At lunchtime on New Year’s Eve, Sky News counted 24 ambulances parked outside the A&E department at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. A nurse from inside the hospital was coming out to check on patients who were waiting in the ambulances receiving treatment from paramedics. A member of ambulance staff told Sky News that their
Month: December 2022
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will turn its focus on science experiments in 2023 with dedicated missions to the Sun — Aditya — and the moon — Chandrayaan-3 — even as the nascent start-up sector is set to soar in the space applications segment. The upcoming year will also witness a series of experiments on India’s maiden human space
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced strikes on Ukraine and accused Vladimir Putin of hiding, as explosions rocked locations across the country on the final day of the year. People throughout Ukraine were urged to take cover on New Year’s Eve amid what Ukrainian officials said was a barrage of Russian missiles. One person has been killed
The family of Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch is reportedly facing the prospect of legal action over its historical links to the slave trade in Barbados. A top official on the Caribbean island, who has a leading role on its national commission for reparations, has told the Daily Telegraph it is in the “earliest stages” of
Ministers are urging the chancellor to provide £300m of taxpayers’ money to avert the closure of British Steel’s two blast furnaces – a move that would trigger the loss of thousands of industrial jobs in northern England. Sky News has learnt that Grant Shapps, the business secretary, and Michael Gove, the levelling-up secretary, wrote to
Almost 100,000 thefts of catalytic converters have been recorded in three years, with criminals across the UK stealing 75 per day in 2022, new data obtained by Sky News reveals. The emissions devices, which often contain valuable precious metals, are worth up to £600 on the black market. It is why in the 12 months
A woman who has previously said she had a relationship with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler when she was 16, is now suing him for alleged child sexual assault. Julia Misley, who is 65, filed the lawsuit under a 2019 California law that gave adult victims of childhood sexual assault three years – until Saturday –
Just as the Orlando Magic were starting to adapt to having more players available, they were back to having a limited roster for their 119-100 home loss to the Washington Wizards. The Magic only had eight players available Friday at Amway Center because of the punishments from Wednesday’s on-court altercation during a loss at Detroit.
Dec 30, 2022 Harlequins’ England prop Joe Marler has been given a two-week ban for comments made to a Bristol Bears player while playing for his club this week, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said. The 32-year-old faced a hearing on Friday where he answered the charge of making comments “prejudicial to the game” during
Heavy rain resulting in widespread flooding across southern and central parts of Scotland has brought travel disruption in the run-up to Hogmanay. Some had been preparing to ring in the New Year in Edinburgh’s traditional style for the first time since the outbreak of COVID in early 2020. The poor weather came after the Met
Pioneering TV news journalist Barbara Walters has died aged 93. Her death was announced by her network ABC on air on Friday night. Ms Walters made headlines in 1976 as the first female network news anchor, with an unprecedented-at-the-time $1m annual salary. During more than three decades at ABC, and before that at NBC, she
US criminology student Bryan Christopher Kohberger is in custody after being charged with first degree murder. He is accused of killing Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, who were stabbed to death in Moscow, Idaho in the early hours of 13 November in a case that left the small community where they
In this article BTC.CM= ETH.CM= DOGE.CM= SOL.CM= FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Solana logo displayed on a phone screen and representation of cryptocurrencies are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 21, 2021. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Solana was touted as the cryptocurrency that would challenge
A man, who pulled multiple people from vehicles and sheltered them in a nearby school during a deadly blizzard in New York, has been branded “a hero”. Police said Jay Withey from the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda broke a window of the school to allow another 10 people and two dogs inside for warmth and
The once high flying tech sector has endured a heavy selloff this year amid concerns that the sector’s growth could be curtailed by rising interest rates. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is down more than 14%. Chris Hondros | Newsmakers | Getty Images A lot has changed in technology since the dot-com boom and bust. The
The FTX logo on a laptop screen. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it seized $3.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency from collapsed crypto exchange FTX. In a media release late Thursday, the watchdog confirmed the total sum taken from FTX’s Bahamian subsidiary, FTX Digital Markets, and added
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