Ladies Day kickstarts a £250m betting frenzy Glamorous racegoers are braving the rain at Aintree today as Ladies Day kickstarts a £250million weekend betting frenzy. Hundreds of glamorous racegoers will take on the soggy grounds in heels and dazzle in their outfits for the traditional curtain raiser to Saturday’s Grand National. It is expected more…

Ermittler haben in einer der Wohnungen des Amokfahrers von Münster Bauteile einer Sprengstofffalle gefunden. Diese seien aber nicht miteinander verbunden gewesen und hätten nur mit hohem Aufwand zusammengebaut werden können, sagte eine Sprecherin der Polizei Münster ZEIT ONLINE. Das wäre kurzfristig nicht möglich gewesen. Auch im Türbereich seien Bauteile gefunden worden, hieß es weiter. Die…

Wall Street’s stock traders are celebrating the long-awaited return of volatility to the market. Their colleagues handling fixed-income products are struggling to keep up. Equities-trading revenue jumped more than 25 percent at both JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. in the first quarter. The increases blew away analysts’ estimates and helped counter disappointing results…

Elon Musk gave detailed financial guidance for Tesla — in a tweet at 1:11 a.m. PT Friday — boosting the electric car maker’s stock. The tweet was a reply to The Economist. « The Economist used to be boring, but smart with a wicked dry wit. Now it’s just boring (sigh). Tesla will be profitable &…

1:09 PM ET Shashank KishoreESPN « Tell us something about Kulwant Khejroliya, » Simon Doull asked AB de Villiers in a spot interview during Royal Challengers Bangalore’s IPL season opener on Sunday. « Ah well, I don’t know honestly, » he replied. De Villiers wasn’t the only one with little or no knowledge about Khejroliya. A number of his…

Later in his life, Jonathan Harris would describe his first impressions of Dr. Zachary Smith, the character he played on Lost in Space for three seasons and generations of reruns. “He was written as a deep-dyed, snarling villain,” Harris said, “And he bored the s— out of me.” As creative fuel, boredom is underrated. We talk so much…

The parents of terminally-ill toddler Alfie Evans have launched a new legal fight claiming doctors have imprisoned him as another mass protest was called outside Alder Hey Hospital today. The Liverpool hospital have the right to end the little boy’s life within hours after winning a high profile court battle with his parents Tom Evans and…