37 h. ago Flights will face increasing danger and cancellations as space junk drops from the skies

Boffins say hold-ups caused by airspace shutdowns to allow bits of old rocket or dead satellite to fall to Earth could become as common as weather delays

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67 h. ago Anna Woolhouse's best Insta snaps as Sky host steals the show at World Darts Championship

Sky Sports presenter Anna Woolhouse stunned darts fans with her jaw-dropping outfits at the World Championship and her Instagram posts are just as eye-catching

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5 d. ago ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?

Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worriedDuring a golden sunset in Memphis in May, Sharon Wilson pointed a thermal imaging camera at Elon Musk’s flagship datacentre to reveal a planetary threat her eyes could not. Free from pollution controls, the gas-fired turbines that power the world’s biggest AI supercomputer were pumping invisible fumes into the Tennessee sky.“It was jaw-dropping,” said Wilson, a former oil and gas worker from Texas who has documented methane releases for more than a decade and estimates xAI’s Colossus datacentre was spewing more of the planet-heating gas than a large power plant. “Just an unbelievable amount of pollution.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Anna Woolhouse's life in pics as Sky Sports darts host's swimsuit snaps drop jaws

Sky Sports presenter Anna Woolhouse has become hugely popular through her work at the PDC World Darts Championship and her boxing coverage alongside stunning social media posts

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2 w. ago Sky News presenter's priceless reaction as colleague drops the f

The blunder by Arts and Entertainment Correspondent Katie Spencer was aired during Saturday's Sky News breakfast show yesterday.

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2 w. ago The US healthcare system hurts poor Americans. It’s about to get worse

As Congress cuts healthcare access to pay for tax cuts and poor Americans die earlier, billionaires invest in anti-ageingThere’s a weird disconnect to the public debate about health in the United States. In January, millions of Americans may drop their health insurance as premiums skyrocket following the Trump administration’s decision to end federal subsidies that helped some 20 million people afford insurance on the Obamacare marketplaces.Earlier this year, Republicans in Congress agreed to cut more than $850bn from the 10-year budgets of Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people, and the Chip health insurance program for children, in order to pay for some tax cuts. Given the US’s budgetary rules, that cut means an additional $500bn in funding for Medicare is at risk. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago EE broadband drops huge WiFi upgrade Sky and Virgin Media can't beat

EE is handing out WiFi 7 routers as standard with its broadband packages

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3 w. ago ‘I lived out moments of my mother’s passing I never saw’: Kate Winslet on grief, going red and Goodbye June

For her directorial debut, Winslet assembled a cast including Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn and Andrea Riseborough to tell a story inspired by her own family’s bereavement. The actors talk mourning, immortality and hospital vending machinesIn 2017, Sally Bridges-Winslet died of cancer. She was 71. It was, her youngest daughter said, “like the north star just dropped out of the sky”.It would have been even worse, says Kate Winslet today, had the family not pulled together. “I do have tremendous amounts of peace and acceptance around what happened because of how we were able to make it for her.” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Luke Littler gets turned away from the club in brilliant Sky Sports’ World Darts Championship ad starring James Maddison

PICTURE a universe where Luke Littler gets a club knockback by Big John. You'd find it hard to believe, right? Well, Sky Sports have dropped a brilliant World Darts Championship ad as Ally Pally gets set to take centre stage. Except, The Nuke, often front and centre, finds himself found turned away from the club...

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4 w. ago Horrifying moment plane 'drops from sky' and smashes into car on motorway

The dramatic clip shows the aircraft hurtling towards the road and slamming into a 2023 Toyota Camry, striking the back of the vehicle before bouncing on top of it

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4 w. ago Horror moment plane ‘drops out of the sky’ and crushes car driving along busy highway injuring driver in freak crash

THIS is the terrifying moment a plane drops out of the sky and crushes a car on a busy motorway - leaving the driver injured in a miracle survival. Shocking dashcam footage shows the Beechcraft 55 aircraft swoop into rush-hour traffic and onto the Toyota Camry while trying to pull off a daring emergency landing....

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