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Millions of motorists who were mis-sold car finance agreements are due to receive Β£829 on average in compensation, it has been announced. But why is this happening, and who can make a claim? Sky News explains… The scandal When you buy a car on finance, you are effectively loaned the money for the vehicle, which…
Jimmy Kimmel revealed he has his Italian passport ready, just in case. During an interview with comedian Sarah Silverman on her podcast, the βJimmy Kimmel Live!β host discussed how βmuch worseβ the presidentβs second term has been for the country, without getting into specifics. He said he has obtained Italian citizenship as a result. Kimmelβs…
If you look up at the sky in Texas and see what could be a flying burrito, you may not be imagining things: Chipotle on Thursday launched an autonomous aerial delivery service for digital orders in the Dallas area.Β Through a partnership with Zipline, a drone delivery and logistics provider, Chipotle is introducing Zipotle, new…
Prominent Democratic governors, some considering 2028 presidential bids, gathered Thursday in Los Angeles for a high-dollar fundraiser. Tickets to attend the event cost up to $100,000, according to an invitation. Closed to the press, it was expected to raise more than $1.5 million for the Democratic Governors Assn., among the largest amount the group has…
The housebuilder Barratt Redrow, Heathrow Airport and the outsourcing giant Mitie are among a group of businesses backing the launch of a coalition aimed at tackling barriers to investment in local areas across Britain. Sky News understands that the Social Value Commission, which will also include E.ON UK, the utility, and VodafoneThree, will launch on…
HAVANAΒ βΒ A decade ago this spring, President Obama stepped off Air Force One at JosΓ© MartΓ International Airport β the first time a U.S. leader had touched ground in Cuba since Fidel Castroβs communist revolution. More than half a century of Cold War hostilities were thawing. The U.S. had relaxed travel restrictions to the island, and…
Nothing puts the so-called “special relationship” between the UK and the United States under strain like the Americans going to war. At Prime Minister’s Questions, after Donald Trump’s “no Churchill” jibe, Sir Keir Starmer insisted the relationship was still alive and well. He was challenged by a Conservative MP, Gareth Bacon, on whether his “dithering”…
Twenty-two years ago, Silicon Valley executive Henry Evans had a massive stroke that left him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. But that didn’t prevent him from becoming a leading advocate of adaptive robotic tech to help disabled people β or from writing country songs, one letter at a time. Correspondent John Blackstone talks…
‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘The Conjuring’ appear to occupy the opposite ends of the franchise universe. But were they really so different after all?
