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Saturday Night Live has announced the comedians cast for the first UK incarnation of the hit late-night US series.They include Taskmaster stars Ania Magliano and Emma Sidi, Black Ops star Hammed Animashaun, and Ayoade Bamgboye, who was named best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards last year. Larry Dean, who has appeared on Live At The Apollo, and Celeste Dring, whose credits include This Country and Lazy Susan, also feature in the SNL UK cast of 11, along with Paddy Young (Everyone Else Burns and Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping) and “Instagram heartthrob” Al Nash.George Fouracres (Steve), Jack Shep…

Food and drink giant Nestle has recalled a further batch of its SMA baby formula due to concerns about the presence of a vomit-inducing toxin.It joins a list of more than 60 batches of SMA formula recalled last month due to the possible presence of cereulide, a heat-resistant toxin that can cause vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach cramps. The full recall covers several SMA products, ranging from powders and pre-mixed formula for newborns and toddlers.”We want parents and caregivers to know Nestle are updating their recall to include one more batch of infant formula,” investigators at the Food Standards Agency said…

The UK’s information watchdog will investigate reports that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been used to generate sexual imagery of children.Grok was developed by Musk’s xAI in 2023, designed to be a “truth-seeking” assistant with a witty, rebellious personality. Integrated into X, formerly Twitter, it uses real-time data from the platform to generate text, images and code.But complaints have mounted that Grok was being used to generate sexual photos of real women and children, and now the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Grok: ‘The creators…

Investigators looking into the disappearance of US TV host Savannah Guthrie’s mother have found signs of forced entry at her Arizona home.Savannah Guthrie is a main co-anchor on Today, the morning show on NBC News, the US sister network of Sky News. A person familiar with the inquiry told the Associated Press that evidence in the home of Nancy Guthrie, 84, indicated that she had been kidnapped during the night.They said that several of Nancy Guthrie’s personal items, including her mobile phone, wallet and her car, had been left in her property.Investigators do not believe at this point that the…

Peter Jones, the entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den judge, is close to teeing off with the addition of American Golf, the retail chain, to his array of business interests.Sky News has learnt that Mr Jones is in advanced talks to buy American Golf from Endless, its long-standing private equity backer. Mr Jones, a keen golfer who is understood to play off a handicap of eight, has invested in a string of British companies, including the camera retailer Jessops, which he bought in 2013.His current portfolio includes Localised, an e-commerce platform for consumer brands, and Levi Roots, founder of the Reggae Reggae…

SpaceX has announced it has acquired artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a deal that that brings together two companies owned by Elon Musk. In a statement, Mr Musk said the deal would create “the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform”. The world’s richest man, who also owns Tesla, social media platform X, and satellite communications company Starlink, said the combination would aim to develop AI data centres in space, and called the move “not just the next chapter, but the…

One of the screenwriters of an Oscar-nominated film has been arrested in Tehran days after signing a statement condemning Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his regime’s violent crackdown on protesters.Mehdi Mahmoudian, who co-wrote the script for the Iranian drama It Was Just An Accident, was arrested on Saturday, representatives of the film said in a statement. It is unclear what he is charged with. In the statement, Mahmoudian and 16 others wrote: “The mass and systematic killing of citizens who bravely took to the streets to bring an end to an illegitimate regime constitutes an organised state crime against…

Gold and silver costs are taking further punishment on Monday following record routs seen at the end of last week.Both precious metals had stood at record values on Thursday but fell sharply after Donald Trump revealed his nomination for the chair of the US central bank. The announcement on Friday that he wanted Kevin Warsh to succeed Jay Powell from May calmed market nerves over Federal Reserve independence.Money latest: MP shares secrets of the job Image: Keven Warsh is not seen as the advocate of blanket interest rate cuts that markets had feared would be appointed. Pic: Reuters This was…

“There was lots of bullying, harassment, exclusion from the team, from projects. A lot of things were going on.”For the first time, former TikTok worker Lynda Ouazar is speaking out to expose what she says was an environment of bullying, harassment and union busting at one of the world’s biggest social media companies. “I was finding it really hard to sleep at night, having flashbacks, feeling tired, losing my motivation,” she tells Sky News.Along with three of her former colleagues, she is now launching legal action against TikTok. This is the second court case the video app is facing from…

“He’s powerless, he’s being gaslit… a lot of people feel that way” – Riz Ahmed on why his “fresh” adaptation of Hamlet speaks to our “unfair” times.For Ahmed, “a musical chairs of… studio execs leaving” meant it’s taken 13 years to bring his modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the screen. While the wait has clearly been frustrating for the Oscar-winning actor, he says he’s come to realise “this is the time for this story”.”Hamlet is feeling the way a lot of us are, you know, he’s feeling the world’s an unfair place,” he tells Sky News. “He’s powerless about it. He’s…