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A family of four, who were left stranded in the Australian outback when their campervan got bogged down following heavy rain, have been rescued....

A “reckless and irresponsible” Russian weapons test has created more than 1,500 pieces of debris now endangering the seven crew aboard the International Space...

Swedish police have arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of murder after two children fell “from a great height” and one of...

Austria is placing millions of people not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in lockdown as of today as Europe becomes the epicentre of the pandemic...

Austria is putting all unvaccinated residents into lockdown from midnight on Sunday, the government has said. Anyone over the age of 12 who has...

A new draft climate deal has been published in Glasgow this morning as COP26 talks spill over and could last well into Saturday after...

World leaders have reached the most significant climate change pact since the landmark Paris Agreement, following a turbulent two weeks of fraught negotiations in...

A key commitment on fossil fuels has been watered down in a draft of the final agreement between nearly 200 nations at the COP26...

Outside a detention centre in the Polish city of Bialystok, where we know asylum seekers who crossed the border from Belarus are being held,...

The president of the COP26 climate talks has sounded the alarm on a “number of issues” outstanding on funding for poor nations, urging progress...

More than half of Afghanistan’s population is predicted to face acute hunger this winter as drought and a crumbling economy are causing an unfolding...

Scientists have warned that some countries in eastern Europe risk facing repeated COVID-19 restrictions until vaccination rates improve. Coronavirus infections have risen across the...

Two groups of migrants have reportedly managed to cross the border from Belarus into Poland, amid accusations that Belarusian forces have fired shots into...

At least 16 UN workers have been “detained against their will” in war-torn Ethiopia, while British nationals have been told to leave the African...

A group of migrants have camped overnight on the far side of Poland’s eastern border in Belarus. Polish police posted a video on Tuesday,...

The absence of President Jair Bolsonaro at the critical UN summit in Glasgow is not a problem, Brazil’s top climate diplomat has told Sky...

Satellite images have revealed that China has built mock-ups of US warships in its northwestern desert. The images captured by Colorado-based satellite imagery company...

The family of a 21-year-old Kenyan woman said to have been murdered by a British soldier are taking legal action against the Ministry of...

Iraq’s prime minister has survived an attempted assassination by a drone armed with explosives. The government said the drone targeted Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa...