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The company behind London’s Pride parade recorded a £120,726 loss in 2024, latest accounts show. The entity that runs the capital’s annual LGBT+ event had made £204,368 in profit the previous year. It comes as Pride organisations have been struggling with running costs. Major cities across the UK had either paused the running of full events or became insolvent in 2025.The organisations behind Liverpool and Plymouth Pride parades did not hold their annual events last year because of financial and organisational challenges, while Manchester Pride was put into voluntary liquidation, leaving artists, suppliers and freelancers unpaid. Pride organisers are facing…

The board of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has urged its shareholders to reject an amended hostile bid by Paramount Skydance while maintaining its unanimous support for a rival offer by Netflix.A letter to investors said the updated $108.4bn all-cash offer from Paramount, for the whole business, involved an “extraordinary amount of debt financing” that represented a risk to any deal completing. Paramount’s bid was hostile, through a direct approach to WBD’s shareholders, as the board had already thrown its weight behind the $72bn ($54bn) cash and stock offer made by Netflix in early December.It reiterated that continued support for the…

Grand Theft Auto VI is unquestionably the single most anticipated video game of 2026.The long-awaited sequel by developer Rockstar Games is expected to drop in November – 13 years on from the record-breaking GTA V. The game was due to be released in autumn 2025 but was pushed back to May 2026 before once again being delayed.Rockstar said the extra time would allow the team to “finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve”. YouTube This content is provided by YouTube, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this…

A UAE-based steel company has made an approach to buy Britain’s third-biggest steel producer, months after it was declared “hopelessly insolvent” and fell into the hands of the Official Receiver.Sky News has learnt that Arabian Gulf Steel Industries (AGSI), which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, is among a small number of parties which have lodged proposals to take control of the Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) business which until last summer was owned by the metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel empire. The business collapsed into compulsory liquidation in August, sparking a scramble in Whitehall to find a buyer for it…

Gabby Logan has paid tribute to her father, former Leeds United and Wales midfielder Terry Yorath, who died at the age of 75 following a short illness.The BBC Sport presenter posted a picture of her father playing for Wales on Instagram today, saying: “Rest in Peace Dad.”Our hearts are broken. Your love and legacy lives on.”The post also included other images from his football career. Image: Terry Yorath and Gabby Logan in 2012. Pic: PA Yorath made close to 200 appearances for Leeds during a nine-year spell in the 1960s and 70s and was a member of the team that…

NASA will bring back a crew from the ISS earlier than planned because of a medical issues.Hours before, the space agency cancelled a spacewalk that was scheduled for Thursday. A NASA spokeswoman said the astronaut, who wasn’t named for medical privacy reasons, was ‌in a stable condition on the ISS.”It’s not an emergency evacuation, but we are erring on the side of caution for the crew member,” said Dr James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer.Crew-11 has been on the ISS since August last year and was due to return around May this year. You need javascript enabled to…

Oil sits at the heart of Donald Trump’s Venezuelan gamble. Within a day of the US operation which ousted President Nicolas Maduro, Trump made his top priority clear: reviving the country’s oil industry.”We’re going to have our very large US oil companies – the biggest anywhere in the world – go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken oil infrastructure and start making money for the country,” he said at a news conference on Saturday. He has since said Venezuela will imminently hand over 30 to 50 million barrels of crude to the US government – worth around…

The arraignment of Rob Reiner’s son over the killing of his parents has been delayed after his high-profile defence lawyer withdrew from the case. A judge agreed to Alan Jackson’s request to exit the case during a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing on Wednesday, at which Nick Reiner, 32, was expected to be arraigned and enter a plea. The hearing took place roughly three weeks after actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife of 36 years, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead with stab wounds in their upscale home in Los Angeles.Mr Jackson said “circumstances beyond our control” were behind the move,…

Cyber flashing became illegal in 2024. Now, the government is making it a priority offence, putting the pressure on tech companies to do something about it. Cyber flashing is when someone sends a non-consensual explicit picture – best known as a “dick pic”. It’s most often women on the receiving end and, according to research by dating app Bumble, the adults most likely to receive those images are women between 40 and 45 years old.That being said, it’s an extremely common experience online, with one in three teenage girls saying they’ve received an unwanted sexual image, according to YouGov data.What changes…

Criminals have used Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to create child sexual abuse imagery, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported.For days, the IWF has been receiving reports from internet users that Grok had created child abuse images, but that content hadn’t crossed the threshold into illegal content. Now, it has, says the IWF.It is one of the few organisations around the world that is allowed to proactively track down child abuse material and found the material in a dark web forum. Image: An IWF analyst shows Sky News a mocked-up version of a report about child sexual abuse imagery The…