I was part of a Sky News team on the ground in Wuhan when the world’s first COVID-19 lockdown was announced, in January 2020. It was...
Monkeypox has been rebranded ‘mpox’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO) after receiving complaints that the current name for the disease is “racist and stigmatising”. “Both...
The niece of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, has called on foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran’s “murderous and child-killing regime”....
People in China have been protesting over ongoing coronavirus measures as part of growing calls for freedom – and there have been unprecedented clashes with police....
Police in six countries have taken down a “super cartel” of drugs traffickers who controlled around one third of Europe’s cocaine trade, the European Union crime...
The government will spend an extra £1bn to insulate the least energy-efficient homes in the UK, the business secretary has announced. Grant Shapps said the new...
A group of more than 50 MPs has written to PM Rishi Sunak, urging him to introduce emergency legislation which will cut small boat crossings of...
As night fell in Shanghai, they gathered in their hundreds. Ordinary, angry people who took their frustrations on to the streets. When we arrived, we followed...
Protests against stringent COVID restrictions have intensified across China – as a British journalist was seen being beaten and kicked by police. Demonstrators and police clashed...
These protests are momentous. Wherever they lead, they are already hugely significant. China has witnessed bigger protests in Hong Kong, but nothing on the mainland has...
The date scribbled on the blackboard of a classroom in southern Ukraine still reads 23 February. It was the day before Russia launched its invasion –...
At some point in our lives most of us have done something to upset someone. That person might have responded by politely asking you not to...
American soccer’s governing body temporarily displayed Iran’s national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic – as a show of solidarity with...
Riots have broken out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco shocked Belgium by winning 2-0 during a World Cup clash in Qatar. Police arrested...
A landslide has killed at least 14 people who were attending a funeral in Cameroon, a regional governor has said. The funeral service was taking place...
The body of a young girl has been pulled from the mud after a landslide tore through a small island in southern Italy. At least three...
The mayor of Kyiv, former professional boxer Vitali Klitschko, has traded rhetorical punches with Ukraine’s president over how to help residents withstand power cuts. Volodymyr Zelenskyy...
Rishi Sunak is promising to stand up to competitors with “robust pragmatism” rather than “grand rhetoric” as he distances himself from Boris Johnson’s foreign policy approach....
Rishi Sunak hopes a “blueprint” inspired by the coronavirus vaccine rollout will help tackle the NHS’s four “healthcare missions” of cancer, obesity, mental health and addiction....
Rishi Sunak looks set for another battle with his own MPs as a growing number of rebels join Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in trying to...