The second Tory leadership race in just three months is underway following the extraordinary resignation of Liz Truss. The now-outgoing PM was forced from office after just 44 days following a seismic few weeks in Westminster that saw her tax-slashing mini-budget crash and burn. Ms Truss’s resignation, signalling the end of the shortest term by
Actor Kevin Spacey has been found not liable in a civil trial that claimed he sexually abused a 14-year-old boy in the 1980s. The Hollywood star had been sued in a civil case by stage and screen actor Anthony Rapp over an alleged incident in 1986 after a party in Spacey’s New York apartment. Rapp,
Rishi Sunak has announced his bid to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister, six weeks after Liz Truss beat him to the top job. The former chancellor has put himself forward for the second time in a matter of months after the extraordinary resignation of Ms Truss on Thursday, 44 days into her
Oct 20, 2022 Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Tyson Fury regularly takes aim at rival heavyweights and promoters he doesn’t work with, but no amount of talking is likely to silence the
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple iOS 16 Source: Apple Apple’s newest update to its iPhone operating system, iOS 16.1, will be available on Monday, the company announced in a press release Thursday. It will launch for iPhone users with an iPhone 8 or newer models, and it adds quite
ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-3, its third mission to the moon, in June next year with a more robust lunar rover onboard which is crucial for future inter-planetary explorations. The space agency has also lined up the first test flight of the ‘abort mission’ for Gaganyaan, the country’s first human spaceflight, early next year. “Chandrayaan-3
Europe will commission two rocket launches from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the Ukraine conflict barred access to Russia’s Soyuz, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed on Thursday. The launches include the Euclid space telescope and the Hera probe, a follow-up mission to NASA‘s DART spacecraft which last month succeeded in altering the path of a
When soldiers in Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade do their work, most tasks are performed under trees. It is a simple matter of staying alive. Members of the brigade’s Oril Company stack their munitions under a stand of gnarly-looking trees. Their mortars are hidden in the bushes. Putin’s forces ‘preparing to blow up major dam’ – Ukraine
The official trailer for series five of The Crown has been released – and it recalls how the infamous Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, sent shockwaves through the Royal Family. The latest season of the Netflix drama is set to launch on 9 November and will take inspiration from the pressure the monarchy
Military analyst Forbes McKenzie looks at the latest Ukrainian advances around Kherson in the south of the country. He also asks whether reports of a nuclear train in Russia are accurate. #skynews #ukraine #russia #ukrainewar #kherson #nuclearwar 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:
Over the past 48 hours, at least 19 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a new round of Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight. The targets include more than 20 Ukrainian cities and settlements. Former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev joins New Day to discuss. #CNN #News
Harvey Weinstein is facing four rape charges and seven other counts of sexual assault in Los Angeles. Opening statements in the case are expected to begin today. The charges are the latest in a long line of allegations against the disgraced movie mogul – previously considered Hollywood royalty, and one of the most award-winning producers
Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after just 44 days in the post – here’s how the news was received around the world. Russia: Liz Truss will be remembered for her ‘catastrophic illiteracy’ Russia’s foreign ministry welcomed the resignation of Liz Truss – saying she was a “disgrace” of a leader who will be
Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s engineering team had turned its focus on a next-generation electric car platform that will be half the price of the Model 3/Y platform. For years now, Tesla has been talking about making cheaper electric vehicles, but inflation and high demand for electric cars have led to prices going up instead.
President Joe Biden said oil companies need to use their record profits to ramp up production rather than to enrich shareholders. “My message to the American energy companies is this: You should not be using your profits to buy back stock or for dividends. Not now. Not while a war is raging,” Biden said. “You
A missile was released from a Russian aircraft near an unarmed RAF plane on a routine patrol over the Black Sea, the defence secretary has said. In a statement updating MPs on the war in Ukraine, Ben Wallace said the incident happened on 29 September and that Russia has acknowledged it took place in international
Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister just 44 days after taking over from Boris Johnson. She will be the shortest-serving PM in British history. A new Conservative leader, who will get the keys to Number 10, is set to be elected next Friday. In a statement read outside Downing Street, Ms Truss admitted she
Sales of Spam and fish heads have risen a third as people seek out cheaper meals amid the cost of living crisis. The famously unfashionable canned meat, made of ground-up pork shoulder and ham, is up 36%, according to Waitrose’s annual food and drink report. It’s been around since 1937 but the supermarket calls it
It was one of those days “you think has been made up”, a former Conservative adviser told Sky News last night. As MPs voted on a Labour motion to ban fracking, reports began to emerge of “bullying” and “manhandling” outside the no lobby. Tory MPs “went to bed crying”, Labour MP Chris Bryant told Sky
One of the most celebrated, awe-inspiring images of modern astronomy, revealing colossal spires of interstellar gas and dust called the Pillars of Creation, has been rendered anew with greater depth, clarity and colour by the James Webb Space Telescope. The new view of the pillars, first made famous when captured in 1995 by Webb‘s predecessor