A customer pays for his fruit and vegetables with a ten pound sterling note, at a trader’s market stall in London on May 12, 2022. – Britain’s economy shrank in March on fallout from soaring inflation, increasing the prospect of the country falling into recession. Official first-quarter data on Thursday showed that following solid output
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7:00 AM ET Alex Scarborough Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Dave Wilson Close ESPN Staff Writer Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. FORT WORTH, Texas — It’s
Facebook IPO A decade ago, Facebook told the public markets that it was pouring money into smartphone apps because mobile usage was key to the company’s growth, even though it did “not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue” at the time. That was in the prospectus for its Nasdaq debut, which took place ten years
Air pollution has been one of the major factors leading to climate change and global warming. Despite countless efforts to put a curb on toxic pollutants, there has been no permanent or temporary solution to the growing harm. Recently, a group of scientists from the University of Limerick, Ireland, have come up with an idea
Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of dithering over more help for households struggling as inflation hits a four-decade high. The Labour leader, who is calling for a windfall tax on oil and gas companies to help consumers hit by soaring energy bills, said the PM “doesn’t actually understand what working families are going
Alex Rossi reports from Staryi Saltiv in eastern Ukraine which was recently liberated after being held for several months by Russian military units. The villages here have been battered and so too have the Kremlin’s forces, with remnants of armoured vehicles burned up on the side of the road. For the latest developments: https://qrcode.skynews.com/skynews/ukraineblog SUBSCRIBE
Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö discusses his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin after Finland announced their intention to join NATO. #CNN #News
Finland and Sweden have formally submitted their applications to join NATO in a “historic moment” driven by security concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The applications will now be considered by the 30 member countries of the military alliance, with the process expected to take a few weeks. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed
There is no getting away from the shock of the headline figure here. The consumer price index is the main measure we use to track how fast the prices of the goods and services we tend to buy are rising. It’s far from a perfect measure: it takes a typical “shopping basket” of items based
Major automakers are currently on track to fail to meet necessary climate goals to keep the world under 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, according to a new report by InfluenceMap. The report showed that while companies are largely making climate-forward public statements, these statements do not match up with their actions in terms of future
Workers operate a drilling rig for an EBR Energy LP natural gas well near Columbus, Texas. Scott Dalton | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. natural gas prices more than doubled since the start of the year, and this summer’s air conditioning season could send them soaring by at least another 25%. In the futures market,
In Buffalo there is bewilderment and there is a deep sadness. The personal tragedy here is felt across America. The arrival of President Biden marks a moment of national mourning. He paused by the makeshift memorials at the scene of the shooting and put his hand to his heart. He knows what happened here echoes
Ed Arnold, former British Army Officer and Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute has more on the situation in Ukraine. He said the battle is “effectively over” in Kharkiv, and that Ukraine has won the fight in the city. The UK Ministry of Defence has said that Russia has “lost a third of
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair recounts his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and how he changed from “Western-facing” to “cold and calculating.” #CNN #News
7:43 AM ET NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS looking for something. It is Orthodox Easter Sunday in Belgrade. Djokovic is playing the final of the Serbia Open, a crowd of 8,000-plus bellowing behind him. Down one set to Andrey Rublev of Russia, he rallies back in the second to force a tiebreak. But late in the set,
Dame Deborah James has said she is “gutted” she will not live to see her second book published in a poignant Instagram post. The 40-year-old cancer campaigner, known online as Bowel Babe, has raised more than £6m through her internet fundraiser for cancer charities. She revealed on Tuesday evening that she has written book number
Johnny Depp’s legal team has tried to discredit Amber Heard by questioning the veracity of her claim that the actor sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. Cross-examining Heard in court in Fairfax County, Virginia, his lawyer Camille Vasquez suggested it was actually her who had attacked Depp with a bottle. Depp, 58, is suing
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has written to the leading petrol retailers “to remind them of their responsibilities” to pass on tax cuts to motorists. The letter, sent to fuel giants on Tuesday, follows claims some retailers hiked profits following the 5p per litre fuel duty cut implemented by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to help
10:51 AM BST England coach Eddie Jones has included 10 uncapped players, including in-form London Irish duo Henry Arundell and Will Joseph, in a 36-man training squad to prepare for the summer tour of Australia. Joe Cokanasiga, Owen Farrell, Manu Tuilagi, Anthony Watson and Jack Willis return following injury, while prop Mako Vunipola has also
7:00 AM ET The Colorado Avalanche enter the second round of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs as a heavy favorite to win the Western Conference and eventually hoist the chalice for the first time since 2001. Some call them dominant, a juggernaut or, in popular hockey parlance, a “wagon.” Whatever the label, the Avalanche have