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Dr Michael Mosley has gone missing on a Greek island. The 67-year-old’s agent has confirmed his disappearance to the Press Association. He is known for appearing on television programmes like This Morning and The One Show. He also hosts the Just One Thing health podcast for the BBC. An appeal has been shared in a

At least four people have been killed after a passenger train collided head-on with a freight train in the Czech Republic. Twenty-three people were injured in the incident that happened late on Wednesday night in the city of Pardubice – 62 miles (100km) east of Prague. Interior minister Vit Rakusan said the high-speed passenger train

The last 12 months have all been over the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees of global warming, according to a new analysis of temperature data. Global average temperatures from June 2023 to May 2024 were 1.63 degrees above the 1850-1900 “pre-industrial” baseline according to Copernicus, the EU’s climate monitoring service. A short-term annual breach isn’t

If, as expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) cuts its main policy rate on Thursday it will be a hugely significant moment. At a very basic level, the cut – the ECB is expected to trim its deposit rate from 4% to 3.75% – should benefit millions of households and businesses across the eurozone, who

Dozens of Alexei Navalny supporters have visited his grave to lay flowers and pay tribute to the late Kremlin critic on what would have been his 48th birthday.  The opposition leader died at an Arctic prison colony in February, prompting outrage from Western governments. Image: Alexei Navalny, seen here in 2019, died after suddenly losing

It was a moment of horror from Gaza which went viral – a video of an amputation on a dining table. No anaesthetic. No bandages. Just a bucket, some soap and a kitchen knife. It was 19 December 2023, and the war in Gaza was in its third month. Israel’s bombardment of the northern part

Virgin Atlantic has announced it will resume flights between London Heathrow and Israel after it suspended them after the beginning of the conflict with Hamas. From 5 September it will operate a daily flight in each direction. Many carriers suspended flights to Israel in October last year after Hamas militants rampaged across the border with

South Africa’s National Results Operation Centre in Johannesburg has been the site of collation, criticism and chaos, and now, a ceremony declaring the historic election outcome that has been steadily shared with the world from its main room. One that sees the African National Congress (ANC) lose 17% of its 2019 vote share and lose

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused China of helping Russia disrupt a global peace conference in Switzerland. Speaking at the Shangri-La defence forum in Singapore, Asia’s premier security conference, on Sunday, Mr Zelenskyy said China is pressuring other countries and their leaders not to attend the “Summit on Peace in Ukraine”, scheduled for 15-16 June.

More than 50 people have been arrested at Wembley after a pitch invasion and attempts to breach security at the Champions League final, the Metropolitan Police has said. Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in London on Saturday thanks to late goals from Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Jr. But Wembley Stadium confirmed arrests were made

Concert promoter Live Nation says it is investigating a cyber attack at its Ticketmaster unit, days after experts urged customers to change their passwords. Hackers are allegedly offering to sell customer data on the dark web. The US entertainment giant said it had discovered “unauthorised activity” on 20 May in a third-party cloud database that

Mukesh, a 22-year-old from Munak in the northern state of Haryana, shows Sky News the scars all over his body he says are from torture in a Russian prison. He alleges prison guards stubbed their cigarettes out on him and regularly beat him up for months while he was incarcerated. Mukesh is one of the

South Africa looks set for a change in government for the first time since the end of apartheid, according to partial results from the closest election in that time. With more than half of votes counted across the country, the ruling African Nation Congress (ANC) is well short of a majority. Less than 42% of

There’s guilty and there’s not guilty. Then there’s ‘whatever’, the verdict that Donald Trump had already bagged long before a New York court delivered its judgement. Beyond the breakdown of a 12-member jury panel, the portion of America that will shrug its shoulders at this case’s conclusion means Donald Trump has numbers he can work

Diego Maradona’s Golden Ball trophy will be sold at auction, despite his heirs claiming the current owner has no right to sell it. A French court ruled the auction go ahead, despite the opposition from his heirs, their lawyer said on Thursday. The trophy was awarded to the late Maradona after he was named the

A Hong Kong court has found 14 out of 16 pro-democracy activists guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion in a landmark case. Diplomats, human rights and business groups have closely watched the city’s biggest national security case under a law imposed by China that has all but wiped out public dissent. This breaking news story