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The King and Queen's state visit to the Vatican has been postponed by mutual agreement as the Pope recovers from illness, Buckingham Palace said. The Pope, 88, arrived home to the Vatican on Sunday after spending five weeks in hospital battling a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. A statement said, "medical advice has now suggested that Pope Francis would benefit from an extended period of rest and recuperation". Please use Chrome […]

World Athletics will introduce mandatory testing for anyone entering female competitions to verify their biological sex, insisting it is necessary to protect women's sport.It is the latest move overseen by Sebastian Coe - as president of the governing body - to address the gender eligibility issue, two years after banning anyone assigned male at birth from female events. Lord Coe said after a World Athletics Council meeting today that they […]

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 In an astonishing security breach, 18 senior officers, including the vice president and secretary for defence, discussed plans for US military airstrikes on the Houthi targets in Yemen using a group chat, and accidentally included The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg in the group. On Day 65, US correspondents James Matthews and Martha Kelner discuss this major blunder, how it happened, and […]

Russia has been accused of making "hollow statements about peace" after launching a missile strike that wounded dozens of people, including children, as it held talks with the US on a proposed ceasefire at sea in the war in Ukraine.Russian and US officials met in Saudi Arabia on Monday, with Ukrainian and American delegations due to gather in Riyadh on Tuesday. Both Russia and Ukraine have accused the other of […]

A surge in hacking attempts by criminals, fraudsters and spy agencies has reached a level of "unprecedented complexity" that only artificial intelligence will be able to combat, according to Microsoft."Last year we tracked 30 billion phishing emails," says Vasu Jakkal, vice president of security at the US-based tech giant. "There's no way any human can keep up with the volume."In response, the company is launching 11 AI cybersecurity "agents" tasked with […]

A man has been arrested after he drove his car into protesters outside a Tesla showroom in Florida, police in the US have said.Andrew Dutil drove at slow speed as he mounted a pavement where demonstrators were standing, forcing people to move away to avoid being hit, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. No one was hurt in the incident outside the dealership in the county in Florida on […]

A high-profile US delegation will visit Greenland this week as President Donald Trump continues to threaten to annexe the strategic Danish territory. Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, will lead the delegation that includes White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright. Mr Waltz and Mr Wright plan to visit the Pituffik space base, the US military base in Greenland. The team will also watch a […]

Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled Istanbul's streets on Sunday for a fifth night of protest against the arrest of the Turkish president's main rival.Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, was detained on Wednesday and formally arrested and jailed pending trial over corruption charges earlier on Sunday. Police used pepper spray and fired rubber bullets into the crowd that gathered outside Istanbul's city hall.Reporting from Istanbul on Sunday evening, Sky News' […]

New Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has called a snap general election against the backdrop of a trade war with the US and threats from Donald Trump to make Canada part of America.Mr Carney, who is the former governor of the Bank of England, announced on Sunday that there will be a five-week election campaign before a vote on 28 April. His governing Liberals had appeared poised for a historic election […]