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
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Former Russian state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has fled the country after escaping from house arrest, her lawyer said. Ms Ovsyannikova interrupted a live broadcast in March to protest against the war in Ukraine, holding up a sign which read in English: “No war. Russians against war.” In Russian it read: “NO WAR. Stop the
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
A former US spy has pleaded guilty to causing the death of Harry Dunn by careless driving, following a three-year campaign for justice by the teenager’s family. Anne Sacoolas, 45, was appearing at the Old Bailey in London. She entered the plea via video-link from Washington. Harry’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, held their
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,
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
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,
Russian forces will soon be down to their last supplies of fuel and unable to transport their troops in Ukraine after the crippling attack on the Kerch Bridge between Crimea and Russia, say analysts. President Vladimir Putin will have hoped his recent missile onslaught across Ukraine had projected an image of strength, but has been
In a new video posted to social media, newly mobilized Russian soldiers are complaining about their lack of training before being sent to the war with Ukraine. #CNN #News
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..
We reviewed our Bullpen stocks during the Investing Club’s October “Monthly Meeting” on Thursday. The Bullpen is a collection of companies we actively monitor for their potential to be added in Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust, which is the portfolio we use for the Club. Here’s a quick look the seven stocks and our latest thoughts
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver parts of his medium-term fiscal plan later today, the Treasury has said. In a statement the Treasury said the chancellor was fast-tracking the plans, which will be released in full on 31 October. It said it followed conversations with Prime Minister Liz Truss over the weekend and a meeting with
Financial markets have reacted positively to the new chancellor’s cull of more costly measures in his predecessor’s disastrous mini-budget. Jeremy Hunt revealed in a televised statement that he would no longer be proceeding with almost all the controversial package, including the reduction in the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 19% from next
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 plunged Monday after a
The pound has edged higher against the dollar in the wake of PM Liz Truss’s partial reversal of her initial economic plan and the promise of a statement from her new chancellor tasked with sorting out the mess. Sterling had fallen to a record low against the dollar at the end of September, after the
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
Labour has called for Liz Truss to face parliament today after three Tory MPs broke ranks to demand that she quits. The prime minister is facing calls to resign from within her own party just six weeks after entering Number 10, following the economic turmoil in the wake of the mini-budget. Tory MPs Crispin Blunt,
Whodunnit movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has closed this year’s London Film Festival with stars telling Sky News how pleased they are the industry is back in full swing following the pandemic. The follow-up to the 2019 hit Knives Out sees Daniel Craig reprising his role as detective Benoit Blanc. “It’s just wonderful
Russia’s nuclear weapons threat in Ukraine appears to have made Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline even more determined to win. One soldier told Sky News “I am ready to die. If it happens, it happens” while out on patrol with his comrades in Donetsk. For the latest developments in Ukraine: https://qrcode.skynews.com/skynews/ukraineblog #ukraine #vladimirputin #nuclearwar #ukraine
CNN’s Bill Weir reports from a solar-powered Florida town that endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage. #cnn #news