China Ready To Usher In Year Of The Snake

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent China is preparing to usher in the Year of the Snake as 1.3 billion people celebrate the Lunar New Year. In cities, towns and villages across this vast country, one fifth of the world's population is marking the...

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Dozens Hurt In Street Clashes Across Egypt

Protesters have marched in the streets chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in cities across Egypt. A few hundred people attacked the presidential palace in Cairo with petrol bombs and rocks. Riot police fired tear gas to disperse...

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Indian Militant Afzal Guru Hanged In New Delhi

By Neville Lazarus, Sky Producer in New Delhi Afzal Guru, a conspirator in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, has been hanged in New Delhi. The Home Minister of India said Guru was hanged at 8am local time at New Delhi's Tihar jail. In...

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Belgium Plane Crash Kills Five

A small passenger plane has crashed at Belgium's Charleroi airport, killing five people and closing the international hub used by low-cost carriers. The aircraft, a Cessna, had problems on takeoff and tried to return to Charleroi to make an emergency...

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Ex-LA Cop Names Targets In 'Killing Manifesto'

The former police officer at the centre of a manhunt after a shooting spree that left three people dead has issued a killing list of "high value targets". Christopher Dorner vowed "warfare" on anyone working for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD),...

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EU Budget: Leaders 'Close To New Deal'

European leaders have agreed the broad lines of a deal on a seven-year budget that would fix total EU spending at 960bn euros (£820bn). "We feel pretty confident that we have the framework for a deal," one EU official told reporters. "The deal is not...

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Dreamliner: Airlines Warned Of Delay Risk

Boeing has sent out letters to air carriers expecting delivery of its Dreamliner plane in the next three months warning of possible delays, Sky News has confirmed. Boeing said: "We have informed our customers expecting 787 deliveries in the near term...

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Tunisia: Army Called In For Belaid Funeral

The army has been drafted in amid fears of further violent clashes in Tunisia following the funeral of assassinated opposition leader Chokri Belaid. All flights to and from Tunisia were cancelled as the capital was shut down for a general strike as...

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Iran: Syria's Assad Regime Ready To Negotiate

Syria's government is ready to sit down with the opposition to bring a two-year uprising against the regime to an end, Iran's foreign minister believes. Ali Akbar Salehi told the Egyptian state news agency MENA: "I think that the Syrian government is...

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Australia Sport: Drugs And Crime 'Rife'

The use of performance enhancing drugs is "widespread" among professional and amateur athletes in Australia, according to a government report. The report was the result of a one-year probe by Australia's leading criminal intelligence organisation into...

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Sochi Winter Olympics: 'Russia Will Be Ready'

By Katie Stallard, Moscow Correspondent Russia's president has promised the country's new Winter Olympics facilities will be ready in time for the opening of the games in a year's time. Inspecting the mountain cluster of venues for the Sochi 2014...

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Alaska Serial Killer Keyes' Chilling Poetry

Newly-released blood-stained notes recovered from serial killer Israel Keyes' Alaskan prison cell contain chilling poetry about his victims and superficiality in American society. But the rambling tracts found under the 34-year-old's body contain no...

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Madeleine Lookalike Sends DNA Sample To Police

By Jonathan Samuels, Australia correspondent A New Zealand girl repeatedly mistaken for missing Madeleine McCann has given police a sample of her DNA which will be sent to Scotland Yard. The girl, who has not been named, is understood to have a...

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Mali: 'Significant Losses' During Fighting

French forces have clashed with Islamist militants in the Mali town of Gao in a "real war" with "significant losses", the French Defence Minister has said. Jean-Yves Le Drian said jihadists had used rockets against French troops during fighting on Tuesday....

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Spain: 6,000 Tonnes Of Rubbish On City Streets

Days of strikes by dustmen in Seville have seen 6,000 tonnes of stinking rubbish pile up on the streets of the Spanish city. Litter lies strewn across the Andalusian city's historic and narrow streets as wheelie bins overflow and plastic bags rip apart....

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Tunisia: Poltician Shot Dead Outside His Home

A Tunisian opposition politician has been shot dead outside his home in what the country's prime minister called an "act of terrorism". The family of Chokri Belaid, who headed the opposition Democratic Patriots party and was a harsh critic of Tunisia's...

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Syria: Exodus Swells Border Refugee Camps

By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent The numbers of refugees from Syria is growing by the day. The reasons are simple; they can't take the bombing anymore; they can't live with the fear. So they make the journey north, south, east and west to...

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Tug-Of-War Students Lose Their Fingers

A boy and a girl have had several fingers torn off during a game of tug-of-war at their high school in Southern California. The two South El Monte High School students were rushed to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where doctors were preparing...

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EU: Hollande Warns 'No Cherry Picking'

By Robert Nisbet, Europe correspondent President Francois Hollande has taken several swipes at David Cameron over the Prime Minister's plan to call a referendum on repatriating powers from Brussels. The French leader received a warm welcome from...

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Alabama Hostage Siege Ends As Boy Saved

A boy who was held hostage for a week is safe and his captor dead after FBI agents stormed an underground bunker in Alabama. Officials said the raid went ahead after negotiations with 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes deteriorated and he was seen with a gun....

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Syria War: 'Children Are Biggest Casualty'

By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent, in Aleppo The anguished cries of a little boy receiving treatment without anaesthetic for a shrapnel wound to the face fills the putrid air of a converted shop that is an Aleppo field hospital. The walls are...

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Fidel Castro Makes Surprise Appearance

Cuba's retired leader Fidel Castro chatted with other voters and reporters for more than an hour as he made his first extended public appearance since 2010 to vote in parliamentary elections. The 86-year-old has voted from home in three previous elections...

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North Korea Nuclear Test: China Urged To Step In

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent South Korea has issued an urgent request to China to use its influence over North Korea to persuade the isolated nation to abandon its plans for a nuclear test. Lim Sung-nam, a senior South Korean envoy, met with...

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Malala: Schoolgirl Shot By Taliban Speaks Out

The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban makes her first public statement since she was nearly killed. In a video interview, 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who is having reconstructive surgery to replace part of her skull at the Queen...

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Assad: Syria Can Confront Israeli Aggression

President Bashar al Assad has accused Israel of trying to destabilise Syria after an air strike on a military research base near Damascus last week. The comments by Assad are the first since the attack on Wednesday that US officials say was targeting...

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North Korea Meeting Hints At Nuclear Test

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent Fears are growing that a planned nuclear test by North Korea may be imminent. State news reports from the capital Pyongyang claim that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has presided over meeting at which "important...

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