Russia is holding a day of national mourning following Friday’s concert hall massacre near Moscow, as relatives of the missing face an anxious wait to see if their loved ones survived the gun rampage. Public events have been cancelled and flags are being flown at half-mast following the deadliest...
Under the famous Wembley arch on Saturday night, a new Brazilian prodigy announced himself to the world. Aged just 17 years and 246 days, Endrick was summoned from the substitute’s bench by Brazil manager Dorival Junior as he looked to break the deadlock with England. Just nine minutes later, the...
Carlos Sainz has claimed victory in the Australian Grand Prix – after world championship leader Max Verstappen was forced to retire from the race following a brake issue. The Spaniard, who returned to action having missed the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after undergoing appendix surgery, finished ahe...
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Four gunmen are among 11 people arrested following a shooting massacre in a packed Moscow concert hall, according to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Videos broadcast on Russian media appear to show the detention and violent interrogation of the suspects. Kyiv and Lviv under Russian air attack;...
On Friday evening, a group of gunmen carried out an attack at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk. The venue, located northwest of central Moscow, was partially filled with people in advance of a sold-out concert. By Saturday night, at least 133 are reported to have been killed. Video filmed over the course...
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has denounced aid being blocked from entering Gaza, describing the imminent risk of starvation as a “moral outrage”. “It’s time to truly flood Gaza with life-saving aid. The choice is clear: either surge or starvation,” Mr Guterres said...
Vladimir Putin has claimed the gunmen behind the Moscow concert hall terror attack attempted to flee to Ukraine in the aftermath of the mass shooting. The allegation, made by the Russian president during an address to the nation, came despite the Islamist terror group Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) claim...
Vladimir Putin has linked the deadliest attack in Russia for years to Ukraine – despite a branch of Islamic State claiming responsibility. The Russian president may have ignored Western intelligence that came two weeks ago warning the terrorist group was planning an attack. Survivor describes orde...
Two crew members have died on a Holland America cruise ship during an “incident” in the ship’s engineering space, the cruise line has said. The pair died on Friday while the Nieuw Amsterdam liner was at the small island of Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, Holland America added in a statem...
A rocket taking astronauts from the US, Russia and Belarus to the International Space Station has successfully blasted off – days after its launch was dramatically aborted with seconds to spare. The Russian Soyuz rocket launched smoothly from the Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan on Saturday. Its sp...
Hundreds of people are protesting in India’s capital for a second day to demand the release of a rival to the prime minister before next month’s general election. Arvind Kejriwal, New Delhi’s top elected official and a prominent anti-corruption campaigner, was arrested by a federal age...
Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) has taken credit for attacks by other terror networks in the past, but it is almost certainly behind the deadly assault in Russia, though nothing is impossible. The group has claimed responsibility, and the chatter picked up by Western intelligence services in the days lead...
Two men arrested over an explosion at a service station in County Donegal which killed 10 people have been released without charge. The blast on the afternoon of 7 October in the village of Creeslough, in northwestern Ireland, caused the death of four men, three women and three children, with ages rangi...
When it comes, the gang violence is lethal and nobody in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince knows when or where it will flare up next. Thousands have been forced to leave their homes and those capable of leaving the city do so on buses and in cars, heading north away from the fighting. But tens of tho...
As Russia reels from a devastating attack at a concert hall, Kyiv is worried Vladimir Putin will exploit the bloodshed to escalate his war in Ukraine regardless of who is to blame. On Friday night, the extremist Islamist militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the mass shooting that left...
At least 40 people have been killed after gunmen burst into a concert hall in Moscow and fired at the crowd, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service. The gunmen, wearing combat fatigues, also used explosives, causing a huge blaze at the Crocus City Hall, the reports said. More than 100 were...
The former chief executive of South African multinational retailer Steinhoff was told he would be arrested shortly before he was found fatally injured, police have said. South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority fined Markus Jooste almost £20m on Wednesday for false accounting – the...
Two men have been arrested following an explosion at a service station in County Donegal which killed 10 people, including three children, in 2022. The blast on the afternoon of 7 October in the northwestern village of Creeslough, County Donegal, Ireland, caused the death of four men, three women and th...
A former Yoozoo Games executive has been sentenced to death over the poisoning of the company’s founder. Xu Yao poisoned Lin Qi’s food in December 2020 because they disagreed over how to run the business, according to the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court. Mr Lin, 39, died 10...
Malaysia has rejected an offer to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games – putting it at risk of being cancelled for the first time since the Second World War. Officials said the Commonwealth Games Federation’s (CGF) offer of £100m in funding was insufficient and they had not been left with enough...
India’s prime minister has been labelled a “scared dictator” after a key opposition politician was arrested. Delhi‘s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, a prominent anti-corruption campaigner, was detained following a raid on Thursday night. He leads the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) –...
Action is being taken by schools taking part in Japan’s annual spring baseball tournament to safeguard cheerleaders against upskirting. Some have introduced shorts for the youngsters to wear, while others have used strategically placed teachers to block would-be voyeurs. The competition, being sta...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned Israel that an offensive on Rafah, the southern Gazan city sheltering more than one million people, would risk “further isolating” it. Speaking after a US-sponsored ceasefire resolution was vetoed on Friday by Russia and China at the UN Securit...
A resolution calling for an “immediate and sustained ceasefire” in Gaza will be voted on by the UN Security Council today. The draft has been sponsored by the US, Israel’s closest ally, which has vetoed three resolutions calling for a ceasefire in recent months. A cessation of hostilit...
A prominent Haitian gang leader who escaped prison earlier this month has been shot dead by police – as political groups appear to be getting closer to finalising a transition council in the country. Ernst Julme, known as Ti Greg, was the head of Delmas 95 which is part of Jimmy “Barbecue...
Former football star Robinho has been arrested in Brazil, more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy. The former Manchester City player will start his nine-year prison term after a court decision this week authorised the transfer of the sentence from Italy. In a statement,...
Is today the moment the world’s top diplomatic body comes together in a collective call for a ceasefire in Gaza? Or will messy, discombobulating and cynical geopolitics get in the way? Will Russia vote for an American resolution? At 9am New York time (1pm UK time) the United Nations Security Counc...
Foreign Secretary David Cameron has accused Israel of delaying UK aid to Gaza, saying some supplies have been stuck at the border for almost three weeks. In a letter to the Commons foreign affairs select committee chair Alicia Kearns, Lord Cameron said it was “of enormous frustration”, blami...
There goes another one. The Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced this week that he is quitting at the age of 45, explaining: “I don’t feel I’m the best person for that job any more.” He is just the latest in a spate of national leaders to stand down voluntarily when seemin...
Simon Harris has said being a dad is “the most important job I have, and ever will have”. In which case, the father-of-two is about to start the second most important job in his life. In little more than 24 hours, the field of contenders to become Fine Gael leader – and then Taoiseach,...
Russia has returned five Ukrainian children to Kyiv with thousands still believed to be held by Moscow. A report from Russian news agency TASS said that six children were reunited with their families after mediation at the Qatari embassy in Moscow. Five of the children were sent to Ukraine, and one was...
Emmanuel Macron’s new boxing photos have impressed so many people online that he’s got “Rocky” trending on social media. The French president’s official photographer, Soazig de la Moissonnière, posted two black and white images of him in action using a punch bag, looking de...
Simon Harris has a clear path to becoming the new leader of Fine Gael – and taoiseach – after all the other frontrunners have dropped out of the race. It comes a day after Leo Varadkar’s shock announcement that he was standing down as Fine Gael leader and would step aside as taoiseach...
The president of Botswana has told Sky News an anti-hunting bill proposed by UK MPs is not only “condescending” but also a “resurgence of a colonial conquest”. Ministers are to debate a proposed ban on UK safari hunters bringing body parts of animals they shoot, like tusks, back...
A Botswana minister has defended “trophy hunting” and compared it to “culling”, saying it is a way of controlling wild animal numbers in his country and a source of income for communities. It comes as MPs prepare to debate a proposed ban on UK safari hunters bringing body parts o...
Delhi has been named 2023’s the most polluted capital city in the world, as India – and the whole of South Asia – continues to grapple with smog and toxic air. A report into the most polluted cities around the world by IQAir, a Swiss-based air-quality monitoring group, found nine of th...
The Los Angeles Dodgers have fired the longtime interpreter and friend of superstar Shohei Ohtani following allegations of “massive theft”. Ippei Mizuhara, who has been alongside Japanese baseball sensation Ohtani since his 2018 MLB debut, is accused of using funds from the player’s ba...
Tennis star Aryna Sabalenka has said her “heart is broken” after the death of her ex-boyfriend. Konstantin Koltsov, 42, a Belarusian former professional ice hockey player, was found dead at a hotel in Miami, Florida, on Monday. He was in the city to support Sabalenka in the Miami Open. Polic...
Ex-Manchester City footballer Robinho has been told by judges he must serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape in Brazil. In 2017, Robinho was sentenced in Italy to nine years in prison for his part in a group sexual assault in 2013 when he played for AC Milan. Brazil does not extradite nationals, whi...
Susie Wolff has launched legal action against the FIA, motorsport’s governing body, after a controversial inquiry into her and her husband last year. The F1 Driver Academy managing director, married to Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff, found herself at the heart of an investigation into claims o...
The family of a British woman who has been missing for three years in the US Virgin Islands are pleading for help from President Biden to find her. Sarm Heslop, a former air hostess from Southampton, was living what seemed to be her dream life in the US Virgin Islands, a group of Caribbean islands ...
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says he has been blocked from entering Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini claimed it was the first time this had happened to an UNRWA commissioner-general in its history. Speaking on Sky News’ The World With Yalda Hakim, Mr Lazzarini said it wou...
Konstantin Koltsov’s ex-wife has said the boyfriend of tennis star Aryna Sabalenka was “most likely very drunk” when he died. Koltsov, 42, a Belarusian former professional ice hockey player, was found dead at a hotel in Miami, Florida, on Monday. He was in the city to support Sabalenka...
Israeli spokesperson Eylon Levy has been suspended by the government following a reported row with the UK government over comments he made on social media. Mr Levy has appeared regularly in the UK media – including on Sky News – as a representative for the Israeli government following the Ha...
After Leo Varadkar’s surprising resignation this morning as Ireland’s prime minister, the question has quickly turned to who will take his place. Fine Gael will now organise a vote to select a new party leader at its annual conference on 6 April, and the chosen candidate will then be nominat...
Dani Alves has been granted bail as he appeals his conviction for sexual assault, which the victim’s lawyer called a “scandal”. The former Barcelona player was found guilty of sexual assault in February and was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. The court ruled that Alve...
As bombshells go, they managed to keep this one under the radar. On a day when new assisted dying proposals were top of the Irish political agenda, Leo Varadkar decided to bring about the end of his premiership. But some signs had been there. Follow latest: Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar st...
“Her leg is bleeding. Carry her from below… slowly and avoid the gas cylinder… let’s get out of here, pull!” a man shouted. It was 20 February and an aid shelter in Gaza occupied by Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, had been struck. Insi...
The UK is the 20th happiest nation in the world – but young people are significantly more likely to be unhappy than older generations. Britain dropped one place from the 2023 rankings, placing it below Lithuania and Czechia, while Finland, Denmark and Iceland were the top three happiest countries....