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Driving south from Los Angeles along the coast, you can’t miss the San Pedro port complex. Dozens of red cranes pop up from behind the freeway.The sound of industry whirs as containers are unloaded from hulking ocean liners on to waiting lorries and freight trains that seem to never end. The port of Long Beach combines with the port of Los Angeles to make the busiest port in the western hemisphere. Image: The San Pedro port complex The colourful metal containers contain anything and everything, from clothes and car parts to fridges and furniture. Around $300bn of cargo passes through…

He is the man behind the biggest-selling electronica record of all time, but the success of Moby’s album Play came with some unwanted side effects.His fifth record, the album charted at 33 upon its release in the UK in May 1999, and fell out of the Top 40 after just a week. But despite the lacklustre initial response, Play started to pick up steam, slowly climbing the chart until it reached number one in April 2000. It stayed there for five weeks and remained in the Top 40 until March 2001, re-entering the Top 100 several times over the next…

It’s not often there are security guards on the door and hundreds queuing to get into a local council planning meeting – but such is the strength of feeling here in North Devon, that was exactly the case this week.After months of campaigns, site visits, ecological and economical reports, North Devon Council was set to vote on a hugely controversial plan to run major electrical cables from a new offshore wind farm to Saunton Sands and under the dunes around it. A UNESCO biosphere and one of the UK’s top tourist beaches, there has been no shortage of local opposition…

Monzo, the digital bank which counts one in five British adults among its customers, is closing in on the appointment of investment bankers to spearhead a stock market listing valuing it at more than £6bn.Sky News has learnt that Monzo is working with Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street giant, on a series of meetings with potential investors ahead of an initial public offering which could take place as early as the first half next year. People close to the company said this weekend that bankers would be formally hired to work on the listing within months, with Morgan Stanley now…

An ex-model has tearfully told a court that being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein when she was 16 was the most “horrifying thing I ever experienced” to that point.Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault Kaja Sokola told the film producer’s retrial that he ordered her to remove her blouse, put his hand in her underwear, and made her touch his genitals.She said he’d stared at her in the mirror with “black and scary” eyes and told her to stay quiet about the alleged assault in a Manhattan hotel in 2002.Ms Sokola told the New York court that Weinstein…

Why has there been such a flap about chlorinated chicken?In American abattoirs, it is standard practice designed to reduce levels of bacteria like salmonella and campylobacter – the leading source of foodborne illness in the US, as well as here in the UK. The chlorine wash itself is not the problem. Numerous studies have shown trace amounts of chlorine on meat pose no risk to health, and we consume far more in our tap water every day than we would get from eating it.Instead, the argument behind the ban on chlorination here in the UK and Europe is that it…

An antiques expert from the TV show Bargain Hunt has been charged by police following an investigation into terrorist financing.Oghenochuko ‘Ochuko’ Ojiri, 53, is accused of eight counts of “failing to make a disclosure during the course of business within the regulated sector”, the Met Police said. The force said he was the first person to be charged with that specific offence under the Terrorism Act 2000.Mr Ojiri, from west London, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday. It comes “following an investigation into terrorist financing” and relates to the period from October 2020 to December 2021,…

The US and UK have agreed the terms for a trade deal, Sky News understands.A government source has told Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates that initial reports about the agreement in The New York Times are correct. Coates says he understands a “heads of terms” agreement, essentially a preliminary arrangement, has been agreed which is a “substantive” step towards a full deal.Sky News business correspondent Paul Kelso understands the UK has agreed to give some concessions on food and agriculture imports from the United States to secure an easing of export tariffs for the car industry.The details of this…

Producer Giles Martin has said plans to allow AI firms to use artists’ work without permission, unless creators opt out, is like criminals being given free rein to burgle houses unless they are specifically told not to.Martin, who is the son of Beatles producer George Martin and worked with Sir Paul McCartney on the Get Back documentary series and the 2023 Beatles track Now And Then, spoke to Sky News at a UK Music protest at Westminster coinciding with a parliamentary debate on the issue. Under the plans, an exemption to copyright would be created for training artificial intelligence (AI),…

Sir David Attenborough’s latest film is “the biggest message he’s ever told”, its directors have said – with one telling Sky News the broadcaster’s final words on saving the world’s oceans brought him to tears.Ocean With David Attenborough, released in cinemas this week to mark the broadcaster’s 99th birthday on Thursday, mirrors his lifetime as it takes viewers through 100 years of discoveries about Earth’s seas. The presenter hopes the film could help protect the planet from climate change.He filmed with crew members over two years to show coral reefs, kelp forests and the open seas, to show why healthy…