A Royal Navy nuclear submarine collided with a French one in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, it has been reported. HMS Vanguard, Royal Navy nuclear submarine The crash between HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant – both carrying atomic weapons – is believed to have occurred on February 3 or 4, The Sun [...]
Venezuela’s president has won a referendum to scrap term limits for elected officials, allowing him to seek re-election indefinitely. Hugo Chavez greeted cheering supporters at the presidential palace in Caracas on Sunday, moments after the country’s electoral commission chief declared victory for the “yes” vote. “Long live the revolution,” shouted Chavez, as he stood pumping [...]
Lloyds Banking Group sent the markets into a frenzy by issuing a shock warning that HBOS is likely to record a loss of as much as £11bn for 2008. Lloyds’ takeover of bank was rushed through to help stabilise banking system Lloyds shares went plummeting by 40% upon the news, which comes two weeks before [...]
The US senate has approved a $787bn economic stimulus bill aimed at boosting the country’s ailing economy, in what is seen as a major victory for Barack Obama, the US president. The senate voted 60-38 for the compromise bill hours after the House of Representatives also passed it. But Democrats who control congress failed to win over many [...]
Almost one in five car insurance claims is now fraudulent, Sky News has learnt, and the increase is being linked to the recession. Insurers predict that as the recession gets worse, so will fraud Absolute Fraud Management says the number of claims they investigated for the car insurance industry where fraud was detected rose from [...]
All 48 people on board a commercial aircraft that crashed into a house in New York are reported to have been killed. Forty-four passengers and four crew members were on the Continental Airlines aeroplane which was arriving from Newark, New Jersey, when it crashed about 16km from an airport near the suburb of Buffalo. There were no survivors, officials from [...]
Tom Parmenter, North of England correspondent Up to 50,000 British teenagers are involved in gangs, according to a new report. Merseyside has a major problem with teenage gang violence Its authors, from the Centre for Social Justice, say it is time for a comprehensive approach to tackling the problem. Report author Simon Antrobus told Sky [...]
Sudan’s ambassador to the UN has vowed his country will not co-operate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) amid reports it has issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president. His comments came after an unnamed diplomat at the UN told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday that the ICC had “decided it [...]
Murder detectives hunting a man dubbed the “Facebook fugitive” have recovered his car. George Appleton, seen in CCTV captured at his residence in Salford George Appleton, who is described as a serious threat to women, is wanted by police after the body of his ex-girlfriend Clare Wood, 36, was found badly burned in her Salford [...]
The leaders of the centrist Kadima party and the right-wing Likud party have both declared victory in Israel’s general election. With all the votes counted on Wednesday, the Kadima party led by Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister, had won 28 parliamentary seats, one more than the Likud party of Benyamin Netanyahu, a former prime minister. [...]