The UK Government has announced that an operation is underway, sending evacuation flights for British nationals stuck in Sudan. Sky’s Alistair Bunkall has witnessed an RAF plane leaving a base in Cyprus thought to be heading for the war-torn country. The UK government are being urged to make the most of the 72-hour ceasefire to
Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees in New York rescued a 3-year-old boy that fell onto an electrified rail line. #CNN #news #shorts
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A general exterior view of Climate Pledge Arena before the game between the Seattle Kraken and the Carolina Hurricanes on October 17, 2022. Steph Chambers | Getty Images Professional sports are inherently a copycat industry. From Major League Baseball’s Moneyball revolution to the NBA’s renewed focus on 3-point shooting driven by the Golden State Warriors
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The final UK evacuation flight will leave Sudan tonight, as the death toll rises in the war-torn country. Gunfire and heavy artillery in parts of the capital Khartoum, despite a ceasefire between the country’s two top generals, was reported by residents on Saturday. Some 1,888 people have been evacuated on 21 flights from Wadi Saeedna
A senior MP has accused police of giving the “green light” to internet trolls after a vexatious complaint saw her subjected to a social services investigation. Stella Creasy was told her harasser would not face criminal sanctions because he was “entitled” to his view her children should be taken into care because of her “extreme”
Sir Keir Starmer has denied that a Labour attack advert aimed at Rishi Sunak is racist. A series of recent ads, which have been described as “gutter politics” and criticised by some of Labour’s own MPs, have targeted the prime minister personally. In an interview with Sky News, Sophy Ridge questioned the party leader about
Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling has revealed he will leave Soccer Saturday after 25 years at the helm of the show. The 68-year-old announced his intention to step down live on air during Soccer Saturday. “I’ve been at Sky for more than 30 years and loved every moment of my time as part of the
Five members of a family including an eight-year-old boy have been killed in a shooting in Texas after the family asked a man to stop firing rounds in his garden because they were trying to sleep, authorities said. Authorities are searching for the 38-year-old suspect after the shooting in the town of Cleveland, around 45
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, right, arrives on stage as Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai exits during the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Google hired Oracle’s Thomas Kurian four years ago to run its cloud business, the internet search company had a
Len Goodman, who spent many years as one of the judges on Strictly Come Dancing, has died aged 78, according to his agent. In a statement, his agent Jackie Gill said: “It is with great sadness to announce that Len Goodman has passed away peacefully, aged 78. “A much loved husband, father and grandfather who
The civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump has started. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer discusses the latest with CNN correspondent Paula Reid and CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen. #CNN #News
The first of many solar and wind projects in China’s deserts is now online, and it’s capable of powering 1.5 million households. This first phase of this solar and wind project is in the Tengger Desert, which lies on the southern edge of the Gobi Desert. It has an installed capacity of 1 million kilowatts,
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British nationals seeking to flee Sudan have only until midday local time if they want to be evacuated from the war-torn country as NHS doctors without UK passports were told they can now catch final rescue flights. The Foreign Office has urged those still in the African nation to travel to the Wadi Saeedna airfield