A football fan who left his own player with a “severe injury” after throwing part of a seat during a Scottish Premiership football match has been jailed for 18 months. David Gowans, 32, threw the projectile onto the pitch following a league match between Aberdeen and Dundee United at Tannadice on May 17. It struck…
Financial markets have been spooked by the resumption of a dispute between its chairman and the Trump administration over the independence of the US central bank. It emerged overnight that the White House was threatening to indict Jerome Powell over comments he made in Congress regarding rising renovation costs at the Federal Reserve buildings in…
Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis in protest against the murder of Renee Good, a mother of three children in America. 37-year-old driver He was shot dead in his car in a Minnesotan city on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. trump administration He said the shooting was an act of self-defence…
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka captured back-to-back Brisbane International titles as she avoided becoming Marta Kostyuk’s latest top-10 scalp in Sunday’s final. Sabalenka won the match 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and 17 minutes, successfully retaining the trophy she had first secured a year ago by defeating Polina Kudermetova, and she did not drop a…
Conservative government will ban under-16s from using social media Kemi Badenoch said the Conservative government will ban under-16s from using social media to stop them spending hours on “addictive” sites. The Tory leader vowed to introduce age limits on social media apps if his party wins the next general election. He argued that we should…
The owners of The Very Group, one of Britain’s largest online shopping platforms, are to launch a £2bn auction of the company just months after taking control. US private equity giant Carlyle is partnering with Barclays and JP Morgan to handle the sale of Very, which sells a wide range of fashion, toys and electrical…
A UAE-based steel company has moved to buy Britain’s third-largest steel producer, just months after it was declared “hopelessly insolvent” and fell into the hands of official receivers. Sky News has learnt that Arabian Gulf Steel Industries (AGSI), headquartered in Abu Dhabi, is one of a number of smaller parties that have lodged an offer…
