Katy Perry is set to head to space as part of an all-female mission. The 40-year-old singer will travel on the next launch of Jeff Bezos‘ Blue Origin rocket, the aerospace engineering company said. The Teenage Dream singer will be joined on the New Shepard programme’s 11th human flight by former NASA rocket scientist Aisha
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Wow. That was a lot. I had two tactics going in: one – smile at Donald Trump, try to catch his eye because then he might ask you for a question, and I did get called. And two, wear something bright so he sees you in the sea of grey. Well, that worked. The colourful
Christopher Hughes, who was one of the stars of the hit TV show Eggheads, has died. Hughes was a member of the regular panel of quiz experts on the programme, which was first broadcast in 2003. He passed away at his home in Crewe at the age of 77, according to reports. Hughes was in
Princess Eugenie has posted a tribute to Michelle Trachtenberg after the actress’s death. The Gossip Girl and Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, 39, was found dead at her home in New York City on Wednesday. An investigation into her death has been opened but “criminality is not suspected”, police said. In a post on Instagram
Jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to disarm as part of a fresh bid to end a decades-long conflict with the Turkish state. In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) should hold a congress and formally agree to disband.
In the next month or so, we’re expecting an independent commission to announce whether Manchester City will face any punishment over more than a hundred counts of alleged financial rule breaches. The club are facing around 115 charges laid by the Premier League which have been the subject to a hearing which has been held
The disgraced former chair of the Co-op Bank, Paul Flowers, has been jailed for three years on fraud charges. The 74-year old, who was forced out of the lender in 2013 amid claims of inappropriate expenses and illegal drugs allegations, admitted 18 counts of fraud worth nearly £100,000. Flowers, also a former Methodist minister, committed
Police have said they are “confident” they will catch whoever murdered a Scottish businessman whose body was found in a sack of pineapples in Kenya. Campbell Scott, believed to be from Dunfermline in Fife, was last seen attending a conference at the JW Marriot Hotel in Nairobi on 16 February. His body was days later
To many, he will always be Superman supervillain Lex Luthor, but with a career spanning six decades, Gene Hackman’s acting CV was as varied as it was long. A former Marine, his work on the screen began with an uncredited TV role in 1961. He would go on to become a Hollywood star – despite
Ed Woodward, the former Manchester United chief, has been approached about joining the vehicle which owns stakes in clubs including Crystal Palace and Olympique Lyonnais. Sky News has learnt that Mr Woodward, who left Old Trafford in 2022, a year after United’s involvement in the ill-fated European Super League project, is being lined up as
Cypriot authorities failed to investigate the original claims of a British woman who was later convicted of lying about being gang-raped on holiday there, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The woman, who is now in her 20s, was 19 in the summer of 2019 when she claims she was raped by 12
Peppa Pig is due to have another sibling soon as Mummy Pig is pregnant for the third time, it’s been announced. The animated hit show will soon be having another character on the set as Mummy Pig said she was “completely delighted” about having another baby. For more than two decades, the show has been
Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury will walk free after winning an appeal against his 10-week jail sentence for punching a man in the street. The sentence handed to him on Monday will now be suspended for two years. It means the Runcorn and Helsby MP will not be jailed, unless he commits any more crimes
Hollywood legend Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog have been found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a career spanning more than six decades, the much-loved actor won a number of gongs – including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and one Screen Actors Guild Award. Here
Nineties boyband Five are reuniting and will be touring the UK later this year. The group – made up of Abz Love, J Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon – haven’t performed together for a quarter of a century. In their heyday, the platinum-selling band topped charts across the globe and sold more
The prime minister has refused to say whether further tax rises will be imposed in the spring statement. Sir Keir Starmer said the government was in the “early stages” of looking at whether tax rises or spending cuts were needed to meet Labour’s self-imposed fiscal rules. He would not say if Ms Reeves is looking
Every Thursday we interview chefs from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks and more. Today we chat to chef Alex Navarro from Maray in Liverpool. My chef hero is…not a famous chef but my own dad, who is a very good cook, and also my father-in-law, who is Sicilian and also very
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have landed in Florida in the US after a travel ban in Romania was lifted – as Donald Trump insisted he knows “nothing about that”. The Tates landed in Fort Lauderdale in a private plane at around 11:30am local time, their representative Mateea Petrescu added. Speaking around an hour
Hollywood legend Gene Hackman and his wife have been found dead, with authorities saying the couple had seemingly been deceased for some time when their bodies were discovered. Hackman, 95, and his 63-year-old wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their New Mexico home on Wednesday, it was announced on Thursday. One of their pet
It looks like the surface of an alien planet. Giant, pointed mounds of soil form ridges around huge frozen ponds across a vast landscape of sandy earth and enormous craters. Image: One of Ukraine’s open-pit titanium mines As if borrowed from the set of Star Wars, a colossal rectangular metal box, fitted with a long
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