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Apr 22
Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior sacked after fifth straight Premier League loss

The club was holding senior leadership team discussions about his future earlier today. A 3-0 loss at Brighton further dented the Blues' hopes of qualifying for the Champions League, with Rosenior admitting the performance was "indefensible". The Blues are set to play Leeds in an FA Cup semi-final on Sunday. Rosenior said on Tuesday he must identify which players he can trust after the poor result at the Amex Stadium. It was Chelsea's fifth straight league loss without scoring for the first time since 1912. "I understand their frustration," Rosenior said of the fans. "The buck stops with me. I have thick skin and I understand why the fans are frustrated." This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app. You can also follow us on WhatsApp and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with the latest news.

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Apr 22
Christopher Trybus found not guilty of rape and manslaughter after wife Tarryn Baird took her own life

Warning: This story contains descriptions some readers may find distressing, including references to suicide. Christopher Trybus, of Swindon, Wiltshire, stood trial accused of causing the death of Tarryn Baird, who died aged 34 in November 2017. The 44-year-old defendant also faced charges at Winchester Crown Court of controlling and coercive behaviour and two charges of rape. He has been cleared of all charges. Speaking outside court and accompanied by his current wife, Mr Trybus said: "After three police investigations over the course of 10 years, I'm relieved that the jury has carefully considered the evidence and reached the correct verdict today. "I want to thank my wife, my family, and my friends for their unwavering support - and my legal team for their hard work and dedication throughout the process. "This has had a profound impact on my life and on those closest to me. It's been an incredibly difficult experience. "I would also like to acknowledge that domestic abuse is a very real and serious issue, and victims must always be supported. "Right now, I'll focus on moving forward and rebuilding my life with my family." It was the first case of its kind in England and Wales. Mr Trybus, who denied the offences, claimed his wife made the allegations as a result of mental health issues, including a probable diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she witnessed violent car-jackings in South Africa, where the couple grew up. The defendant, who runs an IT business, also said he was out of the country when some of the incidents were alleged to have taken place. The judge, Mr Justice Linden, thanked the jurors for their service and told them: "It was a difficult and sad case and the stakes were high for the families involved so we understand your task has not been an easy one and no one should underestimate your role in these proceedings." Describing how he felt about Ms Baird in light of the allegations, Mr Trybus told the court: "It's such a complex feeling, I loved her dearly and she has gone and said all of these things. "At no point has this ever happened, it's such a mix of emotions, I am upset that she said these things but she is not here so I can't be upset with her, it's not something I can put into words." Anyone feeling emotionally distressed or suicidal can call Samaritans for help on 116 123 or visit samaritans.org in the UK. In the US, call the Samaritans branch in your area or 1 (800) 273-TALK.

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Apr 22
Mars rover discovers organic molecules - hinting at possibility of ancient life

After years of lab work, a rock that the rover drilled and analysed in 2020 has been confirmed to include organic molecules. Among them is a nitrogen heterocycle. Its molecular structure - a ring of carbon atoms including nitrogen - is considered a predecessor to RNA and DNA. But scientists have no way of knowing if these molecules were created by biologic or geologic processes - either path is possible, the space agency says. However, their discovery provided further confirmation that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support life. The news comes soon after the success of the Artemis II mission, in which four astronauts travelled further from Earth than any human had ever been. "This collection of organic molecules once again increases the prospect that Mars offered a home for life in the ancient past," mission project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said. "This is Curiosity and our team at their best. It took dozens of scientists and engineers to locate this site, drill the sample, and make these discoveries with our awesome robot." Read more:'Leopard spots' are sign life once existed on Mars The rock sample was nicknamed Mary Anning 3 after an English paleontologist and was found on part of the planet's Mount Sharp - a region that was covered by lakes and streams billions of years ago. Detecting DNA predecessors is "pretty profound because these structures can be chemical precursors to more complex nitrogen-bearing molecules," said the paper's lead author, Amy Williams of the University of Florida in Gainesville. "Nitrogen heterocycles have never been found before on the Martian surface or confirmed in Martian meteorites." Also discovered was benzothiophene, which has previously been found in meteorites. These meteorites, along with the organic molecules within them, are believed by some scientists to have seeded prebiotic chemistry across the early solar system.

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Jenness Mitchell, Scotland reporter
Apr 22
Jordan Gray killing: Second man in court charged with murder after fatal shooting of Motherwell father

Jordan Gray, 26, suffered fatal firearm wounds in his home in Shields Court, Motherwell, on the evening of 14 December 2025. His body was discovered the following day. Nathan Gordon, 30, was previously arrested on 12 March in connection with the incident and released pending further enquiries. He was re-arrested following the execution of a warrant on Tuesday and appeared before Hamilton Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Gordon, of Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, made no plea to the single charge of murder. The suspect was remanded in custody and is due back in the dock within the next eight days. Co-accused Robert Clark, 58, appeared before the same court last month and is facing charges of murder and carrying a firearm in a public place. Clark made no plea at the time and was remanded in custody. Read more from Sky News:Man not guilty of manslaughter after wife took her own lifeMogul behind K-pop supergroup faces arrest The major Police Scotland investigation - dubbed Operation Arvia - saw Crimestoppers offer a reward of up to £20,000 for any information that could help solve the shooting. At a police news conference in January, Mr Gray's mother, Lynn Gray, and stepfather, Michael Groome, said they were "devastated" over their loss. Mr Groome added: "Jordan's baby will have to grow up without knowing how much his dad loved him."

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Apr 22
The men who sacrificed their race to help another Boston Marathon runner

Ajay Haridasse fell to the ground shortly after the 26th mile mark at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Aaron Beggs pulled Mr Haridasse to his feet and was joined by Robson De Oliveira - the pair then put their arms around Mr Haridasse to support him to the finish. "After falling down the fourth time, I was getting ready to crawl," Mr Haridasse told the Boston Herald. "Obviously the wheels kinda fell off at mile 26." He said without Mr Beggs or Mr Oliveira, he would not have qualified for next year's Boston Marathon, which he hopes to run. Mr Haridasse said if Mr Oliveira did not help him, "that would have been his fastest race ever". "I'm running Boston again," Mr Haridasse told the paper. "I'm definitely running again." "It was a split-second decision," Mr De Oliveira wrote on social media. "When I entered the final stretch of the marathon, I was just a few meters away from achieving my personal best, but in the distance I saw [Haridasse] collapsing. "I knew I wouldn't have the strength to help him on my own. In that moment, I thought, 'God, if someone stops, I'll stop too and help him.'" He said he knew he could help "because two are stronger than one". Read more from Sky News:Mars rover discovers organic moleculesTwo UK ticket-holders win enormous EuroMillions prize Mr De Oliveira also ended up in the medical tent after the race with Mr Haridasse, who was suffering from extreme dehydration. "The fact not many people realise you gave everything to help and ended up in a worse state than the guy we helped," Mr Beggs replied on Mr De Oliveira's post. "True star."

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Mickey Carroll, science and technology reporter
Apr 22
Predators have a new business model - and humans, not AI, need to catch them, experts warn

That's changing. Now, fully commercial sites are springing up all over the open web. The Internet Watch Foundation, the organisation charged with removing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from the internet, has seen the number of commercial sites double in the past year alone. Some of them are hidden behind apparently innocent website fronts, others are just sitting in the open, just a few clicks away from your social media feeds. The criminals running these sites aren't selling access to one or two videos of 'category A' material - the worst level of designation content assigned by police. They're encouraging users to download - and pay for - terabytes of content at a time. But like any business, they need a marketing strategy. They've chosen word of mouth. "[They're using] 'refer-a-friend' schemes whereby if you view the content and you want more, you can spread that link around your social media accounts, and then the more clicks that content gets," according to Mabel, an anonymous analyst at the IWF. "That's new. We never used to see that at all." Mabel is one of the few people in the world who is legally allowed to hunt down and remove CSAM from the internet. She's also a grandmother. She added: "I worry that my grandchildren will be presented with these sites in their feeds on their social media, not realise what they are and click on them." Nearly every refer-a-friend scheme was reported to the IWF by a member of the public, rather than a trained analyst. That worries analysts like Mabel because it suggests ordinary people are now stumbling across this extreme abuse material in a way they never have before. "I come into work every day and I know what I'm going to see. I'm expecting to see the content that I see on the internet," she said. "But can you imagine if you turned on your phone, turned on the computer, and within a few clicks you saw category A content? You can't unsee that once you've seen it." Read more from Sky News:Investigation into child sex abuse on TelegramSurvivor of online child abuse shares storySex offenders exposed to abuse as children A lot of tech firms, like social media companies, have recognised the harm that seeing such extreme content can do to their employees. Social media moderators are routinely exposed to CSAM, extreme violence and death. It has an impact. Two years ago, moderators from Meta began legal action against the company after more than 140 of them were diagnosed with severe PTSD. Other major social media sites like TikTok are also facing legal action over their treatment of moderators and, as a result, many companies are turning to AI to deal with the majority of extreme content. They say it will help ease the severe mental load for their human workers. Even the Metropolitan Police announced last week that it will begin exploring how AI could help the force analyse large volumes of CSAM, leaving officers free to "focus human expertise where it is needed most". So what about the IWF, where analysts are dealing with more content than ever before? They've seen a 6% increase in the amount of CSAM online in the last year alone. "Artificial intelligence tools are a supplement, right?" IWF chief executive Kerry Smith said. "They're a supplement to human intelligence. They aren't a replacement." She believes her human analysts are worth the cost of the mandatory monthly counselling, stringent recruitment process and ongoing psychological care, because of their "offline understanding" of the internet's underbelly. "[They have an] understanding of how abuse occurs, what exploitation looks like, how you find particular indicators within those images and within those videos that can help identify an individual," Ms Smith said. "So I think artificial intelligence is a weapon that we could use to prevent online child sexual abuse and exploitation, but it's not a replacement for human intelligence and human insight."

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Apr 22
Monkeys eating soil to settle upset stomachs from junk food, says research

Scientists believe the dirt helps the monkeys line the gut to stop irritation from foods which are "extremely rich in calories, sugar, salt and dairy". The soil also provides bacteria and minerals missing from junk food offered or stolen from tourists, such as chocolate bars, crisps and ice cream. The snacks have negative digestive effects for the macaques and can cause symptoms from nausea to diarrhoea, but the food is "as delicious for them" as it is for humans, according to a Cambridge University study. Animals in frequent contact with Gibraltar's visitors were observed to eat more dirt, with this behaviour higher during peak holiday season. The researchers think the behaviour is likely to have been learned socially as different troops of monkeys have preferences for certain types of soil. Experts said the soil acts as a "barrier" in the digestive tract and limits the absorption of harmful compounds. Dr Sylvain Lemoine, a biological anthropologist from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, added: "This could alleviate gastrointestinal symptoms from nausea to diarrhoea. "Soil may also provide friendly bacteria that helps with the gut microbiome. "Non-human primates become lactose intolerant after weaning, so dairy is known to cause digestive issues in monkeys, and ice cream is hugely popular with Gibraltar's tourists and consequently its macaques." The junk diet was "completely unlike" foods normally eaten by the species, such as herbs, leaves, seeds and the occasional insect - with the behaviour being "driven entirely by proximity to humans". Dr Lemoine said: "Humans evolved to seek out and store energy-dense fats and sugars to survive periods of scarcity, leading us to crave high-calorie junk food. "Availability of human junk food could trigger this same evolutionary mechanism in macaques." Read more from Sky News:Mars rover discovers organic moleculesHere is why your hay fever is getting worse Gibraltar's macaques number around 230 animals across eight stable groups that inhabit different areas of the Rock. Scientists recorded 46 dirt-eating "events" in 44 different animals across 98 observation days between summer 2022 and spring 2024. The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Rowland Manthorpe - technology correspondent
Apr 22
UK's top cybersecurity chief warns against AI threats amid Anthropic's new Mythos model

Richard Horne, the head of the National Cybersecurity Centre, stressed the need for organisations to improve their cyber defences, saying they needed to act with "10 times urgency". But he said he did not consider AI a national security threat at present, as new models were "not finding new attacks, they're just exposing more security vulnerabilities". He added: "We're in a kind of perfect storm where we have two forces - one huge technology disruption, one rising geopolitical tensions, and they come together. And cybersecurity's in the middle of them." Anthropic's new model Mythos has been causing widespread concern after the AI firm announced that it was significantly better at finding cyber vulnerabilities than previous AIs. The company decided not to release Mythos publicly, instead sharing it with a select set of companies and organisations - including the UK AI Security Institute, which independently confirmed their assessment. Mr Horne said the new abilities of frontier AI models to "do the work of a huge number of people in an instant" made this "a significant moment in time". He added: "What it's going to mean is where organisations are reliant on technology that they haven't patched, haven't updated with the latest security updates. That will be exposed. "Where tech producers are shipping code that has this poor quality and has security bugs in it. That will be exposed. "And where organisations have old, obsolete technology, that can't be updated, it can't be patched. That will be exposed." Read more from Sky News:Osmonds singer diesKing's tribute to late Queen AI, he said, would speed up the need to apply security updates. "We talked about applying critical patches in days, and that's coming down to minutes," Mr Horne said. "So, organisations really need to focus on how they execute the application of security updates as quickly as they can."

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Apr 22
Olaolukitan Adon Abel: British-born man suspected of killing three people dies in US jail

Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday evening, the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office said. Officials tried to save him but he was later pronounced dead. It comes just a week after Abel allegedly carried out a spate of shootings in the Atlanta area. The US navy veteran had been charged with murdering Prianna Weathers, 31, and Lauren Bullis, 40, on 13 April. Police were also looking to charge Abel with the murder of Tony Matthews, a 49-year-old homeless man, who was injured outside a shopping centre in Brookhaven and died on Sunday. Officials had described the killings as "an act of pure evil". Investigators alleged that after Abel left his house, he travelled about five miles and fatally shot Ms Weathers outside a fast food restaurant in Decatur at 12.50am. According to police, Abel then shot Mr Matthews around 2am outside a supermarket in Brookhaven, about 12 miles northwest of the first attack. Homeland security worker Ms Bullis, who was out walking her dog in Panthersville a few hundred feet from Abel's home, was found around 7am with gunshot and stab wounds. It is unclear if Abel knew any of the victims - police have said they believe at least one victim was targeted at random. Abel was granted US citizenship in 2022 while serving in the US navy and stationed in the San Diego area. US homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin said following the killings: "A DHS employee, Lauren Bullis, was brutally shot and stabbed to death by Olaolukitan Adon Abel, a 26-year-old, born in the United Kingdom, who was naturalised by the Biden administration in 2022." He said of the attacks: "These acts of pure evil have devastated our department and my prayers are with the families of the victims." Mr Mullin said Abel had previous convictions for sexual battery, battery against a police officer, obstruction, assault with a deadly weapon, and vandalism. Read more from Sky News:The Osmonds singer diesKing pays tribute to 'darling mama' Military records show the suspect enlisted in the US navy in 2020 and last served in a helicopter strike squadron in Coronado, California. The cause of Abel's death has not been given, and there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.

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Apr 22
Lyrid meteor shower: How to spot the celestial show - and what will the weather be like?

The Lyrid meteor shower, which comes annually in April, is the oldest known to man, first spotted in 687 BC by Chinese stargazers. It will reach maximum tonight, two days before the first quarter moon, meaning the lunar glow will not cause too much light pollution, according to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. But you also stand a chance of seeing it up to Saturday. Here's everything you need to know. How to watch the Lyrid meteor shower You have the best chance of spotting the shower tonight, as it is at its peak. The further away we get from the maximum, the harder it becomes to see the shower. You can start looking once it's dark, but you'll be giving yourself the best chance of seeing the meteors after the moon has set, from 2am onwards, says the Observatory. It says this is because the Earth will have spun towards the cloud of debris at this point, making it easier to spot the meteors. Try to move away from lights to reduce light pollution and look towards the darkest parts of the sky once the sun has set this evening. NASA recommends letting your eyes adjust to the dark for around 30 minutes. After that, you should be able to see the meteors. What about the weather? The good news is forecasts show that the vast majority of the UK will be dry overnight for the next few evenings. Sky News' weather producer Jo Robinson says: "Thankfully, high pressure is in change this week, bringing largely clear skies at night. "That said, there will be some low cloud or fog around at times, with northern, central and eastern parts most at risk. "The clear skies do mean that it will be quite chilly for anyone heading out to see the meteor shower, with a frost in some rural spots." You might be hanging around for a while, so it's worth wrapping up warm and grabbing a blanket to lie back on - or a deck chair, if you want a comfier experience. "Be patient," NASA says. "The show will last until dawn, so you have plenty of time to catch a glimpse." What causes the Lyrid meteor shower The Lyrids come from the constellation of Lyra. Their actual origin is the Comet Thatcher, which is not named after the former prime minister but the amateur astronomer Alfred Thatcher, who discovered it in 1861. Read more:'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis set to pass close to EarthWhy your hay fever is getting worse Meteor showers, or shooting stars, are caused when pieces of debris, known as meteorites, enter Earth's atmosphere at speeds of around 43 miles per second, burning up and causing streaks of light. These chunks are moving very quickly compared to our atmosphere so the air around them heats up. This makes the meteor heat up too and glow brightly, which is what we see. The surface of these meteors can reach up to 1,600 degrees celsius.

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