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Facebook's parent firm Meta lost over $200 billion in stock value -- comparable to the size of New Zealand's economy. Spotify dropped 16% after its user growth guidance for the first quarter failed to impress Wall Street. Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 518.96 points, or 1.49%.
Paul Givan
personFirst Minister Paul Givan is expected to resign with immediate effect. The move is part of a two-stage protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol. DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been threatening to withdraw ministers since September over its opposition to the deal.
Ken Jeong
personRudy Giuliani is said to have been revealed on The Masked Singer in the US. Judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke walked off the set in protest. Giuliani is accused of leading a scheme to overturn the 2020 election.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
personBiden says ISIS leader "taken off the battlefield" with U.S. raid in Syria. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi succeeded ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019.
Allison Gollust
personBrian Stelter, 36, the network’s top media reporter and host of its “Reliable Sources’ Sunday show, either dropped the ball by not exposing Zucker and Gollust, or showed a stunning lack of awareness by being not privy to their romance, a CNN insider fumed. Female employees at CNN told The Post they’re furious that GollUST is allowed to keep her job despite “lying” about her affair with Zucker that went on “for years” One industry vet said that Steler had been Zucker's “waterboy” for years.
Jimmy Savile
personMunira Mirza, 44, has worked with the PM for 14 years, including when he was mayor of London. She quit over his use of a “scurrilous’ Jimmy Savile smear.
Pentagon
organizationPentagon: US counterterrorism operation in northwestern Syria was a "successful" mission. Responders and activists said it killed at least 13 people, including children. The US did not specify who the operation targeted, but the raid came after a series of attacks by the "Islamic State" group.
Meta
organizationFacebook parent company Meta plunged 24.5 per cent, erasing more than $US220 billion ($307 billion) in market value. Shares were down 25.6 percent shortly after the opening in New York. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had some $20 billion in value wiped from his personal holding by the rout.
Munira Mirza
personBoris Johnson's policy chief Munira Mirza quits over row over Keir Starmer. Johnson accused Starmer of failing to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile. Mirza said it was an inappropriate and partisan reference to a horrendous case.
Keir Starmer
personPM has been criticised for falsely saying Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile. Johnson has backtracked to an extent but has refused to apologise for the claim. Munira Mirza, one of the PM’s most trusted lieutenants, has walked out.
CNN
organizationRadar Online, a popular gossip site, claimed that Zucker pushed CNN chief media correspondent and anchor of Reliable Sources Brian Stelter to drag the site in his popular newsletter. Media critics have been calling for Stalter to be fired because of his 'rant' about Radar and because he failed to report the 'open secret' affair between Zucker and Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Allison Gollust.
DUP
organizationDUP's Paul Givan is understood to have written a letter standing down. Decision will effectively collapse power-sharing government between DUP and Sinn Fein. Northern Ireland Assembly will be paralysed ahead of the May 5 elections.
Mark Zuckerberg
personMeta's stock fell 26%, erasing more than $200 billion in the biggest ever single-day market value wipeout for a U.S. company. Zuckerberg told staff to focus on short-form video feature Instagram Reels.
ISIS
organizationU.S. special operations forces conducted a large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwest Syria overnight. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the current leader of ISIS, was "taken off the battlefield" in the operation. Thirteen are believed to have died, including six kids and four women.
Edwin Poots
personPaul Givan is expected to announce his resignation by the end of the week. His colleague Edwin Poots has ordered a halt to agri-food checks at Northern Ireland's ports. European Commission has said the decision by Mr Poots to stop the checks creates “further uncertainty and unpredictability’
Jeff Zucker
personCNN is delivering the largest declines in cable news this month – down roughly 80% in primetime and total day across the board. Since Zucker took the helm in 2013, CNN reportedly has not seen any ratings improvement – losing audience share, independent viewers and ratings throughout Zucker's tenure. An unnamed CNN insider is calling for 'Reliable Sources' host Brian Stelter to be fired.
Edwin Poots
personFormer DUP leader Edwin Poots has insisted that he ‘hasn’t gone away’ He failed to secure the party’s nomination to run in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. DUP party officers selected Diane Forsythe as the candidate.
Michael Gove
person'Levelling Up' aims to reduce the gap between rich and poor in the UK. Will include 5G broadband for most places, with 4G covering everywhere. Will set out 12 "missions" to be completed by 2030.
Chris Cuomo
personZucker said he acknowledged the relationship when asked about it as part of an investigation into Chris Cuomo. Chris Cuomo's legal team blew the whistle on the affair while negotiating his severance package from CNN.
NFL
organizationBrian Flores alleges Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered him a $100,000 bonus for every loss in the 2019 season. Flores said he interviewed for several positions that he claims he was never in the running for. The NFL said that the lawsuit was "without merit" and the Dolphins "vehemently" deny the allegations.