Dominic Raab is facing new calls to quit after claims that he defied a call to return from his luxury holiday in Crete to deal with the Afghanistan crisis and stayed for two more days. It is reported that the beleaguered foreign secretary was told by a senior Downing Street official to return to London
Nearly 4,000 Afghan and British nationals have been evacuated from Afghanistan, but fears remain many could be left behind as the US prepares to leave the country. Some 3,821 individuals have been rescued thanks to British efforts under Operation Pitting since 13 August, according to the Ministry of Defence, including 1,323 who have made it
Crypto trader and vlogger Farhan Hotak traveling to the Shah Wali Kot District in Afghanistan. Farhan Hotak isn’t your typical 22 year-old Afghan. In the last week, he helped his family of ten flee the province of Zabul in southern Afghanistan and travel 97 miles to a city on the Pakistani border. But unlike others
An antibody testing programme for people who have tested positive for COVID-19 is to be launched across the UK. The government’s new programme is intended to produce data on antibody protections for people following infection by different coronavirus variants. From Tuesday, anyone aged 18 or over in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, will be
Tony Blair has dramatically broken his silence over the crisis in Afghanistan by accusing President Joe Biden of an “imbecilic” decision to pull out US troops. In a controversial verdict on the unfolding tragedy, he also claims the crisis reveals that the UK risks being relegated to “the second division of global powers”. He blames
Thailand’s meth trade has exploded. And the deadly addiction leads to devastating consequences. Sky’s South East Asia Correspondent Siobhan Robbins investigates the meth trade the Thai government is desperately trying to take down. WARNING: This report contains descriptions of torture, violence and alludes to suicide. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow
The crowd reacted as Judge Rosemarie Aquilina read part of a letter that ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar wrote to the court before she sentenced him to up to 175 years in prison.
The minister for Afghanistan was also on holiday last week as Kabul fell, Sky News has learnt. Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, the minister of state directly responsible for South Asia, was on leave until Sunday, the day the Taliban marched into the Afghan capital. The Conservative peer has been in his post for four
Two of my passions are electric bicycle projects and DIY solar powered projects. In fact I’ve written the book on both topics. So to see these two fields combined in one quirky-yet-awesome product totally made my week. I just hope you’re as excited as I am to dive into this strange electric bike/car contraption that
In this article MAERSK.B-DK Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency | Getty Images News | Getty Images Maersk said it has secured a supply of “green” e-methanol for what it described as “the world’s first container vessel operating on carbon neutral fuel.” In an announcement Thursday, the world’s largest container shipping firm said Denmark’s European Energy and its
China’s Zhurong Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for frozen water that could provide clues as to whether it once supported life. China’s National Space Administration said on its website Friday that Zhurong completed its 90-day program on August 15 and was in excellent technical
Certain types of marine bacteria in the icy-cold waters off the coast of Labrador, Canada, can help in curbing the effects of offshore oil spills in the arctic and subarctic region, stated a new study. The cold-adapted microbial communities that were studied showed a capability to degrade diesel and crude oil. This was observed under
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation.By Christina Swanson How many times have we said this before? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new report, its sixth since 1990, is a “wake-up call.” The report, authored by more than 200 scientists from across the globe and based on more than 14,000 individual studies,
John Flint, the former HSBC Holdings chief executive, is in talks with Whitehall officials about becoming the inaugural boss of the government’s new £22bn UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB). Sky News has learnt that Mr Flint, who left HSBC two years ago, is among the leading candidates to run the new lender. The UKIB has been
The Taliban has begun to set out how it plans to run Afghanistan after its takeover, saying former government experts will be brought in and fighters will continue to demonstrate restraint. A Taliban official outlined on Saturday morning how separate teams will deal with internal security and the financial crisis that is set to impact
R Kelly’s former tour manager bribed a government official to get the then-15-year-old singer Aaliyah a fake ID card so Kelly could secretly marry her “to protect him and Aaliyah”, a court has heard. Demetrius Smith told a jury at Kelly‘s sex-trafficking trial that he went into a welfare office in Chicago in 1994 and
A toxic algae bloom is under investigation as one of the possible causes after an entire family of hikers were found dead on a remote trail in California. Police are looking into whether water they drank may have been poisoned by the algae or whether other hazards may have contributed to the deaths. John Gerrish,
Palaeontologists have found fossilised teeth and jaws of three hitherto unrecognised mammals — Conacodon hettingeri, Miniconus jeanninae, Beornus honeyi — in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming. The fossils suggest that these mammals were not bigger than a giant rodent or a small-sized cat and thrived during the early Puercan age, within almost 328,000 years
A Kent family who shared a video of their living room show of a lockdown version of a Les Misérables theme have gone viral. Ben and Danielle Marsh and kids Alfie Thomas Ella and Tess caught up with Sarah-Jane Mee on Sky News. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on
David Glosser, the uncle of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, says if his family had not immigrated to the United States when they did then none of them would be here today.