Dave Grohl has criticised the Trump administration’s plans to reopen US schools in the autumn, saying “teachers want to teach, not die”. The Foo Fighters frontman released an audio note titled “In Defence of Our Teachers”, arguing that reopening classrooms “could mean life or death for some”. Grohl, whose 82-year-old mother used to work as
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Boris Johnson is visiting Scotland claiming the “sheer might of our union” has strengthened the fight against coronavirus north of the border. In a trip billed as kick-starting a campaign to save the union, he will tell Scots that if they stick with Britain they will continue to benefit from huge economic support. But the
Liverpool have lifted the Premier League trophy for the first time after waiting 30 years to win a league title. Jurgen Klopp’s men have finally placed their hands on the silverware nearly a month after they were crowned champions. The Merseyside club have lifted the trophy after defeating Chelsea 5-3 at Anfield stadium. Fireworks could
The spectre of a new stay-at-home order haunts the streets of West Hollywood. The small city of 30,000 people, squeezed between Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, is experiencing the same dramatic surge in coronavirus cases as the rest of its neighbours. And, four months after officials in LA were among the first in the country
The UK pilots’ union says it is reluctantly recommending its members at British Airways (BA) accept a deal to avert more than 1,200 job losses. BALPA said an agreement, following almost three months of negotiations with the airline, was the best that could be achieved and still result in about 270 compulsory redundancies. Sky News
NHS England’s coronavirus contact-tracing app could be revamped with new features designed to bring “personal benefits” to users, Sky News can reveal. The proposed features include “Fitbit-style” alerts letting people know whether they might have been at risk of catching coronavirus, and “check-ins” with QR codes at the entrances of businesses, according to a person
7:29 AM ET MIKE BROWN WAS sitting at a desk in Jorge Masvidal‘s Las Vegas hotel room. It was July 5, hours before Brown was scheduled to accompany Masvidal on a flight to “Fight Island” for UFC 251. While Brown, one of American Top Team’s head MMA coaches, was on his laptop, Masvidal’s manager, Abe
Boris Johnson has told MPs there was “no smoking gun” in the Russia report, as Sir Keir Starmer claimed the prime minister “sat on” the “extremely serious” document. The Intelligence and Security Committee’s report into the threat posed by Moscow to UK democracy dominated exchanges between the PM and Labour leader at the final PMQs
People in care homes are set to be reunited with family members after the government said visits will once again be allowed. Care home visits, which had been halted during the coronavirus crisis, will resume once local officials decide it is safe to do so. The government published new guidance on Wednesday for how care
It has been described as a right-wing conspiracy theory, an emerging religious movement, and even as a domestic terrorism threat in one FBI bulletin – but what exactly is QAnon? Put simply, QAnon is a surprisingly popular hoax based on the cryptic posts of an individual or group purporting to possess inside knowledge of the
Amber Heard says Johnny Depp hurled “30 or so glass bottles” at her “like grenades”, during a “three-day hostage situation” she alleges took place in Australia in March 2015. On day three of the actress’s testimony in the witness box, Heard told the court the room was left covered with broken glass and that the
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory have taken the first ever direct photograph of a sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. The image was captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile which has has one of the most sophisticated planet-hunting instruments in existence, known as SPHERE. Capturing a direct image of a
The UK and US have agreed to end the “anomaly” that allowed the woman suspected of causing Harry Dunn’s death to claim diplomatic immunity. A court heard last month that the “secret agreement” permitted Anne Sacoolas to return to her home country after a road crash which killed the 19-year-old in August last year outside
Police in Australia asked a woman to remove tampon during a strip search, an official report has found. The request was made during one of a number of personal body searches that were documented in a report into misconduct by the New South Wales Police Force. The report by the New South Wales (NSW) Law
The boss of a drugs company that has agreed to deliver up to 100 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine to the UK has told Sky News there is a more than 50% chance of it reaching patients. Thomas Lingelbach, chief executive of France-based Valneva, also told Sky’s Ian King Live that he did
Researchers from University of Warwick in the UK rediscovered the planet named NGTS-11b using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) telescopes in Chile. The planet was originally found in 2018 using data from NASA’s TESS telescope, which scans for a dip in light from the star to identify it as a planet. At the time, due