His family said in a statement on Saturday: "With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away." Mr Mueller, who died on Friday, returned to public service as special counsel in the Trump-Russia inquiry. Responding to news of his death on Truth Social, Donald Trump wrote: "Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!" Mr Mueller's 448-page report, released in April 2019, identified substantial contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia but did not allege a criminal conspiracy. He also laid out details about Mr Trump's efforts to seize control of the investigation, and even shut it down. Mr Mueller transformed the nation's law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force, joining just one week before the September 11 attacks. Nominated to the post by former Republican President George W Bush, he remained director for 12 years. His time was defined by the 2001 terrorist attacks on the US and its aftermath. The FBI was granted broad new surveillance and national security powers as it became increasingly challenged by threats from al Qaeda and terror plots. Mr Mueller held the job until 2013, becoming the second-longest-serving director in FBI history, behind only J Edgar Hoover. Divisive Trump-Russia inquiry Mr Mueller's team spent nearly two years conducting one of the most consequential, yet divisive, investigations in the history of the US Justice Department. Mr Mueller pointedly noted: "If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment." The investigation resulted in charges against 34 people, among them Russian intelligence officers and several Trump associates, including his campaign chairman and first national security adviser. Read more from Sky News:Meningitis outbreak: Cases in Kent rise to 34Northern Lights: Spectacular views forecast to return Strategic change at FBI During his tenure at the FBI, he had to construct a new model of policing. "I had expected to focus on areas familiar to me as a prosecutor: drug cases, white-collar criminal cases and violent crime," Mr Mueller told a group of lawyers in October 2012. He added that, instead, "we had to focus on long-term, strategic change. We had to enhance our intelligence capabilities and upgrade our technology. We had to build upon strong partnerships and forge new friendships, both here at home and abroad". Among the challenges he faced were the revelations that the FBI circumvented the law to obtain thousands of phone call records for terrorism investigations.

The This Country star is not wrong. Award shows, Comic Relief, the odd stunt soap episode aside, live TV entertainment - away from sport - is vanishingly rare. But that's about to change, with cult US sketch show Saturday Night Live coming to the UK for the first time. The brainchild of US TV executive Lorne Michaels, and running in America for 51 years, a cast of 11 young comics aged between 26 and 36, and 20 writers are about to give the UK the same Saturday Night Live treatment, broadcasting from Television Centre, TC1, west London, each week. As the name suggests, it's absolutely live, there is no autocue, just old-fashioned cue cards. Think the iconic Keira Knightley scene in Love Actually. A man called Wally Feresten was flown over from the US to train cue card handlers for the show, a niche necessity that those behind the show did not feel could not be scrimped on. The show is also written and rewritten up to the moment of broadcast, finessing the content, removing the bits that don't elicit enough of a laugh from the warm-up audience, who watch a dress rehearsal just hours before the show goes to air. 👉 Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app 👈 The cast have to be fleet-footed, flexible and ready to drop a scene, or learn a new one, at a moment's notice. So, could stuff go wrong on the night? And if it does, is it just part of the thrill of live TV? 'In a way mistakes are useful' Dring tells Sky News she is actively embracing the potential for chaos. "I hope so, and I think also to be honest to communicate what the actual show is, which is a live show," she says. "We as a country, we're not used to watching live stuff any more. So, in a way, if the odd thing doesn't go wrong when you're consuming it, you might not necessarily be cognisant of the fact that it is live. In a way, mistakes are useful to communicate what it is." Fellow cast member Al Nash, a stand-up whose online sketches have attracted over 100 million views on social media, says despite the show's glossy appearance, "When I'm doing it, I don't feel like I'm a star… It's kind of ramshackle… "You don't have a chance to think, 'Do I look good right now?' It's just like, get it done, get it over the line." Fast, furious and a little bit chaotic sounds exciting, and for some audience members thrillingly reminiscent of teenage years waking up to the Big Breakfast and wrapping up the week with The Word on a Friday night. 'We've signed a fun contract' But is there a balance between surprising the audience and behaving yourself on live TV? Dring says: "I think it's just following what you find funny, doing due diligence in terms of being considered, not being reckless or careless, but really just following what you think is funny." She adds: "And we've signed a fun contract." Running with it, Nash agrees: "If we dip below a certain amount of fun, there are multiple electrodes on our bodies, and they shock us. If you ever see me on set, go [mimes being electrocuted] then you know that's my own fault". Dring smiles: "And for me that's fun." 'Starmer's Starmer is six out of 10' A brutal six-day work cycle, Monday to Saturday, with Sunday to catch breath, before starting all over again, Nash agrees they've been prepping like athletes. "I'm certainly spending a lot of time doing keepy-uppies… Instead of writing," he says. So, with Trump featuring so heavily in the US version, have the British cast been vying with one another to play Sir Keir Starmer? Apparently not. "People don't have similar casting, so it just kind of comes naturally," says Dring. "And if my Starmer is like a six out of 10…" says Nash, before Dring cuts in, "Starmer's Starmer is a six out of 10…" "All right," says Nash, laughing, "Well, it will just defer to the best person who can do it because I think collectively we want the show to just be as good as it can be." As for naysayers, already predicting a live, late-night show can never work over here on this side of the pond, Dring deflects the negative vibes with aplomb. "I have a certain amount of affection for the pessimism of the British public, I kind of respect it," she says. "I feel all right about that, and we'll do our darnedest." Nash adds: "The idea that it's going to be a bit naff, it's just insane to me, because we're in charge, and we're going to make it good." Forget the fun contract, and bring on the mishaps, as we get ready to embrace a brave new world of British comedy this Saturday night. Saturday Night Live UK starts on Sky and Now on 21 March, hosted by Tina Fey and featuring band Wet Leg. It will stream on Peacock in the US the following night.

The draft paper, by the Labour Growth Group and Good Growth Foundation, argues for a complete overhaul of Labour's economic strategy and messaging to prevent a far-right government. Policy proposals are still being worked up, but include cutting income tax and abolishing national insurance. Options for how this could be funded include equalising capital gains tax with income tax in certain areas, reforming council tax or taxing landowners. Sky News understands the report has been looked at by several cabinet ministers and potential leadership contenders. Advisors to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham - all tipped as frontrunners to replace Sir Keir Starmer - are among those understood to have engaged with the work. The report is expected to be published just after the May local elections - the crunch point at which the prime minister could face a leadership challenge if they go as badly as predicted. Sir Keir has repeatedly insisted he will fight on, so anyone seeking to take him out would need the backing of 80 MPs. There is a big question mark over who could get the numbers following the move to block Mr Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election, which Labour lost. However, the report being published at a vulnerable time piles fresh pressure on the prime minister, whose tanking poll ratings are often blamed on a failure to tackle the cost of living crisis and communicate who Labour is for. This report will suggest policies to tackle the cost of living, as well as how Labour can sell them to the public. It will say Labour needs to redesign the tax system to incentivise hard work, with greater incentives for entrepreneurs and small business owners. And it will argue that voter anger is fuelled by the belief "doing the right thing" leaves them feeling shafted, and Labour must confront those who make money from taking advantage of people. Mark McVitie, the Labour Growth Group's director, told Sky News: "Everyone in politics is correctly diagnosing the cost of living crisis. That's not enough. You go to the doctor because something's wrong, but you don't just want them to tell you you're ill and they care, you want them to find out why and fix it. That's what this project is aiming to do. "Until we can do that and take on the vested interests profiting from the mess, we're just offering painkillers for a condition that keeps getting worse." The Labour strategist said the party must be "laser focused on rewarding work and taking initiative". He added: "When someone working 60 hour weeks as a nurse or running a small business is paying a higher marginal tax rate than an institutional landlord, that's not happening. Read More:Labour's left unite behind 'major reset' call in fresh challenge to StarmerAngela Rayner slammed over 'negative intervention' about Labour government "As a party we need to be squarely on the side of those putting in the work, taking risks and doing the right thing, and not afraid to confront the vested interests who will resist that change." The paper has the draft title of Beveridge Report, named after a famous report by Sir William Beveridge, a key figure in designing Britain's welfare state. Another focus will be on devolution, with the paper saying it should be vastly expanded so regional mayors have greater fiscal powers. 👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne's on your podcast app👈 More than 100 Labour MPs work with the Growth Group, whose parliamentary chair is former YouGov pollster Chris Curtis. The group looks at ways to tear down barriers to economic growth, which the government says is one of its central missions. The UK's economic forecaster the OBR has predicted GDP to grow by an average 1.5% a year from 2027 to 2030. However many MPs fear voters will not feel any tangible benefit unless more is done to tackle the everyday cost of living. Sir Keir began the year with a pledge to be "laser focused" on the cost of living, but the reset has been overshadowed by the Peter Mandelson scandal, while the war in Iran has threatened to push prices up further.

Danny Welbeck's double earned Brighton a deserved victory and inflicted another loss on Slot's side at the Amex Stadium, just days after the Reds delivered their "best performance of the season" against Galatasaray in the Champions League. Slot was without goalkeeper Alisson Becker, forward Mohamed Salah and club-record signing Alexander Isak before top scorer Hugo Ekitike limped off in the eighth minute. Brighton 2-1 Liverpool | As it happened | Teams | StatsLive Premier League table | Watch FREE PL highlightsGot Sky? Watch Premier League games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW 📺 The defeat saw Liverpool miss the opportunity to climb above Aston Villa into fourth place with the reigning champions taking only one point from the last nine available after they conceded late goals in a 2-1 loss at bottom club Wolves and last weekend's 1-1 draw at home to relegation-threatened Tottenham. Slot said Brighton deserved to win, but admitted his side's position was not good enough, "no matter how many excuses I can come up with". "What went wrong started off with the lead-up to this game, as so many times this season when we played a very good game and we thought we could bring that level to the first game or even better," he said. "We had Mo Salah injured, we had Alisson injured, and after two minutes Hugo Ekitike out. That has happened so many times to us this season and again now. And what happened a lot this season is also that the first chance of the other team immediately went in. "Brighton away, that's a difficult game for any team, especially if you miss out on a few very influential players," said Slot. "Of course now, looking at the league table, this loss hurts a lot and it should hurt us a lot. "But the main problem we are in this position (is) because we dropped points at Wolves in the last minute with a deflected shot (and then) a week ago (against Tottenham) - not a week ago, because we had to play on Sunday, not on Saturday, and then on Wednesday and Saturday, not as all the other Champions League teams. "The goal last week in the 90th minute is a bigger problem than losing away at Brighton." Slot said Ekitike could "play tomorrow if he needed to", but blamed his injury on Liverpool's quick turnaround following the midweek fixture. He said: "If you face a team that has only had 62 hours of rest, the first thing you do is make it an intense game, play the first duels, play tough duels. Nothing wrong with the duels, by the way, but unfortunately, it was a collision and that led to Hugo going out. "They were the better team and created more chances than us. Everything I say about this, people will see this as excuses and I never like to use excuses after the game." When it was put to Slot that there may be little sympathy for his side after the club spent £450m in the summer, he pointed to the players the club had sold. "No, I have complete sympathy with that for all the people who are saying this, because no one in England is used to the fact that there are also clubs that are selling players," he said. "Usually in England, when a club is spending £450m, which we did, that's adding to the already great team you have, but this club has a different model and no one wants to see and understand this. That I can also understand, because fans of other teams or certain pundits don't want to tell you that we've sold for £300m. "Now, if the £150m player is never available, that's already one thing. If Giovanni Leoni has never been available because of his injury, that's already the second thing. So now we're already going underneath what we've sold. "Jeremy Frimpong is recently more and more available. And Giorgi Mamardashvili was one of the other signings for £450m. He's the second goalkeeper. "It makes complete sense if you win the league last season and you spent £150m, not £450m, that expectations are high. And those expectations were high for the pundits, for the media, for me, for the fans. But at our club, we're also looking at the situation and the challenge we had during this season. "And then we might be a bit more realistic why this season has gone, why it has gone. But still it's not good enough. No matter how many excuses I can come up with, it's still not good enough, the position."

The natural light show, known as the aurora borealis, is one of nature's "most spectacular displays", according to the Met Office. Pictures from Friday night featured waves of mostly green and purple light at Bamburgh in Northumberland in the UK, as well as in Estonia and Canada, while social media users posted images taken elsewhere, including Russia. While the Northern Lights are mostly visible near the Arctic Circle and northern Scotland, the Met Office said "pale green and pink to vibrant reds, blues, and violets can sometimes light up the night sky, especially in the north of the UK". The Met Office said on Thursday there was a chance of seeing the northern lights "over the next couple of nights", predicting sightings being "most likely across Scotland where skies are clear but perhaps into northern England too". What causes the Northern Lights? The shimmering spectacle occurs when energy and charged particles released from the sun through coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares travel towards Earth on the solar wind and collide with the Earth's magnetic field and upper atmosphere, interacting with gases to create spectacular displays of blue, purple, green, pink and red. If the solar activity is strong enough, it will cause a geomagnetic storm. In January, the Met Office said the solar maximum was "all but confirmed to have taken place in 2024 and 2025", meaning solar activity on the surface of the sun "appears to be in a declining phase". But it said this phase "can be a period which can often bring strong events, as evidenced by last week's aurora visibility as far south as northern Italy". Will we see them again soon? Several things need to occur for the skies over the UK to dazzle again. Any solar eruptions that do occur need to be aimed at Earth and cause a strong geomagnetic storm. It also needs to be dark enough, with settled weather allowing clear skies to see the aurora. What's the best way to capture them? While the Northern Lights are visible to the naked eye, the colours often appear faint and muted compared with those captured by camera. To take better pictures of the aerial phenomena, Adobe recommends using manual camera settings and a wide aperture on a camera. It suggests using low shutter speeds, up to 20 seconds, as well as setting the camera's ISO value all the way to 2,000 or higher - such settings are usually available in smartphones' camera settings.

The footage shows the pop star struggling to perform sobriety tests requiring him to talk in a straight line and stand on one leg during the incident in an affluent beach town in New York's Hamptons in June 2024. At one point he tells officers: "These are like really hard tests." The footage includes Timberlake being stopped after Sag Harbor police said he ran a stop sign in the village centre, veered out of his lane and got out of his BMW smelling of alcohol. He tells officers he had drunk one martini and had been following friends home in the village, which is around 100 miles east of New York City. Asked by an officer why he's in town, Timberlake replies: "I'm on a world tour." The officer asks: "Doing what?" "Hard to explain," Timberlake says. After stammering, he adds: "World tour. I'm Justin Timberlake." The officer later responds: "You are Justin Timberlake? Do you have a license with you?" In the footage, he is asked by the officers to walk heel-to-toe in a straight line and lift one leg. At times he appears flustered while listening to the instructions and apologises to the officers, telling them his heart is racing. "I'm a little nervous," he says. In the back of the police car, he asks: "Why are you arresting me?" At the police station, when Timberlake is informed he will be held overnight, he says: "I'm going to be here all night? You guys are wild, man." He asks the officer to keep the light on in the cell when they lock the door. Read more from Sky News:The world pays tribute to Chuck NorrisMeet the cast of SNL UK Timberlake's lawyers had sued to block the release of the video. They argued it would "devastate" his privacy by revealing "intimate, highly personal, and sensitive details," and claimed it would cause "severe and irreparable harm" to his reputation by subjecting him to "public ridicule and harassment". However, on Friday his lawyers acknowledged the video "does not constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" under the state's public information law and agreed it could be released. Timberlake pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of impaired driving in September 2024. He agreed to give a public safety announcement about the perils of drunken driving as part of the plea deal and was sentenced to a $500 fine, 25 hours of community service and a 90-day suspension of his licence.

Speaking to Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the veteran Labour peer said Ms Rayner had offered just "one criticism after another" rather than "positive proposals". Politics Hub: Follow the latest "It's so easy to be popular when you are not in the hot seat, and whoever took over from Starmer would face all the same problems," Baroness Harman said. In a speech at an event hosted by campaign group Mainstream on Wednesday, the former deputy prime minister warned Labour was "running out of time". "I'm a big fan of Angela Rayner. I think she's a remarkable woman. I think she energised the party when we were in opposition building up into government," Baroness Harman said. But speaking about Ms Rayner's speech on Wednesday evening, she added: "It didn't have any proposals about what should be done. "I just don't think she should be doing this. I think it's wrong for her and it's certainly wrong for the party and the government. "It's the sort of things that are said by Nigel Farage, by Kemi Badenoch, by the Greens, by the Lib Dems. "I think it's best for you to come forward with positive proposals rather than just criticise a government, which is dealing with a very difficult situation." Read more:Labour's left unit behind 'major reset' call 'Is she saying immigration doesn't matter?' Baroness Harman also said the former deputy prime minister should not "wave" immigration "away" as an issue. "The other thing that I would take issue with Angela Rayner on this is that immigration is now, if you look at the opinion polls and just listen on the doorstep, it's the second most important issue to people after the cost of living," she said. "To just wave it away as an issue and say it's un-British to exercise extra controls… what is she suggesting instead? "Is she saying it doesn't matter that people are concerned about immigration or this is the wrong policy and we should be trying something else?" Baroness Harman said. "It's just a negative intervention."

Two goals from Beto and a third from Iliman Ndiaye moved the Toffees within two points of Chelsea, who stay sixth having missed the chance to move into the top four. Robert Sanchez was culpable for the second Beto goal having early got away with a sloppy mistake with the game goalless. Everton 3-0 Chelsea - Match report & highlightsAs it happened | Teams | StatsLive Premier League table | Watch FREE PL highlights The defeat comes four days after Chelsea exited the Champions League in an 8-2 aggregate loss to PSG. "The most disappointing evening so far in terms of the things we've spoken about, not gifting goals away, making sure we're in the game, getting control of the game. It wasn't there and it turned into a really, really difficult evening where the result and performance was nowhere near what we expected or wanted," Rosenior said. The Chelsea boss admitted to Sky Sports that he is still learning but tried to offer perspective. "I'm learning about this club. It's a massive club. There's been a lot of noise, a lot of negative noise, rightfully so, our performances in the last week. "We've had 10 games in the league together as a group. We've got 17 points. I think we're fourth in my time. So we have to forget the noise. We have to keep our confidence and our composure." Speaking in the press conference afterwards, Rosenior rejected the notion that his team's tactics were an issue. "It is not a tactical thing," he said. "I want to protect my players always. I always will. I take responsibility for that lapse in concentration. But that's what it is. That's happened too many times in my time recently for me not to tell the truth as it is." He explained: "For me, we arrived into the final third a lot. We had an edgy start in terms of cheap giveaways that we gave away, then we managed to gain control of the game and were in their half and we were arriving and creating moments which we don't take. We're not clinical enough. Then out of nowhere, it feels like out of nowhere, they score. It's not the first time that that's happened. "What happens in football, if you are in a run, a difficult run of games against big teams, your energy levels and your confidence levels can drop if the other team score first. That's what happened. [Jordan] Pickford makes a world-class save at 1-0. "Then we come out in the second half and have control of the game. Then we make a mistake and they're 2-0 up. It gives them even more energy. It's about flow and momentum. We didn't have that in the game today." Asked whether the players are trying, Rosenior said: "For me, I don't think there's a lack of effort. I don't think there's a lack of belief or determination in the team. "I'm aware when you're on a run of defeats that we're on and when you're on a run of performances that we've had, those things get levelled at you. But I don't think that's the issue in this moment." Another theory that has been floated is that the players are feeling the effects of a long season having competed in the Club World Cup in the United States over the summer. "What I don't want to do, I don't want to be seen to make excuses. That was not good enough. The last week hasn't been good enough. "I think if you're a logical thinking person and you look at the workload and the amount of games that the players have played, I think it's a pretty simple conclusion to come to." Rosenior: It hurts Whether Chelsea supporters will accept that with their side now having won only one of their last six Premier League matches is another matter. "They pay their money, they love this club and they've come a long way. It's a disappointing time for the club at the moment in terms of the way we lost in the Champions League and the way we've lost the last two games. "My job - it hurts, regardless of your position, it hurts to lose games of football - in terms of moving forward and having this time is to look at the bigger picture. "We're one point away from the Champions League position. We need to keep working in this way. We need to keep giving the players as much confidence as possible and hopefully this break of games now for us comes at a really, really good moment."