Russia’s biggest TV channel has launched a competition to find a woman to star in what it hopes will be the first feature film shot in space. Partnering with Russian space agency Roscosmos, Channel One aims to find a leading lady for the movie – provisionally titled “Challenge” – which will begin filming at the
Month: November 2020
Polling experts and election boffins tell us they never expected a winner to be announced on the night. But people across the world are now starting to wonder why – almost two day after polls closed – we still don’t know who will be the president of the United States. In a speech in the
Boris Johnson will hold a COVID-19 briefing later today after England entered lockdown for the second time. The prime minister will be joined at 5pm in Downing Street by Sir Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England. No new measures are expected to be announced but the pair will reflect on the new restrictions
The furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March, the chancellor has announced. Rishi Sunak made the announcement in a statement to MPs, telling them that the payments would remain at 80% of people’s wages. The policy will be reviewed in January, he told the Commons, to “decide whether economic circumstances are improving
European diplomats have been told that there are still “fundamental differences” in the hunt for a Brexit trade deal and that the UK has “blocked” progress in key areas while trying to run down the clock. The EU‘s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, briefed representatives from all 27 member states on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting
According to a joint assessment by US intelligence agencies, the Russian state sponsored a disinformation campaign which brought the integrity of the last presidential election into disrepute. Has anything similar been identified in 2020? Votes are still being counted in a number of key states and the margins for victory remain wafer-thin. It is in
Pollsters were chastised for incorrectly predicting a large Hillary Clinton win in 2016, yet they have they have got it wrong again. Millions of dollars are spent on looking at who will win a US presidential election, and by how much. Ahead of this year’s election, Joe Biden was predicted a safe win, with the
Scientists have detected mysterious and powerful radio signals originating from within the Milky Way. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a puzzling phenomenon first detected in 2007 – but previous observations have never identified them from within our own galaxy. They are brief, but incredibly powerful – emitting much more energy in a single millisecond that
WhatsApp is introducing a new feature that will make messages disappear after seven days. The feature – which is already available on encrypted messaging app Signal – is being introduced globally throughout November. When the feature is turned on, new messages sent within a chat will automatically delete after seven days – “helping the conversation
Donald Trump supporters – some armed with rifles and handguns – have descended on election counting centres where mail-in ballots continue to be tallied up. In the state of Arizona, a mostly unmasked crowd chanted “stop the steal” following unsubstantiated claims that votes for the Republican president were deliberately not being counted. US election 2020
A minister has admitted England’s coronavirus lockdown could be extended beyond 2 December. “We’ve got to follow the evidence,” Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told Kay Burley. “If there isn’t to be an extension of this we go back into the tier system anyway, so we’d leave on a regional or local basis. Please use Chrome
Captain Sir Tom Moore has called on the country to stand “shoulder to shoulder” as England enters a second lockdown. The Second World War veteran, who was knighted after raising more than £32m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, said the nation should pull together to get
Joe Biden is closing in on Donald Trump in the key battleground of Georgia, hoping to flip a third state from the Republicans and put himself within touching distancing of the White House. The Democrat challenger is now 31,000 votes behind – a much smaller gap than the 372,000 he trailed behind by 24 hours
The Bank of England is expected to launch another £100bn of quantitative easing on Thursday. The move, which would take the bank’s bond-buying programme up to £845bn, is an effort to strengthen the economy as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen. England entered a second national lockdown just after midnight and
The theory that prehistoric hunting was only for men looks like being a modern male sexist construct after a discovery at an ancient burial site in Peru.. The remains of a teenage girl who lived around 9,000 years ago were found, alongside a “well-stocked big-game hunting toolkit”. Previously it was thought that women were foragers
Along with the rest of England, people in the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield are beginning a new lockdown. Until 2 December, at least, the majority of households cannot mix indoors or outdoors, non-essential shops will close along with hospitality venues, beauty services and leisure facilities. In Wakefield, the prospect of another month under lockdown
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