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A new twist in the safety crisis engulfing Boeing could see the airline prosecuted over the 737 MAX 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019 that left 346 people dead.It was revealed late on Tuesday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed a case accusing the planemaker of breaching its obligations in a 2021 agreement that shielded Boeing from criminal prosecution over the crashes. Then, Boeing agreed to pay $2.5bn to resolve the investigation into its conduct, compensate victims’ relatives and overhaul its compliance practices.The terms of that deal – known as a deferred prosecution agreement – were due…

Greta Gerwig, Meryl Streep and Lea Seydoux led the way on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet on Tuesday night as Hollywood’s annual trip to the French Riviera got under way. The two-week long festival will see premieres, parties and news conferences take place as some of the most hotly-anticipated films of 2024 are debuted.Barbie writer and director Gerwig is president of this year’s Cannes jury – who will decide which movie wins the prestigious Palme d’Or.Read more: The Cannes 2024 films to look out for Be the first to get Breaking News Install the Sky News app for free…

Sir Keir Starmer has moved to reassure trade union bosses about his party’s plans to strengthen workers’ rights, after he was accused of watering them down.The party has promised a radical shake-up for workers if they win office – including banning zero hours contracts, employment rights from day one, and ending the practice of “fire and rehire”. The new deal for working people was billed as the biggest advance in workers’ rights for decades when first unveiled by Angela Rayner in 2021.The party made some changes last summer, but union bosses claimed a new document circulated to them last week…

Ant McPartlin and his wife Anne-Marie Corbett have welcomed their first child.The TV presenter, one half of entertainment duo Ant and Dec, announced the news on the joint Instagram account he has with his co-presenter. The 48-year-old shared a black and white photo showing him holding the newborn, and revealed the baby’s name. Image: The baby’s name is Wilder Patrick McPartlin. Pic: Instagram/@antanddec He wrote: “Welcome to the family. Wilder Patrick Mcpartlin.”Born, 14/05/24 at 8.54am.”Baby is beautiful, Mummy’s a legend, Sisters are over the moon. Dad’s a mess!” Image: Ant McPartlin and Anne-Marie Corbett got married in 2021. Pic: PA…

A former Post Office communications director told fellow employees he was at “the heart of a corporate cover-up”, at the same time as sub-postmaster prosecutions were taking place and years before an apology was made to victims.The inquiry into faulty Horizon software, and the associated prosecution of 700 sub-postmasters for theft and false accounting, is taking place to establish a clear account of the implementation and failure of the Fujitsu created software. As well as the wrongful convictions many more sub-postmasters racked up large debts, lost homes, livelihoods, and reputations as they borrowed heavily to plug Horizon’s incorrectly generated shortfalls…

There are at least three things Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods are intended to achieve.Interestingly enough, preventing Chinese goods from entering the United States (typically the main purpose of tariffs) is arguably the least important of them. That’s because the most eye-watering of all the new tariffs – a 100% rate on electric vehicles – is being imposed on a category where China doesn’t really compete all that much. Consider: last year the US imported nearly $19bn worth of electric cars. Of those imports, a mere $370m came from China – less than 2% of the total.Money latest:…

Klarna, the buy now pay later (BNPL) finance giant, has cleared a crucial hurdle on its journey towards a stock market flotation expected to value it at as much as $20bn (£15.9bn).Sky News has learnt that the Stockholm-based consumer credit provider has secured backing from shareholders and regulators to establish a new UK-registered holding company. Investors were informed earlier this week that the approvals, part of preparations for a high-profile initial public offering (IPO), would result in the exchange of their shares in Klarna Holding for Klarna Group plc stock taking place in about ten days’ time.Investment banks have yet…

Kelly Clarkson has addressed speculation about her weight loss, saying she has not used Ozempic but “something else” which has helped her.The singer and talk show host spoke about the issue with actress Whoopi Goldberg, who has also lost a lot of weight after having treatment, in an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. Numerous Hollywood stars are rumoured to have used Ozempic to lose weight – but just a handful of celebrities have admitted it publicly. Image: Whoopi Goldberg says she has lost “almost two people” in weight. Pic: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP 2023 The medication was originally designed for people…

On Ian’s show he talks to Victoria Clarke, UK chief economist at Santander Corporate Investment Bank, about wage growth.Sky’s economics and data editor Ed Conway discusses the US increasing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. And there’s Odisseas Athanasiou, chief executive of Lamda Development, talking about Europe’s largest urban development project.:: Listen and subscribe to The Ian King Business Podcast here. Source link

GCHQ now “devotes more resource to China than any other single mission,” according to the intelligence agency’s director, Anne Keast-Butler.China poses an “epoch-defining challenge” to the UK, she said at CyberUK, the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Birmingham. Last week, Sky News discovered China had hacked the Ministry of Defence’s payroll system and in March, Chinese hackers were accused of stealing data about UK voters from the Electoral Commission.After news about last week’s attack, China’s foreign ministry said it “firmly opposes and fights all forms of cyber attacks” and “rejects the use of this issue politically to smear other…