The clock strikes 4pm. You’ve been working for seven hours. It’s been another day you wish your boss was just about anyone else. Your watch seems to have stopped – and when it comes to passing the time, that looming project you could make a head-start on sounds like the least appealing thing in the
Month: November 2022
Elon Musk pledged to make getting rid of spam accounts one of his main priorities after buying Twitter – but there’s another mounting exodus that he perhaps did not intend. Fears over the SpaceX founder’s potentially loose stance on content moderation has plenty of genuine users considering their future on the platform, including some of
Boris Johnson has told Sky News that he does not think Vladimir Putin will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his war in Ukraine. There have been suggestions that the Russian president could carry out such a military strike as his forces continue to lose territory which they captured earlier in the invasion. But in
Rapper Takeoff has been shot dead at a party in Houston, Texas, his representative has confirmed. The 28-year-old Migos star was fatally shot at the private event, which was held at a bowling alley. Image: Takeoff performs on stage with Migos in 2018 PIC:AP Takeoff – whose real name is Kirshnik Khari Ball – was
Not getting enough sleep could increase the risk of developing irreversible eyesight loss, according to a new study. Too little shut-eye, daytime sleepiness, and snoring may all be linked to a heightened chance of glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness that research suggests will impact 112 million people worldwide within the next 20 years. It
Boris Johnson has confirmed he will attend COP27 in Egypt next week as question marks remain over whether the UK’s new prime minister will join him. In an exclusive interview for Sky News’ Ukraine: A Modern War programme, the former PM told Mark Austin he was “invited by the Egyptians” to the climate conference. And
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has had the whip suspended after a source close to him said he will be going on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. Mr Hancock will be jetting off to the jungle in Australia, reportedly as a latecomer to the reality TV show. Chief Whip Simon Hart MP
The announcement of the government’s economic plan was delayed from Halloween to 17 November last month, with the chancellor saying it will help ministers make “difficult decisions… that stand the test of time”. Jeremy Hunt said the announcement that was initially planned would be turned into a full autumn statement – expanding its remit and
The biggest Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) in eight years has been discovered hiding in the sun’s glare. It’s estimated at 1.5km wide – nearly a mile – a size that astronomers class as “planet killers” due to the damage they can cause. The rock is believed to be in the top 5% of largest-known PHAs.
SpaceX’s most powerful rocket is launching in a landmark mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It marks only the fourth take-off for the Falcon Heavy, its first in more than three years, and sees it fitted with three Falcon 9 boosters. The boosters, which regularly launch on their own to carry SpaceX‘s Starlink satellites up
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has rejected language used by the home secretary describing the increase of asylum seekers to the UK as an “invasion”. Suella Braverman told MPs yesterday that the public needs to know which party is serious about “stopping the invasion” of migrants on the southern coast of the UK. Mr Jenrick, when
BP has credited strong natural gas trading for strong quarterly profits of £7.1bn, which have fanned the flames around demands for stiffer windfall taxes. The oil and gas giant revealed third quarter profits of $8.2bn compared to $3.3bn in the same period a year earlier – boosted by high prices resulting from the impact of
South Korea’s police chief has said he feels a “heavy responsibility” over the stampede that left more than 150 people dead. Some 156 people were killed and 152 injured when thousands of Halloween partygoers became trapped in a 3.2-metre-wide alley in the Itaewon area of Seoul on Saturday night. Thirty of the injured are in