Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy. Jones, the founder of far-right conspiracy website InfoWars, owes nearly $1.5bn in damages to families of victims who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting. He was sued after he accused the relatives of children and teachers who died of being actors who faked the massacre. Jones,
Month: December 2022
Strippers in Edinburgh have told Sky News the council’s decision to ban sexual entertainment venues (SEVs) will financially devastate them, as the clubs and the union launch a judicial review to challenge the shutdown of the city’s clubs. Three Edinburgh clubs (Baby Dolls, The Western and Burke and Hare) and the United Sex Workers (USW)
Sajid Javid has announced he will not stand in the next general election, saying being an MP had been “the privilege of [his] life”. The former chancellor, who has held a number of senior roles in government alongside his Bromsgrove seat, is the most high-profile Tory MP to decide to step down at the next
A fourth child has been confirmed to have died from a Strep A infection. The death of Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, who was four, was announced by his school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on 17 November. Health officials have now confirmed that he had invasive Group A streptococcus (iGas). He was described as a “wonderful, kind,
Sir Elton John is to headline Glastonbury Festival next year in his final ever gig in the UK on his last tour after more than 50 years on the road. The Rocket Man singer will play the Pyramid Stage on the last night of the festival, which runs from 21-25 June. Sir Elton said he
Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter after he tweeted an image of a swastika, hours after he praised Hitler and made antisemitic jokes in an interview with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The American rapper, 45, who has legally changed his name to Ye, was only allowed back on to the social media platform
Prince William will be greeted by President Biden on the final day of his trip to Boston. The Prince and Princess of Wales are in the northeastern city to announce the winners of the Earthshot Prize. The couple’s three-day visit has been overshadowed by the Buckingham Palace race row and the surprise release of Harry
Ukraine’s armed forces have lost up to 13,000 soldiers so far in the war against Russia, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has said. His comments are believed to be the first estimate of dead since late August, when the head of the armed forces said nearly 9,000 military personnel had been killed. “We have official figures
This wasn’t just a bad result for the Conservatives and Rishi Sunak, it was a disaster. The Tory share of the vote in the City of Chester by-election slumped to only 22.4%. Tory MPs in red wall seats in the north of England will be even more despondent about their prospects at the next general
The first trailer has been released for the new Indiana Jones movie – with the title now revealed as The Dial Of Destiny. Harrison Ford is back at age 80 as the famous whip-cracking archaeologist, more than 40 years after first playing the character. Chase sequences, Nazi villains, a huge rolling boulder, and Ford riding
The host of a conference in Kyiv alerted guests that air raid sirens were sounding, before assuring them they were safe and the event would carry on as planned. It is a small example of how people across Ukraine are learning to cope with the unpredictability of war while carrying on with their lives in
A golfer has been accused of biting off the nose of his competitor in a casino car park during an argument over their game, police have said. The suspect Mark Wells, 51, of Biloxi, Mississippi, initially fled the scene before turning himself in, Bay St Louis police chief Toby Schwartz said. The nose was not
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said whenever we see racism “we must confront it” following the race row engulfing Buckingham Palace. A black domestic abuse campaigner from London said she was repeatedly asked where she “really came from” by Prince William‘s godmother during a reception at the palace this week. Although he refused to comment
Ever since April, when HSBC’s biggest single shareholder, Ping An, began lobbying the lender to spin off its Asian operations into a separate business, there has been speculation over what has motivated the Chinese insurer to do so. Some, including a number of analysts covering the banking sector, have speculated that Ping An, which owns
A mega-tsunami on Mars could have been triggered by an asteroid strike similar to the devastating blow that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The giant wave, measuring up to 250 metres in height, was created about 3.4 billion years ago by the impact of an asteroid or comet in a shallow ocean
The trailer for Harry and Meghan’s new documentary series has been released. The one-minute preview, released by Netflix, features previously unseen black and white photographs of the couple set to music. They are heard being asked “Why did you want to make this documentary?” to which Harry replies: “No one sees what’s happening behind closed