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At least three people have died in a train derailment in Russia which happened after a bridge collapsed. Local authorities have blamed “illegal interference” for the incident in Bryansk region. The train was travelling from Moscow to Klimov when it came off its tracks, killing the driver and...
There were a series of clashes with riot police in the French capital after Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League for the first time on Saturday night. Flares and fireworks were set off in Paris after PSG beat Inter Milan 5-0 in Munich – the biggest ever victory in a Champions League final....
A British man has been indicted for allegedly trying to smuggle US military technology to China and organising the stalking and harassment of a Beijing critic. John Miller, 63, along with Cui Guanghai, 43, of China, and an unidentified US permanent resident, were indicted on Friday by federal grand juri...
Eighty-five years on from the historic rescue of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from France, a flotilla of little ships have recreated the biggest evacuation in military history. Operation Dynamo, from 26 May to 4 June 1940, saw more than 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops, trapped by th...
<a href='https://www.skysports.com/share/13374983'>Champions League final live: PSG face Inter Milan</a> Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been modi...
The body of a British hiker missing in northern Italy since January has been found, local rescuers have said. Aziz Ziriat, 36, had been hiking in the Dolomites with his friend Sam Harris, 35, whose body was found buried under snow around a kilometre away, at the base of the southern face of the Carè ...
Torrents of water that barrelled through a market town in Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger this week have now killed at least 151 people, officials said on Saturday. Heavy rain that began falling early on Thursday submerged the town of Mokwa, a major trading and transportation hub west of Abuja, w...
Iran further increased its stockpile of uranium to near weapons-grade levels and has carried out secret nuclear activities, the UN watchdog has said. A report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that as of 17 May, Iran has amassed 408.6kg of uranium enriched up to 60%...
Two people have died after a small plane approaching its destination crashed into the terrace of a home in western Germany. The crash happened around noon on Saturday in Korschenbroich, near the city of Monchengladbach, not far from the Dutch border. The plane hit the terrace of the building, and a fire...
A Ukrainian child has been killed after a Russian missile attack, as Moscow claims to have captured two villages in Ukraine. Russian troops launched some 109 drones and five missiles across Ukraine overnight on Friday and into Saturday, the Ukrainian air force said. A nine-year-old girl was killed by th...
Millions of honeybees escaped after a lorry transporting their hives overturned in Washington state. The truck was carrying about 70,000lbs (31,751kg) of hives when the incident happened near Lynden, close to the Canadian border. The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) urged people to avoid the...
Indonesian police are questioning six people after a rock collapse at a quarry in West Java. The quarry owner is among those being quizzed as the investigation continues into what caused the incident at the Gunung Kuda quarry on Friday. A dozen survivors have been found following the collapse in Cirebon...
Indonesian police are questioning six people after a stone quarry collapsed in West Java, killing at least 14 people. The Gunung Kuda quarry in the province of West Java gave way yesterday, crushing more than 20 people. Twelve injured people were rescued and 10 bodies were recovered from the debris duri...
California’s best high school athletes are competing this weekend at the State Championships. The stadium in Clovis, a city in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, is dressed for the occasion. Huge banners welcome athletes from across the state, food stalls line the concourse and teenager...
Donald Trump said he plans to double tariffs on steel imports from next week, deepening his trade war which has hit global markets. The US president told a rally of steel workers in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on Friday that tariffs would be raised from 25% to 50%, “which will even further secure...
The last working hospital in northern Gaza is no longer functional according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) – a day after staff reported Israeli troops had surrounded the site. The WHO said Al-Awda Hospital went out of service on Thursday, and patients and health workers evacuated the same...
Boxing’s new global governing body is introducing sex testing from July – but has already informed Imane Khelif she won’t be eligible to compete as a female fighter at an event in the Netherlands next week. The Algerian’s disputed failed gender eligibility test – conducted...
At least 117 people have died and others are still missing after heavy flooding in Nigeria, an emergency official said. Authorities initially said 21 people had died but this figure has today risen significantly. Media reports quoting local government officials said a dam collapse has worsened the situa...
At least 10 people are dead and six others are missing after a quarry collapsed in Indonesia, officials have said. The natural stone quarry in the Cirebon district of the country’s West Java province collapsed on workers on Friday, leaving more than two dozen people trapped in the rubble, accordin...
Dozens of enormous wildfires have erupted across Canada, already forcing 21,000 evacuations and spewing toxic smoke into the air. The provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have both declared a state of emergency, as several separate blazes raged out of control. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney...
In a stark and direct intervention, Martin Griffiths, the former UN humanitarian chief, has described the situation in Gaza as genocide. The statement, made during an interview I conducted with Griffiths on The World, marks one of the most pointed accusations yet from a figure known to be deeply embedde...
The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has claimed its first attack on the new Syrian government’s forces since longtime president Bashar al Assad was ousted, according to a war monitoring body. In a statement, ISIS said it had planted a bomb on a “vehicle of the apostate regime”...
Elon Musk has said he wants to send a spacecraft crewed by humanoid robots on a voyage to Mars by the end of next year. The tech billionaire outlined his latest schedule for Starship in a video presented at the project’s Starbase home in Texas and posted online on Thursday. The SpaceX founder had...
A truck driver has been found guilty of murdering his wife, whose remains were found under the stairs at their home in Ireland. Richard Satchwell, originally from Leicester, had denied the murder of Tina Satchwell on a date between 19 March and 20 March 2017. Her remains were discovered at the Co Cork p...
Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been awarded €100,000 (£84,000) in damages after winning his defamation action against the BBC. The 76-year-old had claimed a BBC Spotlight programme and an online article published in 2016 defamed him by falsely accusing him of sanctioning the murder of British i...
Well over a third of Europe, including parts of holiday destinations like Spain, Greece and Italy, are now in drought. March was Europe’s warmest on record – a trend driven by climate change – and also saw below average rain across large parts of the north and east of the continent. No...
The twin threats of climate change and Russian malign activity in the Arctic must be taken “deadly seriously,” David Lammy has warned. Sky News joined him on the furthest reaching tour of the Arctic by a British foreign secretary. We travelled to Svalbard – a Norwegian archipelago that...
Israel has accepted a US-proposed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, according to the White House, while Hamas says the deal is still “under discussion”. Israeli news outlets reported earlier on Thursday that Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted the plan put forward by Donald Trump’s Middle East...
In Gaza, the frontline is not just where the bombs fall – it’s where the ambulances arrive. When an Israeli airstrike hit a busy market in Gaza City today, people were queuing for flour. Minutes later, medics were picking up body parts. The bodies were heaved onto stretchers, mutilated limbs...
A British charity has written to the prime minister and foreign secretary, urging them to allow seriously ill children from Gaza into the UK to receive life-saving medical treatment. Warning: This article contains images readers may find distressing The co-founder of Project Pure Hope told Sky News it w...
👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 Israel has authorised 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including legalising unauthorised outposts. Such settlements are considered illegal under international law – a designation Israel disputes. There’s nothing new about s...
Residents have told of their devastation after a landslide destroyed the vast majority of a village in Switzerland. Around 90% of the picturesque village of Blatten was engulfed in ice, mud and rock on Wednesday after a large chunk of the Birch Glacier above the village broke off, causing the landslide....
Mount Everest has suffered “traffic jams” this month, as climbers battled harsh weather to make it to the summit. Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides signed up to scale the famous mountain in May, struggling against deteriorating weather on the world’s highest mountain. Ahead...
A mother has been sentenced to life in prison after she kidnapped and trafficked her own six-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith, whose full name is Racquel Chantel Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno Van Rhyn were convicted of the crimes in South Africa after Joshlin Smith disappe...
<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/completely-abhorrent-how-the-roll-out-of-new-gaza-aid-system-collapsed-into-chaos-13375941' target='_blank'>How the rollout of new Gaza aid system collapsed into chaos</a> Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been pu...
This is a huge decision by an obscure Manhattan court. President Trump’s core economic policy has just been comprehensively undermined, he has been undermined, and he will be seething. Beyond the upending of his policy agenda, the ruling will electrify the deepening schism between the administrati...
In a lawyer’s office in downtown Los Angeles, a little girl sits at a desk made for adults – tiny trainers dangling off the edge of a swivel chair. She’s surrounded by dozens of TV cameras but has no understanding of why she’s suddenly the centre of attention. Sofia, whose real n...
What’s unfolding in the Palestinian village of Ras al-Ayn is more than a land dispute – according to human rights groups, it is the systematic displacement of an entire community. Activists on the ground report a surge in violence and intimidation by Israeli settlers aimed at driving Palesti...
A trade court in the US has blocked Donald Trump from imposing sweeping global tariffs on imports. A three-judge panel concluded that the US president exceeded his authority when he unveiled additional taxes on foreign-made goods. Tariffs must be typically approved by Congress – but Trump has argu...
Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Vladimir Putin – adding he will know soon if the Russian leader is just “tapping” him along. The US president told reporters at the White House that he believed his counterpart in Moscow may be intentionally delaying ceasefire talks, while he...
One person is missing after a deluge of rock, mud and ice buried 90% of a Swiss mountain village, officials have said. It came after a glacier overlooking the settlement of Blatten, in southern Switzerland, partially collapsed on Wednesday, sending the debris raining down. “An unbelievable amount...
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate have been charged with rape and other offences in the UK. Andrew Tate, 38, face 10 charges, including rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking, and controlling prostitution for gain, relating to three women. His brother Tristan Tate, 36, faces 11 charges relat...
When Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Berlin today, the big question was whether he would be leaving with a promise from Germany to supply Taurus long-range missiles. On this, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz remained tight-lipped, in public at least. But the Ukrainian leader left f...
Hamas’s Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar has been “eliminated”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Sinwar was one of Israel’s most wanted and the younger brother of the militant group’s former leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in a gun battle with Israeli troop...
The mother of a British woman who was found dead alongside her partner in a Bangkok hotel has accused Thai police of a “cover-up”. Rebecca Turner and her boyfriend Sam Melnick were found dead on the floor of her room by hotel staff on 15 March last year. They had unwittingly taken a fatal mi...
There are so many aspects to the crimes of Joel Le Scouarnec that it can feel bewildering. Not just the volume of his offences, but also the failings that allowed him to get away with such horrendous abuse for so long. A monster who lived among us, and got away with it. There are the ...
Long-range Taurus missiles – long prized by Ukraine – were not mentioned by Chancellor Friedrich Merz as he announced new support for Kyiv on Wednesday. But that does not mean they will not soon be aimed at Russian targets. After meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the German leader said the two...
Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars may not have come crashing down to Earth but they’ve certainly suffered a significant setback. The ninth test flight of Starship, the SpaceX spacecraft specifically designed to make “humans an interplanetary species”, ended with it spinning out of...
A former surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of children in France has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting 299 children in one of France‘s largest-ever child sex abuse cases. Most of the victims were abused while under an...
At least 47 Palestinians have been injured – mostly by gunfire – when a crowd overwhelmed an aid hub in Gaza, according to a UN official. On Tuesday, crowds of Palestinians gathered at a new aid distribution hub set up by a US and Israeli-backed foundation. People broke through fences at the...
