed $30 million in new capital as it eyes the first flight of its Zephyr rocket in 2025. While other rocket companies are going bigger, developing even more massive rockets, Latitude is taking a different approach: light, small, and hopefully cheap enough to beat out competitors. Its first rocket, … Read more

Dextrous Robotics closes up shop

Memphis-based Dextrous Robotics is calling it a day. The news, noted by the Robot Report, was confirmed by the warehouse robotics firm’s CEO, Evan Drumwright, on LinkedIn. The executive spells out the company’s fate at the top of the post, noting, “Put simply, we adopted an aggressive trajectory 18 months ago that the recent investment … Read more

UN chief closes tribunal founded to investigate 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister

BEIRUT — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has closed an international tribunal that was created to investigate the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the U.N. chief’s spokesperson said Sunday. Over the years, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon held in absentia proceedings and found three members of the militant Hezbollah group guilty in … Read more

Biden Closes Out Year at Church While Vacationing in U.S. Virgin Islands

President Biden is closing out the year on a one-on-one chat with the man upstairs — and depending on where you land politically … this could be interpreted a couple different ways. Joe’s down in the U.S. Virgin Islands right now with his family, where they touched down Wednesday in St. Croix … and where … Read more