— next for wayne rooney? i think it does raise — next for wayne rooney?es raise a _ next for wayne rooney? i think it does raise a question _ next for wayne rooney? i think it does raise a question about - next for wayne rooney? i think it i does raise a question about whether he has a future in management, because unlike his playing cv, his managerial cv is hardly glittering. at derby county he did win praise for leading through a difficult period when they had few resources and few blowers to call on and little or no money, but after that he went to dc united in america, he left there by mutual consent after failing to get them into the play—offs last year, and before he arrived at home park, he was sacked at birmingham city after less than three months in charge, so that was a pretty disastrous spell. so he has had four goes it being a manager, and each spell at a club has been fairly fraught, so you would have to say in the short term at least it is difficult to see where another opportunity might come from, particularly in the uk. i think it is proba

kate rooney for cnbc business news in phoenix. >>> coming up on "today", the future of air travel takes>> thank you so much for being with me for "early today." i'm frances rivera. hope you're up early again thursday. ifou are, you know we' yre >>> the man accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo fighting extradition to new york. and shouting at cameras as he arrived in court. his lawyer insist something luigi mangione will plead not guilty.

let's send it to kate rooney for a look at some of the day's biggest movers into the close. road ahead for ford according to jefferies which has downgraded shares to underperform from hold and cutting it to nine bucks from citing inventory overhang as the biggest potential drag and the legacy automaker has struggled this year, down about 18% or so since january and then some swaps to tell you about in the nasdaq 100. moderna and illumina will be leaving while palantir and exxon, and you have the microstrategy and also joining the index today 5% higher on that news. microstrategy has been added to the invesco qqq. >> that's kate rooney and for more on bitcoin's record breaking run and as we see the microstrategies of the world and robinhoods rising, as well. >> bitcoin starting the week on solid footing, rising above $107,000 for the first time ever and e's a nice flurry benefiting here and the s&p and the nasdaq today. bitcoin is a risk asset and especially with more institutional adoption it trades in tandem with tech stocks. speaking of tech stocks, kate mentioned microstr

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wayne rooney has left plymouth argyle by mutual consent, seven months after being appointed head coachin in his last 14 games as manager, with the team now bottom of the championship table. the former england captain thanked fans for their support and said argyle would always hold a special place in his heart. notable names have been reacting after being recognised in the new year honours list. stephen fry said he was "startled and enchanted" to receive a knighthood, while the happy valley actor sarah lancashire said being made a cbe was an "unexpected delight". more than 1,200 people have been recognised in the list. you're live with bbc news. the world is still remembering the former presidentjimmy carter here in the us postal much ofjimmy carter's legacy was built after he left the white house through his humanitarian work. he and his wife rosalynn helped to build, renovate and repair more than 4,000 homes through their partnership with habitat for humanity, an organisation that provides affordable housing to disadvantaged families. they also established the nonprofit carter center,

wayne rooney says that plymouth will always hold a special place in his heart.r todayjust seven months into a three—year contract, leaving the club bottom of the championship. the former manchester united and england striker manged to win just five of his 25 games in charge, failing to win any of their matches away from home. it was his fourth management role after spells at derby county, birmingham city and also dc united in the mls. world number one aryna sabalenka has started her season with a win. the belarusian, who will be targeting a hat—trick of australian open titles next month, won comfortably at the brisbane international, beating renata zarazua of mexico 6—4, 6—0. first match is always a tricky one. you try to play to see where your tennis is at, and, yeah, it was a tricky start. but i'm glad i closed that first set, and in the second set, it felt like whatever i would do, it would work for me well. so i'm really happy with the first win of season. the men's tour is also in brisbane, and novak djokovic is into the second round. the top seed and 24—ti

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the pressure mounts on plymouth argyle manager wayne rooney — their 2—0 defeat leaves them firmly rootedir lead at the top of the scottish premiership to ia points after a 4—0 win at home to stjohnstone. kyogo furuhashi scored twice for brendan rodgers' side. second—placed rangers had to come from behind to draw 2—2 at motherwell, a great individual goal from ta—wanda mas—wan—hee—say put the home side 2—0 up. but while motherwell had two second half goals disallowed, rangers substitute hamza igamane scored twice to ensure it finished all. aberdeen blew their chance to leapfrog rangers into second place. kevin holt scored a 94th minute winner as dundee united beat them 1—0 at tannardyce. the dons haven't won in eight games. united are three points behind them. elsewhere, ross county and hearts also drew, while there were wins for hibs and dundee. in the rugby premiership, exeter chiefs got their first win of the season as they beat gloucester 22 points to 15. they're now off the bottom of the table, as patrick geary reports. for exeter�*s young side, it must of felt like the walls were cl

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our kate rooney joins us now with more. kate? >> hi, scott. so, yeah, after talk about this for about a decade amazon is now using drones to deliver packages around the phoenix metro area, at least these aircrafts they're meant for smaller items so something, for example, that fits into a shoebox, it weighs less than five pounds -- or less than that. they drop from a drone to get delivered that's about 12 feet in the sky. you do pay roughly $10 extra for this drone delivery. it tends to et items there faster and right now that is within an hour. there have been some drastic changes in design over the years, they did cut the noise of these by roughly 40% and doubled the range. through some of the testing they figured out things like how to avoid dogs before delivery, they used radar sensors to do all of that. amazon executive david carbon tells me managing the air space has been the biggest challenge. they got faa approval back in october for the latest mk-30 zone. the site we are at today is with a subcenter which is how they plans to scale th

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kate rooney is back with the details for today's tech check. >> kelly, great to see you. this transition has been anything but smooth for openai, and it does highlight an increasingly competitive landscape, compared to when this company was founded about a decade ago. it is the first time openai has laid out these plans. it's for-profit arm is going to be known as a public benefit corporation, a pbc. essentially, the same as any for-profit business, but it has a dual mandate. fiduciary duty on one side, and a publicly stated mission. ben & jerry's and patagonia are well-known examples, and openai acknowledging the cash crunch behind this decision, saying, we once again need to raise more capital than we imagined, and in part, investors need conventional equity unless structural misspoken this. that structure has been a headache at times for openai. it was on display when ceo sam altman was ousted about a year ago. it can also be confusing. it involves a capped profit company controlled by the nonprofit, which will still exist, and the structure, as you can imagine, not so

we begin with news of wayne rooney — the former manchester united and england player — has been sackedpointed as the head coach of the championship side in may on a three year deal, but after leading the side for 25 matches, managed only five wins. it was his third stint managing a side in english football's second tier following spells with derby and birmingham city. the club are currently rooted to the bottom of the table and facing relegation. there's been a warning from the current manchester united manager ruben amorim that the club could face relegation from the premier league this season. the portuguese coach has overseen five league defeats since joining the club, with in—form newcastle united inflicting their most recent, winning 2—0 at old trafford. it means manchester united will end the year 14th in the premier league, seven points above the relegation zone, with a warning things could get even worse for the club. the worst moments in the history of our club. and we have to accept that. another loss in front of our supporters, and newcastle were better. what was looking at

day one of open ai's 12 days of ship-mas the ai startup has announced two new features kate rooney brings story for tech check. >> we had two new updates as ship-mas, as open ai is calling it, kicks off today. first, we had a better version of one of its main models, and in the $200 per month pro tier, during a live demo, sam altman saying it's faster, smarter, should be a better experience for engineers and coders said it showed major improvements in computation, and on ph.d. level science questions. they say it's outperforming human experts by about 10 percentage points. according to altman, on that demo, he said the boost might look small, but they are significant. has more what they call multimodal understanding and reasoning. meaning it can interpret more images and voice and then this new tier of chatgpt, called gpt pro mode, $200 per month, this is really for power users who need more than that $20 of compute that they would get per month, and seemingly be willing to pay for that it shows a willingness to charge for the services which is going to be key to the company breaking even

kate rooney. you so much. matt, great to see you thank you for being here this is your first reinvent as aws ceo. so big milestone for. >> you very exciting happy to be here. >> you had so many gen ai announcements, but i wonder if you could summarize what it means for aws and what you think it means in terms of potentially driving spending on aws at least in the near term >> well, look, a lot of what we talked about today is how do we help customers really get into their generative ai apps into a production environment we see customers that have proven concepts out there. we built a platform and capabilities to really focus on production use cases and how do they take customer data, real enterprise, valuable ip and pull it into these use cases so that they can actually start to drive real enterprise value and not just kind of flashy, chatbots on websites that weren't driving a lot for customers. a lot of what we announced today and are talking about this week is helping customers do just that. >>

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wayne rooney says that plymouth will always hold a special place in his heart.into a three year contract, leaving the club bottom of the championship. the former manchester united and england striker was in charge for 25 games, and managed just five wins in that time, failing to win any of their matches away from home. it was his third stint managing a side in english football's second tier following spells with derby and birmingham city. first team coach kevin nancekivill and club captain joe edwards will be in charge for their new year's day game at home to bristol city. it's an almost unthinkable statement from a manchester united manager, but ruben amorim says that there's every posssibilty that they face a battle to stay in the premier league. his gloomy outlook follows their latest defeat. 2—0 at home to newcastle united. they've lost five of their last six in the league, and end the year 1ath in the table, seven points above the relegation zone, 23 points off the top of the table. the portuguese admitted that he needs to change things quickly if they're n

the british footballer wayne rooney, he waited till he was 20. you, 8a. why the wait?nough has happened to me that it could possibly be interesting for someone to read, i thought. it was fun once i started it. i enjoyed thinking about things that had happened to me and my childhood and stuff, and that sort of was spurring me on. they called me sonny and paci, their nickname for pacino. they also called me pistachio. i liked pistachio ice cream, so they called me that. the autobiography deals a lot with family and fatherhood, obviously. he's still, you know, too young. everything he does is real. everything he does is interesting to me, you know? so, we...we talk. i play the harmonica with him, and we made this kind of contact, so it's fun. it's fun to have, like, four kids now. and you realise how much fun it is to have children. there is a certain fascination with you being a dad at 83. did you have any reservations about the age? i'd want to be around for this child. of course i did. and i hope i am. i hope i stay healthy and he knows who his dad is, of course. somet

the british footballer wayne rooney, he waited till he was 20. you, 8a. why the wait?ut things that happened to be in my childhood in my childhood and that spurred me on. i enjoyed thinking about things that had happened to me and my childhood and stuff, and that sort of was spurring me on, in a way. i thought, this is, uh... ..this is something to get into and think about. they called me sonny and paci, their nickname for pacino. they also called me pistachio. i liked pistachio ice cream, so they called me that. the autobiography deals a lot with family and fatherhood, obviously. and you became a father again last year. oh, yeah. how have you reacted to that? well, it's extraordinary. i've reacted to it as many ways as you could possibly react to it. it was... it's wonderful. you know, i have this little person who's talking to me, but he's not... he's still, you know, too young. everything he does is real. everything he does is interesting to me, you know? so, we...we talk. i play the harmonica with him, and we made this kind of contact, so it's fun. it's fun to have

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that we can provide them with all possible facilities the arctic correspondence, the wi fi, supp. rooney has more details of this. a lucky sally. this morning we heard the sound of explosions, but the militants and the vicinity of damascus tried to march on the capital, and there were no clashes in the syrian capital with the syrian troops surrendered or retreated kinda. there were no clashes between them and the noise and a number of citizens took to the squares and everyone is watching the upcoming change. it has been difficult for syria lately for more than 15 years of a long war. there was division in disunity among the syrian people and the syrian people have paid a considerable price. there have been many victims. the economy has also been destroyed. therefore, the syrian people are actually witnessing a transition period that can make it possible to forget about the difficulties that we have experience. so yeah, i mean, it was a surprise to the syrians, that there was no speech and everything happened quickly. so the syrian people are waiting for changes in the country and hoping

supervisor state distributions onto the control was handed to a new administration. ortiz what flash up, rooney reports now from damascus on the latest developments on them. that's, you know, i'm very happy with that. yeah. right now we can here is really ministry ad craft of, of damascus. they are constantly here showing the city suburbs intensively with more than 150 strikes on the form of syrian army positions. the most of the weapon we storage facilities have been to reggie, as is riley forces. our phones taken from the boulder in damascus. mohammed shaw and the former council of ministers have appointed mohammed out by shift as a new syrian prime minister in charge of the transition periods. and as previously, he loved the salvation government that was managing the oppositional occupied regions around it lives. they have also defined the conditions for the transition of pilot and measures to prevent tales of police and other enforces of public who have been deployed by the minute to come on to be stationed in public areas, roads and gulf and mental buildings. a coffee from 5 pm to 5 am and

nick rooney, and my editor in london, greg close. i'd like to thank my agents edward all of sophie lambert and christina moore and most of all, i would like to thank my endlessly patient and brilliant wife, vanessa mobley, and daughter isla, without whose and belief i wouldn't standing here this evening. thank you i couldn't be more astonished. so. are we ready for the final prize of the evening. it's been an exciting night. thank you. now for the final award of evening. the kirkus prize in fiction. the jurors for the prize are christine barlow, co-owner and director of program for loyalty in washington, d.c. and silver spring, maryland. and jeffrey burke, kirkus reviewer and former editor at, harper's magazine, wall street journal, vanity fair. and bloomberg. and here to introduce the finalists is fiction editor laurie muchnick laurie muchnick. good. good evening. the for the 2024 kirkus prize for fiction are. say hello to my little friend by jennine capo crucet. published. published by simon schuster. a young man who went from cuba

sheffield united remain top after beating wayne rooney's plymouth i—o.on to all of those results over on the bbc sport website. next tonight to cricket, where england have already won their test series in new zealand, but they are hoping to make it a 3—0 clean sweep. on the opening day of the final test in hamilton, their bowlers have been chipping away, leaving the hosts hanging on in theirfirst innings, asjoe lynskey reports. at 2—0 up in a three—match series, england now can take things at their own pace. they put new zealand into bat, but it brought a quiet morning. on a flat pitch, the home side went past 100 without a wicket without a wicket by the lunch break, england tried to find the answers. commentator: it's gone! gus atkinson got the first, and then new zealand couldn't stop them. 0h! kane williamson was out despite a lunge towards the stumps. the mood of a test match had turned on the breakthrough. now, england looked to set up the clean sweep. just two away teams have won 3—0 in new zealand, and right now, it's the tourists who look most at

we can provide them with how possible facilities are 2 of our big correspondents, while fi supp. rooney has more details now from the syrian capital on. the shots are being fired all over the city and, and it's around a skis. they are fired by members of arms groups celebrating their victory an entry into the syrian capital. and they believe that they have a stablish our in damascus. and the people, the sounds of explosions are also audible. but these are undoubtedly not flashes, but celebrations ago, i'm entering the syrian capital, turned out to be a very easy task for both armed groups and militants operating in the vicinity of damascus. to shut up, the syrian troops very quickly abandoned their positions and command post. there were only minor classes which quickly subsided. also assume as groups announced that they had reached the building of the general director of radio and television, as well as the center of the capitol. i knew my head square off. there has been a series of statements by the leader of high a test for your i'll show him in one statement, easy band, all military

should rooney sent us this report? you know, i'm the. yeah. right now we can here is riley minutes free. i craft of, of damascus. they are constantly here showing the city suburbs intensively with more than 150 strikes on form a syrian army positions the most of the weapon re storage facilities have been hate to reggie, as is riley false is always promising from the buddha in damascus. med alshaun and the former council of ministers have appointed mohammed out by shifts as the new syrian prime minister in charge of the transition periods. and as previously, he loved the salvation government that was managing the oppositional occupied regions around it lives. they have also defines the conditions for the transition of pilot and measures to prevent tales of police and other enforces of public who have been deployed by the minute to come on to be stationed in public areas, roads and gulf, and mental buildings. a coffee from 5 pm to 5 am has been imposed in damascus, latasha and talk to anyone who violates it will be punished by a month of impriso

one of them onto our back, of course, and of course, one of the wi fi shop. rooney has more details now from the capital of this country or yeah, the shots are being fired all over the city. and, and its surrounding skis. they are fired by members of armed groups celebrating their victory an entry into the syrian capital. they believe that they have a stablished power in damascus and the sounds of explosions are also audible. but these are undoubtedly not clashes, but celebrations. entering the syrian capital turned out to be a very easy task for both armed groups and militants operating in the vicinity of damascus. the syrian troops very quickly abandoned their positions and command post . there were only minor clashes which quickly subsided. soon. these groups announced that they had reached the building of the general director of radio and television, as well as the center of the capitol into my head square law. there has been a series of statements by the leader of high a test for your alshaun. in one statement is you banned all military formations from entering any government insti

launches and strikes on the national capital of seeing correspondent in the mazda is what flash of rooney, who pulls a movement from the ground. nadine a, we have witnessed the most brutal attacks by israel and syria entire tree. they begun on sunday morning with the entry of the opposition groups into damascus and the declaration of full control of the city. israel then launched our tax. the home of the is ready, war planes has been had here in the capital for the past few days. also is really drones have been flying at a low old tude. israel has been launching heavy strengths against almost all military units of assyrian forces. 3 military bases have come on to far destroying everything on those basis. come back across drones, munition depots and defense systems, ministry basis, new the come we see on the suburbs of attack, you with the military port where the worship to locate people also attacked. we're talking about hundreds of targets or $250.00 of them. a lot of strikes have been carried out on the outskirts of the syrian capital on various targets. there's an intense fighting with

and more problems at plymouth for wayne rooney — his side still bottom, after a heavy loss to frank lampard's at ewood park.... to watch his younger brother jobe as sunderland faced blackburn. and the black cats looked like they were going back to the north east with all three points when they went 2—1 up through wilson isidor. but rovers equalised in the last minute through substitute harry leonard. sunderland stay 4th. .. with blackburn one place behind in fifth. —— with blackburn at one point behind in fifth. derby are facing west brom at pride park, the baggies are managerless after carlos coberan left to join spanish side valencia. they're into the second half there and it's derby who lead 1—o thanks to this goal from jerry yates. plenty of drama in the rest of the championship... sheffield wednesday came back from three goals down — to draw 3—3 with middlesborough.. oxford united pulled away from the bottom three, including cardiff, by winning 3—2 today... there was late drama at watford, who scored a stoppage time winner, to beat portsmouth and go 6th... elsewhere, wins for bristol cit