Further details of a heated row between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on a private plane back in 2016 have been revealed, in newly revealed FBI documents. The report, which has not been made public, says Pitt accused Jolie of “ruining this family” during the confrontation, and also says the dispute became physical at times.
Month: August 2022
A union boss has warned rail strikes will continue until a settlement is reached as the latest walkout by workers caused widespread disruption for train passengers. Speaking to Sky News, RMT chief Mick Lynch said his members were “completely committed to the cause” and would “keep going” in their long-running dispute over pay, jobs and
Book sales for Sir Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses have surged after the author was stabbed at an event in the US last week. The contentious 1988 book, which was considered blasphemous by some Muslims, rose to number eight on Amazon’s chart of most-sold fiction books of the week and was sold out by
Liz Truss is set to win the Tory leadership contest by a decisive margin next month, according to an exclusive Sky News poll that gives the foreign secretary a 32-point lead over rival Rishi Sunak. The poll also shows that the legacy and personality of Boris Johnson is likely to loom large over the next
An Ofgem director has quit over the electricity and gas regulator’s decision to change the way it calculates the energy price cap, which she said will lead to much higher bills. The regulator confirmed to Sky News that Christine Farnish had stepped down from the board after disagreeing with the rest of its members over
A man who allegedly stabbed Sir Salman Rushdie has reportedly said he didn’t think the writer would survive. Hadi Matar, 24, denies charges of attempted murder and assault after the author was seriously injured as he was about to give a talk in Chautauqua, New York state, last Friday. The 75-year-old Indian-born Briton has had
The government has been allowed to keep parts of internal documents about Rwanda secret as part of a High Court challenge against plans to deport asylum seekers there. A handful of charities and several asylum seekers are challenging the Home Office over proposals to provide one-way tickets to the east African country for those who
Floods have left homes, businesses and streets under water in parts of the UK, as “danger to life” flood warnings have been issued by the Met Office Thunderstorms continue around the country, and downpours caused flooding inside London’s Victoria Station and outside King’s Cross Station, with videos showing cars and buses driving through huge puddles.
Freed hostages were able to give British police key information identifying an IS kidnap gang nicknamed “The Beatles” which had held and tortured them, Scotland Yard has revealed. Officers have disclosed key breakthroughs that allowed them to identify the jihadis and bring two of them to trial in the US. It included vital details from
This summer’s heatwave could have been bad for British bumblebees, according to new analysis that studied long-dead collections of bees held in museums. Bumblebees have endured nearly a century of stress, possibly due to hotter, wetter conditions the research shows, but new DNA techniques may help focus future conservation efforts. Researchers from Imperial College London
A 44-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death on his mobility scooter. The man was arrested at an address in Southall, west London, in the early hours of Thursday and remains in custody, police said. Thomas O’Halloran, 87, was attacked on a road in nearby Greenford on
Republican Liz Cheney has said she is “thinking about” running for president in 2024 after losing her seat in Congress to a Trump-backed candidate from her own party. The 56-year-old, who is the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, also said holding on to her Wyoming seat would have meant she had to “perpetuate
The city of Kherson, on the banks of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, was taken by Russian forces without much fight in early March, days after the invasion started. It remains Russia‘s biggest victory in the war and still one of the only major cities that its forces have managed to capture. In recent
Microsoft has confirmed to Sky News that criminals are posting counterfeit packages designed to appear like Office products in order to defraud people. One such package seen by Sky News is manufactured to a convincing standard and contains an engraved USB drive, alongside a product key. But the USB does not install Microsoft Office when
Donald Trump’s social media app Truth Social has surged in popularity following the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate. The app rose 66 places in the Apple App store from number 76 to 15 on 9 August, the day after agents searched his home. They were looking for boxes of classified information taken there after
Most people who were infected with the Omicron variant didn’t even realise they had COVID-19, according to a new study from Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in the US. The lack of public awareness about being infected means that people can’t take steps to prevent themselves transmitting the virus further, which is a major stumbling block for
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