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The Queen has unveiled a statue of herself in Australia, despite being thousands of miles away in Windsor Castle.

Barring the golden domes of its church, Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2) in the town of Pokrov, 60 miles east of Moscow, is utterly unprepossessing.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is set to appeal after he was handed a one-year prison term and two-year suspended sentence for corruption and influence peddling.

A painting by Sir Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie has been sold for £8.285m.

The prime minister has offered Britain's stadiums for the whole European Championship while eyeing a bid for the 2030 World Cup.

The UK will discuss with the EU the bloc's proposals to create a vaccine passport that could allow people to travel more freely in time for the summer holidays.

A group of girls who were abducted from a boarding school in Nigeria have been released and are "safe", reports say.

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Migrants and asylum seekers are resorting to dangerous night hikes through the Alps to reach France, aid workers are reporting.

A new lockdown has been imposed across the West Bank as Palestinians face a fresh surge of coronavirus cases and a continued wait for a proper vaccine rollout.

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Police in Myanmar have fired tear gas, water cannon and stun grenades at pro-democracy protestors, killing at least 18 people dead, the UN has said.

Horse trainer Gordon Elliott has apologised "profoundly" for an image in which he appeared to be sitting on a dead horse.

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Donald Trump has suggested he may run for president again in 2024 - amid an angry attack on Joe Biden in his first major address since leaving the White House.

The UK needs to understand and deal with the risk of China developing new technologies that could "over-match" the West's military strength, the head of the armed forces has said.

The world could face more chemical attacks in the wake of the Salisbury poisonings as people can now learn to make such weapons online, the defence secretary has warned.

A ceremonial chariot, complete with bronze decorations and mineralised wood remains, has been discovered in the ruins of a settlement north of Pompeii.

US regulators have approved Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID jab, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated and setting the vaccine up for additional approvals around the world.

A member of the elusive group behind the Golden Globes has gone on the record about the way the organisation works - following a slew of accusations that votes can easily be influenced and that it prohibits new members from joining.

A Californian plastic surgeon is being investigated after he attended a virtual court hearing while operating on a patient.

At a place in downtown Orlando this weekend, Donald Trump still rules America.

Violence has returned to the streets of Spain after a few days of tense calm following the arrest of a rapper.

Pupils kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria alongside members of their family and teachers have been released, an official has confirmed.

Taylor Swift has announced that she is cancelling a series of tour dates that were previously postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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As President Joe Biden releases an explosive report implicating Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Sky News talks to filmmaker Bryan Fogel about his new documentary about the killing - The Dissident.

The son of a British businessman detained in a notorious Indian prison has told Sky News he hopes that Boris Johnson will act to save his father.

Lady Gaga's French bulldogs have been found safe and unharmed - two days after being stolen at gunpoint in Los Angeles.

Tiger Woods is in "good spirits" as he continues to be treated in hospital following a serious car accident in Los Angeles.

Joe Biden has told Saudi Arabia's King Salman that he will "hold them accountable for human rights abuses".

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Axum is a historical city - an ancient site of pilgrimage in the Ethiopian region of Tigray.

Cambridgeshire Police have confirmed they have received a letter relating to the disappearance of Princess Shamsa, a daughter of Dubai's ruler.

The US government is expected to release a declassified intelligence report that finds the Saudi crown prince responsible for approving the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Six people have been killed after an illegal gold mine in Indonesia's Sulawesi island collapsed on nearly two dozen people working inside.

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A woman has rescued her four children from a burning building by dropping them from a window.

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There is a pink house in the township of Zwide that sounds much like any other family home at six or seven in the morning.

The US has launched airstrikes on eastern Syria - the first military action undertaken since Joe Biden became president.

European Union leaders are divided over developing vaccine passports to open the continent up to tourism this summer.

Tiger Woods did not appear to be "aware of how gravely he was injured" after his car crash in California, the first officer on the scene has said.

Germany's top-selling newspaper has hailed the UK's COVID vaccine rollout success and its plans to lift lockdown, announcing on its front page: "Dear British, we envy you."

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A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Ghana as part of a global effort to immunise the world's poorest people.

China, Russia and India have been accused of engaging in "vaccine diplomacy" as they cherry-pick nations to give their COVID-19 vaccines to in order to bolster their influence.

"It is very frustrating", admits Dr Laura Malone. "At the moment we don't have any vaccine."

Survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) have spoken out about their horrifying and painful experiences in the hope their stories will prevent it from happening to others.

The first big peer-reviewed real-world study of the Pfizer vaccine has confirmed it is very effective at preventing serious illness or death - even after one dose.

The details of England's route out of lockdown were revealed this week.

An Indian climate activist has been granted bail, 10 days after she was detained on sedition charges for allegedly creating and sharing a document on social media supporting farmer demonstrations.

French actor Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault after authorities revived a 2018 investigation that was dropped, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

The former US Capitol Police chief says he only found out this week that his officers were warned just hours before the 6 January riot that extremists could commit "war" in Washington that day.

Whenever he leaves the house, Igor Ilyash takes an emergency backpack with him, just in case he gets arrested.

Ireland's prime minister Micheal Martin has confirmed the country will continue at the highest level of coronavirus restrictions until at least 5 April.

China, Russia and India have been accused of engaging in "vaccine diplomacy" as they cherry-pick nations to give their COVID-19 vaccines to in order to bolster their influence.

Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an ambush, the United Nations has said.

Nearly a third of fish living in rivers and lakes around the world are facing extinction as their habitats are in "catastrophic decline", a report has warned.

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America is far from out of the woods with COVID-19.

President Joe Biden has led a minute's silence to honour America's coronavirus victims after the country became the first to record more than half a million deaths.

The wife of the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo has been arrested at a US airport on international drug trafficking charges.

Facebook will lift a block on news pages in Australia following a week-long standoff between the social media giant and the government.

Boris Johnson will warn the United Nations Security Council that unless urgent action is taken to tackle climate change, the world risks worsening conflict, displacement and insecurity.

Rioters in Spain have smashed shop windows and launched glass bottles at police in a fifth night of violence over the jailing of rapper Pablo Hasel.

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Israel has been forced to close all of its Mediterranean beaches after an offshore oil spill resulted in tar hitting 100 miles of coastline.

The UK foreign secretary is to demand the instigators of the coup in Myanmar stand down and release the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The story behind the headlines of the Princess Latifa video messages is told today on the Sky News Daily podcast.

The risk of becoming ill with coronavirus falls by 95.8% after the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Israel's health ministry has said.

A prominent activist who fled Hong Kong after Beijing passed a new security law has said he hopes his efforts to keep fighting for democracy will "pave the way" for a return home.

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Boeing has recommended temporarily stopping flights of planes with a similar engine to one that suffered a catastrophic failure mid-flight over the weekend.

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A 21-year-old Briton has become the youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny told a court that "millions of people want the truth - and sooner or later they'll get it", as he lost an appeal against what he has described as a politically motivated prison sentence.

A 95-year-old man has been deported from the US to Germany after admitting working as a guard in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has condemned the shooting of protesters in Myanmar as "beyond the pale".

Russia has recorded the world's first cases of humans being infected with the H5N8 strain of bird flu.

Rioters in Spain have smashed shop windows and launched glass bottles at police in a fifth night of violence over the jailing of rapper Pablo Hasel.

The risk of becoming ill with coronavirus falls by 95.8% after the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Israel's health ministry has said.

A second crocodile has been killed by officials searching for a fisherman feared to have been eaten by the reptiles in Australia.

A hotel in Johannesburg has introduced robot staff and says they could be used to serve customers with COVID symptoms.

Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is to lead the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after Joe Biden lifted former US president Donald Trump's block on her appointment.

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Five people have died after rare ice storms, frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall swept across the southern US.

Scientists have stumbled upon sea life far beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic - in a discovery which shows how creatures have "amazingly adapted" to a frozen world, according to a study.

The arrest of a climate activist for circulating a document on social media supporting recent mass demonstrations by farmers has sparked further protests in India.

Symptomatic cases of COVID-19 are dropping by 94% after two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, according to the largest study of real-world data from Israel.

The United Arab Emirates has published the first image of Mars sent by its space probe.

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Boris Johnson has backed Joe Biden's calls for China to turn over all information to the World Health Organization (WHO) for its investigation into how the coronavirus pandemic began.

New Zealand's largest city has announced a three-day lockdown following the discovery of three unexplained coronavirus cases in the community.

Iran has "shown a facility" for using proxy forces against opponents such as the United States, according to General David Petraeus, a former director of the CIA and former top military commander.

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Eleven more bodies have been found by rescuers searching ravines and valleys in northern India after the sudden collapse of a Himalayan glacier caused massive flooding.

At least three people in Guinea have died from Ebola and an additional four people have been confirmed to be infected, according to the country's health authorities.

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Tensions have risen in Myanmar following mass protests, with security forces opening fire on protesters at a power plant and armoured vehicles rolling into major cities.

It's the weekend.

A White House official who threatened to "destroy" a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter has resigned.

Police searching for a fisherman who went missing in the Australian state of Queensland have found human remains, and believe he may have been attacked by a crocodile.

France's top health authority has recommended that people who've had coronavirus only get one vaccine dose.

In 2012, the Eurozone was facing an existential crisis, with the future of the euro itself in doubt.

Boris Johnson is to urge world leaders to unite and work together to defeat the "common foe" of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A team of Mossad officers spent months learning the minute-by-minute routine of a top Iranian nuclear scientist - before killing him with a remote-controlled machine gun.

From the beauty of ice and snow to the danger of slippery roads and pavements - the deep freeze is serving up fun and frustration.

Bruce Springsteen drank a shot of tequila and got on his motorbike before being arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, according to police.

Britney Spears' father has lost his bid to retain some of his rights over the pop star's estate.

The prosecution's case against Donald Trump is over.

The alleged leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, who is accused of taking part in the attack on the US Capitol, discussed the possibility of getting a boat to ferry "heavy weapons" across the Potomac River, prosecutors have said.

Hard-pressed hospital staff in Mozambique are not only fighting a sevenfold increase in COVID cases, but they have no functioning track-and-trace system, a lack of cost-free testing, and a rising tide of the South African variant.

Two men and women who were stranded on a deserted island for 33 days were rescued after they waved flags to get the attention of a passing US Coast Guard helicopter crew.

Russia has issued an arrest warrant for Leonid Volkov, a close ally of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, according to a media report.

Earth removers and diggers are continuously removing debris and slush at the Rishiganga power project.

The president of the European Commission has admitted the EU underestimated the rolling out of vaccines and that "we are not where we want to be" in the fight against the coronavirus.

A team of Mossad officers spent months learning the minute-by-minute routine of a top Iranian nuclear scientist - before killing him with a remote-controlled machine gun.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine can be given to adults of all ages, according to scientists advising the World Health Organisation.

Prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been released from prison after spending more than 1,000 days behind bars.

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The co-leader of New Zealand's Maori Party has been ejected from parliament for refusing to wear a tie.

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A lawyer appearing before a judge in a virtual court case popped up on screen as a cartoon cat - after failing to realise a feline filter was switched on.

An ally of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has urged supporters living in big cities to gather in residential courtyards with their mobile phone lights on.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) came to Wuhan with four theories about the origins of COVID-19.

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It is "extremely unlikely" the novel coronavirus came from a laboratory incident in China, according to a joint mission investigating the origins of the pandemic.

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There is a continuous sound of heavy machinery at the mouth of the main tunnel of the Tapovan power station in India's Uttarakhand state.

A 100-year-old man in Germany has been charged with 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder over claims he was a member of the SS at a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War.