The Home Secretary has issued a “ministerial direction” in relation to the Rwanda asylum plan, overruling concerns from her own civil servants, Sky News understands. Ministerial directions are used when the top civil servant in a department has objected to the costs or feasibility of a spending plan. A Home Office source said: “Home Office
Twitter’s board of directors unanimously adopted a “poison pill” defence in response to Elon Musk’s proposal to buy the company and take it private, the social media giant has said. The strategy is formally called a “limited duration shareholder rights plan” and is used to defend against hostile takeovers. Twitter said the move aims to
NFTs have been taking over the art world. And at the center of the $17 billion NFT market is a company called OpenSea. OpenSea is the Amazon of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. It’s an online marketplace that allows people to easily create, sell and buy NFTs. It’s one of the largest NFT trading platforms with
The first prisoner to be executed in South Carolina in more than 10 years has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair. Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is also the first inmate in the US state to select his execution method after a law was enacted last year making electrocution the
Tesla is now aiming to reopen Gigafactory Shanghai on Monday, April 18 after roughly three weeks of being shut down and missing out on the production of over 40,000 electric vehicles. Shanghai has seen a notable rise in COVID-19 infections over the last month, and in an attempt to curb the growth, the authorities implemented
D3sign | Moment | Getty Images Inflation has hit levels not seen in 40 years and Americans’ wallets are feeling the strain. Prices are rising on everything from energy to food to shelter, costing the average American household an additional $327 per month, according to a Moody’s Analytics analysis. That’s higher than last month’s estimate
You can watch our full interview with Putin’s spokesman here: https://youtu.be/L0WScHPbaPA Dmitry Peskov has admitted there have been “significant” losses of Russian troops and said it is a “tragedy”. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman denied Russia has carried out war crimes in Ukraine telling Sky News we are “living in days of fakes and lies”. For the
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Kremlin critic who has survived two suspected poisonings, has been detained in Moscow on Monday, according to Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin and media reports. His detention came hours after an interview with CNN’s Sara Sidner. #CNN #News
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Another April weekend ahead means another week of college football spring games on Saturday. This week’s slate includes both teams from last season’s national championship game — Georgia and Alabama — as well as several high-profile games from Ohio State to Miami and beyond. We’ll once again find out which
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Britta Pedersen | Getty Images It’s not often that a company receives a takeover bid that amounts to an 18% stock premium only to see its shares fall on the
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a grand view while exploring patches of the sky. In an infrared image captured by the telescope and posted on social media by NASA, we see a cosmic cloud that resembles a butterfly. But don’t be fooled. This image is of a cluster of “baby stars”, a nebula of
The Ricketts family-led consortium has withdrawn its bid to buy Chelsea Football Club. The Chicago Cubs owners and their partners opted not to submit a final bid for the Blues, due to “unusual dynamics around the sales process”. Tom and Laura Ricketts had partnered with US billionaires Ken Griffin and Dan Gilbert to place a
The sinking of the Moskva missile cruiser means that the crucial city of Odesa is now a bit safer, and any Russian attack on the port would be harder. The loss of the Russian ship has dominated news stories about the war in the last day or so, and has raised questions about what it
Elon Musk is “not sure” whether his attempt to take over Twitter for $41bn will succeed, he has told a conference in Vancouver. The meme-posting billionaire added that he had a “Plan B” if his offer to buy to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share was turned down – and criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s model of
Cardi B and Offset have finally revealed the name of their son – seven months after he was born. Sharing the very first picture of his face on Instagram, the couple announced his name is Wave Set Cephus. The rappers already share a three-year-old daughter named Kulture, but welcomed their son back in September. He
GE Renewable Energy announced yesterday on Twitter that the first GE Haliade 150-6 megawatt (MW) wind turbine has now been installed at St. Nazaire, France’s first offshore wind farm. Luxembourg-based maritime infrastructure company Jan De Nul is installing the wind farm’s turbines in the northern part of the Bay of Biscay, off France’s western coast. Its
Concerns related to both the energy transition and energy security have been thrown into sharp relief by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, recent months have also seen commodity prices jump. Marcus Brandt | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The world’s governments have pledged more than $710 billion to “sustainable recovery measures” by
Hollywood star and the co-owner of Wrexham FC, Ryan Reynolds, has gifted a commemorative urinal to Rob McElhenney at the club’s stadium. The pair took full control of the National League club from the Wrexham Supporters Trust in February 2021, investing £2m. Reynolds posted a video on Twitter of himself in the toilet, wishing his
Professor Michael Clarke talks to Sky News about the south eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol and why it’s of important interest to Russian forces. For the latest developments in Ukraine: https://qrcode.skynews.com/skynews/ukraineblog SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews
CNN’s Nima Elbagir reports on a Russian military tactic that aims to cause destruction even after their forces have left cities in Ukraine. #CNN #News