Right-wing Tory MPs have urged Rishi Sunak to take action to reduce immigration, saying the system is “too lenient”. The New Conservatives group, made up of 25 MPs on the right of the party, will put forward a number of proposals to the prime minister in a report released on Monday, including ending the temporary
Health Secretary Steve Barclay has criticised junior doctors, accusing them of “walking away” from talks over pay and conditions. The British Medical Association – the union representing many from the profession – has called a five-day strike in July and is demanding a rise of 35% to restore their wages to 2008 levels. It has
At least two people have been killed and three others have been critically injured after a mass shooting in Baltimore overnight. Police said 30 people were injured during the incident at a house party in the state of Maryland. The Baltimore Police Department received numerous calls for a shooting just after 12.30am on Sunday morning,
A sudden uprising in Russia was over too fast to have any immediate impact on the war in Ukraine, but it exposed a fragility in Moscow that Kyiv will seek to exploit, experts have said. Retired Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell has told Sky News that in the long run, Vladimir Putin will likely strengthen the
Italy’s culture minister is calling for a man to be “identified and sanctioned” after he was filmed allegedly carving his and his fiancée’s names into the Colosseum in Rome. If convicted of a crime, the man could face a fine of at least €15,000 ($16,360) or up to five years in prison, according to Italian
Tesla has started to push a huge new software update with a bunch of new features, including Charge on Solar, a Spotify refresh, multiview cameras, and more. We haven’t had a big Tesla software update in a minute and it looks like this one is it. Teslascope, a third-party Tesla companion app, detected a new
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Thousands of users reported problems as they tried to access Twitter Saturday, marking the latest widespread outage since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk acquired the social media site late last year. Many users who tried to access or post content on Twitter’s website or mobile app were
A European space telescope has been launched on a million-mile journey to map the dark universe. The Euclid space telescope, named after the ancient Greek mathematician, will spend six years venturing through space, observing billions of galaxies as it does so. It was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida
A YouTube bodybuilding star known as Joesthetics has died at the age of 30, according to posts shared on social media by his friends and girlfriend. German fitness influencer Jo Lindner, who had 8.5million followers on Instagram and almost 500 million views on his YouTube channel, suffered an aneurysm on Friday according to his girlfriend
Labour MP Jess Phillips is not racist, her front bench colleague Bridget Phillipson has said after she was accused of “extreme and unprompted hostility” by high-profile headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh. Ms Phillipson, Labour’s shadow education secretary, told Sky News there is a formal process available to those who wish to raise any concerns. Speaking to Sky’s
Labour frontbencher Jess Phillips has been accused of “racist and bullying behaviour” after getting into a row on social media with high-profile headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh. Ms Birbalsingh, former chairwoman of the Social Mobility Commission and once dubbed “Britain’s strictest headteacher”, accused the Birmingham Yardley MP of seeking to “whip up a social media mob” against
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine remains a “serious threat”. Citing Ukrainian intelligence, the country’s president said Russia was “technically ready” to provoke a localised explosion at the facility. Throughout the war nuclear experts have repeatedly raised concerns about the safety of the plant, which Russia
The Queen Of Pop, a Material Girl, a gay icon and a self-proclaimed “warrior” – Madonna is many things to many people. Rihanna, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga have all recognised her influence on their careers, with Beyonce hailing her a “masterpiece genius”. She’s had more top 10 hits than Elvis, sung a
Franc Attali lost 100,000 euros (£86,000) in a night, his shop one of dozens in Marseille broken into by rioters. “The store was full of merchandise, now it’s completely empty,” he says as he shows me around. Be Weep is usually full of clothes and shoes. Now, the glass shelves have been stripped completely clean
Russian authorities say they have closed criminal investigations into Wagner Group mercenaries who took part in the rebellion over the weekend, as well as their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Defence and Security analyst Professor Michael Clarke takes a closer look at what’s happening on the ground in Russia. Read more on: https://news.sky.com/world #prigozhin #vladimirputin #russia SUBSCRIBE
Christine Dawood, whose husband Shahzada and son Suleman died aboard the Titan submersible, spoke to the BBC about the last time she saw them. #CNN #News #shorts
Over half of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2030 are expected to be electric vehicles. That could put a major strain on our nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on fossil fuels. Domestic electricity demand in 2022 is expected to increase up to 18% by 2030
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes special guest Luke Workman, battery guru and Zero’s former battery expert on ebike battery evolution and fire issues, FUELL’s new Flluid-2 and Flluid-3 e-bike testing, ChatGPT in an e-bike,
President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a state visit to Germany due to the ongoing protests and riots across France. More than 1,300 people have been arrested after a fourth night of violent protests throughout the country following the death of 17-year-old boy Nahel Merzouk, who was shot by police during a traffic stop in a
Thousands of people have marched on London as part of the city’s Pride parade. The march got under way from noon from Hyde Park with more than 30,000 people expected to take part in the parade itself. The event marks 51 years since the first march for LGBTQ+ rights through the capital. Watch live:Pride in