Ministers have lined up insolvency practitioners to prepare for the potential collapse of Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water utility. Sky News can exclusively reveal that Steve Reed, the environment secretary, has signed off the appointment of FTI Consulting to advise on contingency plans for Thames Water to be placed into a Special Administration regime (SAR)….
Justin Baldoniβs name is not going to be out of the courtroom anytime soon. The actor and director, who has been embroiled in legal drama related to his 2024 film βIt Ends With Usβ for months, is suing insurers of the film for refusing to cover the costs of litigation stemming from the film. In…
A “significant” step has been taken in establishing a national restorative justice programme for victims of the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal. Children of affected postmasters, as well as those directly hit by the faulty accounting software, will be part of the partially Fujitsu-funded programme, as the UK’s Restorative Justice Council acknowledged more than financial…
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A former Miami Heat security officer has been accused in federal court of stealing millions of dollars worth of team memorabilia β including a game-worn LeBron James jersey from the 2013 NBA Finals β and selling them to online brokers. Appearing Wednesday at U.S. Superior Court for the Southern District of Florida, retired Miami police…
The survivor of a sexual assault that took place in a Travelodge hotel room has accused its CEO of not taking the issue of women’s safety “very seriously”. Molly, not her real name, has chosen to speak publicly after the attack in 2022 by a man who was wrongly given access to her Berkshire hotel…
Donald Trump has filed a $5bn (Β£3.7bn) lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase (JPMC), accusing it of debanking him and his business empire after his first term in the White House ended. The US president claims America’s largest bank by assets and its chief executive Jamie Dimon closed a number of personal and business accounts in February…
The owner of Uswitch, one of Britain’s biggest price comparison platforms, and Zoopla, the online property portal, is plotting a break-up that could lead to the sale of some of Britain’s best-known consumer websites in the next 12 months. Sky News has learnt that Silver Lake Partners, the American private equity firm, has hired two…
When youβre already an All-American in high school and several new players show up perhaps as talented as you, the challenge is developing chemistry and seeing whoβs going to remain humble and unselfish for the good of the team. Maxi Adams, Sierra Canyonβs 6-foot-8 senior, was the big man on campus until another All-American, Brandon…
A few days ago came the astonishing news that the world record in the half-marathon was obliterated by a 5-foot-5 humanoid robot named Lightning in Beijing. Now a robot named Ace has achieved another milestone for AI and robotics by defeating expert-level humans at table tennis in Tokyo, according to a study published Wednesday in…