TikTok has said it will work to prevent content creators from posting paid political messages on the app, in preparation for the US midterms in November. While the company has banned paid political ads since 2019, campaign strategists have skirted the ban by paying influencers to promote political issues. TikTok’s head of safety, Eric Han
Book sales for Sir Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses have surged after the author was stabbed at an event in the US last week. The contentious 1988 book, which was considered blasphemous by some of Muslims, rose to number eight on Amazon’s chart of most-sold fiction books of the week and was sold out
Vince McMahon (L) and Donald Trump attend a press conference about the WWE at the Austin Straubel International Airport on June 22, 2009 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Mark A. Wallenfang | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Former World Wrestling Entertainment boss Vince McMahon paid $5 million of around $20 million previously unrecorded expenses to
Millions of Kenyans will be voting for their next president this Tuesday. It’s a close race, with former prime minister Raila Odinga only a few points ahead of deputy president William Ruto in the latest polls. 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
CNN’s Elie Honig breaks down what we know and what we don’t know surrounding the FBI search at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. #CNN #News
Rail, Tube and bus passengers are set to face four days of travel misery as tens of thousands of workers stage another round of strikes. In recent months, several strikes have been carried out as part of a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions. From Thursday, Network Rail, train companies, London Underground and
Liz Truss is set to win the Tory leadership contest by a decisive margin next month, according to an exclusive Sky News poll that gives the foreign secretary a 32-point lead over rival Rishi Sunak. The poll also shows that the legacy and personality of Boris Johnson is likely to loom large over the next
Two surfers on motorised boards who were labelled “idiots” by Venice’s mayor for speeding down the city’s Grand Canal have been identified by authorities. A video was posted on social media by Luigi Brugnaro of the pair heading along the famous Italian waterway after they were caught on camera. On Twitter, Mr Brugnaro asked for
An Ofgem director has quit over the electricity and gas regulator’s decision to change the way it calculates the energy price cap, which she said will lead to much higher bills. The regulator confirmed to Sky News that Christine Farnish had stepped down from the board after disagreeing with the rest of its members over
Freed hostages were able to give British police key information identifying an IS kidnap gang nicknamed “The Beatles” which had held and tortured them, Scotland Yard has revealed. Officers have disclosed key breakthroughs that allowed them to identify the jihadis and bring two of them to trial in the US. It included vital details from
BMW is reportedly going to adopt Tesla’s 4680 battery format with supply from EVE, a battery supplier that is also looking to supply Tesla. In 2020, Tesla introduced a new 4680 (46mm by 80mm) cylindrical battery format, which is much bigger than any other cylindrical cell put into electric vehicles to date. The automaker brought
A man walks in Greenwich Park, London, on August 14, 2022. On August 17, Thames Water said a Temporary Use Ban covering London and the Thames Valley would begin next week. Dominic Lipinski | PA Images | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s Thames Water said Wednesday that a Temporary Use Ban covering London and the
NTPC Limited, India’s largest integrated energy company achieved 69454 MW of group installed and commercial capacity with the commissioning of 56 MW Kawas Solar PV Project at NTPC Kawas, Gujarat on Monday. The Ministry of Power in a statement said that NTPC is steadily lowering its carbon footprint by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the
In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook poses in front of a new MacBook Airs running M2 chips display during Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, June 6, 2022. Peter Dasilva | Reuters Apple is in talks to produce Apple Watches, MacBooks and HomePods in Vietnam for the first time, Nikkei
11:33 PM ET The Atlanta Braves made another move Tuesday night to lock up their young core long term, agreeing to an eight-year, $72 million extension with outfielder Michael Harris II. The deal for 21-year-old Harris runs through the 2030 season and includes team options for 2031 ($15 million) and 2032 ($20M). Harris was the
Police investigating the killing of 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran who was stabbed to death have released pictures of a man seen running from the scene armed with a knife. Detectives have issued images of a man they are keen to identify as a matter of urgency following the killing of Mr O’Halloran, who had been riding a
Sky News has been told by a senior Ukrainian official that Ukrainian Special Forces carried out an operation on a Russian airbase in Crimea. One person was killed in a series of blasts at the air base close to seaside resorts on the annexed peninsula on Tuesday – some 200km inside Russian-held territory. Russia annexed
Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to discuss Attorney General Merrick Garland’s press conference and the Justice Department’s move to unseal the FBI warrant authorizing a search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. #CNN #News
Donald Trump’s social media app Truth Social has surged in popularity following the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate. The app rose 66 places in the Apple App store from number 76 to 15 on 9 August, the day after agents searched his home. They were looking for boxes of classified information taken there after
Around this time last year, a group of scientists conducted a landmark experiment that yielded more than 1.3 megajoules of energy. After an analysis, the team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has confirmed that they had successfully achieved a nuclear fusion reaction that was energetic enough to sustain itself. This