Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has been charged with a misdemeanour relating to an alleged sex offence. Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the New York state courts, said a misdemeanour complaint has been filed against Cuomo in the state capital Albany. “As this is a sex crime, a redacted complaint will be available shortly,”
7:49 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN When COVID took hold of the world in March 2020, it also greatly hampered sports, but perhaps none more so than boxing. After all, the fight game hinges on major live gates to deliver its truly marquee events. While the other major sports leagues experienced plenty of pauses and cancellations,
Sky News has obtained exclusive CCTV footage from inside St George Hospital in Beirut, close to where the deadly blast hit one week ago. The doctors and nurses describe the moment they felt the first pulse, then the bigger blast. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like
The New York Times is reporting that former President Donald Trump’s campaign tried to make up a fundraising gap during the 2020 election cycle by signing up one-time online donors for repeat donations without their knowledge. #CNN #News
Now that fall is in full swing, you’ll want to leverage an electric blower to clean your yard and driveway with little effort. Lowe’s has you covered if you haven’t picked up an electric model yet with a wide-ranging sale on various cordless models from $59. Plus, you’ll find discounts on electric lawn mowers and
In this article IVZ ENPH It’s worth hanging onto traditional energy stocks despite the recent resurgence in solar names, two traders say. The popular Invesco Solar ETF (TAN) is up nearly 10% this week, helped in part by Enphase Energy’s surge after reporting record revenue for its third quarter. TAN is beating the Energy Select
The UK has summoned the French ambassador after a British scallop trawler was detained – as a row over fishing rights continues to escalate. A government spokesman condemned “unjustified” threats from France over further action amid the ongoing dispute. Brexit minister Lord Frost chaired a meeting on Thursday to consider London’s response. “The proposed French
In this article EDR Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh attend the premiere of BBC America and AMC’s ‘Killing Eve’ at ArcLight Hollywood on April 01, 2019 in Hollywood, California. Emma McIntyre | Getty Images Endeavor Content, the studio behind TV series including “Killing Eve” and “Nine Perfect Strangers,” is soliciting second-round bids valuing the company
Britain has begun preparations for a major clash with the EU by activating a key government committee to look at the fallout from suspending cooperation over Northern Ireland, Sky News has learnt. Ministers are holding discussions inside the key cabinet committee, which oversaw Brexit fallout preparations, about the repercussions of triggering Article 16, which allows
Some days, the effort to go from burning mostly fossil fuels to using renewable energy can really seem like a slog. Things are improving, but all too often, it looks like a glacial pace (back before glaciers were melting faster, of course). Snails would get bored and fall asleep watching it. It’s just that bad.
Facebook has announced a rebrand of the company, renaming it Meta, to bring together its different apps and technologies. In an announcement at the Facebook Connect conference, founder Mark Zuckerberg said legacy apps like Facebook and Instagram will now be part of the new metaverse-focused parent company. It comes as the social media giant deals
The remaining seven countries on the government’s travel red list are set to be removed meaning there will no longer be a requirement for hotel quarantine for arrivals to the UK, Sky News understands. Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela are being taken off the list, which will leave no countries
Radio 1 presenter Adele Roberts has thanked NHS “angels on Earth”, as well as her fans and well-wishers, in a social media post sent from hospital after revealing her bowel cancer diagnosis. The 42-year-old star, who rose to fame on reality show Big Brother in 2002, shared details of her illness on Sunday and announced
7:00 AM ET GROWING UP, Jordan Davis was obsessed with mythology. He devoured books about ancient Greece and studied the Egyptians. He still downloads TED Talks on everything from ancient civilizations to modern religion. His favorite stories were the Percy Jackson novels, about a boy who discovers he’s part god then goes on mystical quests,
After spending nearly half a year, every year, gathering and calculating carbon emissions data on spread sheets, Salesforce.com’s climate team was fed up. So in 2017 they built an app to crunch the numbers – and now they sell it for $4,000 (roughly Rs. 3 lakh) a month. As global companies prepare pledges to help
With so much research getting published every day all over the world, a super-smart search engine has become essential to help parse through seemingly endless scores of academic papers. Faced with the challenge, a technologist has found a way to unlock the world’s research papers for easier computerised analysis. He has released an index of
Virtual clothing trials are the next big thing that can bring fashion and technology together. Computer scientists all around the world are trying to experiment with deep-learning techniques that can be used to virtually dress a 3D avatar (digital versions of humans). Developments in this field are being made in India too. Two researchers at
More than a year after NASA launched the Perseverance rover for Mars, the space agency is bringing the focus back on how its precise landing spot was decided or who chose where it should land. In an Instagram post, NASA said that the rover made the decision moments before it touched down on the surface
China has launched a military satellite that will test its “space debris mitigation technology,” the state media reported earlier this week. The satellite was launched on Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan province, Southwest China. Though only a few details were available about the classified launch, some state media reports said the mission
COP26, also known as the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021, kicks off Sunday October 31, and officially runs until Friday, November 12. It’s being held in Glasgow at the Scottish Event Campus (pictured). Here are five things everyone needs to know about this crucial summit. What’s a COP? COP is pronounced “cop,” not
The future of Formula One lies in synthetic fuels, according to Nico Rosberg, with the former world champion telling CNBC that they could potentially act as a bridge to electric mobility. In an interview with CNBC’s Tania Bryer during the Sustainable Future Forum last week, Rosberg also threw his weight behind e-mobility, describing it as
As the shock of what happened in Beirut dies down, anger is growing on the streets of the capital that such a tragedy was allowed to happen in the first place. 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
Seattle-based startup VICIS has designed a new helmet that can reduce the impact of blows to the head. Can it make football safer?
Lloyds Banking Group has posted a pre-tax profit of £2bn in the third financial quarter, a significant improvement on the same time last year. The bank – Britain’s largest mortgage lender – reported a profit before tax of £5.9bn for the first nine months of the financial year. Like its rivals Barclays and HSBC, Lloyds
France has detained a British scallop trawler owned by Macduff Shellfish and given a verbal warning to another fishing boat in waters off its coast. French maritime minister Annick Girardin said it is “not war but this is a combat”, amid a warning the country could ban allowing British fishing boats to disembark at French
Sir Paul McCartney, Marcus Rashford and Sir Kazuo Ishiguro are among those shotlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year award. The Beatles star’s highly anticipated new book, The Lyrics, is one of 13 titles under consideration. It is up against You Are A Champion, a children’s book written by England footballer Rashford, and Sir
The ocean was calm when the Peregrine Falcon ship left the harbor in Homer, Alaska, last month with three moorings resting on its deck, all loaded with scientific instruments. Eighteen hours later, these moorings were lowered into the silty waves where they collected data for two months. Two of the moorings were 12-foot submarine-shaped buoys
The United States has issued its first gender-neutral passport. The official document features an “X” gender designation. Dana Zzyym, of Fort Collins, Colorado, told the Associated Press it was their passport and they have been in a battle with the government over the issue since 2015. Zzyym, who prefers a gender-neutral pronoun, said it was
Tesla has a horde of Megapacks, a total of 157 units, being prepared for delivery to its energy customers. This is the beginning of the end of fossil fuel dependence. Yes, we have a long ways to go before we are fully recovered from our dependence on fossil fuels, but this is an incredible step
In this article AMZN Amazon bought the naming rights to rename Key Arena to Climate Change Arena. Source: NHL Seattle If Amazon is going to achieve its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, it’s going to need to rely on new technology. To spur the process along, the company has a $2 billion venture
Rebecca Hall was in her mid-20s when she first started to understand her complicated family history. The British actress-turned-director says most would look at her fair complexion and dark hair and see “English rose”, she says – but looks are never the end of a person’s story. Hall, who has appeared in films including Vicky
Rishi Sunak will hit the airwaves to sell his budget later, after it was warned that the chancellor’s economic set piece will leave the poorest families “far worse off”. Having vowed to build “a stronger economy for the British people” after the coronavirus crisis in his address on Wednesday, Mr Sunak will face questions about
Glasgow has been hit by flooding just days before the city hosts the crucial climate change summit COP26. Footage and pictures on social media shows cars driving through flood water in some streets as heavy rain lashes the city and causes disruption to transport. Some Glasgow residents have tweeted that several roads including Maryhill Road,