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Donald Trump's offer of US-backed insurance and naval escorts for shipping travelling through the Strait of Hormuz has not prevented maritime premiums soaring as underwriters scramble to reassess the risks to oil, gas and cargo vessels.

Leaking details from a National Security Council (NSC) meeting is "utterly dysfunctional and destructive", Harriet Harman has said.

The news spread like wildfire and within minutes, the streets of Beirut were gripped with panic.

I have witnessed Iraqi and Iranian Kurdish fighters working with American forces in Iraq and Syria over many years.

South East Water is to be fined £22m for repeated supply failures, watchdog Ofwat has said.

Rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years after killing a Nepalese student in a hit-and-run collision.

Satellite images have revealed the scale of damage at Iranian military sites following US and Israeli strikes, but civilian infrastructure has also been hit, including schools and hospitals.

A major VPN service is becoming one of the first to block websites known for hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

BAFTAs host Alan Cumming has spoken out about the controversy surrounding the broadcast of the film awards, describing it as a "trauma triggering shitshow".

Kristi Noem has been sacked as Donald Trump's homeland security secretary after what a source in the administration described as the "culmination of her many unfortunate leadership failures".

The rise in gas prices over the past 48 hours is without precedent.

Forget science fiction. The age of AI in war is here.

Shabana Mahmood has defended her plans for forced deportation of children under her new asylum rules. 

FBI documents related to sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump - which were missing from the initial release of the Epstein files - have been posted online by the US justice department.

Twice, the air raid sirens sounded around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Thursday afternoon. We were rushed inside as soldiers lay on the floor in body armour. It was over quickly.

UK average diesel costs have hit a 16-month high, less than a week after war gripped the Middle East and sent oil costs rocketing.

The son of Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott has joined the Green Party, Sky News can reveal.

The government wants to know if you want to ban young people from social media.

"Britain's loneliest sheep" has given birth for the first time.

A company has admitted it supplied water that was unfit for human consumption after a parasitic outbreak in Devon.

People on obesity jabs will regain the majority of the weight they lose within a year of stopping the drugs, a new study suggests.

Defence secretary John Healey has twice declined to rule out Britain joining strikes on Iran, when asked by Sky News.

Millions of people were left without electricity in Cuba after a shutdown at one of the country's largest thermoelectric power plants.

In the most clear and consequential policy move on AI safety yet, the Trump administration has announced it will blacklist a leading AI lab over its refusal to allow unfettered access to its technology for military purposes.

Court fines for fly-tipping must be reviewed as they are lower on average than penalties handed out directly by local authorities, councils have said.

Ukraine has raised the prospect of postponing future peace talks aimed at ending its four-year-old war with Russia, because of the Iran conflict.

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."

Sky News has won news channel of the year and Yousra Elbagir has been named television journalist of the year at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards.

Regime change isn't what it used to be. Donald Trump himself had talked it up as a reason for attacking Iran.

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that an Iranian official behind an attempt to ​assassinate Donald Trump in 2024 has been killed by the US military.