The government has abandoned plans to hold White House-style televised briefings – despite spending £2.6m on a new studio. Boris Johnson’s press secretary, Allegra Stratton, who had been expected to front the new media briefings, will now become spokeswoman for the COP26 climate change summit. Ms Stratton said: “I am delighted to be starting this
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The Turkish doctors treating her are calling her the “miracle baby”. The survival of just one Syrian child refugee against tremendous odds has astonished medics around the world. “She has cheated death at least three times,” one of her doctors at Mersin Hospital, Dr Cagatay Demirci, told Sky News. “Each one of those times might
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Jim Steinman, who wrote and produced huge hits for Meat Loaf, Air Supply, Celine Dion and Bonnie Tyler, is dead … TMZ has learned. Steinman died Monday in Connecticut, according to the state’s medical examiner. The cause of death is unclear. We do know it appears it was sudden … there was a medical emergency
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A jury has unanimously convicted Derek Chauvin of the murder of George Floyd. Former Minneapolis police officer Chauvin had denied charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But after 10 and a half hours of deliberations, the jury convicted him of all charges. Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died while being restrained
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In this article MSFT Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a climate initiative event at the Microsoft Corp. campus in Redmond, Washington, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Microsoft unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the earth’s
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The government is “exploring every possibility, including legislative options”, to stop the proposed European Super League, the prime minister has said. Speaking after talks with officials from football’s governing bodies, Boris Johnson said “no action is off the table” in seeking to block the formation of the league. A Number 10 statement said: “The prime
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Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla Vs Kong is approaching the $400M global mark, as it topped $300M at the international box office this weekend. Adding $12.2M from 41 overseas markets (a good -49% hold), the monsters have cumed an estimated $309.7M offshore for $390.2M worldwide through Sunday. After overtaking Tenet as the No. 1
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