Downing Street has defended Suella Braverman after she flew to an overcrowded migration centre in a £3,500-an-hour military helicopter. The home secretary avoided questions from the press as she met the Dover coastguard and travelled to the Manston facility in a Chinook. At one point in recent days, as many as 4,000 people were being
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A former housekeeper for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos alleges she and other employees were made to work in unsafe and unsanitary conditions – including having to climb out of a laundry room window to access a bathroom. Mercedes Wedaa is suing Mr Bezos and two companies that allegedly manage his properties in a lawsuit filed
Stripe co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison Manuel Blondeau | Getty Images Online payments giant Stripe is laying off roughly 14% of its staff, CEO Patrick Collison wrote in a memo to staff Thursday. In the memo, Collison said the cuts were necessary amid rising inflation, fears of a looming recession, higher interest rates, energy shocks,
Children as young as nine are getting sucked into drug dealing and violence – with thousands of young people in England “groomed, harmed and even killed”, a new report warns. The Commission on Young Lives is calling for urgent action and investment to tackle the “national threat to our country’s prosperity and security” – and
After feeling “completely deflated” by Chadwick Boseman’s death, Lupita Nyong’o and Letitia Wright – who star in the Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever – have said they hope “he would be proud” of the new movie. Two years on from Boseman’s death from colon cancer, aged just 43, the absence of King T’Challa himself on
Suella Braverman has confirmed that steps are being taken to “immediately” improve the situation at Manston migration centre, according to the Home Office. These steps include bolstering the medical facilities currently on-site, supplying extra bedding and improved catering facilities, and providing more activities to support migrant welfare. The department also confirmed that more than 1,000
Retired Air Vice-Marshal, Sean Bell, gives his assessment on Belarus’s involvement in the war, saying “Belarus’s leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is a bit of a puppet for Putin”. Around 90 per cent of the military said they will not get involved in the war, and a regiment of Belarusian soldiers is actually fighting for Ukraine against
CNN’s Jake Tapper explains why veteran Watergate journalist Bob Woodward is sounding the alarm about former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election. #CNN #News
The Hyundai Motor Group announced it will mass-produce battery electric vehicles at Kia Autoland Slovakia, one of the automaker’s core plants, kicking off its European EV campaign. Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles are currently built at full-scale production at its EV factory in Indonesia and at a joint facility in South Korea that also produces
The Waveswing wave energy converter photographed in Scapa Flow, Orkney. EMEC Sea-based trials of a wave energy converter weighing 50 metric tons have produced “highly encouraging results,” according to the company behind its development. On Tuesday, Scotland-based AWS Ocean Energy said the average amount of power its device was able to capture “during a period
The regional newspaper group founded by David Montgomery, the former Daily Mirror boss, has struck a deal to invest in an industry start-up founded by another of Britain’s most prominent journalists. Sky News understands that National World Publishing has agreed to invest £1m into The News Movement (TNM), a social media-focused news platform. The investment
Russia’s ambassador to the UK has claimed Britain played a role in an attack on its warships – warning the country is “too deep” in the Ukraine war. In an interview with Sky’s Mark Austin, top diplomat Andrei Kelin claimed he had proof that UK special forces were involved in a Ukrainian drone assault on
7:47 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Dmitry Bivol arrived in Las Vegas this May as an afterthought. “The Canelo Alvarez Show” was in town — and attracting all the attention. Bivol was the WBA light heavyweight champion, and Alvarez, boxing’s top star, already had a deal in place to face Gennadiy Golovkin in September for a
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, the company announced in a memo to staff Thursday. The company had already
“True crime has been around from the very beginning. It’s the ultimate human drama.” That’s the opinion of retired cold case investigator Paul Holes, who spent 27 years specialising in serial predator crimes. He’s also the man, who after four decades, finally tracked down the Golden State killer. On the subject of serial killers –
Oct 31, 2022 Marina Rodriguez and Amanda Lemos meet in a matchup of top-10 strawweights headlining UFC Fight Night on Saturday, Nov. 5, in Las Vegas. The fights at UFC Apex are on ESPN+, with the 7 p.m. ET main card preceded by prelims at 4 p.m. Rodriguez (16-1-2) has won four fights in a
New York-based company Synchron is working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) technology with the goal of enabling patients to control digital devices hands-free. It has created a device named ‘Synchron Switch’ for converting the thoughts of people with paralysis into action. It lets patients control an iPhone or iPad using their brains. With this technology,
Ukrainian soldiers are using shop-bought drones as their eyes and ears in the trenches or flying them above Russian tanks and dropping grenades through open hatches. Meanwhile, back in Kyiv swarms of Iranian-made kamikaze drones are wreaking misery and plunging citizens into darkness. What are the main types of drones being used in Ukraine? Will
Let’s start with what we do know. The economy is now almost certainly in recession. It will not be pleasant. This is a recession which will be felt in most households’ pockets – both through the rise in energy prices and shop prices and the rise in the cost of borrowing. And when it comes
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been shot in the leg in what his supporters say was an assassination attempt. A gunman opened fire while Mr Khan, 70, was giving a speech at a rally in Wazirabad in Punjab province on Thursday, wounding him and some of his supporters, officials said. Sky’s Cordelia Lynch,
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