Idle cranes line empty docks at the port of Constanta, Romania, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Oil prices will hold steady for the rest of the year with marginal declines in 2023, analysts estimated, with the exception of one who foresees “more bullish than bearish factors” for the market going forward. Andrei Pungovschi | Bloomberg
A piece of digital artwork that won first place in a fine art competition has prompted discussion on social media about the nature of art and what it means to be an artist. Jason Allen came first at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated artwork on Monday. According
NASA has announced to award five new missions to Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). The US Space agency, in a brief on Thursday, mentioned that the missions will help in the crew transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract. These five crewed missions
Former BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull has died at the age of 66 after a long battle with prostate cancer, his family has said. They said the presenter and journalist died “peacefully” at home in Suffolk on Wednesday, surrounded by his family following a “challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer”. Turnbull had announced his
Lawyers for former US president Donald Trump have tried to downplay the federal government’s discovery of highly classified records inside his Florida mansion. It comes a day after a photo was released showing top secret documents uncovered in an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. On Thursday, at 1pm local time, Mr Trump’s legal team will try
The push for India’s first 5G spectrum may be heating up, but rollout plans in the country are still “a big maze,” according to a former CEO of Indian telco Bharti Airtel. Speaking to CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Wednesday, Sanjay Kapoor, who is now an independent analyst, said Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio’s $25
Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has told Sky News that nobody should be cut off this winter because they can’t pay their energy bills. In an exclusive interview with Kay Burley, he accused Russia of using energy to divide Western countries, but he insisted the UK must continue to support Ukraine. Mr Zahawi promised there would be
A British national has been killed while volunteering as a medic in Ukraine. Craig Mackintosh’s sister Lorna said he had lost his life “in the line of duty”. In a GoFundMe set up to bring his body home she revealed that he had been killed in Ukraine on 24 August. “Please help us bring this
A former Gogglebox star whose nephew was stabbed to death has spoken of her “disgust” that his killers are still at large – as details of hundreds of unsolved murder and manslaughter cases in London were revealed. Sandi Bogle, one of the original stars of the Channel 4 series, told Sky News she still cries
The UK Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal to “save and protect lives” as Pakistan deals with devastating floods. More than 1,100 people have died and 33 million people are affected after monsoon rains and melting glaciers destroyed houses, infrastructure and crops. The UN has appealed for $160m (£138m) to help alleviate an “unprecedented
British households are on course for the deepest living standards squeeze in a century, with real household disposable incomes expected to fall by 10% this year and the next. The warning comes in a new report by the Resolution Foundation, which said that real earnings are falling at their fastest rate since 1997, meaning that
Russian forces have captured the eastern outskirts of the besieged city of Mariupol, reports the Ukrainian military. It comes as the Ministry of Defence say the bulk of Russian ground forces are now only 25km from the centre of the country’s capital, Kyiv. Sky’s Thomas Moore and Air Marshall Edward Stringer analyse the latest movements
The National Archives told former President Donald Trump’s legal team in May that it was sharing hundreds of pages of classified material it had retrieved in January with the FBI and other entities in the intelligence community so that an assessment could be done on potential damage from how the classified documents had been handled,
The UK’s Hornsea 2, the world’s largest single offshore wind farm, is now fully operational. August 31 update: On August 17, Electrek reported that Hornsea 2 was expected to be fully commissioned before the end of August. Ørsted just slid into home plate today, the last day of the month: Hornsea 2 is now completely powered
We’re buying 35 shares of Danaher (DHR) at roughly $270.33 each, and selling 25 shares of Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) at roughly $254.87. Following Wednesday’s trades, Jim’s Charitable Trust will own 485 shares of Danaher, increasing its weighting in the portfolio to 4.5% from 4.19%, and 125 shares of PXD, decreasing its weighting in the
8:00 AM ET CHICAGO — As Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields was struggling through his debut as an NFL starter against the Browns last Sept. 26, his father, Pablo, went to a concessions stand in Cleveland’s FirstEnergy Stadium. A self-proclaimed “nervous wreck” during Justin’s games, Pablo won’t sit with anyone but his wife, JoAnn, during
Kate Moss has revealed Johnny Depp gave her the first diamonds she ever owned as a gift – and presented them to her “out of the crack of his a**e”. The supermodel, who was in a relationship with the Hollywood actor between 1994 and 1998, was reflecting on one of her most famous looks with
In this article SNAP Snap shares rose as much as 15% after it confirmed reports it will cut 20% of its more than 6,000-person workforce and said it will scrap several projects, including its Pixy photo-taking drone and its lineup of Snap Originals premium shows. CEO Evan Spiegel announced the moves in a memo Tuesday,
BrewDog has announced it will close six of its pubs, blaming spiralling costs and a “clueless government”. The craft beer firm will shut the Hop and Anchor in Aberdeen, Smithfield Market Arms in London, Hop Hub in Motherwell and its BrewDog bars in Dalston, east London; Old Street, east London; and Peterhead, Scotland. James Watt,
Aug 29, 2022 EuroBasket is back! After a five-year layoff, EuroBasket 2022 is set to crown a continental champion from a field of 24 nations led by some of the NBA’s biggest stars. The tournament tips off Thursday with group stage games being played in four host nations, and the gold-medal game will be played