👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 It is 50 years ago this week that Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party, and it’s a testament to her legacy that she’s being invoked by both Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch. When she became prime minister in 1979, she drove
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Sir Salman Rushdie has described in court the moment he was attacked on stage. The British-Indian author, who was stabbed as he was preparing to give a speech on 12 August 2022, took the stand in a New York courtroom to give evidence against the man charged over the attack. Rushdie, 77, was blinded in
The Gaza ceasefire will end if Hamas does not return Israeli hostages by midday on Saturday, Israel’s prime minister has said. It comes after Hamas said it would postpone Saturday’s planned release, accusing Israel of violating the terms of the ceasefire. Trump latest: ‘We’re going to take Gaza’ under ‘US authority’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned
Kanye West’s Yeezy online shopping platform has been taken down after selling T-shirts featuring a swastika. The rapper, also known as Ye, used a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday to send people to his website to buy the clothing emblazoned with the Nazi symbol – an image often used by the extreme-right. The ecommerce platform
Former Trump ally Steve Bannon has pleaded guilty to fraud after donors who gave money to help build a wall on the US border were duped. The 71-year-old will avoid jail after getting a three-year conditional discharge as part of a plea deal. Bannon had been accused of falsely promising donors that all money given
The Church of England has voted to increase oversight of abuse complaints – but safeguarding will not be independent. Members of the General Synod, the Church’s parliament, voted for the new measures for handling abuse allegations as it tries to restore trust among survivors after multiple scandals. Despite victims urging the Synod to introduce a
Two bodies recovered from the River Dee are that of the missing sisters who disappeared in Aberdeen, Police Scotland has confirmed. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both aged 32, were last spotted on CCTV in the city’s Market Street at Victoria Bridge at about 2.12am on Tuesday 7 January. The women were seen crossing the bridge
Products at the showroom of the Nvidia Corp. offices in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2023. I-Hwa Cheng | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. government’s effort to curtail AI development in China through tightened controls of chip exports, including restrictions on the most advanced offerings from Nvidia, didn’t stop DeepSeek from creating its generative AI
The UK needs a “cool and clear-headed” response to Donald Trump imposing 25% tariffs on British steel exports, the trade minister has said. The US president announced the heavy levies on foreign steel and aluminium late on Monday, saying they will be enforced “without exceptions or exemptions”. UK Steel said the tariffs “would be a
Italian police have arrested 181 people in a crackdown on the Sicilian mafia. Authorities launched a series of raids early on Tuesday, detaining suspected members of the mafia for alleged crimes including attempted murder, extortion, drug trafficking and more. A total of 1,200 officers were involved in the operation aimed at dismantling mafia clans in
Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray has taken up her place in the House of Lords after she was nominated by the prime minister for a peerage. Ms Gray will now be known as Baroness Gray of Tottenham, representing the area in north London where she was born, and she will sit
Armie Hammer has again denied claims that he is a cannibal and said his actions were “not illegal” after facing allegations of sexual assault. Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the 38-year-old Call Me By Your Name actor spoke candidly about allegations of rape made by a woman in Los Angeles in 2021. He also
The entrepreneur who masterminded Deliveroo’s evolution into one of Britain’s biggest consumer technology businesses is preparing to hand over the reins to a new chief executive. Sky News has learnt that Will Shu, who set the company up in 2013 and participated in its delivery service himself, is contemplating stepping back as CEO as soon
The AI summit in Paris is a coming together of world leaders and technology firms designed to shape a responsible and sustainable future for artificial intelligence. But the big political day of the summit was overshadowed by a bust-up between rival billionaire tech-bros. Timed perfectly to coincide with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s arrival in
Police investigating the deaths of a British couple at their home in rural France have released details from a post-mortem examination. Prosecutors say Dawn Searle, 56, was found at their property in Les Pesquies with “several” injuries to her head, while her husband, Andrew Searle, 62, was found hanged with no visible defensive injuries. They
Max OlsonFeb 11, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers the Big 12 Joined ESPN in 2012 Graduate of the University of Nebraska Open Extended Reactions THE GOAL GOING into December was to spend $5 million. That was the price tag that Cody Campbell, Texas Tech‘s billionaire booster and the leader of The Matador Club NIL
A super-Earth has been confirmed in the habitable zone of a nearby star, raising possibilities for future studies on potentially life-supporting planets. The discovery follows over two decades of observations and has been credited to a team of international researchers. Initially detected two years ago, the planet, named HD 20794 d, is situated 20 light
The city of Hangzhou in southern China is one of the country’s leading technology hubs, and home to the groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek. Think of Hangzhou as a Chinese version of Silicon Valley. The headquarters of DeepSeek is on the twelfth floor of a modern office building. Image: The headquarters of DeepSeek are
Elon Musk’s bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4bn (£78.7bn) came unsolicited on Monday night and was quickly rejected by his former friend and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. “The company is not for sale, neither is the mission,” Mr Altman said to Sky News this morning. “We’ll happily buy Twitter though.” Read more: OpenAI co-founder
Lisa Riley has reacted to reports that Peter Kay likened a heckler to her, insisting she’s “not offended”. The Bolton comedian was performing his Manchester gig on Saturday night when a woman was removed by security guards after shouting “We love you Peter”. Kay is said to have likened her to Riley as she was
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