Coronavirus infections across the UK appear to have dropped significantly, according to the government’s daily data. In the last week there have been 121,306 cases of coronavirus recorded, a 25% drop on the week before, which saw 163,061 infections. The figures come as 17,555 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours along with 498
Month: November 2020
A teenager arrested as an 11-year-old in an incident that sparked huge condemnation in the US has died from COVID-19. Honestie Hodges, 14, died on Sunday in a children’s hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, her grandmother said. Alisa Niemeyer wrote on a GoFundMe fundraising page: “It is with an extremely heavy heart that I have
Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla plans to launch ‘special colors’ for the new Roadster electric supercar. What color options do you want to see? When Tesla first unveiled the next-generation Tesla Roadster in 2017, Musk said that it will come to market in 2020. Now that we are at the end of 2020, it’s clear
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is to replace Johnny Depp as the evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the third Fantastic Beasts film, Warner Bros has announced. Depp was forced to quit the role after losing his libel trial against The Sun earlier this month. It comes after a judge refused him permission to appeal against the
SpaceX will continue beta testing its satellite-based broadband service Starlink into next year, the company said late Tuesday, indicating commercial service would not likely be offered in 2020 as previously planned. Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space exploration company, has launched nearly 900 Starlink satellites to orbit since 2019 with the goal of offering
A former porter at Great Ormond Street Hospital has been charged with sex offences against children. Paul Farrell, 55, of Camden, north London, faces 84 charges including rape, attempted rape, sexual assault of a child under 13, and indecent assault on a male, police said. The charges relate to seven victims, with the alleged offences
Millions of people are facing tough new COVID restrictions as the government brings in a tier system in England that for large parts of the country could be as strict as the national lockdown. Boris Johnson is facing a potentially damaging rebellion by dozens of Conservative MPs who are bitterly opposed to their constituencies being
Donald Trump has pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Retired Army general Flynn who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He was one of
A judge has refused Johnny Depp permission to appeal a court’s ruling that he assaulted ex-wife Amber Heard. Earlier this month a High Court judge rejected the Hollywood star’s claim that a newspaper had committed libel when it called him a “wife-beater.” Judge Andrew Nicol said the article in The Sun was “substantially true”. Depp
Attendees at Amazon.com Inc annual cloud computing conference walk past the Amazon Web Services logo in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 30, 2017. Salvador Rodriguez | Reuters Amazon‘s cloud-computing service on Wednesday was hit with an outage that took down some websites and services. A notice on Amazon Web Services’ status page said it was
US fashion model Halima Aden – who has fronted campaigns for the likes of Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty and Kanye West’s Yeezy – is quitting runway shows, saying the industry has forced her to compromise her religion. When Aden made her modelling debut at New York Fashion week in 2017, aged just 19, she became an
Amazon offers the Greenworks 40V Cordless Pressure Washer for $194.99 shipped. That’s down from the usual $260 price tag and a new Amazon all-time low. This model arrives with an all-in-one design that’s fully cordless, making it a great option for small cleanup jobs where you don’t want to lug around a larger hose. Offers
Alphabet‘s self-driving car company Waymo is asking drivers to agree to stricter Covid-19 safety protocols, adding that it may not be able to afford continuing to pay employees in the future, especially if it has to shut down services again. Leadership from Waymo and its contractor, transportation company Transdev, sent drivers and support staff an
Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla is recalling more than 9,500 of its Model X and Model Y electric vehicles over potentially faulty roof trim and bolts that could be inadequately tightened. The company’s stock traded about 1% lower in the premarket
Government secrecy over its new border operating system is hindering the country’s Brexit preparations, according to haulage industry bosses who labelled the process a “complete shambles”. In a letter seen exclusively by Sky News, the Road Haulage Association (RHA) has warned Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove that delays in sharing the new IT software with
Stewart Butterfield (C), co-founder and chief executive officer of Slack, and Allen Shim (2nd L), chief financial officer of Slack, ring the opening bell the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), June 20, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Shares of Slack rose more than 29% Wednesday following a Wall Street Journal
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