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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

Four bodies have been found on the French side of Mont Blanc. French rescue officials say the bodies of the four climbers were found close to the peak of the mountain after they went missing on Saturday in bad weather. The Chamonix-Mont Blanc search and rescue team found the bodies of the climbers, two of

Tonight, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are ready to go head-to-head for the first – and likely only – time ahead of the US election. At 2am on Wednesday, the former president and incumbent vice president will debate live on ABC News from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Polling shows the Republican and Democrat are neck-and-neck just two

Sudan has suffered three domestic wars spanning well over 40 years of the country’s 67 years of independence. Millions of people have been displaced and thousands killed.  Now a joint investigation by Sky News, Lighthouse Reports, Washington Post and Le Monde has uncovered the gruesome details of a massacre which took place last year –

Before the Stade de France transformed into a nightclub – the track becoming a giant dance floor – there was a plea from this corner of Paris to the world. Andrew Parsons, the International Paralympic Committee president, closed Paris 2024 by calling for an “inclusion revolution”. But speaking of being inspired by the last 11

The mother of the Georgia shooting suspect called the school 30 minutes warning of an “extreme emergency” before he allegedly opened fire there, his aunt has claimed.  Colt Gray, 14, is accused of shooting dead two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, near Atlanta, on Wednesday. Another teacher and a further

Nicole Kidman was unable to receive her award for best actress at the Venice Film Festival after finding out her mother died. Kidman, 57, won the prize for her performance in Babygirl. But she was unable to pick up the accolade in person on Saturday, with the film’s director Halina Rejin reading out a message

Iran is believed to have sent more than 200 ballistic missiles to Russia – a move security chiefs say would be a “dramatic escalation” of its defence partnership with Moscow. A Russian ship delivered the short-range Fatah-360 missiles from Tehran to a port in the Caspian Sea, a Ukrainian source told Sky News on Saturday.

Russia is waging a “reckless campaign of sabotage” across Europe, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned in their first-ever joint remarks. Sir Richard Moore and Bill Burns also said the UK and the US faced an “unprecedented array of threats”, and said the entire world order was under the most serious strain since

Tearing up on national TV, the Italian culture minister admitted it: Yes, he’d had an affair with a fashion entrepreneur two decades his junior. Years after the tawdry tales of bunga bunga parties under Silvio Berlusconi, a new sex scandal has hit the country – and has now forced the minister to resign. Italians can’t

At least 17 students have been killed after a fire in a school dormitory in Kenya. The number of dead may rise, police said, adding that at least 13 students have been seriously burned. The cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri county was being investigated, a police spokesperson said.

Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to a revised set of criminal charges over his alleged attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. The former president, who is the Republican candidate for this year’s presidential contest in November, faces four charges of using false claims of voter fraud to undermine the election results