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The five people who died after a tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls crashed have been named. The bus, with 54 passengers on board, crashed and rolled on Interstate 90 near Pembroke, about 30 miles (48km) east of Buffalo, New York, at around 12.30pm (5.30pm UK time) on Friday. In an ....
Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) went from a jihadist movement once aligned to al Qaeda to forming the official government of Syria. It was a monumental transformation for them, their country and the wider Middle East. But potentially too for British people who went to Syria – and who were stripped of t...
A man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration has been threatened with removal again, according to a court filing by his lawyers. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 and originally from El Salvador, has been charged in an indictment filed in federal court in Tennessee with conspiring to...
Two married couples have died after a British car veered off the road and crashed in Germany, according to police. The fatal accident happened shortly after midnight on Saturday in the trees near a highway in the Kassel district, north of Hesse in central Germany. The 32-year-old male driver, a 31-year-...
At least 12 people are dead after a railway bridge that was under construction in China collapsed. Four others are missing, according to state media. Sixteen workers were on the bridge in Qinghai province when a steel cable snapped during a “tensioning operation” at roughly 3am on Friday, ac...
Approval of a huge new Chinese embassy in London has been delayed by the government over redacted areas on the embassy’s plans. Beijing hasn’t fully explained why there are blacked-out areas in its planning application after housing minister Angela Rayner demanded an explanation earlier this...
Lyle Menendez, the older of the notorious brothers who were jailed for murdering their parents in Los Angeles in 1989, has been denied parole. The brothers, aged 57 and 54, had received life sentences without the chance of parole in 1996 after being convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty M...
Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine have reignited his campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize. When he met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House on 18 August, he claimed: “I’ve ended six wars” – telling reporters the following da...
Tom Fletcher, speaking on behalf of the United Nations, did not mince his words. Gaza was suffering from famine, the evidence was irrefutable and Israel had not just obstructed aid but had also used hunger as a weapon of war. His anger seeped through every sentence, just as desperation is laced through...
The Ukrainian suspected of coordinating attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines had served in Ukraine’s Secret Service and in the Ukrainian Army’s special forces, Sky News understand. Serhii K., 49, was arrested in northern Italy on Thursday following the issuance of a European arrest warrant...
The FBI has raided the home of John Bolton, the former national security adviser to Donald Trump who has since become a staunch critic of the US president. The search of Mr Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday was part of a “national security investigation in search of classified...
Dust scooped up from an asteroid by a NASA spacecraft 200 million miles from Earth has been found to contain material that is older than our sun. The first major study of the chemistry of the asteroid Bennu identified “presolar grains” – stardust that condensed around dying stars billi...
US rapper Lil Nas X has been arrested and taken to hospital after being found walking in his underwear on a Los Angeles street and allegedly charging at officers and punching one. Police said in a statement that officers responded shortly before 6am on Thursday (2pm UK time) following reports of a naked...
A famine has been declared in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) – a globally recognised system for classifying the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition – has confirmed just four famines since it was established in 20...
At least 17 people were killed after a car bombing and an attack on a police helicopter in Colombia, officials have said. Authorities in the southwest city of Cali said a vehicle loaded with explosives detonated near a military aviation school, killing five people and injuring more than 30. Image: Pics:...
It’s been a confusing week. The Monday gathering of European leaders and Ukraine’s president with Donald Trump at the White House was highly significant. Ukraine latest: Trump changes tack The leaders went home buoyed in the knowledge that they’d finally convinced the American presiden...
The growing popularity and reach of the Premier League globally is leaving rival European football competitions struggling to compete. Not only to find an audience, but to find outlets to even show the matches. So German football had to think differently – going to where Gen Z is engaging with foo...
Israel will resume negotiations with Hamas for the release of all hostages captured during the October 7 attack, Benjamin Netanyahu has said – but its military will continue its Gaza City offensive despite international outcry. The remarks from Israel’s prime minister are the first since Ham...
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Police, pathologists and grave diggers have started the exhumation of 27 shallow graves in Kenya’s Kilifi County. The remains are believed to be of followers of a deadly cult in Chakama Ranch, a part of the Shakahola Forest. In 2023, more than 400 mass graves were discovered in the same forest, al...
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It all sounded so promising: A NATO-style mutual defence guarantee for Ukraine, provided by the US, and agreed to by Vladimir Putin. That was supposedly the concession won by Donald Trump during his summit with the Russian president in Alaska. US special envoy Steve Witkoff described the apparent breakt...
Gaza City residents say Israel carried out intense overnight bombardments as it prepares a controversial offensive to take control of the area. Sixty-thousand reservists are being called up after Benjamin Netanyahu‘s security cabinet approved the plan earlier this month. UN chief Antonio Guterres...
Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, Germany’s prosecutor general said on Thursday. The suspect, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy laws, was part of a group of people who planted devices on the pipelin...
Tourists have been warned not to enter the sea on the Costa Blanca in southern Spain after a poisonous sea creature was spotted. Swimming was banned along a seven-mile stretch of coast around Guardamar del Segura area just north of Torrevieja following the appearance of so-called blue dragons. Jose Luis...
Vienna has been chosen to host the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. The capital was selected as Austria’s host city following its Eurovision victory in 2025, where artist JJ won with his song Wasted Love in Basel, Switzerland. The decision followed a bidding process in which officials evaluated diffe...
Boxers who want to compete in the women’s division at next month’s World Boxing Championships in Liverpool will need to undergo tests to determine their sex. The international body, World Boxing, had already announced its plan to require competitors to undergo a polymerase chain reaction tes...
The UK has condemned Israel’s approval of plans for a new West Bank settlement, which has been hailed as “erasing” the idea of a Palestinian state by an Israeli minister. David Lammy said the settlement, planned to be built east of Jerusalem, “would divide a Palestinian state in...
Israel has said it has begun the first stages of its takeover of Gaza City – as the UK condemned the approval of plans for a new West Bank settlement. Brigadier General Effie Defrin, Israel’s military spokesperson, said on Wednesday that “IDF forces are holding the outskirts of Gaza Ci...
The family of a father who disappeared with his three children nearly four years ago in New Zealand have broken their silence to appeal for him to return home. In December 2021, Tom Phillips vanished into the wilderness with his two daughters and son – but his family have said they still remain ho...
Why is Donald Trump threatening to impose sanctions, or tariffs, or maybe both, on India in relation to the Ukraine war? The short answer is that India has established itself as one of the single most important customers for one of the single most important products made in Russia: crude oil. You only h...
Israel will call up 60,000 reservists as it prepares to launch an expanded military operation in Gaza City. The military said the country’s defence minister Israel Katz has approved plans to begin a new phase of operations in some of the most densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forc...
An actor and musician whose mother was the victim of a suspected murder-suicide in France has urged her friends not to attend his stepfather’s funeral. Callum Kerr, who starred in Hollyoaks and Netflix’s Virgin River, said it would be “inappropriate” for the memory of his mum to...
The makers of Labubu dolls – popular with celebrities including Rihanna, David Beckham and Paris Hilton – reported a near 400% increase in profits in the first half of this year after demand for the ugly-cute toys soared. The dolls’ makers, Pop Mart, has released its half-year results...
An investigation has been launched into the death of an internet streamer who was known for taking part in extreme online challenges. Raphael Graven, who went by Jean Pormanove, was found dead in Contes, near Nice, on Sunday night. Viewers of the Frenchman’s last live stream on the Twitch-like pla...
Several people have been interviewed and equipment seized by police investigating the death of an internet streamer who was known for taking part in extreme online challenges. Raphael Graven, who went by Jean Pormanove, was found dead in Contes, near Nice, on Sunday night. A post-mortem is taking place....
A new tiny moon has been identified orbiting the planet Uranus, according to NASA. The satellite, spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, does not have a name yet and has been designated S/2025 U1. First spotted on 2 February by the space-bound telescope, it measures roughly six miles (10km) in diame...
Donald Trump has said American troops will not be sent to Ukraine, but the US may provide air support as part of a peace deal with Russia. A day after his extraordinary White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of Kyiv’s European allies, the US president told...
Promises of security guarantees for Ukraine have been lauded as “game-changing” and “historic” in the hope of bringing an end to the war with Russia. As all eyes moved from Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska to talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington,...
Ukrainians have given a lukewarm reaction to this week’s White House summit. There is bafflement and unease here after US President Donald Trump switched sides to support his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, dropping calls for a ceasefire and proposing that Ukraine surrender territory. While a...
Thousands have fled parts of Gaza City in recent days amid airstrikes and advancing Israeli troops, new satellite imagery shows. Israel’s advance comes as it prepares to mount a full-scale invasion of the city, where the UN says around one million Palestinians are sheltering. Satellite imagery sho...
The family of a British couple, detained in Iran on espionage charges, says they are “seriously worried” after the pair were moved to the country’s “harshest prisons”. Lindsay and Craig Foreman were seized in Kerman, in central Iran, in early January while on a round-the-wo...
A man suspected of ramming a car into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has been charged with murder. Five women and a boy died in the attack on 20 December, and many more people were wounded. Prosecutors have also charged the suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor, with 338 counts of atte...
One of Sweden’s most famous wooden churches is being moved to a new site – to prevent it from being swallowed by the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine. The Kiruna Church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, and its belfry, are being moved this week along a three-mile route east to...
A latest Gaza ceasefire proposal approved by Hamas is “almost identical” to that put forward by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, a spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry has said. The proposal would see a 60-day truce and 28 hostages – including 10 who are still alive – r...
A woman who was sexually assaulted on a flight to London has challenged government rules that disqualify her from a compensation scheme. The woman, who has maintained her anonymity and is referred to as Kelly, was attacked while she slept on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Gatwick in September last...
Kim Jong Un has toured his country’s latest battleship – three months after he lambasted the botched launch of another vessel. The North Korean leader inspected the 5,000-tonne destroyer Choe Hyon, first unveiled in April, at the western port of Nampo. He was pictured on deck, in the captain...
It’s always wise to let the dust settle before reaching conclusions with this presidency. But on the face of it we are further away from peace now than we were two weeks ago. The consensus that was held back then was that Vladimir Putin would only relent under maximum pressure. He does not want sl...
Vladimir Putin wasn’t at the White House but his influence clearly was. At times, it dominated the room. There were three key moments that revealed the Russian president‘s current hold over Donald Trump. The first was in the Oval Office. Sitting alongside Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US presiden...
Talks between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders have taken place at the White House, aimed at finding an end to the war in Ukraine. On the agenda were US security guarantees, whether a ceasefire is required, and a potential summit between the Ukrainian president and Vladimir Putin....
