2:14 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alex Bowman suffered a fractured vertebra in a sprint car crash and Hendrick Motorsports said Wednesday the NASCAR star will miss at least the next three Cup races. Bowman will be replaced by Josh Berry, who filled in for Chase Elliott for five races as Elliott recovered
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Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg has said he regrets editing guns out of his classic 1980s movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The 1982 theatrical cut includes a scene where police officers chase young children while holding firearms. Spielberg edited the guns out of the 20th anniversary release of the film and replaced them with walkie talkies. “That
Many people are arriving in Cyprus utterly traumatised and too upset to talk about what they’ve been through to get here. We watched a hundred or so, slowly walk down the ramp off the back of an RAF Hercules aircraft into the Mediterranean sun on this holiday island. What a culture shock that must be.
12:38 PM ET Brendan Loughnane and Rob Wilkinson will look to continue their quests for back-to-back PFL championships on June 8, in the second round of the promotion’s regular-season matchups. Loughnane (27-4) will face Jesus Pinedo (20-6-1) in a featherweight main event of PFL 4. Wilkinson (18-2) will take on Will Fleury (12-3) in a
The new boss of business lobby group the CBI says she is confident it will win back the trust of ministers and members within six months, but will have to “completely change” to survive allegations of sexual misconduct and a toxic culture. Rain Newton-Smith started work as CBI director general this week with its future
Disney has filed a lawsuit in a bid to stop Florida governor Ron DeSantis exerting control over the company’s theme parks in Orlando. The row stems from a Republican backlash last year after Disney openly criticised a state law banning classroom discussion of sexuality and gender identity in schools. There has since been a fierce
Military analyst, Sean Bell, watches footage from the frontline in Bakhmut, Ukraine. The video shows grenades being thrown at close quarters and intense firefights between forces only meters away from one another. #ukraine #war #skynews SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow
Evgenia Kara-Murza, wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Russian human rights advocate and Kremlin critic, vows to fight for his freedom after he is jailed in Russia. She speaks with CNN after his 25-year sentence. #CNN #News
The share of EVs in total car sales globally jumped from 9% in 2021 to 14% in 2022, more than 10 times their share in 2017, according to the International Energy Agency’s new EV report, released today. The IEA’s “Global EV Outlook 2023” reports that electric car sales grew, despite a shrinking global car market.
7:00 AM ET After kicking off ESPN’s college football Future Power Rankings with quarterbacks, the series switches to the other side of the ball with the defenses. Georgia and other recent national champions will appear below, but so will several teams that have yet to reach the College Football Playoff and might struggle to ever
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Wednesday began laying off some employees in its cloud computing and human resources divisions. Amazon Web Services CEO
Suella Braverman has ruled out introducing a safe and legal route for asylum seekers in Sudan to seek refuge in the UK. Earlier, Rishi Sunak refused to commit to such a route when pressed by the SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn during PMQs. Asked whether the UK was going to “start looking at safe routes
A dangerous craze where children are filmed being attacked by other kids at school could lead to a child being killed. That’s the warning from the half-brother of a 13-year-old girl who was dragged to the ground by her hair and kicked in the head by other youngsters. The victim was just leaving for home
7:51 AM ET Gervonta Davis defeated Ryan Garcia in one of the most anticipated fights in boxing this year, a seventh-round KO at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The fight was contested at a catchweight of 136 pounds, but Davis showed he’s going to be trouble for anybody at 135 and 140 pounds. But was
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has had a “long and meaningful” call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. During the long-anticipated conversation between the two leaders, Xi appealed for Russia and Ukraine to restart peace talks and warned “there is no winner in a nuclear war”, according to state media. The Chinese government also pledged
The British competition watchdog has blocked Microsoft’s bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stopped the $68.7bn (£55bn) deal due to concerns that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. In its final report on Wednesday, the CMA said that the move was “the only effective
Japan’s ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander when it unexpectedly accelerated and probably crashed on the lunar surface. The startup said it was possible that as the lander approached the moon, its altitude measurement system had miscalculated the distance
China will start building relay satellites that by 2030 will act as a communication bridge between missions to the moon and beyond, and ground operations on Earth, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday. A pilot of the satellite constellation will support China’s ongoing lunar exploration programme and the building of the International Lunar Research Station
A man has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for assisting Thomas Cashman, the gunman who murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Paul Russell, 41, pleaded guilty after driving Cashman back to his van following the killing and disposing of a bag that’s believed to have contained his clothes. The judge gave Russell credit for going
Electric vehicles from Tesla photographed in China. The world’s second largest economy is a major player when it comes to the sale of electric vehicles. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Electric car sales jumped to more than 10 million last year, with China accounting for roughly 60% of the market, according to