There has been no breakthrough in US-Russian talks aimed at calming tensions between Moscow and Ukraine. Diplomats from the Kremlin and Washington met in the Swiss city of Geneva amid fears that President Vladimir Putin could be preparing to invade the former Soviet bloc country. Russia wants a ban on further expansion of NATO, including
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The prime minister and his wife Carrie attended a “bring your own booze” event in the Downing Street garden during the UK’s first national COVID lockdown. More than 100 employees in Number 10 were invited to the drinks on 20 May 2020. In what has been described as evidence of “more rule breaking at the heart
A residential energy supplier part-owned by a Cheshire local authority is lining up administrators amid suggestions that it could collapse as soon as this week. Sky News has learnt that Together Energy, which serves about 170,000 homes, is preparing to call in insolvency practitioners from FRP Advisory, the London-listed restructuring firm. One energy industry executive
A New York City apartment block fire was more deadly because an open door allowed smoke to spread, the city’s fire commissioner has said. The blaze on the morning of 9 January in the Bronx was caused by a faulty electric heater, but fire chief Daniel Nigro said many of the victims were killed by
Tesla has been spotted using a mobile Powerpack battery system at its first Megacharger station for the Tesla Semi electric truck in Nevada. The details of the charging solution are still unknown. Last October, we reported that Tesla was finally deploying its first Megacharger station at Gigafactory Nevada to support its upcoming fleet of Tesla
Cooling towers at the Tricastin Evolutionary Power Reactor nuclear power plant in France. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A controversial EU plan to include nuclear and natural gas in its ranking of sustainable investments is confusing and could lead to further greenwashing, investors told CNBC. The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU,
In this article TTWO ZNGA Signage on Zynga headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Zynga Inc. is expected to release earnings figures on August 5. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Take-Two Interactive is buying mobile gaming company Zynga for $12.7 billion, marking the latest blockbuster acquisition in
Tennis star Novak Djokovic says he wants to stay in Melbourne and compete in the Australian Open after winning his visa court battle. The world number 1 may still be deported from Australia, as the country’s immigration minister is considering the case and could overrule the decision. Djokovic latest: Deportation threat lingers despite court ruling
A judge has rejected Prince Andrew’s attempt to have the sexual assault lawsuit against him thrown out. US judge Lewis Kaplan refused to dismiss the case after hearing arguments from lawyers representing the royal and his accuser Virginia Giuffre. It means the royal will face a civil sex case trial later this year. The Duke
Boris Johnson has said the UK is making “great progress” in tackling Omicron – but warned the variant remains “incredibly contagious”. Speaking following a pharmacy visit, the prime minister said 36 million people have now received the booster jab and are more protected from Omicron, but acknowledged that the number of people in hospital with
Davos, January 2015, and in front of a room of businesspeople at the World Economic Forum, Prince Andrew for the first time had to publicly deny the sex abuse allegations made against him. And yet since then, for seven years, the claims have continued to haunt him and the rest of the Royal Family, fuelled
People with high levels of T cells from common colds are less likely to catch COVID, according to a new peer-reviewed study. Researchers said the findings could help provide the blueprint for the production of new vaccines which give longer-lasting immunity and would protect against current and future coronavirus variants such as Omicron and Delta.
Protesters have burned government buildings, taken over airports, and torn down statues. Dozens have been killed on both sides, and many more injured. Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay takes a look at why people are protesting – and what it means for Vladimir Putin and Russia. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow
Sidney Poitier, Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died at 94. #CNN #News
3:01 AM ET ESPN with AAP Nick Kyrgios appears in doubt for the Australian Open after pulling out of the Sydney Tennis Classic with COVID-19, his second tournament withdrawal in the space of a week. Kyrgios was scheduled to play Italian firebrand Fabio Fognini on Monday night but his withdrawal was announced via the tournament
Aldi says it enjoyed a record Christmas with sales boosted by “half a million new shoppers in December” as the wider grocery sector gears up for a tougher year as household budgets are squeezed by surging inflation. The UK’s fifth-largest supermarket chain said sales in December rose by 0.4% compared to the previous year, when
A man has been saved from near-death by police officers in Los Angeles after he crash-landed his plane onto railway tracks seconds before it was hit by a train. The unnamed pilot was saved from the Cessna by quick-thinking officers who pulled him out just before a high-speed train smashed into the aircraft, sending debris
There were no celebs and no broadcast, but the Golden Globes still went ahead this year, albeit in private. The muted ceremony followed a year of criticism for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organisation which runs the awards. However, the event still took place – here is a full list of the Golden Globes
Power Of The Dog, West Side Story and Succession are among the big winners at this year’s Golden Globes – but the 2022 event was a very different affair to usual, held in private without celebrities following controversy over the diversity of its membership. Winners were quietly announced on the Golden Globes website and social
NASA’s new space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror Saturday, the final step in the observatory’s dramatic unfurling. The last portion of the 21-foot (6.5-meter) mirror swung into place at flight controllers’ command, completing the unfolding of the James Webb Space Telescope. #NASAWebb is fully deployed! ???? With the successful deployment & latching of