David Cameron has reportedly told friends it was a mistake to send private text messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak to help his employer gain access to a coronavirus loan scheme. The former prime minister caused controversy after it emerged he had been trying to secure access for finance company Greensill Capital, which later collapsed and
One of Britain’s wealthiest businessmen is assembling a £300m takeover bid for Homebase, the DIY chain which has been revived from the brink of collapse just three years ago. Sky News has learnt that Hugh Osmond, who is spearheading a legal challenge to the government’s coronavirus restrictions on the hospitality sector, is among a number
There remains a “shocking imbalance” in the global distribution of coronavirus vaccines, the head of the World Health Organisation has said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that on average, one in four people in rich countries have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine – compared with only one in 500 in low-income nations.
Stacey Wright is very proud of the photo she snapped of the Duke of Sussex walking his dog on the beach near his new California home. She said she happily agreed to his security team’s request not to take any further pictures – but kept the one she had already taken. As a devotee of
If Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does indeed run for U.S. President as he’s hinted he might, he nearly has all the votes needed to win already … at least based on a new poll. The former WWE superstar turned Hollywood A-lister has the support of 46 percent of adult Americans if he were to make
The winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards were announced in their first-ever online ceremony since the Awards began 57 years ago. It was hosted by Kara Young and featured many guest appearances, including Whoopi Goldberg and Viola Davis. In total, $380,000 in prizes were awarded to a diverse range of writers, translators, poets,
April 9, 2021 | 5:50pm ET The Lowdown: “For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work,” Taylor Swift wrote in a 2019 social media post after her longtime label, Big Machine, sold her master recordings without her consent. Swift had been unable to gain control of her first six albums through
A three-man crew docked at the international Space Station Friday after a flight honouring the 60th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space. A Soyuz capsule carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei docked at 1105 GMT (4:35pm IST), footage broadcasted by NASA
An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama. Elijah Nouvelage | Getty Images The National Labor Relations Board on Friday will resume counting ballots at 9:30 a.m. ET in the historic union election at one of Amazon’s Alabama warehouses. With roughly half of the
Boris Johnson has praised Prince Philip’s lifelong “ethic of service” as he led political tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh. After Buckingham Palace confirmed the death of the 99-year-old on Friday, politicians across the UK chose to suspend their campaigning ahead of next month’s local elections. Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, the prime minister said
The owner of the vast Stanlow oil refinery in north-west England is in urgent talks about its future amid growing concern that it could be nearing collapse. Sky News has learnt that Essar Oil UK, which bought the site at Ellesmere Port from Shell in 2011, has been in discussions for weeks about efforts to
Europe’s drugs regulator is reviewing possible links between blood clots and Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. It comes after four serious cases of rare clots with low platelets were reported after inoculation, one of which was fatal, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The Johnson & Johnson (also known as Janssen) vaccine has been
An expert witness has said the sheer volume of videos taken by bystanders of George Floyd’s arrest helped her establish the view that oxygen deprivation – and not opioid overdose – is what killed him. Officer Derek Chauvin is charged with the second and third-degree murder and manslaughter of Mr Floyd, following his death on
Many artists and entities in the dance music world have entered the cryptocurrency space, most recently with NFTs, but Jauz is going a step further and launching his own coin, $BTX. Though he’s not the first to do so, it’s still a significant step. “The future of music is collaborative, open-source, and DIY,” said Jauz.
DMX‘s family is still holding out hope for a miracle, and while he remains on life support with no improvement in brain function — the grim circumstances are bringing his fam closer together than ever. As of late Thursday night, the rapper’s manager and close friend Steve Rifkind told TMZ … his condition has not
Elon Musk’s Neuralink startup is developing a brain-machine interface that will enable users to control computers and smartphones directly from their brain. Founded in 2016, Neuralink is now demonstrating the progress it has made over the years by showing a macaque named Pager playing Pong video game using a N1 neural link chip. In the