Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison. David Mariuz | Pool | Getty Images Facebook users in Australia are slowly coming to terms with the fact that they’ll no longer be able to get their daily news updates on the platform. In a snap decision announced Wednesday, the social media giant said it was no longer going
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The huge pile near Gelendzhik on Russia’s Black Sea Coast which Alexei Navalny calls “Putin’s Palace” has a way of coming back to haunt the Russian president. In 2012, Boris Nemtsov, a former prime minister and fierce Putin critic, published a report detailing the wealth and luxurious properties the president had allegedly accumulated in his
Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from husband Kanye West after nearly seven years of marriage. A Los Angeles Superior Court spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that Kardashian filed the divorce papers on Friday. A representative for Kardashian, 40, also confirmed that she had filed papers. Entertainment websites E! News, TMZ and Variety first reported on
A United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) driver delivers boxes in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. e-commerce sales in 2020 grew more than 30% from 2019, according to quarterly figures released by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday, as the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide lockdowns
10:00 AM ET Last week, I ranked the top 100 prospects and all 30 farm systems heading into the 2021 season. Now it’s time to go deeper with my team-by-team rankings, wrapping up with the National League following Thursday’s American League lists. A quick refresher on a key term you’ll see throughout the team lists:
NASA has released new images of the Perseverance rover two metres above the surface of Mars as it gave more details of the mission. The space agency’s robot successfully landed on the Red Planet just before 1pm local time on Thursday. Speaking at a news briefing in California on Friday, NASA officials revealed the rover
The Duke of Edinburgh is likely to stay in hospital over the weekend and into next week for rest and observation, Sky News understands. It is also understood that Prince Philip remains in good spirits, and medics are acting out of an abundance of caution. The Duke, 99, was admitted to the King Edward VII
Glasgow Film Festival was one of the last red carpet events to take place before the prime minister announced the first lockdown last year. Twelve months on, the streets outside the city’s Film Theatre are covered in snow rather than a red carpet. Due to COVID-19, the festival is going virtual this year, which means
The pound passed US$1.40 on Friday for the first time in nearly three years. Just after 1.30pm, the pound was up 0.4% on the day but earlier it hit $1.4024 – its highest since 20 April, 2018. The UK’s rapid COVID-19 vaccination programme has sparked hopes that there might be a sharp economic recovery after
The boss of LloydsPharmacy is facing questions from a prominent MP about its treatment of employees as its American owner plots a £400m sale of the chain. Sky News has seen a letter from Robert Halfon, a member of the Conservatives’ 1922 Committee, to Toby Anderson, chief executive of McKesson UK, querying prospective changes to
SINGAPORE — JPMorgan says crude prices could see further upside ahead as oil continues to see strong gains so far this year. It comes against the backdrop of an improving global outlook as major economies press ahead with their ongoing coronavirus vaccination campaigns. “I think there’s room for oil prices to move a little bit
The government unlawfully failed to publish details of coronavirus-related contracts worth billions, the High Court has ruled. The Good Law Project launched a judicial review against the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over its “wholesale failure” to disclose details of the COVID-19-related contracts. Under law, the government has to publish a “contract award
Rocks – a film about women, directed, written and produced by women – has taken top prize at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). The movie, which handpicked its cast of unknown female leads from secondary schools around London, was the big winner on the night, claiming five awards. Named best British independent film, it
Sadiq Khan has received his first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and urged members of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities to follow suit, declaring: “I wouldn’t be taking the jab if I didn’t think it was safe.” The London mayor received a COVID-19 jab on Friday morning at a vaccine centre located inside
It’s been a big start to the year for US-based electric bicycle companies seeking large investments. The latest eight-digit funding deal is heading SUPER73’s way and will help the company build upon the massive growth their moped-style e-bike sales saw in 2020. Orange County, California-based SUPER73 landed the $20-million investment from Volition Capital, a Boston-based
To realise his dream of satellite-powered Internet, tech billionaire Elon Musk needs to install antennas around the world. In northern France, a village hopes he’ll decide to keep those antennas far away. Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, population 350, is none too thrilled to have been picked as a ground station for Musk’s Starlink project for broadband from space.