In May last year, the Chinese regulator said more than a million vehicles may have acceleration and braking system issues.
The American electric car giant then discovered problems with assisted driving functions and door-locking systems.
The Chinese regulator, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), described the planned vehicle update as a recall, even though it will happen remotely.
Tesla will release an over-the-air software update for a total of 1,610,105 vehicles, including imported Models S and X and the China-made Models 3 and Y cars made from 2014 to 2023, the SAMR said.
“For vehicles within the scope of this recall, when the automatic assisted steering function is turned on, the driver may misuse the level two combined assisted driving function, increasing the risk of vehicle collision and posing a safety hazard,” the SAMR explained.
Separately, Tesla will also upgrade the software for 7,538 units of Models S and X cars to fix the problem of doors that could unlock in crashes.
This is the second recent blow for Tesla in the country, after China’s BYD overtook Tesla’s electric car sales worldwide in the last quarter of 2023.
Another similar move in 2022 saw Tesla recall nearly 128,000 cars in China over a rear motor inverter defect.
Tesla has a large consumer market in China – where people have been encouraged to buy electric and hybrid vehicles through subsidies. The country aims to have a majority of cars powered with clean energy by 2035.
China also hosts a major http://bolalmpupetak.com/ manufacturing plant in Shanghai, which is Tesla’s first “gigafactory” to be built abroad. The facility delivered 947,000 vehicles in 2023, according to state news agency Xinhua.
Idris Elba is calling on the government to immediately ban the sale of so-called “zombie” knives and machetes, to reduce the number of young people losing their lives.
He accused politicians of not giving the issue “the focus it deserves”.
The Home Office said on Monday in a statement it “will not hesitate to do more to keep our streets safe”.
It said bans on zombie and cyclone knives are already in place “and work under way to extend this to include zombie-style machetes”.
Zombie knives are defined as weapons having “a cutting edge, a serrated edge and images or words suggesting they are used for violence”.
They were first added to the government’s list of prohibited offensive weapons in 2016. But Labour has said a loophole allowing the sale of the knives online still exists.
Last August, Rishi Sunak unveiled plans to ban more of the weapons and give police extra powers to seize machetes and zombie knives. The latest move is also designed to help police with situations which fall outside the current laws.
In particular, officers have been unable to deal with zombie knives designed to get around the 2016 definition, by not having “images or words… that suggest it is to be used for the purposes of violence”.
But it is not clear when the new law will come into force.
Elba, best known for his roles in Luther and The Wire, attended an event in Parliament Square on Monday morning, where clothes were laid out to represent those killed by knives on UK streets.
Organisers hope the display will demonstrate the huge human cost of knife crime, as MPs return to Parliament from the Christmas recess.
The event is part of Elba’s Don’t Stop Your Future campaign, which works with local communities and well-known brands to try to tackle serious violence.
The London-born actor, 51, said he “can’t stay silent as young lives are lost to brutal and heartless crimes”.
Speaking to the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme, Ms Hughes recalled the last time she saw her son.
“When he got out of the car, I said, ‘I’m dropping you off with a heavy heart’.
I don’t know why I said those words, I suppose it’s a mother’s gut instinct, but he looked at me with a great big smile and said, ‘Don’t worry mum, I’ll be fine, I love you,’ and with that I drove off.”
Within 20 minutes, Ms Hughes had received a phone call from a friend’s mother who said someone had been stabbed.
“I knew she was talking about Andre even though she hadn’t said his name, and then she let out this almighty scream that I’ll never forget. She’d obviously seen it was him.”
By the time Ms Hughes got to the scene, ambulances and police were already there. She followed the ambulance to the hospital, where she was told her son had died.
Ms Hughes said she was frustrated that knife crime was still a big problem.
“Our individual voices have not been heard, but yet our pain continues to be felt by families whose children are still being murdered.
“Young people need to feel safe in their communities and underlying causes of youth violence eradicated immediately.”
Image caption,Andre Aderemi was 19 when he was killed in 2016
The latest police figures for England and Wales from July 2022 to June 2023 show that around 247 people lost their lives due to knife crime.
Those numbers do not include teenagers like 15-year-old Alfie Lewis who was fatally stabbed in Leeds in November 2023 or 16-year-old Harry Pitman, who was killed in north London on New Year’s Eve 2023.
Their deaths will be recorded in the next set of crime figures.
Image caption,Harry Pitman was killed on Primrose Hill in London
Elba is also releasing a single, Knives Down, in support of his Don’t Stop Your Future campaign.
The track is about his frustration with the government for what he perceives as their inaction on knife crime.
Speaking to Radio 4 programme, he said he wants to see more funding for groups working with young people.
Although best known as an actor, Elba has released music and collaborated with artists such as Jay-Z and James Blake. His biggest hit came when he provided guest vocals on Wiley’s hit Boasty in 2019.
Serious knife crime in the Metropolitan Police area is three times higher than in the West Midlands or Greater Manchester, according to the latest figures for recorded offences from June 2023.
Children and young adults are most likely to be victims or perpetrators of knife crime.
While the ethnicity of victims is not always recorded, NHS figures for the year ending 2022 show that the number of people treated for stabbing injuries from Black, Asian and “other ethnicities” was far higher than for White patients.
However, the reasons behind this are subject to constant debate by politicians and experts in youth crime.
Knife crime is clearly linked to gang activity. But there is an argument about what a gang is. Police intelligence tends to represent gangs as organised and cohesive criminal groups, while young workers often see them as looser friendship groups.
Police officers stress the role of drugs in driving gang crime. The ‘country lines’ business-model now adopted by most drugs gangs relies on recruiting young people, and many are active in areas with large non-white populations.
Many experts point to the role of social media in driving rivalries between groups of young people, which spill out from the internet to the streets.
But there is general agreement that “adverse childhood experiences” are a major cause of young people becoming involved in crime.
The Home Office’s Serious Violence Strategy highlighted the role of abuse, neglect, parental criminality, substance abuse, and being taken into care.
These factors are why many experts now advocate a “public health” approach to preventing youth crime. This involves identifying young people likely to become “infected” and finding ways of diverting them into healthier lifestyles.
Image caption,Campaigners say it is still too easy to buy zombie knives
Patrick Green from the Ben Kinsella Trust says immediate action is needed to ban zombie knives and machetes.
“Four months have passed since we were promised the legislation we so desperately need to ban these weapons, yet the bill has only just started its agonisingly slow journey through Parliament,” he said.
“The government has demonstrated that, http://tanyakanpada.com/ when they deem it necessary, parliamentary time can be found to expedite bills with urgency.
“So, why, when we know that these knives are being used to take the lives of our children, are they not prioritising a ban with the same urgency?”
A Home Office spokesperson said the UK “has some of the toughest laws in the world to tackle knife crime”.
They added: “Hospital admissions for young people with serious knife injuries are down over a quarter and overall knife crime is down 7 percent, and we will not hesitate to do more to keep our streets safe.
“That is why through the Criminal Justice Bill, we will give the police more powers to seize dangerous weapons and increase prison sentences for anyone caught with a knife.”
When a wildlife cameraman was invited to film the gradual exposure of a gorilla family to humans, deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he got a little too close for comfort to the group’s alpha male.
But, despite being terrified, Vianet Djenguet knew the almost 40-stone (254kg) primate didn’t want to hurt him. It was a test.
Anyone attempting to earn Mpungwe’s trust and become a friend needed to show respect.
“That charge is a way of saying, ‘Look I’ve got a family here, so back off’,” says Djenguet. “But if you stand your ground, it stops him moving forward.”
The gorilla reached out and grabbed Djenguet’s foot.
“I could feel the power of his hand,” says the cameraman. “I was quick enough to pull my foot back and then I completely froze.”
After he had charged, Mpungwe slid backwards down the hilly terrain and disappeared into the dense foliage.
Image caption,Djenguet grew up in neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville
The process – called habituation – can take between two and 10 years and involves tracking and following the animals through the 2,317 sq mile (6,000 sq km) forest.
It will only work if the group’s alpha male, the silverback, is willing to accept the humans – if he does, his family will too.
Mpungwe and his family are among the last remaining eastern lowland gorillas in DR Congo, and the ultimate aim of habituation is to save them from extinction.
Image caption,A female can give birth to a baby gorilla every four to six years
If successful, tourists will be able to visit the family, which will raise income to help protect the gorillas and their habitat.
This is the second attempt at habituating Mpungwe. A previous attempt in 2015 failed.
As an infant, Mpungwe was raised in a family of habituated gorillas, but he was then orphaned in 1996. The rest of his family were killed during a civil war – when the country was known as Zaire.
He roamed the forest, alone, says the park’s chief guide, Papa Lambert Mongane. Over the course of time, he met other wild families and “stole wild females”, says Mongane, until finally forming the family he has now.
Image caption,Adult males, such as Mpungwe, are called silverbacks after the distinctive silver hair on their backs
But like any protective patriarch, Mpungwe, who is now 35 years old, will do anything to keep his group of 23 gorillas safe. His family includes male and female gorillas plus babies.
Vianet Djenguet was invited to film the habituation process for three months for a BBC documentary. He had to trek through dense forest each day, following the endangered gorillas with an eight stone (50kg) camera and tripod.
Gorillas, who share about 98% of their DNA with humans, are just like us, he says. They mentally “photograph your face so they can remember exactly who you are”.
To show the gorillas he wanted to earn their trust, Djenguet says he had to act like them, mimicking their gestures and mannerisms – watching how they used their hands. When he beat his chest, the younger members of the group would beat theirs back.
“It just reminds me that we are so close to these creatures and they’re doing incredible work for us,” he says. “They are the gardeners of those forests that release oxygen for us.”
Image caption,A female gorilla will breastfeed its baby until it is three years old, says chief guide, Mongane
The female gorillas care in a similar way to human mothers, adds Djenguet. He observed a baby gorilla having a tantrum, but says the mother made sure her child stayed relaxed in a manner that reminded him of humans.
A female gives birth to a baby gorilla every four to six years, says Djenguet. This low reproduction rate makes it harder for the gorillas to recover from population decline.
Consecutive wars, from 1996-2003, hit the country’s gorilla population hard – explains the park’s chief guide, Mongane. During this period of political instability, many of the gorilla population were killed and eaten for bushmeat.
And poacher’s traps are still a deadly threat for the park’s gorillas.
Mpungwe’s son lost his foot when he got it caught in a trap, says Mongane, but the animal sensed what he needed to do to survive.
“He got up very early in the morning http://akuitwet.com/ and plunged his feet into the river, leaving them in there for at least 10 minutes,” says Mongane. “In this way, he disinfected his wounds.”
Before the wars, there were 630 gorillas in the national park – he says – but there are now only believed to be 170, spread among 13 families.
Image caption,Eco-guards, seen here off-duty. Mongane says they would give their blood for the protection of the gorillas
Humans have also impacted the gorillas via deforestation – says Papa John Kahekwa, founder of Pole Pole Foundation, a community-led organisation working to protect the creatures.
The animals’ habitat is being encroached upon by farmers growing crops, new villages being built or illegal logging. DR Congo lost 490,000 hectares (1.2m acres) of rainforest in 2020, according to Global Forest Watch.
As he followed Mpungwe’s family, Djenguet says he felt like the presence of humans was causing the animals to feel stressed at some moments – shown by the diarrhoea-like droppings they produced.
He says if there was enough money for conservation, the gorillas would not have to be part of eco-tourism.
“It would be much easier to just leave them in the forest and let them be free,” he says. “You have to be cruel to be kind, and this is the pure example of it.”
Saving the eastern lowland gorilla is a difficult balancing act and, to succeed, it needs the support of the park’s human neighbours who will also benefit from eco-tourism.
When local communities have income, says Kahekwa, they will prevent others in the village from harming the gorillas and their habitat. “In that way, gorillas must pay for their own survival,” he adds.
Image caption,Gorillas are the gardeners of the forests which release oxygen for us, says Djenguet
But there are other difficulties. In the mid-1980s to early 1990s, 7,000 tourists a year came to visit the national park, says Kahekwa. Since the wars, about 150 arrive each month. The security situation in much of eastern DR Congo, where most of the gorillas live, remains unstable.
Prior to Mpungwe’s habituation, the park had only one group of habituated gorillas for tourists to visit, led by the silverback, Bonane. Mpungwe is now considered half-habituated, according to the eco-guards in the park. Although he has been visited by some tourists, his group is not as habituated as Bonane’s.
As Djenguet’s three months filming the gorillas came to an end, getting closer to the group every day, he says he felt Mpungwe and his family had “almost adopted” him, an experience he describes as humbling.
“They let me in,” he says.
On his last day of filming, Mpungwe rose up and beat his chest to Djenguet, as if to say goodbye. If he ever returned, Djenguet believes Mpungwe will remember him.
Compared to the Oscars, the Golden Globes are usually a more relaxed affair, often resulting in a more playful mood on the red carpet. Margot Robbie – star of one of the night’s biggest films, Barbie – was certainly having fun with her outfit.
Taylor Swift arrived in colourful sequins, too – for her, a striking green gown.
The singer, nominated for best cinematic and box office achievement for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, walked the red carpet without her NFL boyfriend Travis Kelce, who was busy with a game a few miles away at LA’s SoFi stadium.
Red was the colour of choice for many celebrities. Julianne Moore wore a structured Bottega dress complete with deep pockets – which she said she wished contained snacks to get her through the three-hour show.
Florence Pugh wore a sheer red Valentino gown covered in delicate roses.
Inside she was seen embracing another lady in red, singer Selena Gomez, who wore asymmetric silk Armani Privé.
Ayo Edebiri, star of The Bear, looked stunning in strapless red Prada and later was named best actress in a musical or comedy series.
It wasn’t just the women wearing crimson. Saltburn star Barry Keoghan looked resplendent in red custom Louis Vuitton.
Keoghan is one of several male actors shaking https://makcauhai.com/ things up on the red carpet. Gone are the days when the men all turn up in matching black tuxedos.
Andrew Scott, up for a best actor award for his role in All of Us Strangers, dressed top-to-toe in white.
Timothée Chalamet‘s sequinned Celine Homme jacket was relatively tame compared to some of his previous get-ups.
The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White – who recently became the new face (and body) of Calvin Klein underwear – kept it simple with a black suit, though his sheer shirt hinted at why he landed the modelling gig.
The Last of Us’s Pedro Pascal appeared to be sporting an injury, but his arm sling was dressed fabulously in Bottega Veneta.
For many of the women, black proved to be the go-to option. British actress Rosamund Pike, nominated for her role as an aristocratic matriarch in Saltburn, accessorised her black lace dress with a dramatic matching headpiece – not entirely a fashion choice.
She says the “protective veil” is because she hurt her face in a skiing accident over Christmas.
One solution is to simply repurpose existing infrastructure, without adding extra clutter to the built environment.
For instance, lamppost electric vehicle (EV) charging is expanding. A big advantage of repurposing existing lampposts is that cities don’t have to dig in order to lay new cables, says Artis Markots, the chief executive of the Latvian start-up SimpleCharge, which is focusing on Central and Eastern Europe.
There are no complex permitting requirements, and a lamppost can be complemented with an EV charger within an hour.
The cost is also considerably lower than a fixed charger, Mr Markots reports, at roughly €1,500 ($1,6000; £1,300) per charger.
The Dutch company CityCharge also offers lamppost charging, but with a different model that requires new cables to be installed. CityCharge replaces conventional lighting poles with aluminium poles.
Image caption,It’s relatively cheap to convert a lampost into a charging spot
These have sleek black boxes for the payment terminal and charger.
Excluding installation, costs are in the €3-4,000 range per pole.
Lamppost charging makes it possible to blanket towns and cities with lots of non-rapid chargers. The models of both CityCharge and SimpleCharge can go up to 22kW – faster than slow overnight chargers, but not as zippy as rapid chargers.
They can also operate 24/7.
However, Mr Markots says that in places with older infrastructure, they’re more likely to be for night-time charging, while the streetlights are switched on.
The Shell-owned company ubitricity has been adding EV charging capacity not only to lampposts, but also to bollards that it designs. Its bollards and lampposts offer charging at a typical rate of 5kW.
Some EV charging companies have been labouring over the design so that chargers are either unobtrusive or even visually appealing.
This includes chargers that are embedded into the ground – for example, pop-up chargers that can sink back into the pavement when they’re not being used.
Image caption,Trojan Energy’s charging point is designed to be unobtrusive
Trojan Energy is a Scottish company whose chargers sit flush with the pavement, resembling miniature manhole covers from the outside. Most passersby probably wouldn’t even notice them.
The company has consulted with disability organisations to ensure that the chargers aren’t hazardous to those with mobility or sight impairments, for instance.
Trojan Energy has been working with North London councils to site hubs of six to 15 charge points, mainly along residential streets without driveways, where drivers are dependent on street parking. “Rows and rows of terraced houses are perfectly suited to our solution,” says Sarah Clements, Trojan Energy’s head of business development.
Customers need a dedicated attachment, called a lance, and which weighs 2.7 kg, to use a Trojan Energy charging point. Billing is done automatically through the lance. So the potential inconvenience of carrying around an extra device might be offset by the convenience of plug-and-play charging.
Opening up the street, doing the civil and electrical work, and then restoring the pavement requires some time, of course. Installation takes about two weeks for each hub.
The metal cabinets are traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling, but many are coming towards the end of their lifespans.
A pilot programme is due to get underway soon in Scotland and BT thinks eventually up to 60,000 cabinets could be converted.
A different space-saving solution focuses on flexibility, rather than fixed points on existing pavements. Mobile chargers are being trialled in places like airport car parks, where it would make little sense to leave a car plugged into a charger for multiple weeks while the driver is travelling.
The UK company Nyobolt recently created Bolt-ee, a compact, ultra-rapid charger that can provide up to 300kW of DC power to charge a car within minutes. Sai Shivareddy, Nyobolt’s CEO and co-founder, likens this mobile device to a suitcase in size, though it’s heavier.
One version of Bolt-ee is mounted on wheels and semi-autonomous, so that it can rove around to reach a vehicle that needs a quick hit of power.
Full autonomy would be challenging to achieve. At the moment Bolt-ee still needs a human operator to plug the cable into the car. “To get an arm that goes into the charge point location is a big challenge,” Mr Shivareddy says.
Carmaker Hyundai has developed an automatic charging robot whose robotic arm guides the charging cable into the port, using an AI algorithm that works with a 3D camera. However, for now the base of the robot is fixed in place, while the arm moves around.
Overall, the flexibility of a mobile charger would allow space to be saved, and drivers wouldn’t have to fight for parking spots near a fixed charger.
Image caption,Nyobolt’s Bolt-ee brings a charge to you
Mr Shivareddy says the mobile technology is also useful for rescue operations, so that a car wouldn’t need to be towed just because it’s run out of power.
And depending on how they’re rolled out, mobile chargers could address some of the inequities in where existing chargers are placed – largely along highways and in wealthy parts of cities.
Nyobolt says that Bolt-ee’s battery life exceeds 10,000 cycles. According to Mr Shivareddy, Bolt-ee works out cheaper than other chargers per kW.
Fully mobile charging could be useful for people with disabilities, says Liana Cipcigan, a professor of transport electrification and smart grids at Cardiff University’s School of Engineering.
Prof Cipcigan says that mobile charging robots aren’t necessarily commercially viable yet.
Another concern with mobile chargers is safety. “Moving these batteries could be a hazard,” Prof Cipcigan notes.
In terms of fire risks, Mr Shivareddy says that Nyobolt has carefully designed Bolt-ee to be ultra-efficient, and thus to generate very little waste heat.
None of these solutions alone will be sufficient to meet growing demand. There aren’t enough lampposts and bollards. Mobile robotic charging may remain niche. And pavement-embedded chargers won’t be suitable in places where the pavements are often sparse or dilapidated, like Los Angeles.
But together these kinds of innovative, space-saving solutions will help push forward the EV transformation.
As Prof Cipcigan says, http://zorozuno.com/ there is much space for innovation in the EV charging market, and younger and smaller companies “could make an interesting impact on this very complex landscape”.
The Globes lived up to its boozy reputation with the red carpet even having its own bar along the way, the BBC’s Los Angeles correspondent Emma Vardy said.
As the stars passed underneath the signature golden chandelier and greeted each other, the glamorous night had a feel-good factor about it, a big contrast from the animosity felt over the actors and writers strikes a few months ago.
As the last champagne glasses are drained and the red carpet is rolled up, here are seven highlights from the ceremony:
1. A muted response to the host
Comic Jo Koy, a first-time presenter at the Globes, struggled to get his opening monologue off the ground. As BuzzFeed’s David Mack joked, Koy’s monologue was, “in a tribute to Oppenheimer, a bomb”.
Koy himself seemed to acknowledge some of his jokes weren’t catching fire – at one point, he told the audience: “I got this gig 10 days ago, you want a perfect monologue?!”
Here’s a selection of his one-liners:
“When the Globes called me and asked if I wanted to host, I jumped at the chance. Then they asked me if I saw the movies and TV shows, and I said yes. I lied.”
“The minute I signed the contract, I started to binge watch everything, while my family were out there clanking champagne glasses and ringing in the new year, I was watching Oppenheimer. I just have one complaint: It needed another hour.”
“Oppenheimer answered a question that’s been on my mind for years: Yes scientists do get laid. As long as they look like Cillian Murphy.”
“Robert de Niro. Your last performance has got to be your greatest performance ever. How did you get her pregnant at 80?”
“Succession has nine nominations – a great series about a rich, white dysfunctional family, all scheming… oh no that’s The Crown, sorry.”
“How great was Imelda Staunton in The Crown? Her portrayal was so great, Prince Harry called her and asked her for money.”
Koy’s jokes throughout the night provoked a number of different reactions in the room. Selena Gomez was spotted with her head in her hands as the comedian made jokes about the Barbie movie.
Viewers also took to social media to comment on the opening monologue. Erik Anderson of Awards Watch wrote: “I thought the writers strike was over.”
2. Continued support for writers
Image caption,Daniel Kaluuya, Hailee Steinfeld and Shameik Moore made reference to the writers’ strike
When presenting the award for best screenplay, Daniel Kaluuya, Hailee Steinfeld and Shameik Moore defended the importance of screenwriters and poked fun at studio executives.
Steinfeld started by saying “This year we were all reminded of the critical importance of writer to the creative process.”
Kaluuya continued: “To demonstrate the importance of writers and writing, we asked that this segment be written not by writers, but by studio executives.”
The trio then performed an incomprehensible skit, suggesting that studio executives could never do the work of the professional writers.
3. No love from Tay Tay
Image caption,Taylor Swift was nominated in the cinematic and box office achievement category for her concert film The Eras Tour
Taylor Swift looked less than impressed when host and comedian Jo Koy took the opportunity to make a joke about the singer’s relationship with American Footballer Travis Kelce.
“We came on after football double header,” Koy said, noting the Globes had immediately followed a match.
“Do you know the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? On the Golden Globes we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.”
As the camera panned to Taylor, she took a long, long sip from her glass and showed little reaction.
Since the start of their relationship, Swift has frequently been seen cheering for boyfriend Kelce at Kansas City Chiefs games.
(The Globes continue to cut to Swift for the rest of the night.)
4. Don’t mess with Michelle Yeoh
Image caption,Michelle Yeoh presented an award opposite Naomi Watts
Well known for her athletic ability, mixed martial arts and stunt work, Michelle Yeoh is one actress you don’t want to cross.
Last year, Yeoh took home the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy actress for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
As the pianist began playing to signal it was time to wrap it up, she joked “Shut up, please. I can beat you up, and that’s serious!”
Presenting the award this year, Yeoh referred back to last year, commenting that she was “very chill”.
“I know last year I threatened to beat up the piano player if they tried to play me off my acceptance speech,” she recalled.
“While I won’t do anything if you cut me off this year, I will kick your ass if you cut off whoever is about to win this award right now.”
But plenty of winners were told to wrap up this year too. Emma Stone seemed to have only just started her speech before she said: “Oh my god, there’s only like 18 seconds left.”
To be fair to the Globes – the tight timings meant they finished only a few minutes late this year – Hollywood awards ceremonies often run much longer
5. ‘Thank you for answering my crazy, crazy emails
Image caption,Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White both won Golden Globes for their performances in The Bear
Ayo Edebiri, who plays Sydney in The Bear, won the Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy TV series.
In an unprepared speech, she recognised not just her agent and manager, but “all of my agents and managers assistants”.
“To the people who answer my emails – Y’all are real ones. Thank you for answering my crazy crazy emails!” she said.
Earlier this week, Edebiri’s co-star Jeremy Allen White, another winner at the Globes, launched his Calvin Klein campaign, causing a stir amongst fans online.
Speaking to press after accepting his award for best actor in a musical or comedy TV series, he said: “It’s been a weird couple of days”.
6. Jennifer Lawrence being Jennifer Lawrence
Image caption,Jennifer Lawrence jokingly threatened to leave the ceremony if she didn’t win
In true Jennifer Lawrence fashion, the actress provided the 2024 Golden Globes with one of its funniest and most unforgettable gags of the evening.
Lawrence was nominated in the best actress in a motion picture comedy or musical category for her performance in the R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings.
Sure enough, she ended up losing to https://berdasarkanapa.com/ Poor Things star Emma Stone, but in the event, no one in the room looked happier than Lawrence.
Stone and Lawrence are close friends, and Lawrence stood up and cheered when Stone’s name was announced as the winner.
7. Kylie and Timothee were loved up
Image caption,Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner sat together during the ceremony
Timothee Chalamet was nominated in the best actor – musical or comedy category for his performance as the title character in Wonka.
He attended the ceremony with girlfriend Kylie Jenner. The pair have been dating for a few months, and although they didn’t walk the red carpet together, they sat together inside.
The Wonka star posed on the Golden Globes red carpet on his own, but once inside both he and Jenner appeared more interested in each other than the awards ceremony itself.
Chalamet eventually went on to lose to Paul Giamatti’s performance in the Christmas comedy drama The Holdovers, but he might not know that yet.
It appears 2024 is just getting started for the celebrity couple.
“The days since have been filled with so many amazing moments and memories, if I started naming them, I could go on forever,” Woods said on social media.
Nike said it was an honour to partner with “one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen”.
Woods, 48, first signed a $40m (£31.5m) five-year contract with Nike upon turning professional as 20-year-old in 1996.
The deal became one of the most lucrative partnerships in sports history as Woods dominated the world of golf for more than a decade to put him second on the list of men’s major champions, three behind leader Jack Nicklaus.
Becoming one of the world’s most famous sport stars, Woods signed further, multiple deals with Nike over his career, including a 10-year contract in that was worth a reported $200m.
Tim Derdenger, an associate professor of marketing and strategy at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business in the US, told the BBC the long-term partnership between Woods and Nike was “a win-win for everybody”.
In 2013, the academic was part of a research team which looked at the impact of Woods on the sales of Nike golf balls, which he switched to using in 2000.
Prof Derdenger said while Woods was paid $200m (£157m) to be sponsored by Nike over a 10-year period, the research found that Nike recovered 60% of the investment in sales of its golf balls in the US alone.
He said when Woods first turned professional in 1996, Nike “didn’t have a strong prominent position in the golf industry” and so struck gold when it launched the brand’s golf line with the upcoming star.
“What better person in hindsight to then bring out this phenomenal teenage, generational player to then launch their golf brand and apparel brand for Nike? He is golf, he is that person that brought the game to a massive amount of people over the last 25 years,” said Prof Derdenger.
“This was sort of the MO (modus operandi) for Nike and it still is to this day is to go out and find these athletes that are generational, or some of the best of their time, and build brands around them to help them drive sales of Nike products.”
Image caption,Tiger Woods and Nike co-founder Phil Knight in 2016
Nike remained loyal to Woods during the up and downs of his career, including when scandal surrounding his private life emerged when he was at the peak of his golfing powers in 2009, and the golfer admitted being unfaithful to his then wife.
As major brands including razor blade maker Gillette, management consultancy firm Accenture and telecoms business AT&T cut ties with Woods, Nike said at the time it was standing firm and offered him its “full support”.
On Tuesday, Woods thanked staff and other athletes as well as Phil Knight, the co-founder and former chief executive of Nike, for his “passion and vision”.
Nike said in a statement to the BBC that the company was “grateful to have been a part” of Woods’ career.
“Throughout the course of our partnership, we have witnessed along with the rest of the world, how Tiger not only redefined the sport of golf, but broke barriers for all of sport,” it added.
While the reason for Nike and Woods’ partnership ending is not known, Prof Derdenger suggested the break-up will hurt the brand more, adding it had been a “struggle” for the company’s golf division in the last five to seven years.
In 2016, the company stopped selling clubs, bags and balls after years of falling sales and shifted its focus into golf footwear and clothes, which included sponsorship deals for another big name in four-time major winner Rory McIlroy.
But despite the popularity of McIIroy, Prof Derdenger doesn’t believe he has the same impact as Woods in “selling product”.
Without Woods, and (obviously) former basketball player Michael Jordan, “I don’t think Nike, it’s brand, would be where it is today,” he added.
“Those two athletes are synonymous with Nike and the growth of Nike.”
In recent years, Woods has used TaylorMade clubs, but his switch to Bridgestone balls was possibly an easier transition due to Bridgestone having previously made golf balls for Nike, Prof Derdenger said.
Image caption,Woods celebrates winning the 1997 Masters, wearing his iconic Sunday red
What next?
January is often the month when new contracts between golfers and their sponsors are agreed.
Woods preempted questions over his future, telling his followers: “People will ask if there is another chapter. Yes, there will be certainly be another chapter.”
He told followers “See you in LA!”, which is where Woods is hosting the Genesis Invitational next month.
Woods has had a limited schedule since suffering a leg injury in a car crash in 2021. He said in December he would only play one event per month in 2024 as he recovers from ankle surgery, but added he still believes he can still win on the PGA Tour.
“Is Tiger Woods going to create his own line? Does he need a brand to pair with or is he enough? My answer is he is enough,” said Prof Derdenger.
“Look, Michael Jordan hasn’t played in https://makanapasaja.com/ 20 years and we are still buying his shoes.”
The rise is largely due to the war being fought between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia also contributed.
Research by the London-based charity is used by international forums such as the UN. It has also presented its evidence to the UK’s Parliament.
In 2023, AOAV identified at least 7,307 explosive incidents around the globe, up from 4,322 recorded the previous year.
The attacks caused the deaths of at least 15,305 civilians, accounting for a rise of 122% from 2022. Tens of thousands more were injured.
AOAV describes Israel’s war in Gaza as “a major cause for such a dramatic increase” in civilian casualties, accounting for around one third of the global total.
It recorded 920 incidents of explosive weapons use in Gaza, resulting in 9,334 people being killed. That is lower than other estimates.
Israel’s military operation, which began on 7 October in response to the Hamas attacks, also contributed to a huge increase in the number of air strikes recorded, the charity said.
AOAV says the use of air-launched weapons across the globe increased by 226% in 2023 – rising from 519 incidents in 2022 to 1,694 last year.
Israel has repeatedly stated it has taken unprecedented steps to avoid civilian casualties, including issuing warnings in advance of air strikes.
But AOAV’s research shows that when explosive weapons are used in populated areas, the vast majority of those injured are likely to be civilians.
AOAV’s director, Iain Overton, says its data should be a stark warning to states that using explosive weapons in urban areas disproportionately impacts civilians.
The charity also recorded a significant increase in the use of ground-launched weapons in 2023.
Israel ‘most injurious state actor’
Across the globe state actors were responsible for 77% of the civilian casualties caused by explosives.
AOAV says Israel “was by far the most injurious state actor in 2023”, with more than 1,000 attacks leading to 12,950 civilian casualties – dead and injured.
Russia was second, with its war in Ukraine causing 8,351 civilian casualties.
Ongoing conflicts in Sudan, Myanmar, Syria and Somalia also contributed to the highest civilian casualties recorded by AOAV since 2010.
Non-state actors, https://gorenganpedas.com/ including militants and proscribed groups, were also behind the increase in the use of explosive weapons last year. However, AOAV recorded the number of civilians killed by non-state actors as falling by 8%.
It was the truest moment the television cameras captured at the Golden Globes: an unidentified woman sat at a table and let out a giant yawn. This year was meant to reinvent the awards, which were nearly destroyed when a 2021 Los Angeles Times report found lack of diversity and accusations of corruption in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the Globes at the time. But the reconstituted group running things now couldn’t have intended the event to be so earnest and just plain dull, from Jo Koy, the blandest, least funny host in recent memory, to the sober, safe acceptance speeches. There were no political statements, no drunken rambling, no jaw-dropping surprises among winners and losers, all the things that made the old show at least fun to watch. Without the entertainment factor, it’s easier to see the Golden Globes for what they are: a campaign stop on the way to the Oscars.
A win adds momentum, but doesn’t mean much in itself and never has. As Vox wrote, “The Golden Globes have always felt a bit like the boozy cousin living in the basement of the Oscars”. The Hollywood Reporter put it more delicately, saying that the Globes can boost an Oscar bid, “even if the sanctity of the award itself has never been held in the highest regard”.
But everyone shows up because the publicity and the perception of being a winner are the real victories. Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Stone, Margot Robbie, Oprah Winfrey – no one with even the faintest hope of an Oscar stayed away from Sunday’s ceremony. They and their campaign strategists know that with voting for Oscar nominations set to begin on 11 January, being top of mind as a winner now is especially valuable.
There were no political statements or big shocks among the winners and losers at this year’s Golden Globes (Credit: Getty Images)
If the mere perception of winning helps a campaign anyway, being labelled a loser can hurt. That is bad news for Bradley Cooper, whose Maestro, once considered a major awards contender, did not win a single Golden Globe. Cooper looked crestfallen at the end of Nolan’s acceptance speech.
And Barbie, which had nine nominations, more than any other film, lost all the big prizes. Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell’s What Was I Made For? won best original song and the film won a new award the Globes made up this year for cinematic and box office achievement, for a movie that earned more than $150 million. In 2018 the Oscars announced a similar “most popular film” category, which was so ridiculed it was scrapped before it even happened, but the Globes shamelessly went for it. None of that reads as Oscar momentum.
Lily Gladstone’s speech was just the kind of eloquent, heartfelt acceptance that plays well at the Oscars
The box office prize, with nominees including Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour film, did get Swift to show up, but also led to another bad-for-the Globes viral moment. She looked unamused and pointedly sipped champagne when Koy made a lame joke about how often cameras at football games cut to her reaction shots.
There were exactly two good moments in the show, both in the last half hour. Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig did a comic routine, breaking into a silly dance as music kept interrupting them while they named some nominees. It was just a relief to laugh after a two-and-a-half-hour slog and cringe-y banter from the other presenters.
And Lily Gladstone, who won best actress in a Drama, the first Native American woman to receive the award, began her acceptance by speaking a few words in the Blackfeet language. In English, she said, “Native actors used to speak their lines in English and the sound mixer would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera”. It was just the kind of eloquent, heartfelt acceptance speech that plays well at the Oscars.
But those brief moments don’t change the reality that awards fatigue https://ikutisaja.com/ has started early this year. The Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Baftas are all lined up next, ahead of the Oscars. Those awards have nowhere to go but up.
