The Cabinet Office has reiterated its refusal to hand over some of Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages to the COVID inquiry, arguing part of the material is of a “private” and “personal” nature. In a fresh statement issued on Tuesday evening, the Cabinet Office said it was “fully committed to our obligations to the COVID-19 inquiry”
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has begun her prison sentence in Texas. Holmes is due to spend the next 11 years behind bars for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax. She entered the federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The prison camp is a minimum-security
Glastonbury has revealed the full line-up for this year’s festival – with a mysterious act set to play a prime-time slot on the main Pyramid Stage. Names including Rick Astley, Queens Of The Stone Age, Skepta and Sophie Ellis-Bextor have all been added to the bill, alongside previously announced headliners Elton John, Arctic Monkeys and
Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterMay 30, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Like 1990s moviegoers finding out Bruce Willis’ character really was dead all along, the Florida Panthers‘ dominant run to the Stanley Cup Final has taken us all by surprise. But what else do both of
Sitting on the Dnipro River in Russian-occupied Ukraine is Europe’s largest nuclear power station – on the frontline of a worsening war. Over a period of a few weeks we spoke to two workers at the Zaporizhzhia plant. And the warnings they gave of what could happen should send a cold chill around the world.
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterMay 30, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. CORVALLIS, Ore. — DJ Uiagalelei walked to the back of Oregon State’s media room, looking for an off-switch to stop the music still blaring from a photo shoot with visiting recruits. After a
Efforts to prevent the United States reaching its debt limit and to avert a potentially catastrophic default on loan repayments on Wednesday move to the Senate, where the vote on the proposal to raise the debt ceiling takes place. President Joe Biden and leader of the House of Representatives, speaker Kevin McCarthy, had spent the
Artificial intelligence poses a similar risk of human extinction as pandemics and nuclear war, experts have warned. The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT, the head of Google’s AI lab, and CEO of Anthropic – another major AI firm, have all signed an open letter. It reads: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should
The first US-built offshore wind substation is complete and headed to South Fork Wind – a major milestone for the US offshore wind industry. Offshore substations collect and stabilize power that the wind turbines generate, preparing it for transmission to shore. South Fork Wind’s 1,500-ton, 60-foot-tall substation was designed and engineered in Kansas, and built
Rishi Sunak faced a grilling over net migration as official figures are expected to confirm that numbers have increased, and Paul Bristow, the Conservative MP for Peterborough was asked to leave the chamber. Sky’s Joe Pike explains all you need to know about what happened in PMQs this week. Read more on: https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-starmer-accuses-rishi-sunak-of-breaking-promises-on-migration-12888324 #pmqs #pmqsunwrapped
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old has been fined by a medical board after speaking to media about the case. #news #cnn #shorts
One-third of the planets orbiting the most common stars across the Milky Way galaxy may hold onto liquid water and possibly harbour life, according to a study based on latest telescope data. The most common stars in our galaxy are considerably smaller and cooler, sporting just half the mass of the Sun at most. Billions
ESPN News Services May 29, 2023, 09:34 PM ET CONCORD, N.C. — Ryan Blaney held off William Byron to win the rescheduled Coca-Cola 600 on Monday at Charlotte Speedway, giving team owner Roger Penske a sweep of the Memorial Day weekend’s top races in the United States. Josef Newgarden won a record-extending 19th Indianapolis 500
Russia has blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on Moscow that it said caused minor damage to buildings and injured two people. The defence ministry said Kyiv was behind the “terrorist attack”, but Ukraine denied the claim. “Eight aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were involved in the attack. All enemy drones are hit,” said the ministry.
Asda Group has said it will acquire petrol station operator EG Group’s UK and Ireland business, creating a company with combined revenues of nearly £30bn. The news confirms a report by Sky News City editor Mark Kleinman last week, which said the “finishing touches” were being put on the deal. Asda is the UK’s third-largest
A man has managed to prise a crocodile’s jaws from around his head when he was attacked near a luxury resort in Queensland, Australia. Marcus McGown was snorkelling about 17 miles (28km) off Haggerstone Island in Cape York when the reptile struck. “While checking out some coral and fish and talking to a fellow snorkeller,
Scientists have developed a simple, low-cost clip that uses a smartphone’s camera and flash to monitor blood pressure at the user’s fingertip. The clip developed by researchers at the University of California (UC) San Diego, US, works with a custom smartphone app and currently costs about 80 cents (Rs. 5.6) to make. The researchers estimate
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – 2023/05/29: Nvidia president and CEO Jensen Huang speaks at a keynote presentation while holding the Grace Hopper superchip at COMPUTEX. The COMPUTEX 2023 runs from 30 May to 02 June 2023 and gathers over 1,000 exhibitors from 26 different countries with 3000 booths to display their latest products and to sign orders
Nine people have been injured in a shooting near a Hollywood Beach, Florida. One person has been arrested and police have said they are looking for one more suspect. Early reports said there was an altercation between two groups. Police said there would be a heavy presence of officers as the investigation continues. Advertisement
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are preparing to launch a legal battle over COVID secrets, just hours before a deadline for handing over sensitive material to the official pandemic inquiry. Mr Johnson, prime minister during the pandemic, is battling to prevent the Cabinet Office releasing all his unedited WhatsApp messages and diaries to the inquiry’s
Eamonn Holmes has claimed there was a “total cover-up” over Phillip Schofield’s affair with a younger male colleague on This Morning while he was married. Holmes, 63, who also presented on the show, has accused Schofield of “toxicity” amid the furore over the culture on the ITV daytime programme. Host Schofield, 61, admitted last Friday
As American cars and trucks continue to bloat, growing longer and wider decade over decade while roads and parking spaces stay the same size, there may be hope glimmering on the horizon: tiny electric vehicles. I’m not talking about small cars. I’m talking about tiny ones – micro-cars, if you will. They’re a small but
This video clip appears to show a naval drone reaching the Russian intelligence vessel known as Ivan Khurs. The day before it was filmed, the Russian military claimed that all drones had been destroyed before coming near the ship. Read the latest on Ukraine here: https://news.sky.com/topic/ukraine-6556 #ukrainewar #drone #zelensky #volodymyrzelenskyy SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel
The mother of Brian Laundrie, the man who killed his fiancée Gabby Petito and later himself in 2021, wrote an undated letter marked “burn after reading” to her son that said she would help him “dispose of a body.” Roberta Laundrie has said the letter was written before her son’s trip with Petito, and one
Harry Styles has broken the record for the highest-selling stadium show in Scotland as more than 65,000 fans flocked to see him perform, according to the gig venue. The former One Direction star sang his biggest hits including As It Was to crowds on Friday and Saturday at the BT Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. Promoter
HSBC will next month unveil a new name for the technology-focused bank it rescued earlier this year after its US parent collapsed. Sky News has learned that Europe’s biggest lender intends to rebrand Silicon Valley Bank UK (SVBUK) under the name HSBC Innovation Banking. The new identity is expected to be announced to coincide with
A mother has pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse over the death of her six-year-old son in Arizona. Elizabeth Archibeque, 26, reached a plea deal with prosecutors this month and could face life in prison under the first-degree murder charge. Her son, Deshaun Martinez, had been locked inside a small bedroom closet without food
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew is pictured on the day he will testify before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing entitled “TikTok: How Congress can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms,” as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein
May 29, 2023, 07:52 AM ET It’s Memorial Day, MLB fans! And that means you are free to officially look at the MLB standings. The saying goes, among baseball fans, that you should avoid checking the standings until Memorial Day, which puts us two months into the season. That gives teams time to play enough
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath on Monday said that the Chandrayaan-3- the third edition of India’s mission to the moon- will be launched this July. Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface. “I am very confident…” said Somnath today
The sun beats down on us. I’m sweating, and there is noise from every angle. Two marine engines thrum behind me, churning the water of the Mediterranean. You can smell the salt, but also the plastic of our boat, warmed by the early afternoon. Cloudless skies. I can hear shouts, cries, and also words of
The AYRO Vanish has grabbed headlines over the past year as it rolls ever closer to production at AYRO’s Texas factory. Now the electric mini-truck’s final step ahead of manufacturing has begun as the Vanish starts street-legal homologation. The AYRO Vanish is an electric utility vehicle that is designed to fit into the low-speed vehicle
This review contains spoilers for the final episode of Succession, which is already available to stream on Now TV. We’ll warn you again – stop now if you don’t want to know what happens. Final warning. After the picture below all will be revealed. You have been warned. Again. We finally have a successor to