The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are due to return on Sunday after a nearly four-month voyage that marked NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who launched to the space station in May, are
Month: August 2020
French officials have been urged to take a tougher stance on migrants, after a record week of Channel crossings. Some 96 people were intercepted in the Channel on Friday – a day after a record 202 migrants made the journey. The previous daily record for migrant crossings was on 13 July, when 180 successfully landed
7:00 PM ET Four Power 5 conferences have announced their preferred scheduling models, as the SEC joins the Big Ten and Pac-12 in going with conference-only games. The SEC is now planning on playing a 10-game season starting on Sept. 26. The Big 12 is expected to decide next week. What do all these decisions
A hurricane ripped shingles off roofs and blew over trees as it battered the Bahamas before heading to the Florida coast. Officials in Miami are closing beaches, marinas and parks ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias. Miami mayor Carlos Gimenez said 20 evacuation centres were on standby that could be set up with COVID-19
Britain’s biggest listed shopping centre-owner is preparing to ask shareholders for hundreds of millions of pounds to improve its chances of surviving the coronavirus pandemic. Sky News has learnt that Hammerson, which owns the Bullring in Birmingham and London’s Brent Cross mall, is drawing up plans for a rights issue that could raise more than
Millions of over 50s could be told to stay at home under a “nuclear” option to prevent a new nationwide lockdown if there is a second wave of coronavirus. Boris Johnson is reportedly considering asking a greater number of people in England to take part in the shielding programme should there be a big spike
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has said it is a “national priority” to get children back into the classroom, as scientists have warned there may have to be trade-offs for schools to reopen. On Saturday afternoon the government said a total of 46,193 people had died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community in
A basketball player has become the first NBA star not to kneel during the national anthem as part of the Black Lives Matter movement since the league restarted on Thursday. Jonathan Isaac, a forward with Orlando Magic and an ordained minister, was also the first NBA player not to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt
British Airways pilots have voted to accept a deal that will include job losses and pay cuts to avoid a larger number of redundancies, their union has announced. The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said there will be around 270 compulsory redundancies and temporary pay cuts starting at 20% and reducing to 8% over two
Lockdown restrictions were eased too quickly and now “severe measures” may be required to quell a second wave, according to the governor of Belgium’s worst-affected province. Cathy Berx, who oversees Antwerp province, told Sky News that she could “understand the fear” of a return to a full lockdown, but said that the virus was now
Donald Trump has vowed to ban Chinese video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the US. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, the president said: “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States.” He did not specify how he intended to achieve what he described as a “severance”, but he
Former EastEnders star Dame Barbara Windsor has been placed in full-time residential care after her Alzheimer’s worsened during lockdown. Scott Mitchell, her husband of 20 years, said he had acted on the advice of her neurologist but the decision had still been immensely painful. He said the 82-year-old actress left the couple’s property in mid-July
The younger son of tycoon Rupert Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corporation, the media empire which his father founded. James Murdoch, 47, cited “disagreements over certain editorial content” published by its news outlets and “other strategic decisions”. The nature of the disagreements and the news outlets have not been disclosed. In January,