Jeremy Hunt has announced he is creating an economic advisory council to assist the government as it seeks to repair the damage caused by last month’s mini-budget. The council’s membership will include Rupert Harrison, who was chief of staff to former chancellor George Osbourne during the austerity era of 2010-2015, and Karen Ward, who advised
A 10-year-old boy has been mauled by a black bear while playing in his grandparents’ garden in the United States. The animal then attempted to drag the young child away before being shot by police officers, officials in the state of Connecticut said. The boy was injured but survived the ordeal. He was taken to
Little Simz has won this year’s prestigious Mercury Prize with their album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert They beat off Yard Act, Wet Leg, Self Esteem, Sam Fender, Nova Twins, Kojey Radical, Joy Crookes, Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler, Harry Styles, Gwenno and Fergus McCreadie. Little Simz was crowned winner at London’s famous Hammersmith Apollo
Elon Musk has completed his $44bn (£38bn) takeover of Twitter after months of toing and froing over the deal. His first move was to fire the social media company’s top leadership, which he accused of misleading him over the number of spam accounts on the platform. Musk sacked Twitter’s chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial
Gangs Of London has found an unlikely fan in the Albanian prime minister, as it returns to screens later this week. The Sky thriller, which has a body count that rivals that of Game Of Thrones, is back for a second season on 20 October, treating fans to more political intrigue, more bloody gun fights,
Tesla has released a new mobile app update that includes a solution if your car has frozen door handles. During Model 3’s first winter, we reported on the electric car having some issues in cold weather and Tesla said they were investigating the situation. Several owners in cold weather regions were experiencing difficulties entering their vehicles because
Putin’s war on energy is testing solidarity between EU nations Contributor / Contributor / Getty Images Russia’s continuing war in Ukraine is causing a “very, very challenging” situation in Europe, which is testing its countries’ solidarity not only in how they react to Putin’s aggression, but also in how they deal with the aftereffects. The
Jeremy Hunt has revealed he is reversing “almost all” of the tax cuts announced in his predecessor’s mini-budget and is scaling back support for energy bills. In an emergency statement, the chancellor said a 1p cut to income tax will be delayed “indefinitely” until the UK’s finances improve instead of being introduced in April 2023
Donald Trump has been criticised by Republicans and Democrats for again making baseless claims about the voting process. Once again he claimed the election was ‘rigged’, that ballot observers had been barred from vote counting centres, that mail-in voting was a ‘fraud’ and the electoral system was ‘corrupt’. He offered no evidence to back up
A Labrador retriever hilariously freezes when he sees decorative Halloween cats. CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports on the copycat dog. #CNN #News
Netflix has defended The Crown as a “fictional dramatisation” after coming under fire for scenes expected to feature in its upcoming fifth series. The big-budget royal drama moves into the 1990s for its next season, covering the period around the break-up of Charles and Diana‘s marriage – starring Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki as the
KakaoTalk and other services of Kakao Corp. faced a major outage after a fire broke out at a data center in the outskirts of the country’s capital, Seoul (Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of South Korea’s top messaging app fell Monday after a
Members of K-pop band BTS are to fulfil their requirement to do military service in South Korea, their representatives say. Label Big Hit Music said members of BTS are “honoured to serve” their country. The band – RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook – will reconvene “around 2025” following their service commitment,
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will reveal parts of his medium-term fiscal plan later today – two weeks earlier than planned. The Treasury said the chancellor, who was installed on Friday, was fast-tracking the plans, which will be released in full on 31 October. It said the decision followed conversations with Prime Minister Liz Truss over the
The pound and UK government bond yields have recovered in anticipation of a key statement from the new chancellor tasked with sorting out the fallout from the government’s disastrous mini-budget. Sterling had fallen to a record low against the dollar at the end of September, after the short-lived then chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled the biggest
A firefighter who was nine months pregnant and involved in a car accident has been hailed a “true public servant” after she put herself aside and stepped in to help others in the smash. Megan Warfield, a firefighter in the US state of Maryland, was just a week away from her due date when she
7:00 AM ET Three matchups in the division series round of the 2022 MLB playoffs ended Saturday, but one game remains on Sunday — and one of baseball’s most historic franchises is playing for its season. The New York Yankees have a must-win American League Division Series Game 4 against the Cleveland Guardians, who won
Mercedes-Benz has flooded the newswire today, sharing multiple press releases surrounding its EV technology. Today’s news includes more granular details relating to its upcoming EQE SUV, as well as first images and specs for the Mercedes-AMG EQE SUV that will soon join it. There is A LOT to unfold here, so let’s hop right in..
In this article HMC 7267.T-JP 6758.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Yasuhide Mizuno, the chairman and CEO of Sony Honda Mobility Inc., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 13, 2022. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Sony-Honda joint venture focused on electric vehicles plans to begin deliveries to
A man who fled Russia to escape the military draft says it has become a “police state” and claims most people now feel negatively about the war in Ukraine. Twenty recruitment offices have been attacked in protest over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilisation. Sky’s International Correspondent Alex Rossi reports from Moscow. #skynews #ukraine #russia