Neil Young attends a press conference for Farm Aid 34 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on September 21, 2019 in East Troy, Wisconsin. Gary Miller | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Neil Young on Wednesday said his music will return to Spotify, just over two years after he and other artists removed their catalogues
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TikTok’s Chinese owners are facing the prospect of the video app being banned in the United States unless they sell its American operation. A vote by the US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly supported a measure to force ByteDance into divestment within six months on national security grounds. The Bill still needs to pass the
Iraq war veteran Andy Tosh points to his nose where he was treated for skin cancer and shows the red marks on his hand. His health has been permanently damaged – not by the baking heat of the Iraqi desert, he says, but by a toxic chemical at the industrial site he was ordered to
Rishi Sunak appears to have ruled out returning money to a Tory donor who allegedly said Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all black women” and “should be shot”. Asked at Prime Minister’s Questions by Labour MP Marsha De Cordova if he would hand back one of the specific donations from Frank Hester’s company
Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com Japan’s UBE Corporation will build an EV battery chemicals factory in Louisiana to set up a US EV battery supply chain – and compete with China. Chemical company UBE Corporation will invest $500 million to build the first US manufacturing facility for EV lithium-ion battery ingredients dimethyl carbonate (DMC)
A polio survivor, who lived inside an iron lung for 70 years, has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander, widely known as “Polio Paul”, contracted the viral disease in the summer of 1952 when he was six years old and was left paralysed from the neck down. He was rushed to hospital in
Growth returned in the UK economy in January, according to official figures. The measure of everything produced in the UK – a metric called gross domestic product (GDP) – rose 0.2%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. It’s the first official economic growth announcement since a recession was declared last month as there were
The US will send around $300m in military aid to Ukraine as Republicans continue to block a $60bn funding package for Kyiv. The aid package being provided will include anti-aircraft missiles, artillery rounds and armour systems, a senior US defence official has said. It marks the US Department of Defense’s first announced security package for
The first Hyundai N brand high-performance EV will start at $66,100 (excluding destination). Hyundai says the 641 hp IONIQ 5 N starting price sets a “new benchmark for engaging, all-electric high performance.” But how does it stack up against the Tesla Model Y Performance? Hyundai’s first N brand performance EV lands in the US Hyundai’s
In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Larry Ellison, founder and former CEO of Oracle Inc. watches a training race from a motor boat ahead of the America’s Cup World Series sailing competition on the Great Sound in Hamilton, Bermuda, October 16, 2015. Mike Segar | Reuters Oracle founder Larry Ellison notched
A woman whose husband’s cremation was organised by the funeral home at the centre of a major police investigation has told Sky News she feels “genuinely numb”. Earlier, police said they were investigating a “truly horrific incident” at the Legacy Independent Funeral Directors. Investigators have discovered suspected human ashes just days after recovering 35 bodies
Beyonce has revealed the name of her new album. Act II: Cowboy Carter will be released on 29 March. The title was revealed on her official website, along with details of how fans can snap up limited edition CD, vinyl and box set editions of the release. Beyonce announced the follow-up to Act I: Renaissance
Joe Biden has become the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Sky News’ US partner network NBC News projects. The sitting president is widely expected to face Donald Trump in the election later this year – a re-run of the 2020 vote. This will be the first time since 1956 that two presidents will go head-to-head.
Oil rig pumpjacks, also known as thirsty birds, extract crude from the Wilmington Field oil deposits area near Long Beach, California, on July 30, 2013. David Mcnew | Reuters Crude oil futures edged lower Tuesday as traders assessed the latest U.S. inflation data and what it may mean for the Federal Reserve’s decision making on
A law aimed at quashing the wrongful convictions of sub-postmasters caught up in the Horizon IT scandal is being introduced by the government later. The proposed Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill “marks an important step forward in finally clearing” the names of hundreds of wronged branch managers who have had their lives “callously torn
The minister responsible for the UK’s sanctions against Russia has told UK carmakers to check their supply chains after Sky News analysis suggested luxury models were finding their way to Moscow showrooms via ex-Soviet states. Foreign Office minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan told a committee of MPs the report was a prime example of the “whack a
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has said alleged comments made about Diane Abbott by a Tory donor were “racist” – but that there should be “space for forgiveness”. Ms Badenoch is the first cabinet minister to use the term to describe Frank Hester’s reported remarks about the former Labour MP, after government ministers including Graham Stuart
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google announced it will restrict the types of election-related queries that users can ask its Gemini chatbot,
Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterMar 9, 2024, 08:39 PM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Marcus Smith celebrates his dramatic match-winning drop goal to give England victory over Ireland. Julian Finney/Getty Images
Hollywood stars, a Pussycat Doll and a hit play about Gareth Southgate lead the nominations for this year’s Olivier Awards. Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook and Nicole Scherzinger are all among the 2024 nominees, along with James Norton, Andrew Scott and David Tennant. Singer and Pussycat Dolls star Scherzinger has been nominated for her leading