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More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in parts of Russia and Kazakhstan as the region faces the worst flooding in decades.A deluge of melting snow has triggered widespread flooding in Siberia, the Ural Mountains and areas of Kazakhstan near rivers such as the Ural and Tobol in recent days. Officials said earlier this week that water levels had swollen by metres within a matter of hours.The Kremlin has warned […]

Three men and two women have been killed during a fire in a largely residential building in Hong Kong. Another 27 people have been left injured. At least six of them are in a serious condition and one is critical, Hong Kong's hospital authority said. Firefighters rushed to the New Lucky House in the Jordan neighbourhood after being called at around 7.53am local time on Wednesday, authorities said.The fire was […]

An Iranian journalist has described the moment he was stabbed outside his home in what he believes was a state-sponsored attack.Pouria Zeraati, a 36-year-old presenter at London-based broadcaster Iran International, was attacked by three unknown assailants in Wimbledon on 29 March. In his first live interview, Mr Zeraati told Sky News' The World With Yalda Hakim he "lost a lot of blood" in the stabbing. Image: Pouria Zeraati shared photo […]

Four bodies have been recovered following an explosion at a power plant next to a dam in Italy.Sky News' Italian branch reported five others were injured in the blast and another three are missing. Three workers were unharmed. Fire brigade officials said earlier that an explosion had occurred at around 3pm (1pm in the UK) at the dam on Lake Suviana - one of three artificial lakes that feed the […]

The Champions League quarter-finals will go ahead as scheduled amid an alleged terror threat, UEFA says. A media outlet linked to IS allegedly issued a threat concerning all four of this week's ties. Two English clubs, Arsenal and Manchester City, are playing tonight in the Champions League quarter final ties.Arsenal are playing at home, whilst City are in Madrid - and there are two further games tomorrow in Paris, between […]

The Indianapolis Speedway is home to the Indy 500, the biggest single-day sporting event in the world. Emotion in the stands here is not unusual, but the noise that came from the bleachers at 3.06pm was something completely different. The nearly 50,000 spectators knew roughly what to expect, aware that at the period of totality the moon would completely obscure the sun, plunging the arena into darkness.But first-time eclipse watchers […]

A Briton's claim to be the first person to run the length of Africa has been contested by a Danish man, who says he beat him to it 14 years ago.Russ Cook, from Worthing, West Sussex, finished his gruelling 352-day run from South Africa to Tunisia on Sunday, travelling close to 16,000km (9,941 miles) on foot. But Jesper Kenn Olsen, a 52-year-old Danish ultrarunner, said the 'Hardest Geezer's' claims he […]

The moon has covered the sun over Mexico, marking the start of this evening's total solar eclipse.The highly-anticipated eclipse saw the Earth, the sun and the moon perfectly aligned, resulting in 'totality' - the moment when the face of the sun is completely blocked by the moon. The first place to witness the full eclipse was Mexico's Pacific Coast and it will then move through multiple US states and up […]

"The Hardest Geezer" has revealed the scariest moment from his gruelling 352-day run across the whole length of Africa.In a news conference, Russ Cook said that - out of the 16 countries he visited during his 9,941-mile journey - he was most afraid "in the Congo on the back of a motorbike, thinking I was about to die". He had gone missing and was separated from his supporters for days […]