Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has raised more than $3m (£2.1m) for Texans struggling with recent extreme weather in the state. The Democrat Congresswoman from New York announced the landmark on Twitter on Saturday after she travelled to Houston to help the recovery effort. Hundreds of thousands of Texans have been struggling with the fallout of a winter
Month: February 2021
Russia has recorded the world’s first cases of humans being infected with the H5N8 strain of bird flu. The cases were confirmed by Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, on Saturday. Seven poultry workers in the south of Russia were infected in December but have since recovered and “the situation did not develop
Billie Eilish has been granted a temporary restraining order against an alleged stalker accused of sending her a letter containing a death threat. In court documents obtained by NBC News, the 19-year-old singer claims the man, John Hearle, 23, had camped outside a school across the street from her home in Los Angeles. Eilish said
A specialist finance provider advised by David Cameron, the former prime minister, is in talks with the giant American investment firm Apollo Global Management about a multibillion dollar deal. Sky News has learnt that Apollo is among a number of parties in discussions with Greensill Capital, a London-based firm set up by Lex Greensill a
The prime minister is still aiming to reopen all schools in England next month despite concerns from teachers and scientists. Ahead of an announcement about easing coronavirus lockdown on Monday, Downing Street refused to be drawn on specific reports that more extensive outdoor socialising could be allowed by Easter, including suggestions that two households will
Millions of people in parts of the southern US are having to boil water before drinking it after ruptured pipes caused by record low temperatures may have contaminated the water supply. In Texas, seven million people – a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state – were under orders to boil tap water
Tech giant Google has fired the head of its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics programme, claiming she had broken the rules on moving files outside of the company. Margaret Mitchell tweeted the she had been let go by the firm on Friday, with the move coming a month after she had publicly vented about the way
Burnt-out NHS staff will be offered more support from military medics as they prepare to cope with a new wave of non-COVID patients, the defence secretary has told Sky News. Ben Wallace said “exhausted” staff would be given help as they start to come out of the worst of COVID-19 but are forced to confront
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were undoubtedly one of the most powerful couples in the world, using their wealth, fame and sometimes infamy, to capture global attention. On Friday, Kardashian, 40, decided to call it quits on their six-and-a-half-year marriage, filing divorce papers in Los Angeles. The couple started dating around April 2012, but had
The travel industry has called on the government to introduce vaccine passports and relax its travel advice as part of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown. In a letter to the prime minister, the travel association ABTA said: “We know that it is too early to put a specific date on the return to international
The huge pile near Gelendzhik on Russia’s Black Sea Coast which Alexei Navalny calls “Putin’s Palace” has a way of coming back to haunt the Russian president. In 2012, Boris Nemtsov, a former prime minister and fierce Putin critic, published a report detailing the wealth and luxurious properties the president had allegedly accumulated in his
Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from husband Kanye West after nearly seven years of marriage. A Los Angeles Superior Court spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that Kardashian filed the divorce papers on Friday. A representative for Kardashian, 40, also confirmed that she had filed papers. Entertainment websites E! News, TMZ and Variety first reported on
NASA has released new images of the Perseverance rover two metres above the surface of Mars as it gave more details of the mission. The space agency’s robot successfully landed on the Red Planet just before 1pm local time on Thursday. Speaking at a news briefing in California on Friday, NASA officials revealed the rover
The Duke of Edinburgh is likely to stay in hospital over the weekend and into next week for rest and observation, Sky News understands. It is also understood that Prince Philip remains in good spirits, and medics are acting out of an abundance of caution. The Duke, 99, was admitted to the King Edward VII
Glasgow Film Festival was one of the last red carpet events to take place before the prime minister announced the first lockdown last year. Twelve months on, the streets outside the city’s Film Theatre are covered in snow rather than a red carpet. Due to COVID-19, the festival is going virtual this year, which means
The pound passed US$1.40 on Friday for the first time in nearly three years. Just after 1.30pm, the pound was up 0.4% on the day but earlier it hit $1.4024 – its highest since 20 April, 2018. The UK’s rapid COVID-19 vaccination programme has sparked hopes that there might be a sharp economic recovery after
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