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Donald Trump has described crucial trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping as “amazing” – and says he will visit Beijing in April.The leaders of the world’s two biggest economies met in South Korea as they tried to defuse growing tensions – with both countries imposing aggressive tariffs on exports since the president’s second term began. Catch up on Trump-Xi meeting – as it happenedAboard Air Force One, Mr Trump confirmed tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the US will be reduced, which could prove much-needed relief to consumers.It was also agreed that Beijing will work “hard” to stop fentanyl…

Boris Johnson has warned the Conservatives will not win the next election by “bashing the green agenda”. Under Kemi Badenoch, the Tories have vowed to repeal the Climate Change Act – and scrap an “impossible” commitment to reach net zero by 2050 because it risks “bankrupting” the UK. Politics Hub: Latest updates from WestminsterBut in a new podcast, the former prime minister has described current arguments surrounding environmental policy as “depressing”. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 10:13 Net zero by 2050 ‘is impossible’ Mr Johnson claimed everyday voters aren’t interested in anti-net zero policies -…

A university academic who is receiving “substantial damages” for how he was portrayed in a film has told Sky News he hasn’t received an apology from star Steve Coogan – nor the two companies involved in its production.Richard Taylor said he was “shell-shocked” after seeing The Lost King for the first time, a film about how Richard III’s skeleton was discovered below a car park in Leicester. He told The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee: “I wasn’t consulted or even knew I was in the film. The first I hear is I get a phone call while I’m on holiday…

The chair of the Premier League will next month stand for a second three-year term as it awaits the outcome of a landmark case against Manchester City Football Club over scores of alleged breaches of its financial rules.Sky News has learnt that Dharmash Mistry, the Premier League’s senior independent director, has in recent weeks been canvassing the top flight’s 20 clubs, including Arsenal, Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers, about their support for Alison Brittain. Ms Brittain’s initial term as chair expires at the end of the year.Insiders said clubs would be asked to vote on her re-election for a further three…

Roughly 14,000 corporate jobs are to go at tech giant Amazon, the company announced.The impact on the 75,000-strong UK workforce is not immediately clear from the announcement, which said impacted people and teams would hear from leadership on Tuesday. Money blog: ‘We’ve assets worth £1m – how much inheritance tax will we owe?’A loss of 30,000 jobs had been anticipated based on reporting from Reuters and The Wall Street Journal.Amazon workers’ union in the UK, GMB, had said, based on those numbers, that “it is almost inevitable that many UK workers will lose their jobs”. “The fact that companies can…

John Cleese has paid tribute to his Fawlty Towers co-star Prunella Scales, who has died aged 93, describing her as a “wonderful comic actress”.The star, who was living with dementia, was watching the sitcom the day before she died, her sons Samuel and Joseph West said in a statement confirming her death. “Our darling mother Prunella Scales died peacefully at home in London yesterday.”Her seven-decade acting career saw her in multiple roles from the 1950s, including in 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines, before featuring as the wife of John Cleese’s character Basil Fawlty, in two series of Fawlty Towers in 1975…

Pimco, the giant bond fund manager, has offloaded hundreds of millions of pounds of Thames Water debt as the crisis-hit utility limps towards a private sector rescue deal aimed at averting the threat of temporary nationalisation.Sky News has learnt that Pimco – run by the former Man Group boss Emmanuel Roman – has in recent weeks reduced its exposure to Thames Water’s mountain of debt by selling the majority of its holdings to fellow investors including Apollo Global Management, Elliott Advisors and Silver Point Capital. Further details of the trades were unclear on Tuesday, although one insider said they accounted…

Men with suspected prostate cancer will be able to get an NHS diagnosis within a day as part of a new trial.Artificial intelligence will be used to interpret MRI scans, meaning problematic legions can be detected in a matter of minutes. Should a scan conclude there is a high risk of cancer, it will be sent to a radiologist for priority review – with the patient booked in for a biopsy that same day. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 6:16 Sir Chris Hoy and Dermot Murnaghan on facing cancer NHS England says the technology will…

2026 will see Bon Jovi take centre stage once again when they return for their Forever Tour, four years after Jon Bon Jovi’s vocal cord surgery had the group’s future up in the air.Speaking to Sky News, he says he’s “excited, humble and grateful” to be back to full health. “The band and even the crew, they showed me a whole other level of brotherhood and commitment and love for three plus years when, you know, there’s no money coming in. And their families are waiting on that. And they never lost faith, which helped me to keep fighting,” he…

It’s not the start to the week that Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, would have been hoping for: more than 2,000 private sector jobs in Scotland at risk from the collapse of Petrofac, the London-listed oilfield services group.Its slide into insolvency was triggered by last week’s cancellation of a major contract by its biggest customer, but the failure of a company once valued at more than £6bn has been a long time coming. Money blog: ‘We protect UK from attack, our salaries can be limitless’Administrators at Teneo will now attempt to salvage what they can from Petrofac’s wreckage.”The group’s operations…