A Belgian man has been cleared of drink driving after doctors confirmed he had an extremely rare condition which causes his body to produce large amounts of alcohol. The 40-year-old was found to have auto-brewery syndrome (ABS) – a condition where intoxicating levels of ethanol are produced in the...
A man allegedly stealing from a Barcelona restaurant was caught after he attempted the theft in front of a group of off-duty British police officers on a stag do, an officer has said. Metropolitan Police Sergeant Eren Emin, 30, said he was in the Spanish city with four other police officers when a man j...
Five migrants have died during an attempt to cross the English Channel, French police have said. The French coastguard confirmed there was a failed attempt to cross the Channel and police were operating at a beach following the incident on Tuesday morning. The spokesperson said there were several...
Ten people have died after two helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade. The incident took place at the Malaysian navy’s Lumut Base – 100 miles (160km) northwest of the capital Kuala Lumpur – at around 9.30am local time. The crash involved an...
Rishi Sunak is to announce a £500m military aid package to Ukraine in its war against Russia alongside the UK’s largest provision of munitions so far. Some 400 vehicles, 60 boats, 1,600 strike and air defence missiles, and four million rounds of ammunition are included in the package. The announce...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a widespread backlash after referring to Muslims as “infiltrators” during a campaign speech over the weekend. Congress, the main opposition party to Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Monday reported the prime minister’s...
Milan is proposing a new law to ban ice cream after midnight in an effort to protect the “tranquillity” of residents. For many, a late-night gelato is a part of Italian culture, but this is in danger under a new law being introduced in the city. A legislative starting paper has been filed by...
Dutch cities are divided on whether sex workers should be allowed to work from home. While sex work has been legal in the Netherlands since 2000, a limited number of regions have allowed sex workers to operate independently from home. Proposed legislation could change that, with the government looking...
The Israeli military intelligence chief has resigned after failures that led to the deadly 7 October Hamas attack on Israel. Major General Aharon Haliva was one of several senior commanders who said they failed to predict and prevent the most devastating attack in the country’s history. He is the...
Four Germans have been caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where he was born on the dictator’s birthday. One of the quartet was seen performing a Nazi salute as they posed for photos, according to police. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn in the ...
Footage from China shows rescuers racing to evacuate trapped residents and streets inundated with water after the country was hit by intense floods and record-breaking rainfall. Southern cities in China have been battered as heavy rainfall has flooded cities on the Pearl River Delta – once dubbed...
As the Paris Olympics draw closer, the hype is increasing – and it’s only going to build from here. If you are kicking yourself for not bagging tickets when they first went on sale, all is not lost. There are still ways you can get to Paris to see the Games. Sky News talks to ...
Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has accused Joe Biden of insulting his country after the US president implied his uncle had been eaten by cannibals on the island in the 1940s. Mr Biden made the comments about his uncle Ambrose J Finnegan while visiting a Pennsylvania war memorial last week. Mr F...
A woman accused of killing her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt by feeding them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms has appeared in court. Erin Patterson made a brief appearance at the Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court by video link from a prison in Melbourne, Australia, where s...
Opening statements are due to be heard in the trial of Donald Trump over hush money payments to a porn star. A jury has been selected at the New York court which will witness the first criminal trial of a former US president. Opening remarks by the prosecution and defence teams will be followed by ...
Palestinians in Rafah are reeling from a series of devastating Israeli airstrikes that have killed 22 people – including 18 children. The last 48 hours, horrific even by Gaza’s standards, are an indicator of what may follow in any Israeli Rafah offensive. Doctors told the Sky News team in Ga...
A tram crash at Universal Studios Hollywood has left 15 people injured. The Los Angeles County Fire Department was called to the theme park shortly after 9pm local time on Saturday. It said 15 people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries. The crash occurred when the final car of one of the trams c...
A race car has veered off track during a competition in Sri Lanka, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, officials said. The car crashed into a crowd of spectators and race officials during a race in the town of Diyatalawa, around 110 miles (180km) east of the capital Colombo. Around 45,000 spect...
The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon has told Sky News the dangers in the region have not gone away and called for calm, wisdom and de-escalation as a matter of urgency. Joanna Wronecka spoke from her office in Beirut about her worries and appealed for restraint from all those involved. “I...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the crucial US aid package for Ukraine sends “sends a powerful signal” that his country “will not be the second Afghanistan”. After months of deadlock, Democrats and Republicans joined together in the US House of Representatives to approve a package...
Mourners gathered to pay tribute to the six killed in a stabbing at an Australian shopping mall. New South Wales Police identified the man behind the attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction on 13 April as Joel Cauchi, 40. He was shot and killed by an officer after fatally stabbing six...
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Two Japanese navy helicopters have crashed into the Pacific Ocean during a night-time training flight after a possible mid-air collision, killing at least one of the eight crew members on board. One body has been recovered from the water and was later pronounced dead, while a search operation is under w...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised Israel over the arrest of a young Palestinian Christian woman in the occupied West Bank. Justin Welby, the head of the Anglican Church, says the plight of Layan Nasir is a breach of assurances made by Israel about the treatment of Christians. The case highligh...
The impact of this American blockage has been profound. I have had multiple conversations with diplomats and military officials in Washington DC and all have said the same thing: the situation for Ukraine is depressing, Russia has the upper hand and prospects for Kyiv, without more weapons, are bleak....
On Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, people took to the beach in Tel Aviv. Under the hot spring sunshine, the tensions between Iran and Israel seemed a world away. Most of the people there are hoping that the worst of this phase of the crisis has passed. Follow latest: Ten militants killed in Israeli ...
Thousands of people have taken to the streets on the Canary Islands to protest against tourism and say the region is “not for sale”. The residents are calling for the Spanish group of islands to temporarily limit tourist arrivals in a bid to stem a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hote...
Ireland’s new taoiseach has apologised to the families of 48 people killed in the Stardust nightclub fire in 1981, after a decades-long campaign for justice. Simon Harris held a meeting on Saturday with more than 70 people affected by the fire, which was the worst in Ireland’s history. In a...
TikTok could be banned in the US if the social media app’s Chinese owner doesn’t sell its stake after the House of Representatives voted in support of the measure. The TikTok legislation was included in a US foreign policy package which saw representatives approve sending $60.8bn (£49bn) in...
The US House of Representatives has approved sending $60.8bn (£49bn) in foreign aid to Ukraine. Democrats and Republicans joined together after months of deadlock over renewed American support to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion. Representatives could be seen waving small Ukrainian flags as...
A campaigning Nigerian chess champion has played the game non-stop for 58 hours to break the world record. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1m (£800,000) for children’s education across Africa through the marathon attempt that began in New York City’s Times Square on Wednesday. He crossed...
A man who set himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where former US President Donald Trump is on trial has died, Sky’s US partner NBC News has said. Maxwell Azzarello was “declared deceased by hospital staff”, police told NBC News in a phone call early on Saturday, local time...
Iran has said Israeli involvement in Friday’s attack is still to be established and dismissed the drones used as like children’s toys. Foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian claimed they took off from within Iran and only flew a few hundred metres before being shot down. Israel hasn...
Bitcoin’s rare halving event has taken place, according to crypto analysis firm CoinGecko. It slashes the number of new Bitcoin entering the market by cutting the rewards earned by Bitcoin miners by 50%. Taking place roughly every four years, it’s designed to cap supply at 21 million by 2140...
The UK’s first professional women’s gaming tournament of its kind starts on Saturday. Four teams of professional gamers will play the first-person shooter game Valorant, which is the most-watched esports game in women’s leagues. It is the first time Europe’s best teams have battl...
The daughter of a British man who died in Cambodia says she has been left with unanswered questions – and claims the Foreign Office isn’t “doing enough” to address them. Sonny Suberu, 60, was found dead in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh following a fall from the 22nd floor o...
Injuries have been reported after a large explosion occurred at a military base in Iraq. The cause of the blast at the Kalsu facility, in the city of Babylon, hasn’t been confirmed. The base is used by Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella group of dozens of armed groups, and...
India’s election has kicked off with the first day of polling taking place in 102 constituencies, across 21 states and territories. With close to a billion people registered to vote in seven phases across 44 days, co-ordinating the election is a mammoth task. In the old town of Jaipur, Rajasthan...
Violence in the Middle East will not stop until the war in Gaza ends, a senior Hezbollah figure has told Sky News in a world-first interview in which he also castigated the West and scoffed at Israel’s actions. Ibrahim Moussawi, a Hezbollah spokesperson, also warned Israel “will see results...
Throughout his career Benjamin Netanyahu has been a generally cautious politician, either deferring decisions or taking the least incendiary options. There’s a school of thought in Israel that he had no choice but to act after the Iranian barrage of missiles and drones. To not do anything would ha...
China’s top long-distance runner has been stripped of his first-place finish in the Beijing half marathon. An investigation has confirmed that three African runners slowed down to let Hi Jie win the race that took place last weekend. Questions were raised when footage of the end of the race emerge...
An Israeli missile has struck Iran, in response to the unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend by the Iranians. It seems an airfield outside of the city of Isfahan was targeted, but Tehran has played down the incident and has indicated it has no plans to retaliate. On the Sky N...
Israel has launched an attack against Iran in retaliation to a drone and missile strike launched against it on Saturday. The IDF has declined to comment on the retaliatory strike, but a source told Sky News’s US partner network NBC News that Israel carried out an operation last night. Iranian stat...
The city of Isfahan has been targeted in an Israeli strike in retaliation for the barrage of missiles and drones that Iran unleashed at the weekend. The attack, details of which are still emerging, coincided with the birthday of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. So far, there have not...
The strongest of Iran’s proxies – the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon – has been almost dismissive in its response to the overnight events in Isfahan. In the first public statement, the deputy secretary general of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem seemed to express disdain at what they appear...
If this Israeli attack on Iran is no more than it presently appears to be, then it is rather well modulated. If the airbase at Isfahan has been attacked – home to the 8th Tactical Air Wing of the Iranian Air Force, and not a Revolutionary Guard installation – then the Israelis are making the...
The overnight events do not reflect well on President Biden. He had signalled so emphatically just days ago for Israel not to retaliate. “Take the win,” the American president told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the early hours of Sunday morning. Middle East latest – foll...
Israel threatened a retaliation, and it came before dawn on Friday morning. We’ll see what unfolds in the coming hours, but early indications suggest they were limited strikes and on deliberately chosen targets – if that is the case, then this doesn’t appear to be the devastating respo...
Iran has grounded commercial flights across parts of the country after reports of explosions. State media also said Iran fired its air defence systems after reports of blasts near the city of Isfahan. Middle East latest – follow live updates after reports of explosions Iran’s state-run IRNA...
Donald Trump described the hush money case against him as a “mess” after the jury who will decide his fate has been selected. Leaving the court in New York after proceedings were adjourned for the day, Trump addressed reporters, saying he was supposed to be in states like Georgia, New Hampsh...
