Two weeks of global leaders meeting to save the world begin with a one-on-one between the leader of the planet’s biggest religious denomination and its most powerful superpower. US President Joe Biden flies into Rome for an audience with the Pope ahead of the G20 summit of world leaders and after that the COP26 climate
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,
Afghanistan has spent the last 20 years at war and is a very different country than how it started. It started with a declaration of war, and then the mission morphed into nation building. Sky’s Diplomatic Editor Dominic Waghorn reflects on the conflict, the lives lost and the outcome of over $2 trillion (£1.449,900,000,00) of
In an interview with CNN’s Van Jones, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said that he’s one of the few candidates who has been consistently growing, and while he’s also a businessman like President Donald Trump, he would never run the government like a business.
The economy has always relied on the labour of people whose work is insecure. But the pandemic left vulnerable workers in precarious and short-term employment at an even higher risk of exploitation, according to a new report seen exclusively by Sky News. The research, compiled by charity Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), found that reports
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
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.
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei has cautioned against seeing COP26 as the answer to the world’s climate problems, insisting “we cannot depend on one meeting”. It is the “responsibility of being a human” that we all look after the planet, he told Sky News. Speaking about the climate conference, which begins on Sunday in Glasgow,
Hertz CEO Mark Fields revealed that its deal to supply Tesla vehicles to Uber includes an option on 100,000 more Tesla Model 3s, which would double its total order to 200,000 vehicles. Earlier this week, Hertz announced that it ordered 100,000 Model 3 vehicles from Tesla as part of a new plan to electrify its fleet.
In this article DAI-DE VOW3-DE TSLA A Volkswagen ID.4 on display at a press event in Germany on October 26, 2020. Peter Steffen | picture alliance | Getty Images The CEO of Volkswagen Group has praised Elon Musk’s Tesla and welcomed the fact there will be competition between the two firms going forward. Earlier
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
In this article CMCSA Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast David A. Grogan | CNBC Comcast reported third-quarter earnings results before the bell that beat analyst expectations on the top and bottom line. The company saw slight growth in new broadband internet customers amid warnings from company executives. Shares are up about more than
Middle-income earners are likely to be worse off next year due to inflation and tax rises, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. IFS director Paul Johnson was delivering the organisation’s analysis of the budget presented by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday. Mr Sunak had labelled it a “budget to usher in a new age
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
Rishi Sunak has said his intent as chancellor is to “lower taxes for people” and insisted that was the fairest way of coming out of the pandemic. The chancellor also said those with “the broadest shoulders” will be paying the majority of taxes as he said the Universal Credit changes he announced yesterday would help