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Sky News’ Data and Forensics team has spoken to four experts to answer the question – how does a pager or hand-held radio explode? The pagers that exploded in Lebanon yesterday are consistent with the AR-924 model of pager with Gold Apollo branding – a Taiwan-based company. The firm’s founder Hsu Ching-Kuang says the devices

Heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk has thanked people for their “concern” after he was detained at Poland’s Krakow airport. The Ukrainian boxer was filmed in handcuffs by the news channel TVP Info. His wife posted a blurred video on Instagram showing him surrounded by uniformed officers, saying she was thankful he was free and clarifying

Making money was the driving force of the company behind the doomed Titan submersible and it involved “very little in the way of science”, OceanGate’s former operations director has said. The vessel imploded on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic in June last year, killing all five people on board. David Lochridge, who

Donald Trump has described being grabbed by Secret Service agents after “four or five” gunshots were heard during an apparent assassination attempt while he played golf.  The Republican presidential nominee described the events of Sunday afternoon at his Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach in Florida as “quite something”, adding “but it all

At least 16 people have died after heavy flooding across eastern and central Europe. Several areas in Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic were hit hard over the weekend as heavy rain and surging water levels forced evacuations, collapsed bridges and damaged houses and cars. The number of flood victims in southwestern Poland rose to

President Joe Biden has said he will ensure the Secret Service has “every resource” to keep Donald Trump safe after a second “assassination attempt” on his life. The president said he was “relieved” Mr Trump was “unharmed” after 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested in connection with shots being fired near to where the former

Donald Trump’s campaign has said he is safe after gunshots were reported in his vicinity on Sunday afternoon in Florida. The campaign did not immediately provide any additional details. Follow latest:Secret Service move Trump to safety after shots heard However, Sky’s US partner NBC, citing a senior police officer, said Mr Trump was at Trump

Several migrants have died off the coast of France while attempting to cross the Channel, authorities have said. The deaths occurred in the commune of Ambleteuse, French officials said. It comes as French authorities rescued some 200 people off the coast of Calais over a 24-hour period between Friday and Saturday night. A boat carrying

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more than 200 prisoners of war, officials have announced. In a deal mediated by the United Arab Emirates, each side released 103 prisoners – including Russians captured since Ukraine‘s incursion in the Kursk region began in August. Both sides released images of soldiers being released, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Rafah is now a wasteland. The city in Gaza has been totally flattened by months of war. The rubble in places is many metres high, the buildings that are still standing are hollow shells, their dark, empty windows like vacant souls in a horror show. Image: Sky News visited what remains of Rafah – a

China will begin raising the retirement age for the first time in more than 70 years as the 1.4bn-strong country faces a shrinking and ageing population. China’s legislature, known as the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, has signed off a new policy which will see retirement age rise for both men and women

A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth’s crust, researchers found. It was

A Spanish footballer has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman dressed as a mascot before a La Liga game. Hugo Mallo, who was playing for Celta Vigo at the time, inappropriately touched her breasts while she was wearing a parakeet costume for rival team Espanyol, a court in Barcelona has ruled. The incident took

Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori – who was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption – has died of cancer aged 86. His death on Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was announced by his daughter Keiko Fujimori. “After a long battle with cancer, our father… has just departed to meet the Lord,” she wrote in

Five people have been taken to hospital and put on ventilators with suspected botulism linked to pesto. The French ministry of farming on Tuesday said it detected five likely cases of food-borne botulism linked to contaminated pesto sauce that had been sold at some regional market fairs in central France. According to French media, the

As the old saying goes, even the dogs in the street know he was talking nonsense. Donald Trump rolled out the long-debunked rumour that Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. The debate moderator, in serious tone, duly interjected that they’d contacted the “city manager” who had played it down. It