Civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton has labelled comments such as those by MP Lee Anderson made about Sadiq Khan as "despairingly racist". Mr Anderson was suspended from the Conservative Party last weekend after refusing to apologise for claiming "Islamists" had "control" over London and its mayor, Mr Khan. Now, …...Read More

PM Modi inaugurates 3 major ISRO projects: India to have its own space station by 2025 First and only Indian in space 'Sare Jahan Se Accha' Four astronauts named for Gaganyaan mission (With inputs from agencies) NEW DELHI: The first four astronauts for India's groundbreaking human spaceflight initiative, Gaganyaan, underwent …...Read More

Sony has revealed plans for 900 job losses across its Playstation division, with the company's operations in the UK among those affected. The Japan-based firm notified staff in an email that the Playstation London studio was to be closed under the proposals. There would be job losses too at its …...Read More

A murder investigation is under way after a man was shot dead while walking his dog. Brian Low, 65, was gunned down in the Pitilie area on the outskirts of Aberfeldy at around 8.30am on Saturday 17 February, Police Scotland said. Emergency services attended, but Mr Low, of Aberfeldy, was …...Read More

The ousted Post Office chairman has insisted it was the company's current chief executive who was the subject of an internal investigation, not him. Former chair Henry Staunton was dismissed last month by business secretary Kemi Badenoch who said bullying accusations had been made against him. But on Tuesday, Mr …...Read More

The machine digging HS2's longest tunnel has completed its 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills, almost three years after it started. Dubbed Florence - after the nurse Florence Nightingale - the machine was greeted with fireworks and cheers from hundreds of HS2 workers on Tuesday. Florence was launched in May …...Read More

Rishi Sunak is failing to hold together the voting coalition that delivered Boris Johnson a decisive victory in the 2019 general election, according to The Voters Panel on Sky News - launched today. A profound unhappiness with the state of the country and exhaustion at years of Tory chaos means …...Read More

Calls are growing for the prime minister to appoint a new independent Islamophobia adviser amid the ongoing row over Lee Anderson. The Ashfield MP was suspended from the Conservative Party last weekend after he refused to apologise for claiming "Islamists" had taken "control" of London and that Labour mayor Sadiq …...Read More

Ministers are "pandering to the far right" by not calling Lee Anderson's remarks Islamophobic, a former government adviser on the issue has told Sky News. Imam Qari Asim, who was the last person to hold the post of independent Islamophobia adviser to the government, said it had been "disappointing" to …...Read More

An actor who was hired to play Willy Wonka at a "shambles" of an event has described the experience as "where dreams went to die" - as a young "Oompa Loompa" was left disappointed he "didn't even get a Freddo". Willy's Chocolate Experience was brought to a halt on Saturday …...Read More