Margaret Thatcher’s longest-serving press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham has died after a short illness, his family has said. The former Fleet Street journalist for the Guardian was 90 and died with his family around him on Friday lunchtime, a statement said. He served as Baroness Thatcher‘s press secretary for all but the first few months
Month: February 2023
The production company behind the film Rust has agreed to pay a $100,000 fine to an occupational health and safety bureau following a fatal shooting on set. The New Mexico Environment Department’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau (OHSB) had issued a $136,796 (£114,457) fine, the maximum allowable by state law, last April. It was later
In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, in July 2021. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty Images Meta has trained and will release a new large language model to researchers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday. The model, called LLaMA, is intended
King Charles was lined up by Number 10 to meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday – just as highly contentious negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol were poised to come to a head. After weeks of fraught talks and growing anger among Tory backbenchers and unionists, a deal between the UK
Conservative MPs have been told they must be in Westminster on Monday – leading to speculation a new Brexit deal is to be announced. Tory MPs will be on a three-line whip on Monday, meaning all 355 of them must be in parliament for a possible important vote. If they defy the order, they could
British smartphone firm Bullitt has launched a handset capable of sending messages via satellite. Bullitt British smartphone firm Bullitt on Friday launched a new phone capable of sending text messages via space, joining a crowded race to commercialize satellite-enabled devices. The phone, which fits into the “rugged” category of durable handsets, comes in two versions:
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations has interrupted a minute’s silence for Ukraine as members of the Security Council stood up to honour the “victims of aggression” in the war. Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba addressed those gathered in New York before calling for the silence to be observed as a mark of respect for
In May last year, we stood in the grounds of what had been a mass grave of the residents of Bucha – just a month after the city was liberated from invading Russian forces. Tetiana Sichkar, then just 20 years old, told us how the occupation had affected her life in the most unimaginable way.
In a windswept graveyard, Viktoria mourns her husband. She stands sobbing amid row after row of freshly dug graves. Each one is marked with a photograph and a regimental flag. “You are my life. You’re my heart, my air, I love you,” she cries. Latest: Zelenskyy says victory is ‘inevitable’ – if allies do homework
Hugh Jackman has told Sky News he’d love King Charles to join him for a cameo in the new Deadpool movie. The Wolverine star – who is reprising his X-Men role for the third film in the franchise about a foul-mouthed anti-hero – has a jokey rivalry with Ryan Reynolds who plays the title character.
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook presents the new iPhone 14 at an Apple event at their headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 7, 2022. Carlos Barria | Reuters Top Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a blog post on Friday that Apple plans to release “low-end”
Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) have voted to accept offers by train companies in the long-running dispute over pay, job security and conditions, the union has announced. “Given this result, TSSA will notify employers that the ballot for Industrial Action has also been withdrawn,” the union said in a statement. “Accepting the
Buryatia feels like it is a world away from war in Europe. It is a different Russia. Vast snowy plains and Buddhist temples, closer at first glance to Mongolia next door than it is to Moscow, five time zones away. But the motifs of Russia’s war in Ukraine are everywhere. A huge Z and V
Nominations have closed in the race to replace Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the SNP and first minister, leaving three candidates vying for the top job in Scottish politics. The party confirmed today that finance secretary Kate Forbes, health secretary Humza Yousaf and former community safety minister Ash Regan had all reached the nominations threshold
As Ukrainians mark a year since Russia’s invasion, Ian is joined by Ukraine’s deputy economy minister, and the chief executive of the Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest – owners of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, which was besieged by Russian soldiers last May. He also speaks to the chief executive at Allbright and the chair of
When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Sky News set out to find Ukrainians who could document their experiences as war twisted their lives out of shape. For almost a year now, Ilyas Verdiev, Oksana Koshel and her husband Seva Koshel have been recording audio voice notes for the Sky News Ukraine War Diaries
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