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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…

Myanmar’s top generals must be prosecuted for genocide over the treatment of the Rohingya, according to a UN report. Six generals should be tried over orchestrated gross human rights violations and abuses in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan states, an independent fact-finding mission found.Hundreds of thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims fled across the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh after what many NGOs have described as ethnic cleansing.Amnesty International said security forces carried out a “targeted campaign of widespread and systematic murder, rape and burning”.:: Explained – The Rohingya refugee crisis 5:49 Video: Full special report: Rohingya refugee crisis 4:22 Video: Starving…

Uber is planning to shift its focus from cars to electric bicycles and scooters for shorter journeys, the taxi app’s chief executive has revealed. Dara Khosrowshahi said individual modes of transport were better suited to inner-city travel, despite taking revenues away from Uber’s drivers.He admitted the move would result in more short-term financial losses for the company, which lost $4.5bn (£3.5bn) last year and is planning to go public in 2019.Mr Khosrowshahi told the Financial Times: “During rush hour, it is very inefficient for a one-ton hulk of metal to take one person 10 blocks.”Short term financially, maybe it’s not…

A manhunt is under way after a mother and daughter were stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning in a Solihull street. The two women, aged 22 and 49, were found suffering from serious stab wounds in Northdown Road just after 12.30am on Monday. Image: Forensic tents outside a house in Northdown Road, Solihull Despite being treated by emergency services, both were confirmed dead at the scene.Officers are now making urgent attempts to arrest a male suspect, who they say is known to the victims.They have appealed for the man to hand himself in “as a matter…

Several brands of vanilla ice cream have been found to contain no vanilla, no cream and no fresh milk, an investigation has found. The key ingredients were absent from a number of supermarket and branded vanilla ice creams.One in five of the vanilla ice creams examined by Which? contained none of the three ingredients consumers might reasonably expect to find in them.Just half of the 24 ice creams in the survey contained all three ingredients – with the remaining 12 containing either some or none.Of the five products not containing any vanilla, cream or fresh milk, four were supermarket own…

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe made an emotional last-ditch appeal to spend more time with her daughter before being taken back to her jail cell in Iran, her husband has said. The British-Iranian mother was allowed out of her cell this week and was able to spend time with young Gabriella, who is staying with family in Tehran.Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in April 2016 for plotting to overthrow the Iranian regime and was convicted last year despite her denials, with her family – from Hampstead, north London – campaigning to have her released permanently. 1:27 Video: Jailed British mother released for three days…

Chinese ride-hailing firm DiDi Chuxing has suspended its carpool service after the arrest of a driver who allegedly raped and killed a female passenger. Authorities said the 20-year-old woman hailed a car on Friday in the eastern city of Wenzhou.The driver admitted to raping and killing the woman and was arrested, police said.The woman had sent a text message to her friends calling for help after getting into the vehicle in the afternoon.It comes just three months after another DiDi driver allegedly killed a flight attendant.The Beijing-based company has apologised, stating it has “inescapable responsibility” for the incident. Image: DiDi…

Wonga, the payday lender which was once one of Britain’s fastest-growing consumer finance companies, is on the brink of collapse this weekend following a deluge of customer compensation claims. Sky News has learnt that the company has lined up Grant Thornton, the professional services firm, to act as administrator if its board decides in the coming weeks that it is unable to avoid becoming insolvent.Sources close to Wonga said that it could appoint Grant Thornton as soon as this week.The fall into administration would underscore Wonga’s remarkable decline just five years after it harboured ambitions of pursuing a New York…