The last four runners in the Conservative leadership contest will face another round of voting later, as the party decides who will replace Boris Johnson in Downing Street. Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch made it through Monday’s ballot to continue in the race, while Tom Tugendhat was knocked out. But as
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The stuttering search for a leadership team for Britain’s new “moonshot” scientific research body will conclude this week when ministers announce the appointment of its inaugural chair and chief executive. Sky News has learnt that Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, has signed off the recruitment of Matt Clifford, a co-founder of the technology investment vehicle
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf’s major season ended with Australia’s Cameron Smith winning the 150th edition of The Open and lifting the Claret Jug at St. Andrews on Sunday. Smith became the sixth straight player in his 20s to win a major and the second consecutive first-timer. Matt Fitzpatrick picked up his first at the
9:11 AM ET Nate Diaz is the kind of guy who makes more headlines from doing an interview than most fighters get for competing in the cage. He’s one of the most famous athletes in the history of the UFC and remains relevant in any MMA conversation despite having just one win since 2016. Diaz
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. The fossil contains fragments of a human skull and is said to be the oldest ever found in
Tom Tugendhat has become the latest candidate to be knocked out of the Conservative leadership race. In the third round of voting by Tory MPs, the contenders received the following votes: Kemi Badenoch, 58 Penny Mordaunt, 82 Rishi Sunak, 115 Liz Truss, 71 Mr Tugendhat, 31 Politics Hub: New favourite to be PM after latest
Dramatic footage has captured a passenger plane as it flipped over during a crash-landing on an airport runway. The incident happened at Aden Adde international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The crew and all passengers on board – around 30 – escaped. Video from the scene showed the plane upside down after having apparently tipped
A 14-year-old boy is missing and believed to have drowned after getting into difficulty in the River Thames in London on the hottest day of the year. Fours others have died while swimming in open water during the heatwave as Britain swelters, with the temperature reaching 38.1C (100.58F) today, the third hottest day on record.
Tesla has been working on a new “self-diagnostic” feature in its app that the automaker is running when certain types of service appointments are requested. For better or worse, Tesla has been heavily betting on its mobile app to handle service. It can be challenging for some Tesla owners to simply directly contact their local
Workers walk past a gas storage tank at the constriction site of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline receiving terminal in Melendugno, Italy, on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — The EU is to sign a new gas deal with Azerbaijan as officials scramble to secure future supplies amid growing fears
The course of true love never did run smooth, particularly when it comes to the wild world of celebrity romance. So the story of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s path to marriage really is the stuff of Hollywood happy endings. For those who don’t know the background: back in the early 2000s, Affleck and Lopez
In a landmark discovery, researchers have rearranged atomic bonds in a single molecule for the first time. Chemical engineers from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the University of Regensburg in Germany, and IBM Research Europe collectively began their experiment with a substance called 5,6,11,12-tetrachlorotetracene (with the formula C18H8Cl4). It is a carbon-based
Charles Bronson sent a voice note to Sky News pleading for help after begging to be released from jail, where he’s been for almost 50 years. He said, “I bet you can’t believe I’m still in, can you?” #Prison #CharlesBronson #SkyNews SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews
Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s one-time personal lawyer, says that Trump’s reported call to a January 6 committee witness signals to him that Trump is “melting down.” #CNN #News
A US judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a plea deal and imprison film director Roman Polanski for sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, according to a court transcript which has been revealed for the first time. Polanski pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor – statutory
Sky News has cancelled its Conservative leadership debate after Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss pulled out from the event. The debate was due to be hosted by Kay Burley tomorrow evening. Conservative MPs are said to be concerned about the damage the debates are doing to the image of the party, exposing disagreements and splits.
A Bank of England policymaker has said interest rates could reach 2% or higher in the next year in order to tackle inflation. Michael Saunders, a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said he did not think that such forecasts from financial markets were “implausible or unlikely”. “Rather than focus on a precise
The US Office star Craig Robinson has thanked security and staff for helping people to safety after a man fired a gun inside a comedy club where he was set to perform. Robinson, best known for playing Darryl Philbin in the American adaption of Ricky Gervais’s hit British comedy, shared a video on social media
Three people have been killed and two injured in a shooting at a mall food court in Indiana after a man with a rifle opened fire. The man entered Greenwood Park Mall and began firing, fatally injuring three people before eventually being killed himself by an armed civilian, police say. Officers went to the mall
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