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Will Smith has made his first major award ceremony appearance since facing widespread criticism for slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards.The 55-year-old Hollywood star performed his new song – You Can Make It – at the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. It was a rare live appearance from the Men In Black actor, who was banned from attending the Academy Awards for 10 years following the televised slap, which occurred moments before he won his first Oscar.For his performance, Smith stood in a circle of fire on an apocalyptic landscape, with a large sun rising…

A planned strike at the Port Talbot steelworks has been suspended after the Unite union said new investment was proposed.Unite is suspending its industrial action, it said, after the news on Thursday that the Indian conglomerate owner, Tata, would, in response, close the site earlier than first announced. Talks throughout the weekend yielded an agreement from Tata to discuss future investment and not just redundancies, the union said.The closure date is now 7 July, the day before the previously planned strike and roughly two months before the September timeline originally announced to close the final blast furnace in which steel…

Scientists have found a way to attach engineered living skin tissue to robots so they can smile and have an “increasingly lifelike appearance”.A team at Tokyo University, in Japan, said their work would also bring other potential benefits for robotic platforms, such as increased mobility – and could help train plastic surgeons and be useful in the cosmetics industry. Although its prototype may look like something from science fiction, living cells were used to engineer the skin before scientists made special “V-shaped perforations in solid materials” to bind the skin to structures.Team leader Professor Shoji Takeuchi has overseen previous biohybrid…

A migrant boat artwork by Banksy which appeared at Glastonbury Festival has been labelled “vile” and “not funny” by the home secretary, James Cleverly.Speaking to Matt Barbet on Sky News Breakfast, Mr Cleverly said: “There are a bunch of people that are joking and celebrating about criminal actions which cost lives. Image: Pic: AP/Celebrity Photos UK/Cover Images “People die in the Mediterranean, they die on the Channel. This is not funny. It is vile. This is a celebration of the loss of life in the Channel.”The art installation featured an inflatable lifeboat filled with migrant dummies in orange life jackets…

Average house prices are still unaffordable for the typical earner, the UK’s largest building society has said.Despite wages rising above the rate of inflation in recent months and house prices falling from the record high of summer 2022, “housing affordability is still stretched”, Nationwide said. Money latest: New Wotsits and Monster Munch flavours launch today – but you should read small printA greater proportion of take-home pay is going on mortgage bills, according to the lender’s house price index.Someone earning the average UK income seeking to buy their first home with a deposit worth 20% of the asking price will…

Taylor Swift is getting her own exhibition at the V&A Museum in London this summer.The show – titled Taylor Swift: Songbook Trail – will feature costumes, awards and items from her childhood – with many on display for the first time. Image: Pic: PA The temporary exhibition will be made up of different stops on a tour, each showcasing a moment in Swift’s 20-year music career, taking visitors on a journey through the permanent galleries at the museum.Many of the objects are on loan from Taylor Swift’s own personal archive.Swift is currently travelling the world with her Eras Tour, bringing…

It is the first big moment of election night. The exit poll is the moment millions tune in for a first sniff of the eventual result of the general election. And in Election 2024 this poll, with its impressive track record, sometimes down to a margin of only a few seats, will, once again, be a key part of broadcasters’ coverage – including here at Sky News – on Thursday night. The current model was devised in 2005 by Professor John Curtice and statistician David Firth and it has been consistently reliable, bar 2015 when the seat numbers suggested a hung…

Justin Timberlake has appeared to joke about his recent drink-driving arrest at a concert in Boston.The Grammy Award-winning pop star was arrested in Sag Harbor, a wealthy village in the Hamptons in New York State last month. In a video shared on social media over the weekend, Timberlake tells a crowd at Boston’s TD Garden arena: “Is there anyone here that is driving, no I’m just kidding.”Fans appear to laugh and cheer as he continues to address the crowd. YouTube This content is provided by YouTube, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we…

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says there’s a conspiracy of silence this election – that all of the major political parties aren’t being honest enough about their fiscal plans this election.And they have a point. Most obviously (and this is the main thing the IFS is complaining about) none of the major manifestos – from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative parties – have been clear about how they will fill an impending black hole in the government’s spending plans. No need to go into all the gritty details, but the overarching point is that all government spending…

Glastonbury 2024 has come to an end, with US singer-songwriter SZA closing the show on the Pyramid Stage following a spectacular weekend of celebrity cameos, fireworks and crowd-surfing.And music, of course. Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Little Simz, Shania Twain, Janelle Monae and Cyndi Lauper were among the big names performing, and that was just on the main stage – which is one of more than 100 across Glastonbury’s massive Worthy Farm site in Somerset. Image: SZA closed the festival. Pic: Yui Mok/PA It has been a record-breaking year. With SZA’s nature-inspired set on Sunday following Lipa’s on Friday, this year’s event…