Police continue to negotiate with a man barricaded in a flat in Sheffield who allegedly has weapons. Officers were first called to a block of flats in Broad Street at around 7pm on Monday to deal with a man said to be “a risk to himself”. Residents were evacuated and spent Monday night at a
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Elon Musk joined Donald Trump in the Oval Office as the US president signed an executive order allowing the tech billionaire to make large-scale reductions in the federal workforce. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory group, Mr Musk says he wants to add “common sense controls” to government and ensure
An American teacher sentenced to 14 years in a Russian jail has been released and is flying home to be reunited with his family. Marc Fogel, 63, was pictured on a flight to the US on Tuesday – more than three years after he was arrested in Moscow for drug smuggling. He was detained after
Donald Trump has doubled down on US plans to take over Gaza in a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House. The meeting came the day after the president said he would withhold aid to Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries if they refused to take in people forcibly displaced from Gaza.
King Charles will host the prime minister and the first ministers of the devolved governments at Windsor Castle on Wednesday night, Sky News understands. The monarch has invited John Swinney, the Scottish first minister, to the Berkshire royal residence, along with Northern Irish First Minister Michelle O’Neill, Northern Irish Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and
In this article @RB.1 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A person fills up a fuel tank at a pay-at-the-pump gasoline station in Edmonton, on January 30, 2025, in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s threatened tariffs on Canadian crude oil imports could raise gasoline prices for U.S.
Tesla has started production at its new Megafactory in Shanghai, its second such factory, and it is starting to ship to its first customer. Energy storage has been Tesla’s silver lining over the last few quarters. While its main business, the automotive business, has been shrinking in both revenue and margins, its energy storage business
As automakers brace for new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, Ford’s CEO Jim Farley is warning the extra costs would be “devastating.” Farley said the additional tariffs, which could go into effect as soon as March 1, would be a “blow a hole” in the US auto industry. Ford CEO says Trump tariffs
Three of the world’s biggest football clubs are being urged to drop their sponsorship deals with Visit Rwanda by the government of neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The United Nations recently said almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in DRC after M23 rebels, backed by some 4,000 troops from neighbouring Rwanda,
Sir Salman Rushdie has described in court the moment he was attacked on stage. The British-Indian author, who was stabbed as he was preparing to give a speech on 12 August 2022, took the stand in a New York courtroom to give evidence against the man charged over the attack. Rushdie, 77, was blinded in
The Church of England has voted to increase oversight of safeguarding measures – but stopped short of creating an independent body. Members of the General Synod, the Church’s parliament, voted for the new measures for handling abuse allegations as it tries to restore trust among survivors after multiple scandals. The five-day meeting of the Synod
The AI summit in Paris is a coming together of world leaders and technology firms designed to shape a responsible and sustainable future for artificial intelligence. But the big political day of the summit was overshadowed by a bust-up between rival billionaire tech-bros. Timed perfectly to coincide with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s arrival in
Elon Musk’s bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4bn (£78.7bn) came unsolicited on Monday night and was quickly rejected by his former friend and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. “The company is not for sale, neither is the mission,” Mr Altman said to Sky News this morning. “We’ll happily buy Twitter though.” Read more: OpenAI co-founder
The city of Hangzhou in southern China is one of the country’s leading technology hubs, and home to the groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek. Think of Hangzhou as a Chinese version of Silicon Valley. The headquarters of DeepSeek is on the twelfth floor of a modern office building. Image: The headquarters of DeepSeek are
Policing has been left in a “hopeless position” following a High Court ruling that forces cannot dismiss officers by removing their vetting clearance, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said. The court ruled against the force in what has been described as a “test case” that will have major implications for the sacking of
The UK is currently gripped by gloomy and chilly weather. Temperatures are a “good few degrees” below where they should be for this time of year, according to the Met Office, and various places such as Northumberland and County Durham have already been covered in snow. What is causing this spell of cold weather, and
Cats in a rural Lincolnshire village have allegedly been returning home with parts of their fur shaved off, police have said in an appeal. In Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, the claims had been brought to the attention of local officers who appealed for anyone affected to come forward. In a Facebook post, South Holland Police said while
The Moon’s surface continues to undergo changes, as indicated by newly identified wrinkle ridges on its far side. Recent findings suggest that the Moon is still cooling and contracting, resulting in surface deformations that may have implications for future lunar missions. The discovery of 266 wrinkle ridges, all estimated to have formed within the past
The world’s most powerful supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. Built at a cost of $600 million, the system has been designed to manage highly classified national security tasks. The primary objective of the supercomputer is to ensure the security and reliability of the U.S.
Google Maps has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America, after Donald Trump passed an executive order renaming the body of water in the eyes of the US. The US-based company previously said it would change the name of the oceanic basin once it was updated in the US
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