Five companies that deliberately targeted the elderly with “predatory” and “coercive” marketing calls in order to sell them unnecessary insurance have been fined more than £400,000 by the UK’s privacy watchdog. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the businesses had been purchasing marketing data lists of people who were aged 60 and over, were homeowners,
A murdered girl known for decades as “Little Miss Nobody” has finally been identified. Her burned remains were found nearly 62 years ago in the Arizona desert and her killers have never been caught. Authorities have now revealed she was four-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos of New Mexico. She was abducted from her grandmother’s yard on
Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskyy says millions of people could die if the world does not stop the bombing of his country. Watch Sky’s Alex Crawford exclusive interview with him in full. For the latest developments: 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
Steve Hall, a former CIA chief of Russia operations, discusses what Vladimir Putin should fear as the invasion of Ukraine continues. #CNN #News
Boris Johnson will hold talks with the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as he bids to end the West’s “addiction” to Russian oil and gas. With Vladimir Putin’s increasingly barbaric assault on Ukraine set to enter a third week, the prime minister is visiting the Gulf in a stepping-up of his
Tesla Insurance is about to expand in two more states, Oregon and Virginia, and the company will underwrite the policies itself for the first time. Tesla Insurance Tesla had already introduced its own insurance product in California, but it didn’t utilize real-time driving data and Tesla’s safety score, which had been its original goal. Before
A Shell logo seen at a petrol station in London. A court in The Hague has ordered oil giant Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% compared to 2019 levels by 2030, in what is widely seen as a landmark case. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Shell‘s board is being sued for
In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a delivery ceremony for Tesla China-made Model 3 in Shanghai, east China, Jan. 7, 2020. Ding Ting | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Tesla has hiked the prices of its electric vehicles in the U.S. and China after CEO Elon Musk warned of inflation
Anne Hathaway has told Sky News she was inspired by the infamous Fyre Festival flop for her new drama series about the rise and fall of business empire WeWork. WeCrashed tells the story of how flexible workspace provider WeWork grew from a single co-working area into a global “unicorn” – a private start-up business valued
Ashley Walters says the TV industry is learning in the wake of allegations of bullying and harassment against high-profile names, including his former co-star Noel Clarke. Last year Clarke was accused of sexual harassment and bullying over a number of years after 20 women came forward to describe abuse to The Guardian newspaper – allegations
10:56 AM ET Recent U.S. Olympian Keyshawn Davis has a new date for his next fight. The junior welterweight will face Esteban Sanchez on April 30 in Las Vegas, a source familiar with the bout told ESPN. It will be on the undercard of the Shakur Stevenson-Oscar Valdez junior lightweight title unification at the MGM
The Lord Speaker has called for a more “robust” appointment process for peers after the SNP called for Lord Lebedev’s parliamentary pass to be revoked. In a letter on Tuesday, Lord McFall said “there is a case for examination of the appointments process” to ensure that “new appointees are able to make a worthwhile contribution
Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who interrupted a state TV news broadcast by holding up a sign protesting against the country’s invasion of Ukraine, has been photographed with her lawyer. There were fears that Ms Ovsyannikova had gone missing following her stunt, after a human rights lawyer said she had not been heard from for
Roman Abramovich appears to be on a mission to get his assets out of Europe as sanctions tighten. His superyacht Solaris, worth £430m, is heading south, apparently towards Turkey, after docking in Montenegro on Sunday. Previously, it had been at a repair yard in Barcelona – and had it remained there it might well have
Middlesbrough Football Club has called Chelsea’s request to play the quarter-final tie behind closed doors as “bizarre and without merit whatsoever”. Chelsea asked for the tie at Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium on 19 March to be played behind closed doors after government sanctions against Roman Abramovich meant it is unable to sell new tickets to home
British-Iranian nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori are heading to Tehran airport ahead of leaving the country, their lawyer has said. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker from Hampstead, northwest London, had been detained since her arrest in 2016 on charges of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies. Her release comes after her
Police in the US have arrested a man suspected of killing two homeless men and wounding three others over the last fortnight. The suspect was arrested in Washington DC, where some of the attacks took place, with others occurring in New York City. One of the victims was found on fire in a tent in
The UK government has placed an export ban on luxury goods to Russia and hiked up import tariffs from the country on iconic products such as vodka. British vehicles, high-end fashion and art are some of the luxury goods that will no longer be exported to Russia as the UK and other G7 leaders continue
The Ukrainian city of Chernahiv has been bombarded with at least 47 people known to have died there so far. Moscow denies targeting residential areas in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused NATO of being ‘weak’ for not implementing a no-fly zone over the country to protect them from Russian air strikes. Sky’s Sally Lockwood
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reacts to indications that Russia is poised to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine. #CNN #News