EasyJet has suspended all flights to Tel Aviv over safety concerns for journeys to Israel – days after Iran’s attack caused chaos for airlines. Flight data showed dozens of journeys that would have travelled over the Middle East turned back on Saturday after Iran fired more than 300 drones a...
Nigel Farage has hit out at “cancel culture” after officers moved to shut down the National Conservatism conference in Brussels. Local officials arrived as the former Brexit Party leader was finishing a speech at the event, which is also due to hear from Hungary’s pro-Putin leader Vikt...
A Frenchman who confonted the Sydney shopping centre attacker – earning the nickname “Bollard man” – has been offered Australian citizenship. Damien Guerot used a bollard to try to stop the killer from hurting more people during Saturday’s attack at the Westfield Shopping...
A woman has died after consuming a drink at a wellness retreat in Australia. Two other people were taken to hospital for observation and later discharged. Detectives are investigating whether the drink contained mushrooms. Paramedics were called at about 11.50pm on Saturday night, but the 53-year-old wo...
A fire has broken out at one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings. Emergency crews were seen rushing to the Old Stock Exchange, with thick smoke billowing into the sky. The fire engulfed the building’s iconic spire, which collapsed into the roof, in scenes reminiscent of the blaze at Paris...
The owners of a US funeral home have been accused of spending nearly $900,000 (£723,000) in pandemic relief funds on things such as holidays, cosmetic surgery, jewellery and cryptocurrency. Jon and Carie Hallford, owners of Return To Nature Funeral Home in Colorado, already face more than 200 criminal c...
Take the win, or strike back? The question exercising Israeli minds in the wake of Iran‘s missile onslaught and the focus of intense debate in Jerusalem. The outcome will decide the immediate fate of this region. A return to shadow war, or all-out escalation into something much more serious. Joe B...
Israel has said there will be a response to Iran’s drone and missile barrage over the weekend, as the UK and US urge Tel Aviv to not strike back amid concerns of a wider conflict erupting in the Middle East. Israel’s military chief Lt Gen Herzi Halevi said it is still considering its steps a...
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching as a result of warming oceans and human-caused climate change, top scientists have said. From February 2023 until now, coral reef bleaching has been confirmed across at least 53 countries, territories or local economies triggering the fourth...
No military options come without complications and though the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are undoubtedly strong, they face many complications in considering whether, and how, to strike back against the barrage of drones and missiles Iran launched against them at the weekend. Many strategic analysts i...
Donald Trump described the hush money case against him as an “assault on America” as he arrived at court in New York ahead of his historic trial. The former US president is accused of criminally altering business records to cover up a $130,000 (£104,200) payment to adult film actress Stormy...
A Beijing half marathon is being investigated after three runners appeared to let a Chinese athlete win. The 13-mile run on Sunday was won by He Jie, a member of China’s marathon team and national marathon record holder. But footage appears to show three runners – Dejene Hailu Bikila from Et...
Caitlin Clark has left an enduring legacy throughout American society and culture – both on and off the basketball court – all by the age of 22. Clark, from West Des Moines, Iowa, made her college debut for the Iowa Hawkeyes in 2020 and has also represented the USA at international youth le...
Iran’s attack on Israel was seen by experts as ambitious – but the country has the capability and range to strike further targets across the entire Middle East. According to the Israel Defence Forces, Iran used 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 ballistic missiles in its attack. Iran...
A number of people have been stabbed during a service at a church in Sydney. A video online appears to show Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel being attacked during the service. It’s not clear what he was attacked with. Police say the injuries were not life-threatening. A man has been arrested. A statement...
A teenage boy has been arrested after a bishop and a priest were stabbed during a church service in Sydney which was being streamed online, police said. At least four people were injured in the attack, with a video online appearing to show Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel being repeatedly stabbed in the head an...
Lord David Cameron has urged Israel to “think with head as well as heart” and not retaliate to Iran’s missile attack. The foreign secretary said the nation needed to be “smart as well as tough” and think about the consequences of escalating violence in the region. UN warns...
The statistics of Sudan’s year of war are staggering. It is the largest displaced population in the world and the largest population of displaced children in the world. According to United Nations agencies…• More than 8.6 million people have been forced out of their homes• 25 million are in...
Iran’s ambassador to the UN has told Sky News that Israel’s promise of a significant response to Saturday’s attack is “a threat, not an action”. Amir Saeid Iravani was speaking exclusively to Sky’s James Matthews after an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council i...
The man who fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping centre appears to have been targeting women, police have said. Joel Cauchi, 40, has been identified by police as the man who took a knife from his backpack at Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon and killed five wom...
Ukraine has used British cruise missiles to hit a Russian military headquarters in the occupied city of Luhansk in the east of the country, a military source has told Sky News. The Storm Shadow missiles – launched by Ukrainian aircraft – targeted the command base for Russian ground troops on...
President Biden was in the Situation Room at the White House throughout Saturday evening watching, in real time, Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel unfold. Surrounded by a small group of his closest advisers, this was, I am told, a moment of significant intensity. More than a hundred Iranian ba...
Bayer Leverkusen have won the German football league for the first time in their history – ending an 11-year run by Bayern Munich. Coached by former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso, Leverkusen thumped Werder Bremen 5-0 on Sunday, winning the Bundesliga title with ease. They are 16 points clear of...
This was an ambitious Iranian attack on Israel in several respects. It was ambitious in the numbers involved – 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 ballistic missiles – 331 in all, according to the Israel Defence Forces. And it was ambitious in being a multi-directional attack, targeting t...
On Saturday night Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack against Israel, which Tehran has claimed is in retaliation for an attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus by Israel on 1 April. Some 170 explosive drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles we...
Torrential rains have triggered landslides on an Indonesian island killing at least 14 people and leaving three others missing. Sulawesi was hit with heavy rainfall on Saturday night specifically affecting two villages in the Tana Toraja district in the island’s southern peninsula. Mud fell from s...
A date has been set for Conor McGregor’s long-awaited return to UFC. After nearly three years out, McGregor will step back into the octagon at UFC 303 on 29 June. Dana White confirmed that the former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion will fight Michael Chandler. The UFC confirmed the welt...
Many of us went to bed last night worried about what we would wake up to. Iran was attacking the country it calls Little Satan and wants wiped off the map, sending hundreds of drones and missiles. Follow live updates: Iran threatens ‘much larger attack’ The attack was neutralised. Nearly al...
Israel’s air defence system is one of the most effective in the world. The Iron Dome began operating in 2011, largely in response to the 2006 war that ended with Hamas taking control of Gaza the following year. ‘Situation still unfolding’; Middle East latest It uses radars to detect an...
The Sydney stabbings attacker who killed six people has been named by police. New South Wales Police (NSW) said on Sunday that Joel Cauchi, 40, was responsible for the attack on Saturday afternoon at a busy Sydney shopping centre before he was fatally shot by a police officer. Cauchi, who police said su...
“What next?” It’s a question anxiously asked too many times in the past six months. And no doubt the question formed the crux of the late-night call between President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Follow live: Iran launches attack on Israel Iran’s spectacular drone and miss...
Iran has launched an unprecedented drone and missile barrage against Israel – an attack Tehran has labelled as a retaliatory strike. The move could trigger a major escalation between the countries as tensions in the Middle East remain inflamed over the war in Gaza. Follow live updates of Iran...
There have been several moments in the last six months when the feeling of acute geopolitical anxiety from the Middle East could be felt in Washington DC. In the hours after the Hamas attacks of 7 October there was a profound sense of “what now?” Since then, there have been a few anxious inf...
Israel is preparing to defend its airspace after Iran said it had launched dozens of missiles and drones towards its enemy. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG) said it was responding to an “attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus” on 1 April. Two generals and seve...
Australians have witnessed the “humanity and heroism” of their fellow citizens, the country’s prime minister has said. Anthony Albanese said emergency services and “everyday people” could “never have imagined” they would face a lone knifeman in a shopping centre...
Masked gunmen who killed nine people after abducting them from a bus in southwest Pakistan are being hunted by police as the country’s prime minister vowed they would be “punished”. The gang had earlier shot dead two more people and wounded six others in a car, when they failed to stop...
Five people have been killed and several are in a critical condition, including a baby, after stabbings at a shopping centre near Bondi Beach in Sydney. Police said the attacker who acted alone has been shot dead, Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre....
The world’s oldest conjoined twins have died at the age of 62. Lori and George Schappell were born in 1961 in Pennsylvania with partially fused skulls and shared vital blood vessels and 30% of their brain, Guinness World Records reported. The pair died on 7 April, at the Hospital of the University...
Israel remains braced for an attack from Iran as the US moves “additional assets” to the Middle East. Joe Biden said he expects an attack “sooner, rather than later” and simply told Tehran “don’t”, with warnings growing of retaliation for the killing last week o...
For years through childhood and early adulthood, Raven van Dorst felt different. The response evoked in others was always ‘too’: too loud, too wild, too aggressive, too messy. It wasn’t until a visit to a doctor, aged in their early 20s, that it all fell into place. Having struggled to...
One person has died and 10 others have been injured after a cable car cabin burst open after colliding with a broken pole in Turkey. Passengers were sent plummeting to the mountains below after the Tunektepe cable car crashed at around 6pm local time on Friday in the popular tourist city of Antalya. A f...
Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died aged 83, the company has announced. “The Roberto Cavalli company shares condolences with Mr Cavalli’s family loss,” Sergio Azzolari, chief executive of Roberto Cavalli said in an Instagram post. Cavalli died at his home in Florence, Ita...
The family of murdered Muriel McKay say they’ve been given a boost in their campaign to search the farm where they believe her body is buried. Mrs McKay‘s grandson Mark Dyer had threatened to sue landowner Ian Marsh for access, but when the two men met on a public footpath that runs through...
Author Sir Salman Rushdie has described the moment before he was stabbed at a literary festival, saying he saw a “murderous shape rushing towards” him like a “squat missile”. The novelist was stabbed multiple times during the attack, which took place moments before he was due to...
“Significant progress” has been made towards a post-Brexit deal for Gibraltar, Spain, the EU and the UK have said. In a joint statement following talks in Brussels, the parties said they had agreed “general political lines” on the territory’s future status and said a final...
Meta has lowered the minimum age to use the popular messaging platform WhatsApp. The move, which came into effect on Thursday, reduces the age limit from 16 down to 13 in the UK and EU. It has been criticised by a number of campaign groups who have urged the company to reverse the decision. Smartphone ....
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood has said the West is in “denial” about Vladimir Putin, who “is now more powerful than Stalin”. The senior Tory MP said he agreed with his colleague James Heappey that the UK should consider sending troops to Ukraine to give training to the a...
Harry Kane’s three eldest children were taken to hospital as a precaution following a three-car crash in Germany. The collision happened on Monday at around 5.15pm local time near Munich, just as the 30-year-old landed with Bayern Munich for their Champions League quarter-final match against Arsen...
A memoir written by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his death will be published later this year. Mr Navalny began to write his biography Patriot in Germany – where he was recovering from nerve agent poisoning, which he blamed on the Kremlin, according to publisher Alfred A Knopf. H...
The UK should consider sending troops to Ukraine to give training and other support to Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia – though away from the frontline, former armed forces minister James Heappey has said. He also told Sky News that Britain needs to be better prepared for war at a time of...
