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A white policeman in the US has been found guilty of murdering a 15-year-old black boy after he fired five bullets into a car full of teenagers. Roy Oliver was responding to a call of underage drinking at a party in a Dallas suburb.Oliver fired into the car, shooting unarmed Jordan Edwards in the head and killing him.Edwards and four others were leaving the party after hearing gunshots which had come from another nearby location. Image: Jordan Edwards was 15 when he was shot in the head Oliver could face between five to 99 years in prison for the murder…

Venezuela is in the middle of an economic crisis, with hyperinflation set to hit 1,000,000%. Hospitals are suffering, workers are on strike, supermarket shelves are bare, and now people are fleeing in the hope of a better life.Sky’s Alex Crawford is in the country and has been able to access one of the country’s hospitals and see first-hand the problems its people are facing.There are piles of rubbish on virtually every street corner in San Cristobal in Venezuela’s Tachira State. The dustbin men long gave up collecting after their salaries became virtually worthless.Birds scavenge around the festering mounds as people…

There was a “strange odour” in the Egyptian hotel room where a British couple died, the local governor has confirmed. The daughter of John and Susan Cooper, from Burnley, Lancashire, believes there was something in their room that killed them.Kelly Ormerod, who had been on holiday with her parents, revealed her daughter “could smell something that was a little bit funny” in her grandparents’ room.They attempted to cover the smell by spraying “a little bit of perfume” after dinner, Ms Ormerod has said.Her parents failed to come down for breakfast the next day before Ms Ormerod found them both seriously…

A father is due in court later charged over an alleged acid attack on his three-year-old son. The boy suffered serious burns to his face and arm when a substance was sprayed or thrown towards him at a Home Bargains store in Worcester on 21 July.His 39-year-old father – who cannot be named for legal reasons – is set to appear at Worcester Crown Court, along with five other men, charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.They are Adam Cech, 27, and Jan Dudi, 25, from Birmingham; Norbert Pulko, 22, and Saied Hussini, 41, from London; and Jabar Paktia,…

Air pollution is causing a “huge” reduction in our intelligence, according to a new study. Toxic air can cause everyone’s level of education to reduce by one year – and could extend to a few years’ worth of education for those aged over 64.Dr Xi Chen, from the Yale School of Public Health in the US, said this can have serious consequences for the elderly, as this is usually when the most critical financial decisions of their lifetime are made.The study also suggests that high levels of air pollution have a short-term impact on intelligence, meaning students may perform worse…

Uber has landed $500m (£389m) of investment from Toyota as it renews efforts to build self-driving cars for its ride-hailing app. The company encountered a series of setbacks when it tried to develop autonomous technology on its own – and five months ago, its plans were derailed after a self-driving car ran over and killed a pedestrian in the US.Unveiling their new partnership, Uber and Toyota said they hope to roll out their pilot programme in 2021, leading to the “mass production” of self-driving vehicles using technology from both companies.The vehicles, based on Toyota’s Sienna minivan, would be operated by…

Theresa May delivered a rebuke to her chancellor as she arrives in Africa for her first visit to the continent as prime minister. When asked whether she thought her chancellor was right in his assessment of the economic impact of “no-deal” – as outlined in a letter to the treasury select committee last week, the PM refused to endorse Philip Hammond’s position, stating that the figures he quoted were out of date.She said: “First of all, the chancellor was talking about a set of figures that I think came out in January. 2:58 Video: Are we heading for a ‘no…

Two detectives from Scotland Yard’s unique super recognisers squad are spearheading the search for suspects in the Salisbury poisoning case, Sky News can reveal. The officers, who have a rare skill in memorising faces, are thought to have played a vital role in identifying two Russian suspects the UK authorities want to extradite from Russia.The detectives were sent to the city at the start of the investigation into the novichok nerve agent attack on Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.They are part of a team trawling through 5,000 hours of CCTV footage, trying to match images…

A British artificial intelligence (AI) company which counts easyJet and Harrods among its clients will this week announce that it has struck an investment ‎deal with Livingbridge, the private equity firm. Sky News understands that Pointr, a fast-growing “scale-up” which helps retail and transport businesses improve performance by navigating customers more efficiently, is close to finalising its Series-A fundraising.The deal with Livingbridge, which is expected to involve it injecting several million pounds in return for a sizeable equity stake in Pointr, is designed to fuel the technology company’s international expansion.It will mark the latest purchase by Livingbridge of a stake…

Tributes have been paid in Vietnam to John McCain, the American senator and former navy pilot shot down over Hanoi during the US war with the southeast Asian nation. Vietnam’s foreign minister said Mr McCain, whose death was announced on Saturday, was a “symbol of his generation” who helped “heal the wounds of war”.The maverick politician, who was a proponent of US power, was taken prisoner of war in Vietnam but after his release helped secure the repatriation of the remains of missing-in-action soldiers. Image: John McCain (C) being pulled from a lake in Hanoi after his Navy warplane was…