- Motley Fool
Bitcoin Could Hit $100,000 if Past Halving Trends Play Out
With another halving passed, a six-figure price tag looms for the world's original cryptocurrency.
- The Telegraph
Jurowski’s beautiful, blood-curdling Götterdämmerung, plus the best of April’s classical concerts
Wagner is of course renowned for taking his time, but even so the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ring cycle has taken longer than most. Its concert staging of Siegfried (third of the Ring’s four instalments) in February 2020 had been scheduled to be followed by full cycles in 2021, representing Vladimir Jurowski’s swansong as the LPO’s principal conductor before he left to become music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. But the pandemic intervened, and four years on the cycle has f
- Associated Press
Russian drones set a hotel ablaze in a Ukrainian Black Sea city
Russian drones early Sunday struck the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, setting a hotel ablaze and damaging energy infrastructure, the local Ukrainian governor reported, while ammunition shortages continued to hobble Kyiv's troops in the more than 2-year-old war. Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv province, said that Russian drones “seriously damaged” a hotel in its namesake capital, sparking a fire that was later extinguished. Russian state agency RIA carried claims that the strike on Mykolaiv targeted a shipyard where naval drones are assembled, as well as a hotel housing “English-speaking mercenaries” who have fought for Kyiv.
