Rapper Silento has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking two strangers with a small axe. After walking into an unlocked home, he swung a hatchet at two people inside before one of them disarmed him, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Local reports say he was looking for his girlfriend. The
Month: September 2020
Virgin Atlantic says its £1.2bn rescue deal has been completed but that another 1,150 jobs will be cut across all functions. The news confirms a report by Sky’s City editor Mark Kleinman on Thursday night and comes less than four months after the carrier axed 3,150 roles and ended its Gatwick Airport operations. Chief executive
Leeds is now an “area of concern” after a rise in coronavirus cases, one of the city’s MPs Rachel Reeves has said. The “areas of concern” list is published every Friday, revealing how coronavirus is spreading broken down by region. Last week, Bury was one of the places where cases notably rose – up to
Climate change caused the rise and fall of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, according to a new mathematical model of monsoon patterns. The civilisation existed in the basins of the Indus River – spanning modern day northeast Afghanistan, most of Pakistan and northwestern India – and was contemporaneous with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It lasted
Twenty-two schools have been shut down in France and the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion due to coronavirus as cases soar in the country. More than 12 million pupils returned to classrooms in France on Tuesday but some parents and teachers’ unions have expressed concern over the reopening of schools as the spread
Airport testing is not a “silver bullet” that will end the need for quarantining, the transport secretary has told Sky News. Grant Shapps suggested the government was looking at cutting the amount of time travellers returning from higher-risk countries need to self-isolate for from 14 days to seven. Ministers are facing pressure from airports and
The discovery of at least 200 mammoth skeletons near Mexico City may help explain why the species became extinct, archaeologists have said. The elephant-like beast, which had tusks and, in some cases, a covering of long hair, lived from about five million years ago before disappearing in the last 4,000 years. Experts have been discovering
A prominent activist and professor of African American history at George Washington University has admitted that she has been pretending to be a black woman. Jessica Krug, 38, wrote on the blog website Medium that her various identities have been built on a “toxic soil of lies” and she is in fact a white Jewish
Donald Trump has denied allegations that he referred to American soldiers who lost their lives in war as “losers” and “suckers”. The claims date back to 2018 when the US president cancelled his trip to a cemetery in France, which was blamed on bad weather at the time. According to the The Atlantic, Mr Trump
More than 400 care home residents were dying every day with COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic, analysis has shown. In just one week in April, there were more than 3,000 coronavirus-related care home deaths in the UK, according to findings by the PA news agency. Deaths rose by 500% between the 1 and
Construction on HS2, the controversial high-speed railway, will get under way today, with a “shovels in the ground” moment. The government-owned company HS2 Ltd has not revealed the site of the event where breaking ground will take place, but it is understood Prime Minister Boris Johnson will attend. Mr Johnson said: “HS2 is at the
More than 100 million discounted meals have been claimed for under the government’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme, the chancellor has said. Rishi Sunak said the scheme had helped to protect 1.8 million hospitality jobs since it began on the first Monday in August. It provided diners with a state-funded 50% discount on food
Joe Biden has met the family of black man Jacob Blake who was shot seven times by a white police officer, sparking days of sometimes violent protests. The Democratic presidential nominee spent more than an hour in private with Mr Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr, his siblings and one of his lawyers, B’Ivory LaMarr in
The mayor of London has called on the government to publish data on the effectiveness of its new contact tracing app, saying he is “frustrated” by the “lack of information”. Speaking to Sky News in Newham, where the app is currently being trialled, Sadiq Khan said neither he nor officials at the London borough were
British actor Robert Pattinson has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, forcing filming of his new movie The Batman to be suspended in the UK. Warner Bros said a member of production had coronavirus and was isolating but has not confirmed the name of the individual. Vanity Fair and the Hollywood Reporter said the person who
Possible signs of life have been detected by Beirut rescue workers in the rubble of a building that collapsed after a huge explosion a month ago, a rescue worker said. A team with a rescue dog detected movement under a destroyed building in the Gemmayze area of the Lebanese capital, one of the worst hit