Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have agreed to take part in The Battle for Number 10, a live televised special programme on Sky News. The event – which will be in front of a live audience – will be on Thursday 4 August at 8pm and is to be hosted by Kay
Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have agreed to take part in a head-to-head debate on Sky News. The event – which will be in front of a live audience – will be on Thursday 4 August at 8pm and is to be hosted by Kay Burley. John Ryley, head of Sky News,
The start of the big summer holiday getaway at Heathrow Airport is no longer facing the imminent threat of disruption from a strike by staff at a plane refuelling company. The Unite union had said its members at Aviation Fuel Services (AFS) would walk out from 5am on Thursday until the same time on Sunday
A footballer whose club recently announced his new deal has left the beautiful game behind to appear on Love Island. Jamie Allen, who had just signed a new contract with National League side Halifax Town, is due to enter the reality TV show villa as one of four new “bombshells”, sent in to ruffle feathers
Where The Crawdads Sing became one of the biggest selling books of all time following its release in 2018, with 12 million copies sold and a record-breaking run on US best-seller lists. The story, which takes place over two timelines, is about Kya, a young girl who grows up isolated in a North Carolina marsh
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Protestors here seen gathering outside the presidential secretariat in Colombo a week ago, have achieved their aim, with legislators soon to elect a new president to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country and resigned as president. Arun Sankar | Afp | Getty Images Business confidence in Sri Lanka is at its lowest in years, according
A crew member on the TV series Law & Order: Organized Crime has been shot dead at a filming location for the show in New York. Johnny Pizarro was found at about 5.15am local time on Tuesday on a residential street in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn before a day of filming was scheduled to
4:44 AM ET BALTIMORE, Md. (MD) — Granit Xhaka rarely holds anything back, and he isn’t about to start now. The 29-year-old is as robust in the tackle as he is in an interview chair, a no-nonsense character whose passion and drive have inadvertently taken him to some contentious places during his six years at
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will go head-to-head to become the next leader of the Conservative Party – and prime minister of the UK – after Penny Mordaunt became the latest candidate to be knocked out of the contest. In the fifth and final round of voting by Tory MPs, the leadership contenders received the
Sri Lanka’s acting president has become the country’s new permanent leader after being selected in a parliament vote. Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed as the prime minister in May 2022 but was temporarily placed in charge of the presidency on 13 July after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives. Sri Lanka is in the
A founding member of Elon Musk’s Neuralink left the company in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter, the latest in a string of departures at the brain implant startup. Paul Merolla, who helped launch Neuralink in 2016 and worked on its chip design program, is no longer with the San Francisco
Russian military units have stepped up their assaults on Ukrainian forces in the Donbas, where both sides have been pausing manoeuvres to regroup and replenish. But as retired Air Vice-Marshall Sean Bell tells Sky News, this could be ahead of Russian artillery assaults beginning again. For the latest developments: https://qrcode.skynews.com/skynews/ukraineblog SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg tells CNN’s Chris Cuomo he does not respect President Donald Trump because he doesn’t respect the presidency or himself. #CNN #News
Nearly 20 houses were destroyed by grass fires in Wennington on Tuesday as the UK sweltered in its hottest day on record – as the public is warned the “danger isn’t over” and the heat still “poses risks of new fires sparking off”. Local councillor Ray Morgon told Sky News he believes around 18 to
Jul 19, 2022 Associated Press CHICAGO — Ben Kennedy is thinking big. As in big cities, big ideas and big plans. That’s how NASCAR and Chicago got together. Kennedy played an instrumental role in NASCAR bringing an unprecedented street race to downtown Chicago during its 75th season in yet another radical change to its once
A $5,000 reward has been posted as police continue to search for a man allegedly involved in the attempted murder of Lady Gaga’s dog walker, after he was accidentally released from jail. James Howard Jackson was being held on an attempted murder charge but was released from a jail in Los Angeles “due to a
The global chip shortage will continue, and consumers will have to pay for it, an analyst from the International Data Corporation said. Sasirin Pamai | Istock | Getty Images The global chip shortage is not over yet, and the war in Ukraine continues to put a strain on supplies of important parts needed, one analyst
Tesla Supercharger V4’s design has been revealed as part of the construction plans of a new station being deployed in Danvers, Massachusetts. It’s another clean design that is reminiscent of previous chargers. Tesla’s Supercharger technology has evolved greatly over the years, going from 90 kW of capacity to 250 kW. But when it comes to
Wall Street analysts issued a slew of notes on the energy sector Tuesday morning, as many companies in the oil and gas industry are slated to release second-quarter earnings in the coming weeks. In this piece, we’re going to provide a quick overview on what the analysts at Morgan Stanley, Mizuho Securities, Piper Sandler and