Harry and Meghan have signed a deal with Netflix to create documentaries, feature films and other shows. It comes after the couple made the shock announcement that they were stepping back as senior royals earlier this year. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be producing films and series for the streaming platform, including scripted
Month: September 2020
The chancellor has had his notes snapped on camera – revealing that there will be no “horror show of tax rises” but there are “difficult things” to come. Rishi Sunak became the latest minister to fail to hide important documents as he emerged through the front door of 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. He was
Britain’s biggest airport could axe a quarter of its frontline staff after months of talks with trade unions about employee pay and conditions failed to land an agreement. Sky News has learnt that Heathrow Airport informed union officials on Wednesday afternoon that it was issuing a formal Section 188 notice, triggering a 45-day consultation period
Scientists have detected the most massive source of gravitational waves which has ever been recorded, and aren’t completely sure what caused it. Every previously observed gravitational wave signal has been detected from some kind of merger between two massive objects, whether black holes or neutron stars. “Although this event is consistent with being from an
Hospital tests have shown Putin critic Alexei Navalny was “without doubt” poisoned with a nerve agent from the novichok group, the German government has said. Tests performed on samples taken from the Russian opposition leader from his hospital bed in Berlin showed the presence of the Soviet-era agent, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert
A cheap and widely available steroid has been found to reduce mortality in the sickest COVID-19 patients. Hydrocortisone, an anti-inflammatory drug, could save one in every 12 patients and will be recommended for use in NHS coronavirus patients. It is the second drug found to be effective in reducing mortality in those with severe symptoms
A robot dog is being trialled as a way of taking patients’ vital signs to minimise the risks posed to health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are investigating the use of robots and have been using Spot – the good boy produced
A fake left-wing news organisation operated by the Russian agency accused of interfering in the US election in 2016 has been uncovered and banned by Facebook. The fake organisation – which said it was operated by people who didn’t really exist and whose images were artificially generated – was established this May, and was running
The UK has fallen 13 places down the global broadband speed rankings and is now among the slowest in western Europe, according to new figures. An annual table compiled by Cable.co.uk showed Britain falling to 47th place, down from 34th a year ago. The figures suggest it would typically take twice as long to download
Travellers from mainland Portugal and parts of Greece will have to isolate when arriving in Wales but not England. The two nations made different decisions at the weekly point when their quarantine lists are normally updated. There was speculation about what would happen to Portugal given COVID-19 cases there rose to 23 per 100,000 people
In the Rio Grande Valley, it’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been touched by COVID-19. The pandemic ravaged the region – an overwhelmingly Hispanic area, where poverty, poor health and close-knit families put them on a collision course. Dr Ivan Melendez, from Hidalgo County Health Authority, describes how obesity and diabetes have contributed to
Kaing Guek Eav, the man who admitted to overseeing the mass torture and killing of thousands of Cambodians as the head of the prison system for the Khmer Rouge, has died. Duch, as he was known. died in a Cambodian hospital on Wednesday morning after having difficulty breathing, according to a spokesperson. He had been
Tom Cruise has reportedly forked out £500,000 to rent out an entire cruise ship in Norway, in an effort to stop any more delays to the filming of his latest movie. The next Mission: Impossible instalment is being filmed across Europe but production was halted when large parts of the continent closed down due to
Men with larger waists or concentrations of fat around the belly are more likely to die of prostate cancer, new research has suggested. But the study of more than 200,000 men in the UK, carried out by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, at the University of Oxford found that there was no
Boris Johnson has been branded “heartless” by families of coronavirus victims after failing to honour a pledge to meet them. He has been accused of a U-turn less than a week after he said “of course” he would meet representatives of relatives of COVID-19 victims. Mr Johnson has dismayed campaigners by telling them in a
Donald Trump has accused protesters of carrying out acts of “domestic terror” after a white police officer was filmed shooting a black man in the back in Wisconsin. The US president made the remarks on a visit to the city of Kenosha, where Jacob Blake, 29, was left paralysed from the waist down following the