Strictly Come Dancing has returned for its 20th anniversary series – launching with pizazz as usual, despite the controversy surrounding the show in recent months. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly, the opening show saw this year’s celebrities – including former England footballer Paul Merson, TV presenter Nick Knowles, JLS star JB Gill, singer
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Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more than 200 prisoners of war, officials have announced. In a deal mediated by the United Arab Emirates, each side released 103 prisoners – including Russians captured since Ukraine‘s incursion in the Kursk region began in August. Both sides released images of soldiers being released, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
A concert by US rock band Jane’s Addiction ended early after lead singer Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro on stage in the middle of a song. Videos posted on social media showed Farrell, 65, becoming upset as they played their 1986 song Ocean Size in Boston on Friday night. The singer is filmed walking
A star ballerina who appeared in Beyonce’s Lemonade video and on Dancing With The Stars has died at the age of 29. Michaela DePrince’s death was announced on her Instagram page and confirmed by her family on Facebook, where they paid tribute to “an unforgettable inspiration to everyone who knew her or heard her story”.
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT OpenAI stormed onto the scene with ChatGPT and upended the tech world in less than two years. But over the next few months, the artificial intelligence darling will face some of its biggest tests yet. A highly anticipated partnership with Apple will supercharge its reach,
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called for a tax on the wealthiest instead of cutting support for “struggling pensioners”. Speaking after arriving at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton on a jet ski, Sir Ed said his party is the only one offering up a solution on how to “plug the awful financial
Laura Loomer, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who believes 9/11 was an inside job, has joined Donald Trump on the campaign trail in recent days, a move that has raised eyebrows among his Republican supporters. Ms Loomer, 31, is banned on nearly every social media platform, from Instagram and Twitter, and claims even Uber and Chase
A man allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the same day he was released from prison under the government’s early release scheme. He allegedly reoffended in Sittingbourne in Kent and was later arrested at an address in south London. He was among more than 1,700 inmates released from prison last week in a bid to
Babcock International, the London-listed defence contractor, is weighing a possible bid for some of the assets of Harland and Wolff, the shipbuilder which is close to collapse. Sky News has learnt that Babcock, which has a market value of £2.4bn, has expressed an interest in Harland and Wolff’s Belfast shipyard which is famous for having
Transmission lines Searchlight, Nevada, March by U.S. National Archives is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 The massive Greenlink West Transmission Project in Nevada got the final green light this week by the US Department of the Interior. The project will create a new 525 kV transmission line that will stretch 350 miles from Las Vegas to
Bitcoin is rising above $64,000, and MicroStrategy shares are soaring by 40% in three days in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, on February 29, 2024. CFOTO | Nurphoto | Getty Images MicroStrategy shares jumped more than 8% on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said the company purchased another $1.1 billion worth of bitcoin. The stock jumped
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Rafah is now a wasteland. The city in Gaza has been totally flattened by months of war. The rubble in places is many metres high, the buildings that are still standing are hollow shells, their dark, empty windows like vacant souls in a horror show. Image: Sky News visited what remains of Rafah – a
The Pope has told American Catholics to “choose the lesser evil” as he criticised both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Pope Francis launched the surprise intervention in the US election on his flight from Singapore to Rome on Friday. He was critical of vice president Harris over her stance supporting abortion rights, claiming the procedure
Families of more than 300 victims of the infected blood scandal are calling on the government to make changes to the compensation scheme, claiming they are being “excluded” from the current guidelines. Thousands became infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, with more than 3,000 known to
FKA Twigs says her latest work – a live performance piece at Sotheby’s – is part of her “huge and healing journey” over the last few years, in which she’s learned “how to use and live in my body again”. The 36-year-old singer and actress opened her first major exhibition on Saturday, the day after
Sir Keir Starmer has talked up the US-UK relationship after a White House meeting with Joe Biden, but questions remain over Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles. The prime minister travelled to Washington this week to meet with President Biden to discuss the wars in Ukraine and Gaza – among other issues. Speaking before the “long
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brazil’s supreme court announced Friday that it ordered banks to transfer funds from Starlink and X accounts to pay fines the court levied against Elon Musk’s social
In this article AMZN ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Larry Ellison, Chief technology officer of Oracle (L), and Jeff Bezos, founder, executive chairman of Amazon. Reuters Oracle‘s best week on the stock market since 2021 has bolstered Chairman Larry Ellison’s net worth, briefly edging him past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday to
In this article MSFT NVDA AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, the OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen with a photo of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Didem Mente | Anadolu | Getty Images Tiger Global is planning to join OpenAI’s buzzy new funding round that would