Households on prepayment meters will no longer pay more for their energy than those on direct debits, the chancellor is expected to announce this week. The “prepayment meter penalty” will end in July, saving more than four million households around £45 a year at a cost of £200m. It will be managed through changes to
The launch of a rocket made mostly from 3D-printed parts had to be aborted at the last minute because of a temperature problem. California-based Relativity Space was attempting to launch the 33-metre rocket, called Terran, from a former missile site at Cape Canaveral in Florida. About 85% of Terran is made of 3D parts printed
Uh oh, I’ve done it again. I’ve fallen in love with another one of the victims subjects of my Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week series. It’s an odd mashup of a quad and a pickup truck, complete with dumping bed. It’s the opposite of a mullet: party in front, business in back!
“Alongside all industries, the oil and gas sector needs to up its game, do more and do it faster,” Abu Dhabi National Oil Company CEO Sultan al-Jaber said during a keynote speech at CERAWeek. Mark Felix | Afp | Getty Images The chief executive of one of the world’s biggest oil companies, who will lead
Rishi Sunak has said he hopes the BBC can resolve its row with Gary Lineker in a “timely manner” but the dispute is not something the government should get involved with. In a statement, the prime minister said Lineker “was a great footballer and is a talented presenter”. But the 62-year-old Match of the Day
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer went head to head at Prime Minister’s Questions, but who came out on top? Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-news-latest-boris-johnson-earns-almost-4m-in-2023-so-far-calls-for-investigation-into-new-conservative-lobbying-claims-12593360 #pmqs #skynews SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For
Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, calls on paparazzi to keep their distance and stop yelling at the “Die Hard” star when they see him in public. #CNN #News #shorts
Logo of Silicon Valley Bank is at a location in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 10, 2023. Staff | Reuters The U.S. cryptocurrency firm Circle’s USD Coin lost its dollar peg and fell to a record low Saturday morning after the company revealed it has nearly 8% of its $40 billion in reserves tied up
We’d been worrying about Serhiy Petrushenko, a 21-year-old boy we met guarding a bridge in central Kyiv completely on his own on the second day of the war. He became an overnight sensation after our report, the interview was watched well over 50 million times on social media alone. When we spoke to him his
Nearly 10,000 Californians have been forced to flee their homes after widespread flooding and snow was triggered by an atmospheric river across the state. Several major highways and rural communities were blocked off after swelling rivers burst their banks, and creeks overflowed in Santa Cruz County, south of San Francisco. Authorities in the town of
A new clearing bank which launched just two years ago is among the suitors this weekend weighing bids to salvage the British arm of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Sky News has learnt that The Bank of London (TBOL), which recently raised funds at a valuation of over $1bn, is considering making an offer for SVB
Tesla has decided to open direct Powerwall orders again after previously only making the popular home battery pack available with a solar power system. Home battery packs have greatly gained in popularity in recent years. People have been looking for more energy security to counter power outages and to make better use of renewable energy,
Protestors, including students, chant as they march through the streets of Paris, as thousands take to the streets across France and strike in protest at the French Government’s proposal to increase the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 on March 7, 2023 in Paris. A series of national rolling strikes is seeing workers
In the Golden State – where it sometimes seems everyone looks like a movie star – it’s not only acting talent which stars are judged on for the Oscars, often it’s the scale of their transformation. This year’s nominations have been extraordinary in terms of the leading actors who’ve gone that extra mile. Step forward
8:07 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Stefanos Tsitsipas was beaten 7-6 (0), 4-6, 7-6 (5) by Aussie Jordan Thompson in second-round play at the BNP Paribas Open on Friday. The second-seeded Tsitsipas had his shoulder taped and the injury appeared to affect his backhand. Jordan took advantage and attacked the Greek’s backhand
WARNING: FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE START OF THIS REPORT. Prince Harry will be at the centre of a planned High Court trial against the publisher of the Daily Mirror newspaper over allegations of phone hacking. Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/prince-harry-to-be-at-centre-of-phone-hacking-trial-against-tabloid-newspaper-publisher-12828913 #skynews #princeharry SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews
Roman Badanin, an independent Russian journalist who left Russia after facing the threat of a prison sentence, discusses his investigation into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s secret, lavish lifestyle. #CNN #News
In this article SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has thousands of tech startups wondering what happens now to their millions of dollars in deposits, money market investments and outstanding loans. Most importantly, they’re trying to figure how to pay their employees. related investing news Our two
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been brutal and attritional, and has shocked most of the “civilised” world. Russia’s evident disregard for casualties and collateral damage in the pursuit of victory is very different to the West’s approach to warfare, which has profound implications for the war in Ukraine, and the West’s wider defence planning assumptions.
Britain’s prime minister may not – according to some sources – be particularly interested in defence, but the defence community will be very focused on him this week. Rishi Sunak is due to unveil an update of the UK’s defence and foreign policy on Monday – the same day as he meets with the US
Match of the Day will go ahead tonight without a presenter, pundits or BBC commentators after Gary Lineker was removed from the programme. The BBC said in a statement there would be no “studio presentation or punditry”, and the broadcast will instead focus on “match action”. Leading match commentators at the corporation including Steve Wilson,
3:23 PM ET Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic will not play in Saturday night’s road game against the Memphis Grizzlies because of his left thigh strain, and Kyrie Irving‘s status is in question after he missed Friday’s practice for personal reasons. “Hopefully, he’ll be able to join us in Memphis,” Mavs coach Jason Kidd told
US regulators have shut down the country’s 16th largest bank, in the biggest collapse of a financial institution since the 2008 financial crisis. Silicon Valley Bank failed after depositors – mostly technology workers and venture capital-backed companies – began withdrawing their money, creating a run on the bank. The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Despite Russia’s ongoing invasion, Ukrainian energy company DTEK Group has finished the construction of the first 114 megawatts (MW) of a 500 MW wind farm. In the spring of this year, 19 Vestas 6 MW wind turbines will begin to generate 114 MW of electricity. The Tyligulska wind farm, which is in the Mykolaiv region in southern
In this article GPJA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Vogtle nuclear reactor 3 Source: Georgia Power For the first time in almost seven years, a new nuclear reactor has started up in the United States. On Monday, Georgia Power announced that the Vogtle nuclear reactor Unit 3 has started a nuclear reaction inside the
The UK arm of Grant Thornton, the accountancy and professional services provider, is drawing up plans to invest millions of pounds in its Indian sister firm. Sky News understands that the top ten auditor has asked its more than 200 UK partners to vote on the proposal later this month. One source said the deal
Dmitry Ivanov, an anti-Kremlin activist, has been jailed for over eight years after criticising and publicising the invasion of Ukraine on social media, in an act Russia calls “misinforming”. Last year, the Kremlin passed a law making it illegal to publish what it says is false information about its war in Ukraine – which it
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about his military strategy as Russian forces continue to make gradual gains in the city of Bakhmut. Watch the full exclusive interview on Wednesday, March 8 at 9 p.m. ET. #CNN #News
The first UK-France summit in five years has concluded, resulting in “unprecedented measures” to tackle illegal migration, as well as joint pledges on Ukraine and energy security. Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron have given the clearest demonstration yet of what has become dubbed “Le Bromance”, as the pair sought to draw a line under post-Brexit
In this photo illustration of the TradingView stock market chart of SVB Financial Group seen displayed on a smartphone with the SVB Financial Group logo in the background. Igor Golovniov | Lightrocket | Getty Images Venture capital firms on both sides of the Atlantic have been urging their portfolio companies to move money out of
Mar 9, 2023 ESPN staff NFL free agency is just a few days away, and the 2023 class is loaded. Who are the top free agents, and where will they sign? Which teams should be watched closely over the next few weeks? And which quarterbacks could find a new home? The legal negotiation period opens
Britain will payout £480m over the next three years in a deal struck between Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron to tackle small boat Channel crossings, with measures including funding for a new detention centre in France. The fresh package agreed between the prime minister and the French president to deal with the migrant crisis will
The gunman who killed seven people at a Jehovah’s Witness building in Hamburg was a former member of the congregation who police had been warned about, German police have said. The 35-year-old man, referred to by police as Philip F, left the religious community 18 months ago with “ill feelings”, Hamburg’s head of police Matthias