Midway through Patrick Reed’s champion’s press conference last year, after all the pleasantries and platitudes were out of the way, someone ventured a polite but pointed question about whether he thought he was popular with the fans. Reed flashed an unconvincing grin and said: “I feel like I have a lot of fans around here.”…

Taylor Swift has made another political statement, this time in support of LGBT advocacy. The pop star made a surprise $113,000 donation – a figure unsurprising to fans familiar with her love for the number 13 – to the Tennessee Equality Project, a Nashville-based group which recently convened more than 100 religious leaders to denounce…

The British pharmaceutical firm Indivior had more than £560m wiped from its market value on Wednesday after it was indicted over an alleged fraudulent marketing scheme to push its treatment for people addicted to opioids. The US indictment demanded the forfeiture of $3bn in cash, as well as all of Invidior’s main business units, bank…

“Classic Hollywood film posters are often looked at nostalgically as a form of escapism, but we want to give people a different way of looking at it,” said Ron Magliozzi, the co-curator of a unique new exhibition. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, What Price Hollywood features 140 old film posters, assembled…

Pinterest, the digital scrapbooking site, has became the latest Silicon Valley “unicorn” to publish details of its plans to go public. The company’s initial regulatory filing would value the company at around $9bn, significantly less than previous valuations but a figure that could change if investors get behind the initial public offering (IPO). Pinterest is…

A decline in memory as a result of ageing can be temporarily reversed using a harmless form of electrical brain stimulation, scientists have found. The findings help explain why certain cognitive skills decline significantly with age and raise the prospect of new treatments. “Age-related changes are not unchangeable,” said Robert Reinhart, a neuroscientist at Boston…

A warplane has attacked the only functioning airport in Tripoli as fighting between forces loyal to the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar and rival militias escalated and EU foreign ministers met in Brussels to try to de-escalate the violence. Mitiga airport, in an eastern suburb of the capital, was closed after it was hit in an…

John Oliver continued to call out big business greed in seemingly mundane American industries – robocalling, show wrestling – on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight with a look at one of the country’s few affordable housing industries: mobile homes. According to federal housing surveys, around 20 million Americans – roughly one in 18 – live in…

My wife of 30 years and I are separated (but still live in the same flat) and own a very successful business together. About nine years ago, we had a massive row and she told me she didn’t love me. I am quite a dominant person, but my mother had dementia and my wife had…

Now that, Virginia, is the way to close out a season. Led by De’Andre Hunter and his NBA-ready game, the Cavaliers turned themselves into national champions Monday night, holding off tenacious, ferocious Texas Tech for an 85-77 overtime win – a scintillating victory that came 388 days after a crushing setback that might have sunk…