Author: SKYNEWS

The biggest supermoon of the year will be visible in skies for multiple days next week. The first full moon of November is known as the beaver moon, and this year, it is also the second of three consecutive supermoons. Here is all you need to know, from how best to see it to why it happens in the first place.What is a supermoon?Supermoons are essentially full moons that appear bigger and brighter than normal. They occur because the moon doesn’t orbit Earth on a perfectly circular path. Image: A supermoon over central London. Pic: PA Moving in an oval around…

A man who burgled one of Damien Hirst’s studios and was caught by police who traced the movements of his GPS-enabled ankle tag has been jailed.Liam Middleton-Gomm broke into Thames Wharf Studios in west London on 30 June and stole around £5,130 of goods, including electronic items, clothing and a pram. The 36-year-old, of no fixed abode, smashed the window beside a fire exit and reached in to activate its shutter and enter the building, prosecutor Paul Andrews told Kingston Crown Court on Thursday.The burglar, who has dozens of previous convictions, had attended the studio twice that evening and went…

A group of senior City figures is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of pounds for a new listed vehicle that would be used to target a major corporate takeover.Sky News has learnt that JRJ Group, which was co-founded by the former Lehman Brothers executives Jeremy Isaacs and Roger Nagioff, is orchestrating talks with investors about the launch of a London-listed acquisition company. TOMS Capital, which was established by former hedge fund manager Noam Gottesman, is also involved in the new venture, which has been codenamed Project Mayflower.This weekend, City sources said that initial discussions with institutional investors about…

TikTok is being accused of “backtracking” on its safety commitments, as it puts hundreds of moderator jobs at risk in its London office. In August, the company announced that hundreds of jobs were at risk in its Trust and Safety offices. In an open letter to MPs, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said on Thursday that TikTok is “looking to replace skilled UK workers with unproven AI-driven content moderation and with workers in places like Kenya or the Philippines who are subject to gruelling conditions, poverty pay”.Sky News understands that a number of the 400+ moderators losing their jobs will be…

Culture lovers have long believed in the healing power art. Now, science has caught up, with new research showing it has measurable benefits on the body.A study from King’s College London has found that looking at original artworks, in a gallery, doesn’t just lift us emotionally – it also has a positive impact on our physical health. Fifty people aged between 18 and 40 were shown art by a selection of leading 19th-century artists: Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, van Gogh and Gauguin. Image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), Jane Avril in the Entrance to the Moulin Rouge (c. 1892) Image: Édouard…

The manager of the bulk of TGI Fridays’ restaurants around the world has swooped to buy its British operations in a deal which preserves all 2,000 jobs at the chain.Sky News has learnt that Sugarloaf TGIF Management, run by former TGI Fridays chief executive Ray Blanchette, has struck a deal to take control of nearly 50 UK sites. Industry sources said the deal was likely to be announced within days.Money blog: Holidays blow as pound takes another batteringThe transaction will see TGI Fridays’ UK arm form part of a growing international consolidation of the brand under Mr Blanchette. The British…

The scale of the destruction left by Hurricane Melissa as it tore across Jamaica is now being revealed by the first photos taken by satellites.The eye of the storm made landfall on the southwest coast of the island, 75 miles from the capital Kingston, on Tuesday. Before and after images from Vantor’s satellites show the impact of the 185mph winds on the town of Black River, the capital of St Elizabeth Parish.Use the sliders below to see the same areas of Jamaica before and after the hurricane struck. There is widespread damage. Some houses and businesses are without roofs, and…

Thieves have stolen more than 1,000 items from a museum’s collection in California, including jewellery, carvings and Native American artefacts. The burglary took place at an off-site storage facility holding items for the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) on 15 October. Image: A neckpiece by Florence Resnikoff was also taken. Pic: Leopold Macaya/Oakland Museum of California/AP The museum’s director said on Thursday details about the incident were being made public because the items might show up at flea markets, pawn shops and antique stores.”The theft that occurred represents a brazen act that robs the public of our state’s cultural heritage,”…

Virgin has cleared the first step in its plan to launch a rival Eurostar service. The company, owned by billionaire Sir Richard Branson, has been granted access to share Eurostar’s Temple Mill international depot in east London. The decision, by the rail regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), is an important first step towards operating cross-border train services via the Channel Tunnel.Sir Richard has described it as “the big hurdle that we had to get through” in the process. Access to the depot means Virgin can maintain and store trains.Money blog: Major bank loses 23,000 customers to rivals…

Tech giants Apple and Amazon have defied industry predictions with better-than-expected financial results.Apple’s success is largely thanks to record-breaking iPhone sales, while Amazon’s is down to cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services (AWS), in spite of last week’s outage which knocked out thousands of websites. AWS revenue accelerated 20.2% to $33bn (almost £25bn), which CEO Andy Jassy said was a pace it hadn’t seen since 2022. AWS accounts for 60% of Amazon’s total operating income.Cloud growth has been a key focus for the company in the face of ever-growing pressure from rivals Google and Microsoft, which also reported revenue leaps…