New coronavirus restrictions are “necessary” but were “not inevitable” and represent the government’s failure, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. In a Labour Party broadcast, used as...
Animals ravaged by fire in the world’s largest tropical wetland
Fires in the Amazon rainforest have burned out of control in Brazil, despite the country’s President telling the United Nations that his government is being wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain. Jair...
Breonna Taylor – One officer charged, but not over the fatal shooting
A police officer has been indicted following the death of Breonna Taylor in March – but not on charges directly linked to her being shot. Of the three officers involved, Brett Hankison was the only one to be...
Coronavirus survivor: ‘I’m terrified of going back to where we were’
Sky News’ Health Correspondent Ashish Joshi speaks to a coronavirus survivor in the UK, for his opinion on the governments response. They first spoke in April, when Sohail Anjum had spent a month in an induced...
Slavic Brotherhood – 2020 | Joint Russian-Belarusian drills kick off near Brest
An IL-76 aircraft has carried Russian and Belarusian paratroopers to a training ground in Belarus to begin drills for this year’s joint tactical exercises. Some 250 paratroopers took part, according to the Russian...
Police deploy water cannons to disperse protesters in Minsk after Lukashenko’s surprise inauguration
Protesters hit the streets of Belarus’s capital again, after Alexander Lukashenko was inaugurated for a new term as president. They were met with a strong police response, and water cannons were deployed to disperse the...
Tall order | How to scale heights
Ihab Yassin, from Frankfurt, Germany, known as Little Parkour Hulk, may be just over four feet tall, but he’s far from short on ambition. He’s been a parkour aficionado for nine years and now teaches children simple...