How Much Will Airstrikes On IS Cost Taxpayer?

Calculating the anticipated cost of Britain's contribution to the anti-IS coalition is imprecise at best. According to a Ministry of Defence report to Parliament in 2010, each Tornado flight costs £35,000 per hour. Typically, two Tornados fly each...

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Race To Free Caver Stuck For A Week After Fall

Rescuers are working to free an injured explorer who has been trapped for a week in an Amazonian cave about 400 metres (1,300 ft) underground. Spaniard Cecilio Lopez was hurt when he fell five metres (16ft) inside the Inti Machay cave in a remote ravine...

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Stand Up Be Counted: Should Britain Attack IS?

Young people are less likely than their parents or grandparents to support British airstrikes against Islamic State, according to a new poll. The majority of 18 to 24-year-olds (47%) support attacks on key targets but the level of backing is far greater...

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Kim Jong-Un: 'Missing' Leader May Have Gout

Kim Jong-Un has not been seen in public for three weeks and now a North Korea expert has offered a possible explanation: the leader has gout. Since being filmed in July with a distinctive limp, speculation has been rife that the 31-year-old is in ill...

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Dreamliner Makes Emergency Landing In Glasgow

A Dreamliner operated by Polish airline LOT has made an emergency landing in Glasgow after an alert from the fire protection system in the baggage hold. The Boeing 787 was flying from Chicago to Warsaw with 248 people on board when the captain...

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DLT Sentenced For Groping TV Personality

Disgraced DJ Dave Lee Travis has left court after being given a three-month suspended sentence for indecently assaulting a TV personality. Speaking to reporters outside, the former Radio 1 star said he was "mortified" and "really disappointed" over...

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UKIP Tanks On Labour's Lawn, Says Farage

UKIP Steps Up Bid To Build Four-Party Politics Updated: 7:29am UK, Friday 26 September 2014 By Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent Nigel Farage and UKIP are attempting to step up from a party of protest to genuine contenders in four-party...

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NHS To Pay For Ashya King's Cancer Treatment

The NHS is to pay for Ashya King's cancer treatment in Czech capital Prague, it has been announced. The five-year-old's parents prompted an police hunt across Europe in August when they took him from hospital in Southampton without doctors' consent....

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Oklahoma Beheading: Fired Man's Knife Rampage

A man who had just been sacked at an Oklahoma food plant decapitated one female worker and stabbed another before he was shot and wounded by the boss. Police said Alton Nolen, 30, was "angry" after losing his job when he launched into a knife rampage...

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MPs Vote Yes To Airstrikes Against Islamic State

MPs have overwhelmingly backed airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in Iraq - meaning RAF bombing raids could take place in hours. Parliament gave approval by 524 votes to 43 (a massive majority of 481) for Britain to join the US-led coalition...

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#SkyAskRaqqa: Life Under IS Militants Revealed

What We Know About The IS Capital Raqqa Updated: 12:51pm UK, Tuesday 16 September 2014 Raqqa in northern Syria is Islamic State's power base and the focus of international efforts to defeat the Islamic extremists and rescue Western hostages. The city...

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Stand Up Be Counted: Labour Plans Lack 'Depth'

When they arrived at the Labour Party conference earlier this week, Sky News' two Stand Up Be Counted contributors could surely not have imagined chasing after Ed Miliband or bumping into the shadow business secretary. Yet for Charlene Osuagwu and Michael...

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Freed Abu Qatada 'Will Not Be Returning To UK'

Timeline: Qatada Legal Battle Updated: 10:35am UK, Wednesday 24 September 2014 Abu Qatada challenged and ultimately thwarted every attempt by the Government to detain and deport him for many years. Here is a timeline of the legal battle. 1993: Abu...

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Video: Man Reveals Lottery Win To Ecstatic Sons

Cheque Him Out: $425m Jackpot Winner Hides Face Updated: 9:35am UK, Wednesday 02 April 2014 The sole winner of a $425m (£255m) Powerball jackpot has come forward to claim his prize after more than a month - but still did not show his face. B Raymond...

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MPs Sob At 'Keep Your Mitts Off My NHS' Speech

A 91-year-old Second World War veteran has upstaged Ed Miliband at the Labour Party conference with a passionate and tear-jerking speech on the health service. Harry Smith moved audience members to tears as he made a passionate case for the NHS and...

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iPhone 6 Plus Reportedly Bends In Tight Pockets

Apple's new iPhone 6 Plus may bend substantially if put into a tight pocket for a prolonged period of time, some users claim. A record 10-million units of it and the smaller iPhone 6 were sold within two days of the Friday launch, but some users have...

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British Jihadi Killed In US Airstrike - Reports

A 19-year-old British jihadi has been killed in a US airstrike in Syria, according to reports. The man, from Brighton, East Sussex, is thought to have been fighting for al Nusra, an affiliate group of al Qaeda, in Aleppo, The Guardian said. The newspaper...

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Huge Cocaine Haul: Drugs Seized On Cork Yacht

Up to a ton of cocaine, worth at least £54.8m, has been seized from a yacht off the southwest coast of Ireland. According to Sky's Ireland Correspondent, David Blevins, the vessel is currently being escorted to Cork by Irish defence forces. Three British...

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IS-Linked Group Beheads Hostage In Video

A video showing a hostage being beheaded by a group linked to Islamic State is genuine, French president Francois Hollande has said. Herve Gourdel, a 55-year-old hiker from Nice in southern France, was kidnapped on Sunday by Jund al Khilafah. The group...

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MPs To Vote On Airstrikes Against Islamic State

David Cameron is to recall Parliament on Friday to ask MPs to support UK airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq. MPs will vote on whether RAF planes should join the US, France and five Arab states in bombarding IS positions. The airstrikes...

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