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A UAE-based steel company has made an approach to buy Britain’s third-biggest steel producer, months after it was declared “hopelessly insolvent” and fell into the hands of the Official Receiver.Sky News has learnt that Arabian Gulf Steel Industries (AGSI), which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, is among a small number of parties which have lodged proposals to take control of the Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) business which until last summer was owned by the metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel empire. The business collapsed into compulsory liquidation in August, sparking a scramble in Whitehall to find a buyer for it…

Gabby Logan has paid tribute to her father, former Leeds United and Wales midfielder Terry Yorath, who died at the age of 75 following a short illness.The BBC Sport presenter posted a picture of her father playing for Wales on Instagram today, saying: “Rest in Peace Dad.”Our hearts are broken. Your love and legacy lives on.”The post also included other images from his football career. Image: Terry Yorath and Gabby Logan in 2012. Pic: PA Yorath made close to 200 appearances for Leeds during a nine-year spell in the 1960s and 70s and was a member of the team that…

NASA will bring back a crew from the ISS earlier than planned because of a medical issues.Hours before, the space agency cancelled a spacewalk that was scheduled for Thursday. A NASA spokeswoman said the astronaut, who wasn’t named for medical privacy reasons, was ‌in a stable condition on the ISS.”It’s not an emergency evacuation, but we are erring on the side of caution for the crew member,” said Dr James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer.Crew-11 has been on the ISS since August last year and was due to return around May this year. You need javascript enabled to…

Oil sits at the heart of Donald Trump’s Venezuelan gamble. Within a day of the US operation which ousted President Nicolas Maduro, Trump made his top priority clear: reviving the country’s oil industry.”We’re going to have our very large US oil companies – the biggest anywhere in the world – go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken oil infrastructure and start making money for the country,” he said at a news conference on Saturday. He has since said Venezuela will imminently hand over 30 to 50 million barrels of crude to the US government – worth around…

The arraignment of Rob Reiner’s son over the killing of his parents has been delayed after his high-profile defence lawyer withdrew from the case. A judge agreed to Alan Jackson’s request to exit the case during a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing on Wednesday, at which Nick Reiner, 32, was expected to be arraigned and enter a plea. The hearing took place roughly three weeks after actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife of 36 years, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead with stab wounds in their upscale home in Los Angeles.Mr Jackson said “circumstances beyond our control” were behind the move,…

Cyber flashing became illegal in 2024. Now, the government is making it a priority offence, putting the pressure on tech companies to do something about it. Cyber flashing is when someone sends a non-consensual explicit picture – best known as a “dick pic”. It’s most often women on the receiving end and, according to research by dating app Bumble, the adults most likely to receive those images are women between 40 and 45 years old.That being said, it’s an extremely common experience online, with one in three teenage girls saying they’ve received an unwanted sexual image, according to YouGov data.What changes…

Criminals have used Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to create child sexual abuse imagery, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported.For days, the IWF has been receiving reports from internet users that Grok had created child abuse images, but that content hadn’t crossed the threshold into illegal content. Now, it has, says the IWF.It is one of the few organisations around the world that is allowed to proactively track down child abuse material and found the material in a dark web forum. Image: An IWF analyst shows Sky News a mocked-up version of a report about child sexual abuse imagery The…

Brigitte Bardot’s funeral has been held with a private service in Saint-Tropez.The French movie and style icon died on 28 December at the age of 91 at her home in the French Riviera resort, where she lived for more than half a century.Her husband, Bernard d’Ormale, revealed in an interview with Paris Match magazine that she had died from cancer after undergoing two operations. Image: Brigitte Bardot (pictured in 1959) died on 28 December, aged 91. Pic: Sam Levin/Regie Du Film/Del Duca/Kobal/Shutterstock You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Celebrated and controversial: Brigitte Bardot…

Almost half of pornography users have accessed adult sites without government-mandated age checks since the measure came into force, new research shows.Since the law changed in July, 45% of 1,469 adults who use porn have gone on websites without age checks to avoid submitting their personal information, a poll by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation found. The research also showed that 29% of pornography users had used a VPN to avoid age checks on websites that do require them.A VPN – or virtual private network – can be used to mask a users’ location, allowing them to connect to the internet…

Donald Trump has announced Venezuela’s interim government will be “turning over” between 30 and 50 million barrels of “high quality” oil to the US.The oil – worth upwards of $2bn (£1.48bn) – will be taken by storage ships and brought directly to US unloading docks, the president said on Truth Social. It will be sold at its market price and the money generated from the sales will be controlled by Mr Trump himself, his statement added.Energy secretary Chris Wright has been asked to execute the plan.Catch on latest updates on Venezuela and Greenland Mr Trump has been open about his…