It was always going to be a long and painful afternoon for David Cameron. And it couldn’t have been much worse. But he didn’t help himself by being evasive, long-winded and giving some answers to questions that will be challenged and disputed. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Greensill paid ‘far
Cases of the Indian coronavirus variant in the UK have more than doubled in the past week, according to figures from Public Health England (PHE). Data published on Thursday showed there are 1,313 cases of the VOC-21APR-02 variant in the country – up from the 520 recorded the previous week. The COVID-19 strategic response director
The much-anticipated Friends reunion will be broadcast on 27 May, HBO has announced. Friends: The Reunion, which will feature all six members of the original cast, was supposed to have been filmed over a year ago but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The unscripted, one-off special was instead filmed earlier this year on
Sun Tribe Development is taking on a unique opportunity to be the first to generate large-scale renewable power on the coalfields of Central Appalachia, Energy News Network reports. Described as a breakout moment for the region, the plan is to have up to 75 megawatts of solar power capacity across hundreds of acres of deforested
Ford is bringing a software update to its vehicles, starting with the Mustang Mach-E electric crossover and F150 pickup. The automaker is using its new over-the-air software capacity to follow Tesla into in-car gaming and add Amazon Alexa integration. Tesla pioneered the concept of bringing over-the-air software updates inside vehicles. It gave the automaker an
7:43 AM ET UFC 262 headliner Charles Oliveira has come a long way from being told by a doctor he would never walk again, and that he would require the use of a wheelchair because of illnesses he contracted at the age of 7. On Saturday night in a packed Toyota Center in Houston, Oliveira
Israel has assembled thousands of troops at the Gaza border, as it prepares for a possible ground operation while airstrikes continue on both sides. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has called up 7,000 reservists, cancelled all weekend leave for combat soldiers and is at “various stages of preparing ground operations”, a spokesperson told The Times
In this article GOOGL Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google announced
Barry Jenkins’ new limited series The Underground Railroad has been a long time coming for the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who says he has always wanted to make something related to the “American condition of slavery”. The show is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which re-imagines the underground railroad – a network
7:59 AM ET Canelo Alvarez once again showed why he’s almost unbeatable by making Billy Joe Saunders quit in his corner after eight rounds. Is Alvarez the current best fighter in the world? There’s a good argument to be made for the super middleweight unified champion. A former great, Floyd Mayweather, killed two birds with
David Cameron has said he was paid a “generous annual amount” which was “far more than I earned as prime minister” to lobby on behalf of a now-collapsed financial services firm. Mr Cameron is appearing in front of two Commons committees to answer questions about his actions on behalf of Greensill Capital. Follow lives updates
Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano will be the next tourists to travel to the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said Thursday. Maezawa and Hirano will travel aboard a Russian “Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft that is scheduled for launch on December 8, 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome” in Kazakhstan,
The world’s largest travel firm has warned it may be forced to cancel holiday flights to Portugal, just as the UK allows them again, because of a continuing EU ban on non-essential travel from countries outside the bloc. TUI, which told Sky News earlier this week that people were giving up on booking a break
The UK is “anxious” about the Indian COVID variant and the government is “ruling nothing out” when it comes to tackling its spread, the prime minister has said. Boris Johnson said the COVID-19 variant “has been spreading” and the UK wants to “grip it”. Live COVID updates from the UK and around the world “We
A team of researchers at Stanford University have, for the first time, decoded brain activity related to writing by hand. To further explore this, the researchers collaborated with a participant with paralysis who had sensors implanted in his brain. The team then used an algorithm that identified the letters the participant imagined and attempted to
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response and the ongoing vaccination program at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on May 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at strengthening U.S. cybersecurity defenses, a move that follows a series