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Ms Jo Malone CBE, British perfumer and founder of fragrance brands Jo Malone London and Jo Loves.Mike Green, CNBCMs Jo Malone CBE became a millionaire after selling her namesake perfume brand in 1999, and decades later has only one regret: never being able to use her name again. Malone founded fragrance brand Jo Malone London in 1990 and sold it to the Estée Lauder Companies nine years later — along with the rights to use her name in any business. “I don’t look back and think to myself: ‘If I’d waited another five years, I could have made double the amount,'”…

What a week for markets. Global stocks posted their worst week since April as the heat around AI stocks began to burn. On Thursday, the Nasdaq marked its wildest swing from green to red since President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ shocked equities back in April. And it reverberated around the world, with the Stoxx 600 touching a one-month low, Germany’s DAX sinking to levels not seen since June and Asian stocks closing deep in the red for the week. What does such a volatile week for stocks and other asset classes mean for the trading week ahead? A lot of…

 KUWAIT, Nov 23: 1916 — Seif Palace hosted first Kuwaiti conference called upon by Britain’s General Commander of Basra Major General Percy Cox, to gear up Arab support to Britain, but no positive outcome came out of the meeting.1960 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signed a decree establishing the Gulf Bank with a capital of 23 million rupees, the equivalent of KD 1.8 million. By the end of 2004, the bank’s capital reached KD 82 million. 1992 — The 106th and final sign was placed on the land borders between Iraq and Kuwait, the final sign of the demarcation…

LONDON (AP) — Pressure is increasing for the former Prince Andrew to give evidence to a U.S. congressional committee investigating the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Britain’s prime minister suggested he should testify.Keir Starmer declined to comment directly about King Charles III’s disgraced younger brother, but told reporters traveling with him for the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg that as a “general principle” people should provide evidence to investigators.“I don’t comment on his particular case,’’ Starmer said. “But as a general principle I’ve held for a very long time is that anybody who has got relevant information in…

Jeff CarlisleNov 23, 2025, 01:11 AM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.SAN JOSE, Calif. — Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman said she “definitely underperformed” in Saturday’s NWSL Championship final, in which the Spirit fell to Gotham FC, 1-0, with Rose Lavelle’s 80th minute winner proving to the difference.Rodman, who has been trying to recover from a sprained MCL in her right knee for the last month, started the match on the bench, but entered the game as a 57th-minute substitute. She was largely ineffective, and didn’t get a shot off during her 33-minute stint.When…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians on Sunday voted in a referendum on a law to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives. Parliament in the small European Union nation passed the law in July after voters had backed it in a nonbinding referendum last year. Opponents, however, have forced another vote on the divisive issue after collecting more than 40,000 signatures.The law envisages that mentally competent people, who have no chance of recovery or are facing unbearable pain have the right to assisted dying. This means that patients administer the lethal medication themselves after approval from two doctors and…

Jeff KassoufNov 22, 2025, 11:57 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.Gotham FC claimed the NWSL championship on Saturday, defeating the Washington Spirit 1-0. Elsa/NWSL via Getty ImagesSAN JOSE, Calif — The week leading into Saturday’s NWSL Championship was dominated by distress over the future of Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman, and the league’s inability to retain its biggest star due to the limitations of the salary cap.But as the final…

Jeff CarlisleNov 22, 2025, 10:27 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gotham FC claimed the NWSL Championship on Saturday, defeating the Washington Spirit 1-0.Gotham midfielder Rose Lavelle scored the winner in the 80th minute in front of an announced sellout crowd of 18,000 at PayPal Park. Substitute Bruninha’s centering feed across the top of the box set up the goal for Lavelle, who was named the game’s MVP.It was the second goal in an NWSL final for Lavelle, who also scored while playing for the Seattle Reign in their 2-1…

The US has proposed a 21-point peace plan for Ukraine. The administration has informed Ukraine that it has until Thanksgiving (November 27) to accept the plan. There is little likelihood that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will accept the plan as it is, but he may offer various amendments to sow confusion and force delays. The US has threatened to pull all its support from Ukraine if it disagrees, though Trump said Saturday the framework was not necessarily his final offer to Ukraine. The Russians initially said they never saw the 21-point plan. Now Moscow is saying they have the text…

Defender Mathías Laborda scored a first-half goal before delivering the winner in a penalty-kick shootout and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat LAFC 6-5 in a Western Conference semifinal on Saturday night before a club-record crowd of 53,957 at BC Place.The second-seeded Whitecaps advance to their first Western Conference final after the two clubs played to a 2-2 draw through regulation and 30 minutes of extra time.Son Heung-Min, who scored twice in the second half to pull LAFC even, banged his shot off the post to open the penalty shootout while Sebastian Berhalter scored on the Whitecaps’ first attempt. LAFC’s Denis Bouanga…