Author: SKYNEWS

Bad Bunny has made history by becoming the first Super Bowl half-time show headliner to perform entirely in Spanish – and to host a wedding during the performance.Already a controversial pick to the main event, drawing criticism from Donald Trump, the rapper breezed through an eight-song set mostly made up of his latest album Debi Tirar Mas Fotos at the 60th edition of the NFL’s biggest event. Image: Fireworks at Levi’s Stadium after the Seattle Seahawks defeat the New England Patriots. Pic: San Francisco Chronicle/AP Image: Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike MacDonald (right) and quarterback Sam Darnold (left) hold the…

Social media is on trial in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they operate.Inside LA’s superior court, a landmark trial is getting under way. Social media companies are being accused of being addictive by design, a bit like tobacco and cigarettes were in the 1980s. They’ll face around 22 “bellwether” lawsuits, i.e. test cases, with lawyers considering the testimonies of more than 1,500 people when launching the action. Image: Shares in Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta tumbled after the closing bell. AP file pic Opening statements for the first lawsuit will start on Monday, with Meta chief executive Mark…

The face of a “vampire” whose remains were posthumously mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead can be seen for the first time in more than 400 years.Discovered in a grave at Racesa, a fortress in eastern Croatia, the body had been exhumed, beheaded and reburied face down beneath heavy stones. And since the desecration cannot be explained by environmental factors, experts believe it was done to stop the dead man returning as a vampire.Now the face of the deceased can be seen for the first time in centuries, after scientists rebuilt his likeness from his skull. Image: The…

Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny will give a highly anticipated Super Bowl half-time performance on Sunday, promising fans they should be prepared to dance.The singer and rapper, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is one of the world’s most-streamed musicians. But not all were happy with his selection as half-time headliner, with Donald Trump calling it “absolutely ridiculous”.The 31-year-old has been highly critical of the US president’s deportation policies and supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.He will perform a week after winning album of the year at the 2026 Grammys for Debi Tirar Mas Fotos -…

The chief executive and publisher of the Washington Post has stepped down, just days after a third of the paper’s staff were made redundant.In an email sent to staff, Will Lewis said that “during my tenure, ​difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure ‍the sustainable future of The Post” – seemingly referencing this week’s layoffs – “so it can for many years ahead publish high-quality nonpartisan news to millions of customers each day”. He added: “I want to thank Jeff Bezos for his support and leadership throughout my tenure as CEO and Publisher. The institution could not have…

Autism rates are ‘more or less equal for men and women’, according to a study which challenges previous assumptions about its prevalence.While the neurological and developmental ⁠condition is known to be more common in young boys, Swedish researchers found there was a big rise in diagnoses among adolescent girls. And by the age of 20, the male-to-female ratio had evened out at nearly one-to-one, experts at the Karolinska Institutet reported.Researchers said the study, published in ​the BMJ, highlights a need to investigate why girls and women receive diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) later than boys and men.Previous work on…

Neil Young has cancelled his upcoming UK tour and other dates in Europe with rock band The Chrome Hearts.The Canadian-American singer, 80, apologised to fans in a post on his official website on Friday night. He said it is “not the time” to be playing live shows and said he had “decided to take a break”.Young was due to go on tour this summer with dates scheduled for locations including Manchester, Glasgow, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and Cork.’I’m sorry to let you down’ A message posted to the Neil Young Archives website read: “I have decided to take a break and…

Morrisons, the UK’s fifth-largest supermarket chain, is exploring a £1bn property deal amid its battle to recapture the ground it has lost to rivals including Sainsbury’s and Aldi.Sky News has learnt that Morrisons, which is based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, has engaged the real estate advisory firm CBRE to evaluate options for raising finance secured against part of its large freehold store portfolio. Sources said the process was at an early stage, but that it was unlikely to involve a conventional sale-and-leaseback transaction of the kind favoured by major grocers in recent decades.One option expected to be considered is a…

Two people have been arrested in Essex for allegedly illegally dumping waste at six different illegal spots across England, the Environment Agency has said.The pair are suspected of trashing spots across Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Buckinghamshire, as the country grapples with a proliferating black market in illegal waste, dubbed the “new narcotics”. Earlier this week, the 54-year-old male and 50-year-old woman, both from Essex, were arrested in a joint raid by the Environment Agency (EA) and the Eastern Regional Special Operations Unit.The suspects were interviewed and then released as the agencies still needed to gather further information.The EA said the action…

In filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, resistance is framed as survival.While there’s no direct reference to ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), authority is shown as unpredictable, militarised and with the power to destabilise entire neighbourhoods. Since the film came out at the end of last September, those aspects have come to feel incredibly timely.”Devastatingly so,” according to its producer, Sara Murphy, after the killing by federal agents in Minneapolis of protesters Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.”I don’t think we could have anticipated just how close to home it would be,” Murphy says, “as a sort…