Tracey Emin has revealed she was diagnosed with cancer and had a stoma operation earlier this year. In a new interview, the British artist said she had “half my body chopped out, including half my vagina” after being diagnosed during lockdown. Speaking to art market news site Artnet, the 57-year-old said she had been working
Month: October 2020
Two adults and two young children who drowned when their migrant boat capsized in the English Channel were members of a Kurdish-Iranian family who were warned not to undertake the perilous voyage, Sky News has been told. The family – who have been named by a human rights group as Rasoul Iran-Nejad, 35, Shiva Mohammad
Ericsson will supply equipment for BT’s 5G network in major UK cities, including London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff. The Swedish firm’s equipment is expected to manage around half of 5G traffic for BT and its main brand EE, with Nokia already having been announced as another partner in the project. BT’s chief technology and information
A mastectomy support group on Facebook says it faces a “constant battle” with the social media platform to keep its page open, despite not posting content which breaks any of the company’s rules. Jay Walker, the founder of the Mastectomy Network page, said several images have been removed from the page, despite Facebook‘s community guidelines
The whole of Nottinghamshire will go into Tier 3 lockdown on Friday, Sky News understands. Nottingham City, Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe council areas had already been preparing to enter Tier 3 restrictions at midnight tonight. The exact details of the measures were expected to be announced on Tuesday. Instead, the entire county will go into
Early indications are that the polls have been proved wrong, but Joe Biden has the momentum going forward. The former vice president has regained some of the states lost by Hillary Clinton in 2016 and may have pulled of a historic victory in at least one formerly red state. The election is still yet to
NASA’s Perseverance rover is now halfway to Mars – having flown 146 million miles (235 million km). Although the spacecraft has travelled half the distance it needs to cover to land on Mars, it isn’t perfectly between the Earth and Mars as the journey between two planets doesn’t take a straight line. Instead, the rover
Comic Relief will stop sending celebrities to film appeals in Africa after criticism of “white saviour” stereotypes. It comes after TV presenter and Strictly Come Dancing winner Stacey Dooley travelled to the continent for the charity last year, prompting accusations that she was perpetuating “tired and unhelpful stereotypes”. Labour MP David Lammy, who is of
The FTSE 100 has fallen to its lowest level in six months as fears grow that the UK may need a national lockdown to limit the spread of COVID-19. The index fell 1.9% in the first few hours of Wednesday trading, while the domestically-focused FTSE 250 lost 1.5% to hit its lowest point in more
Kim Kardashian West has angered social media users with pictures of her “humble” birthday celebrations on a private island. The reality TV star, who recently turned 40, has been called “insensitive” for sharing a series of snaps from the luxury birthday break, made possible by two weeks of “multiple health screens” for her closest circle.
Facebook, Google and Twitter are going to be questioned by Republican senators on Wednesday over allegations the platforms are biased against conservatives. Just days ahead of the US election, the chief executives of the three companies will appear remotely before the Senate commerce committee. President Donald Trump has ordered a review of legal protections for
The government is in danger of leaving it “too late” for a short national lockdown to be effective in driving down the rate of coronavirus infections, a member of its scientific advisory group has warned. Professor Andrew Hayward, from UCL’s institute of epidemiology and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), told Sky News
Mountain gorillas remember old friends and are friendly to each other even after a decade of separation, research has found. Gorillas live in familial groups, foraging, resting, and sleeping together, but these groups sometimes split permanently, separating gorillas that may have lived together for years. They tend to react aggressively when another group strays into
The chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce has said the first generation of COVID-19 vaccines “is likely to be imperfect” and that they “might not work for everyone”. Writing in The lancet, Kate Bingham said no vaccine in the history of medicine “has been as eagerly anticipated” and that “vaccination is widely regarded as the
Blue tarpaulin sheets covering the roofs of thousands of homes flap in the warm Louisiana wind as workmen clear away broken tiles and window frames. Outside the houses, huge piles of sodden carpets, broken electrical appliances, sofas, chairs and beds tumble onto the streets already clogged by fallen telegraph poles and trees. It’s over two
The Donald Trump campaign website has been hacked. The website’s “About” page was briefly replaced by a message which stated: “the world has had enough of the fake-news spreaded (sic) daily by president donald j trump.” It appeared to be an unsophisticated scam aimed at collecting cryptocurrency. There was no clue to the identity of
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