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Richard Tice's position is still a long way from the scientific consensus that humans have dramatically disrupted the climate, but marks a shift in comparison with earlier in the year, when he told Sky News man-made climate changed was "garbage".

This year's winner follows on from last year's "brat", which was popularised by British singer Charli XCX.

The Conservatives have said the government needs to recognise gas will be needed to secure energy and lower bills.

Michael Burry, who was played by Christian Bale in the 2015 film The Big Short, has bet against Nvidia and other technology stocks, causing market plunges worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

The private astronaut, who has twice been to space in commercially funded missions with SpaceX, was nominated by the US president in the spring, but the rug was pulled at the last minute over his previous donations to Democrats.

The cyber attack on high street department store Marks and Spencer is expected to directly cost roughly £136m.

Fresh polling by YouGov, carried out exclusively for Sky News, finds that belief in and concern about man-made global warming remains as high as in their heyday in 2021, when the UK hosted the COP26 climate summit.

A nation going alone and attempting to dim sunlight in one region could cause extreme droughts and other weather disturbances elsewhere in the world, the report warns.

The flare came from a supermassive black hole 10 billion light years away - making it the most distant one observed so far.

The Prince of Wales is in Brazil all week for both his annual Earthshot Awards on Wednesday and COP30, the UN's climate conference.