The new owners of The Body Shop are lining up administrators for its British arm just weeks after taking control of the cosmetics retailer, in a move which could threaten significant numbers of shops and jobs. Sky News has learnt that the company founded by Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon nearly half a century
Rishi Sunak has published his personal tax return, showing he paid more than half a million pounds in UK tax last year. The document shows he paid a tax bill of £508,308 in the financial year 2022-23. His income included £1.8m in capital gains, as well as his £150,000 prime minister’s salary. The prime minister
Jailed former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has claimed victory for his supporters in the country’s general election – via a video generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The clip of the former cricket star was uploaded on social media on Sunday just hours after his rival Nawaz Sharif also claimed to have won despite
Joe Biden couldn’t remember when he was vice president, according to a new report. And, according to the same investigation, he couldn’t remember when his son died. Then, when trying to reassure everyone about the claims about his memory, he confused the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. Not ideal for someone who wants to run
It was the sequel film fans didn’t realise they needed, but when Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget came out before Christmas – 23 years after the original – it topped Netflix’s most-watched charts for weeks. Speaking to Sky News, director Sam Fell admits: “You send it out into the world and it’s like a
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Burbo Bank, Liverpool Bay, England, viewed from the sea turbines on Burbo wind farm off the UK coast. Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Danish renewables giant Orsted on Wednesday announced plans to cut jobs, pause its dividend payouts to shareholders and exit several offshore wind markets after a tumultuous year of rising
The Clapham chemical attack suspect is most likely dead, police say, as they plan to search the River Thames for his body. Abdul Ezedi, who went on the run more than a week ago, was believed to have “gone in the water” a few hours after the violent incident in south London on Wednesday 31
In this article COIN MSTR RIOT MARA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chesnot | Getty Images Bitcoin marched higher to end the week, with its price breaching the $47,000 level for the first time in almost two years. On Friday the flagship cryptocurrency rose more than 4% to $47,307.00, according to Coin Metrics, a
World-renowned music producer DJ Tiesto has pulled out of performing at the Super Bowl because of an undisclosed family matter. Tiesto, who has repeatedly been named the best DJ in the world during his 40-year career, had been expected to warm up the crowd before kick-off and perform throughout the game between the San Francisco
Rishi Sunak has again refused to apologise for comments he made about transgender people in parliament this week, despite calls from Brianna Ghey’s father to do so. Mr Sunak rejected suggestions he made a joke during Prime Minister’s Questions when Brianna’s mother, Esther Ghey, was in parliament. “That is not what I did, it is
Prince Harry and the publisher of the Daily Mirror newspaper have settled the remainder of his hacking claim against them. It follows a High Court judge’s ruling in December that phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers was carried out from 1996 to 2011, and was “widespread and habitual” from 1998. Judge Timothy Fancourt also said
The Premier League is facing a fresh battle over changes to rules governing commercial deals between related parties after it was warned by a club that the proposals were unlawful. Sky News has learnt that the 20 top-flight clubs, which include Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea and Manchester United, were notified on Thursday that one of them
Tennis icon Serena Williams and UK supermodel Kate Moss are among 40 women who star on Edward Enninful’s last cover for British Vogue – with Victoria Beckham, Oprah Winfrey, Naomi Campbell and Miley Cyrus also featuring. Enninful, who is Ghanian-British and the first black man to have edited the top fashion magazine, announced he would
Tesco has announced the sale of its banking arm to Barclays in a deal worth up to £1bn. The UK’s largest retailer, which had been in discussions with other major lenders including HSBC and Lloyds, said all 2,800 staff at Tesco Bank would transfer to Barclays under the agreement over time. Hundreds of other workers
Photo: Eli Ramstad/Norwegian Public Roads Administration For the first time, Norway has used a semi electric truck with 1,000 kWh battery capacity to clear heavy snow on challenging mountain passes. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has been trialing the electric truck as a snow plow on the E6 highway, right over the scenic yet challenging
In this article PCG HE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Five years and 2,500 miles apart, fires devastated thriving communities — and major U.S. utility companies stood at the center of the infernos. It’s a story increasingly familiar in the energy industry: Some utility companies don’t properly assess the risks wildfires pose to their
Vladimir Putin has said Bill Clinton misled him over Russia’s potential membership of NATO two decades ago. During a lengthy interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Russian president said he asked the outgoing President Clinton if his country could join the alliance when he visited the Kremlin in 2000. He claims
He won’t be facing charges but that’s not the big news. The report by a Justice Department Special Counsel is pretty devastating in its assessment of the state of mind of the American president. Over more than 200 pages, Robert Hur explains why President Joe Biden will not face charges for holding classified documents after
In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The logo of semiconductor design firm Arm on a chip. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Exactly two years ago, Nvidia’s attempt to purchase chip designer Arm from SoftBank came to an end due to “significant regulatory challenges.” Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s billionaire founder, has never
Joe Biden won’t face criminal charges over the handling of classified documents, after he portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory”, said the special counsel. Robert Hur said President Biden had “wilfully retained and disclosed classified materials” after he was vice president and when he was a “private citizen”, and his actions
The Supreme Court has expressed scepticism of Colorado’s decision to disqualify Donald Trump from running for presidency. A landmark case to decide whether the former president can run in November’s election heard arguments from both sides of the case as Trump appeals the decision. Colorado’s court ruled Trump was not eligible to be on the
Feb 5, 2024, 10:19 AM Open Extended Reactions The Six Nations began last Friday with Ireland‘s stunning victory over France in Marseille where the hosts struggled in the absence of their star scrum-half Antoine Dupont. Saturday saw England eventually overcome Italy after as Steve Borthwick’s team recovered from a slow start to find their groove
Associated Press Feb 8, 2024, 10:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWTON, Iowa — Eric Peterson has been named president of Iowa Speedway as the track prepares for its first NASCAR Cup Series race in June, NASCAR announced Thursday. Peterson, who replaced David Hyatt, has been NASCAR’s West Region senior director for corporate sales and
Labour has finally confirmed it is ditching a flagship pledge to spend £28bn-a-year on green investments if it wins the next general election. The party says it will now spend just £23.7bn on environmental schemes over the course of its first term in office – equivalent to just under £5bn a year. However, Labour insists
Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 8, 2024, 09:02 AM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Open Extended Reactions The Year of Messi is upon us. After last year’s sneak peek into a Major League Soccer season with the greatest player of all time, a full offseason of anticipation
Rishi Sunak should apologise for his transgender jibe which was made while Brianna Ghey’s mother was in parliament, Gordon Brown has told Sky News. The former PM was speaking to the Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge a day after the current occupier of Number 10 joked during Prime Minister’s Questions about Sir Keir Starmer’s record
Einride has announced it is helping world-renowned brewery Heineken electrify its freight operations between the Netherlands and Germany. Heineken put several electric trucks into operation last month as it looks to deploy Einride’s entire ecosystem across its fleet operations in the future. Einride is an eight-year-old commercial EV startup that continues to hit Electrek’s homepage
Alexei Navalny has become the latest in a string of deaths of critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Over his more than two decades at the top of the Kremlin, a number of Mr Putin’s opponents have suffered unfortunate fates – including being jailed, shot dead in the street, or poisoned with tea spiked with
Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, at the ADIPEC conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images India keeps global crude prices affordable by buying oil from Russia, India’s energy minister said. “The world is grateful to India for buying Russian
Taylor Swift appears to have sold one of her two private jets, while her lawyers have threatened legal action against a student tracking her movements. The singer‘s Dassault Falcon 900 jet had been listed under SATA LLC, a company with the same address as Taylor Swift Productions in Nashville, until 30 January, according to Business
In this article ADYEN-NL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Adyen reported a big miss on first-half sales Thursday. The news drove a $20 billion rout in the company’s market capitalization . Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of European online payments giant Adyen jumped on Thursday, after the company
Hit animated film Moana is getting a sequel which is due to hit screens in November. Originally planned as a TV series, Disney boss Bob Iger revealed on Wednesday that it would now be a second movie, adding, “we can’t wait to give you more of Moana and Maui”. The first film made more than
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