Countries in South and Southeast Asia have been coping with a weeks-long heatwave which has seen record temperatures sweep parts of the region. Pupils in the...
China has been branded “a bully” and an international lawbreaker after its ships blasted Philippine vessels with water cannon in the South China Sea. Sky News...
Three suspects have been charged by Canadian police over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Vancouver last June, in an incident that sparked a...
Heavy rains in southern Brazil have killed 37 people, local authorities have said, with dozens still unaccounted for. More than 70 people are missing and at...
The UK will appoint a new envoy to oversee a plan to ramp up the production of weapons and ammunition, which is now a “national priority”,...
A young women’s rights activist from Afghanistan recently left the country and travelled to Iran. Women in both countries have few rights – but the activist...
Russia has denied allegations of breaching the international chemical weapons ban by deploying chocking agents against Ukrainian troops. The Kremlin on Thursday responded to claims by...
The murder trial of a former senior politician in Kazakhstan who has been accused of beating his wife to death has attracted the attention of the...
Police in riot gear have raided Columbia University and arrested pro-Palestinian protesters occupying one of its buildings. Around 30 to 40 people have been removed from...
Police in Georgia’s capital have used water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades against crowds outside the country’s parliament protesting against a bill the opposition says...
The UK has sent the first failed asylum seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary scheme. The scheme is for those who have gone through the asylum...
An Israeli ground offensive in Rafah is “on the immediate horizon”, the UN’s aid chief has warned, as Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed that his forces “will enter”...
It was a rare window into confrontations most have viewed from afar. We were invited on board the Philippine Coastguard Vessel BRP Bagacay. They were on...
Rachel Goldberg-Polin ran home when her husband, John, called last week. He had just been told by the FBI and Israeli intelligence that Hamas was about...
In Tehran’s Revolution Square, two women clad in long black burqas approach another woman, dressed in jeans, a long-sleeved shirt and a hijab, or head scarf....
Four police officers have been shot and killed, and another four wounded, as they served an arrest warrant in North Carolina. The suspect was also killed...
One of the winners of a $1.3bn (£1bn) Powerball jackpot has had cancer for eight years and wants to use the money to “find a good...
A Ukrainian servicewoman captured by Russia has described the ordeal of being separated from her child for almost a year-and-a-half. Ekaterina Skopina’s daughter Anna-Maria was taken...
The Duchess of Edinburgh has become the first member of the Royal Family to visit Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Sophie’s trip...
Pro-Palestinian students in the US have defied an order by university officials to dismantle a tent camp set up to protest Israel’s war in Gaza or...