The jewellery tycoon, alleged to have orchestrated a Β£170m scam which defrauded a legion of wealthy investors, will be declared bankrupt if a bid by his former company’s liquidators is successful. Sky News has learnt that insolvency practitioners in charge of probing the demise of Vashi, a luxury diamond jeweller which had shops in some…
Defense wins championships and Super Bowl LX showed it can get ratings too. NBCβs Sunday telecast of the Seattle Seahawksβ 29-13 win over the New England Patriots averaged 124.9 million viewers according to Nielsen data, falling short of the record of 127.7 million set last year on Fox. Seattleβs smothering defense preventing New England from…
Lord Mandelson would have been subject to a “thorough” and “intimate” vetting process before he was appointed UK ambassador to the US, a former head of MI6 has said. Sir Richard Moore, who left his post last September, told Sky News’ lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim he had not been part of the process,…
When LAFC promoted Marc Dos Santos from assistant coach to manager two months ago, there were some perks that came with the new job. A raise, certainly. A better seat on the team charter. But not as many as you might think. βThe office is a little bit bigger,β he said. βMy parking space is…
Instagram and YouTube have been accused of “engineer[ing] addiction in children’s brains”, in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA. Mark Lanier, representing plaintiffs who accuse social media companies of developing harmful and addictive platforms, described the case as being “as easy as ABC”, which he said stands for…
To say the mood at Ryan Cooglerβs production company Proximity Media has been euphoric would be an understatement. You too would be more than euphoric if your film landed in the yearβs box office top 10 and set the all-time record for most Oscar nominations. But βSinnersβ wasnβt built in a day. Itβs been a…
Sir Keir Starmer will chair a cabinet session today after earning a lifeline from Labour MPs during a crunch meeting in which he declared: “I’m not prepared to walk away.” The prime minister started the week battling the biggest crisis of his premiership amid the fallout from his appointment of Lord Mandelson as his US…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on Californiaβs November ballot. The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the stateβs wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling federal funding cuts to…
In the eyes of Lakers coach JJ Redick, every team his group faces is a test. Still, many wondered if the Lakersβ litmus test would come from facing the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. Even with All-Star and league most valuable player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out with a strained abdominal, the Thunder are…
When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness – including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test. Yes, AIs run vending machines now, under the watchful eyes of researchers at Anthropic and AI thinktank Andon Labs….