Sir Keir Starmer has said cowboys are “running the country” as he took the Tories to task over England’s crumbling schools crisis. The Labour leader said school closures as a result of unsafe concrete are an “inevitable result of 13 years of cutting corners and sticking plaster politics”. The attack at Prime Minister’s Questions came
The Rolling Stones have unveiled details of their much anticipated new album, Hackney Diamonds – and lead single Angry – at a star-studded press conference in London. Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards shared details at an event on Tuesday hosted by US presenter Jimmy Fallon in Hackney, east London – after many hints
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the American space agency NASA has captured an image of the Chandrayaan-3 landing site. The spacecraft is currently near the moon’s south pole since its successful soft landing on August 23. The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is located about 600 kilometers from the Moon’s South Pole. The camera attached to
Rick Haythornthwaite, the City grandee who has chaired companies including Centrica and Network Rail, is being lined up as the new chairman of NatWest Group in the wake of the row about the de-banking of Nigel Farage. Sky News has learnt that Mr Haythornthwaite, who currently chairs Ocado and the AA, is expected to be
Harun Ozalp | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Elon Musk’s recent comments insinuating that the real-time messaging service formerly known as Twitter could file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League is merely a “threat of a frivolous lawsuit,” the nonprofit’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Tuesday. In a statement shared with CNBC, Greenblatt dismissed allegations
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At least 74 people have died and dozens more were injured after a fire tore through a five-story building in central Johannesburg which had been turned into informal housing. #CNN #News #Johannesburg #SouthAfrica
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The stepmother of Sara Sharif, the 10-year-old girl found dead at her home last month, has spoken for the first time in a video shared with Sky News and said the family is willing to co-operate with British authorities and “fight our case in court”. Police want to speak to Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, 41,
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage units at Grain LNG importation terminal, operated by National Grid Plc, on the Isle of Grain on August 22, 2022 in Rochester, England. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images The looming threat of strikes at Australian natural gas facilities will keep global gas markets on tenterhooks, energy
ITV show This Morning lost the title of best daytime show at the National Television Awards on Tuesday night. It is the first time in 12 years the show has left empty-handed from the awards as the shadow of the Phillip Schofield scandal lingers. This Morning was beaten by BBC‘s The Repair Shop with its
Russian mercenary group Wagner will be declared a terrorist organisation, the Home Office has said. A draft proscription order will be laid in parliament on Wednesday, which will make it illegal to be a member of, or support the Russian group in the UK. Certain proscription offences can be punishable by up to 14 years
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has come under fire from colleagues for her “unilateral” decision to determine which school buildings need to close as part of the concrete crisis, Sky News has learned. Ministers elsewhere in Whitehall fear she has opened a “Pandora’s box” by setting a more cautious than necessary standard that could affect a
The price of petrol in the UK could soon rise further after the cost of oil jumped to its highest level this year. Brent crude climbed to more than $91 (£72) a barrel on Tuesday afternoon, a price not seen in the market since November 2022. It later fell back slightly by the evening to
The final words of the pilot of the helicopter involved in a crash which killed the owner of Leicester City Football Club have been revealed in an official report. As the aircraft span out of control, Eric Swaffer, 53, could be heard saying: “I’ve no idea what’s going on”. Seconds later, it hit the ground
The Arm website on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chip design firm Arm on Tuesday submitted an updated filing for its upcoming blockbuster initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, setting a price range between $47 and $51. The
Ron DeSantis, who is campaigning to be the Republican presidential candidate, received a cold reception at a vigil held for victims of a racially motivated attack in Florida. The gunman, Ryan Palmeter, 21, killed Angela Michelle Carr, 52, inside her car outside the Dollar General store in Jacksonville before shooting dead employee AJ Laguerre, 19,
Tailei Qi, a graduate student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was charged with first-degree murder and having a gun on education property after the fatal shooting of Zijie Yan, an associate professor, that sent the university into lockdown for hours. #uncshooting #cnn #news #shorts
EV maker Lucid Motors plans to take on Tesla’s top-selling Model Y and Model 3 models with an electric vehicle priced around $50,000. CEO Peter Rawlinson recently spoke with ABC News in an interview about accelerating EV adoption and how vehicle efficiency will be key. Lucid’s leader and chief tech officer said cheap electric cars
It’s “television’s biggest night of the year”, with stars of the small screen preparing to walk the red carpet and see if the public has voted for them to receive a National Television Award. It may have been a tough year for ITV in many respects, but the channel is up for a host of