Lara Keay

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Lara Keay

Seven years after allegations against him first emerged online, Harvey Weinstein is back in court. When the accusations surfaced in late 2017, the American actress Alyssa Milano tweeted: "If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'Me too' as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem."This gave birth to what we now know as the #MeToo movement and a flood of women - famous and not - sharing stories of gender-based violence and harassment.

1 month ago | kmfm.co.uk | Lara Keay

Strains of the virus have been reported in poultry and wild birds across the country, as well as a confirmed case in a single sheep in Yorkshire, more than a dozen in grey seals in Norfolk, and one in a fox in Scotland. One person working on a farm in the West Midlands also tested positive. Although there has only been one human case, the government has ordered five million doses of a bird flu vaccine to prevent further spread between humans.

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Lara Keay

One of France's most successful actors is in court accused of sexually assaulting two women on the set of one of his films. Gerard Depardieu, 76, has starred in more than 200 films over five decades, winning two best lead actor awards at the Cesars, as well as being nominated for an Oscar and 15 other Cesars. In recent years he has faced a series of sexual assault allegations, all of which he denies.

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Lara Keay

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy's have both said any ceasefire between their two countries must lead to a lasting peace. Ukraine has not long marked three years of war, in which hundreds of thousands have died or been injured on both sides, according to the respective authorities.

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Lara Keay

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that "certain biases concerning women in Cyprus" meant a British woman accused of lying about being gang-raped on holiday there did not get an effective police investigation. The woman, now in her early 20s, reported being raped by 12 Israeli men at her Ayia Napa hotel in July 2019, but went on to retract the report. She was then convicted of "public mischief" for making the allegations.