Ian Blackford, the former leader of the SNP in Westminster, has told Sky News he will be standing down at the next election. Mr Blackford was replaced as leader of the independence-backing party’s Commons delegation at the end of last year by Stephen Flynn. The outgoing MP said he had been thinking “long and hard”
The scandal-hit CBI has secured support in its battle for survival by winning a crunch membership vote on plans aimed at restoring trust in the business lobby group. The UK’s largest employers’ organisation needed a simple majority to win the vote in an extraordinary general meeting in London and won 93% in favour of its
Sky News’s military analyst Prof Michael Clarke says that despite a missile attack on Kyiv killing three people overnight, the Patriot air defence system from the US likely stopped more from getting through. #ukraine #russia #kyiv #civillians #missilestrike See more stories from Ukraine here: https://news.sky.com/topic/ukraine-6556 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow
Researchers and developers warn against the ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity due to artificial intelligence, arguing that the threat of an AI extinction event should be a top global priority. #CNN #News #shorts
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Imaginima | E+ | Getty Images Oil prices jumped following OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut production by another million barrels per day. On Sunday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners — collectively known as OPEC+ — made no changes to its planned oil production cuts for this year, but coalition
The CBI faced ridicule hours before a vote on its future on Tuesday after a senior executive hailed its “transparent” handling of the misconduct crisis which has left it facing collapse – despite blocking the media and resigned members from watching a pivotal general meeting. Sky News has seen an email sent by Henry Aldridge,
Arnold Schwarzenegger has apologised for groping women, 20 years after dismissing the allegations as “made-up”. Six women accused the Hollywood star of groping and humiliating them in a Los Angeles Times report in 2003. The investigation was published in the lead-up to the 2003 California governor election. Schwarzenegger, who won the election, labelled the story
Prince Harry has blamed the tabloid press for “inciting hatred and harassment” in his private life, saying he ended up “playing up to a lot of the headlines” when he was cast as a “playboy prince” and a “thicko” as a young royal. Details of Harry‘s accusations against the publisher of the Mirror newspaper have
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple launched its Vision Pro headset at its annual WWDC event on Monday, ending months of speculation that the Cupertino tech giant was getting ready to launch its own VR or augmented reality product. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple’s mixed-reality headset debut
A dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine has been damaged by shelling, leading to flooding in the area already hit by months of conflict. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials blamed each other for destroying the Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine’s military said that Russian forces blew up the dam. “The
The government is still being “too slow” to recover taxpayer money lost to fraud and error over the pandemic, MPs have said. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also said Whitehall needs a “step change” in its approach to risk in order to prevent a similar “panic response” in the future. In a wide-ranging report,
In a stroke of legal coincidence, Prince Harry will be the subject of a court case in America on the same day he is due to appear in London’s High Court. Lawyers are due in a federal courtroom in Washington DC to demand the US government release the Duke of Sussex’s US visa application form,
Interest rates look set to rise again with many people facing a ruinous surge in their monthly bills. Hundreds of deals were pulled from the market on Wednesday, preventing many from fixing their mortgages before the anticipated rise. Latest cost of living news: https://news.sky.com/business #mortgagebroker #costofliving SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews
A climber on Mount Everest is home alive and safe after being found clinging to a rope and almost freezing to death near the mountain’s summit. A sherpa stopped his ascent up the world’s tallest mountain and carried the climber down to safety. #cnn #news
One of the most notorious American double agents has died in prison. Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent, was sentenced in 2002 to life behind bars after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years. He had divulged information about US intelligence-gathering since at least 1985 and was
Here at Electrek we have spent countless hours undertaking detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through those thousands of miles of riding, we’ve gotten to know these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That dedication to real world e-bike testing has helped us find the best electric bicycles
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. Stocks mixed Crude higher PANW downgrade 1. Stocks mixed The major U.S. stock benchmarks were mixed Monday, as the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.4% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks before the start of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at its headquarters on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the annual WWDC23 developer conference. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images At its annual developer conference
Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 5, 2023, 01:33 PM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The LA Clippers are promoting Trent Redden to general manager and Mark Hughes to Senior VP/Assistant GM, sources told ESPN on Monday. The promotions come in the wake of former general manager Michael Winger’s recent