expected sales in china, where a real estate collapse and rising youth unemployment is hitting demand for apple s gadgets. erin delmore reports. for apple, a big gadgets. erin delmore reports. forapple, a big highlight gadgets. erin delmore reports. for apple, a big highlight the first revenue growth in a year. they reported a 2% rise in overall fiscal first quarter sales, taking a year of declining sales. it s thanks to sales of the iphone 15 which hit stores in september. but a low light does make a decline in sales in china, to the tune of 13%. apple is missing out on one of its key markets. the world s second economy is grappling with a slowdown thanks to a property market crisis, slow growth and high unemployment a young people which is weighing on iphone sales and, increasingly, chinese consumers are opting for phones made by huawei which are powered by chips made in china. apple is on the verge of releasing its vision pro headset, meanwhile. this is apple s entry int
leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita
of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldn t be around us any more if they didn t. the mouse that didn t care about surviving wouldn t pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, that s part of our survival mechanism, if you like, that allow us to see the future, to generalise. and we re conscious of ourselves as individuals, and that means we re conscious of our own deaths. and of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that, one day, all of their efforts will come to nothing. and so, if we look back through human history, what we see is humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is grave goods, for example, suggesting people very early believed in an afterlife. the oldest
who beat inter in the last round. currently there as well. currently goalless there as well. two more quarterfinal matches to come tomorrow, including the rome derby between lazio and roma. transfer news, and tottenham have confirmed the signing of timo werner on loan. werner becomes the north london club s first signing of the january transfer window. the former chelsea forward joins from rb leipzig. tottenham have an option to make the signing permanent. everton have been successful in their appeal following the red card given to dominic calvert lewin in the fa cup third round against crystal palace. the striker was set to miss three matches after being sent off following a var check for this challenge on palace defender nathaniel clyne in their fa cup clash, which finished goalless. the dismissal has now been overturned by the football association. the former president of a turkish top division team told a court in ankara on tuesday that he regretted attacking a referee