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The King will not attend next month’s COP29 climate conference, Sky News understands. The monarch is well known for championing environmental causes and gave a speech at the opening of last year’s event in Dubai. The King, 75, is continuing his treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer. However, he will put it on hold

Russia is trying to create “mayhem” on the UK’s streets, the head of the MI5 has warned – as he revealed a growing number of children are being investigated for terrorism. In a wide-ranging speech, the organisation’s director general Ken McCallum said the UK faces an increased threat from “Putin’s henchmen” as “plot after plot”

Cable Street tells the story of migrant communities rallying to stop fascists marching through the streets of London – for the show’s creators the themes are just as relevant today. Song and dance might not be the usual way to talk about the rise of fascism, but the musical Cable Street tells the story of migrant

A police force has apologised for putting down a family’s pet XL bully dog by mistake due to an “administration error”. Lancashire Police said it has given the family an “unreserved apology” for euthanising the seized dog, named Bruno, while the owners were in the process of applying for an exemption to keep him. The

The world’s first ovarian cancer vaccine could wipe the disease out, researchers have said. OvarianVax is a vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognise and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer. It’s being developed by scientists at the University of Oxford. The hope is that women could receive the jab preventatively on the

The UK car industry has warned its efforts to support the transition to electric vehicles cannot be sustained indefinitely as it faces fines for missing climate-linked sales targets. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said that a government mandate, which requires its members to sell a minimum percentage of zero-emission vehicles each year,

A man has been mauled by two large dogs in Sheffield – as police warn people who own such animals to “step up and take action” to prevent similar attacks. The force said the two dogs, thought to be a mastiff and a cane corso, are believed to have escaped from a property before the

Police are looking for a 23-year-old man following a fatal crash involving a van and five other cars on the M40. A woman in her 50s, who was a passenger in one of the cars, died at the scene of the collision on the northbound carriageway. Warwickshire Police said five cars and a Peugeot boxer

Lewis Hamilton has said he has struggled with his mental health “for much of his life”, and blames the pressure of motor racing and bullying that he suffered at school. Hamilton, 39, is one of the most successful Formula One (F1) drivers in history, having won a joint-record seven world titles. The racer, who was

Maggie Smith, known for her roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89, her sons have said. The actress died in hospital, her children Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens said. In a statement, they said: “An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end. She

One of the country’s most senior doctors broke down in tears several times as he recalled “scenes from hell” inside intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic, a public inquiry has heard. Professor Kevin Fong, who was tasked with helping to direct an emergency response to the crisis, said staff were running out of body

The managing director of Harrods has accused his former boss Mohamed Al Fayed of presiding over “a toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct”. Five women have alleged they were raped by Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with several others alleging sexual misconduct. In a written

Police have released an image of a man they want to identify after a woman in her 70s was sexually assaulted in London – and left with a broken leg. The woman was getting off a bus on Regents Park Road in Finchley when she was pushed into a doorway by an unknown man who

Police investigating the cheese wire murder of taxi driver George Murdoch have identified 200 possible genetic matches to a DNA profile recovered from the scene of the crime. The breakthrough was announced on Thursday – ahead of the 41st anniversary of the brutal killing in Aberdeen – and comes a year after a DNA profile

A police officer who stole cocaine from work to sell on the streets of Manchester has been found guilty of misconduct and supplying class A drugs. Andrew Talbot was a detective in Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) serious crime division when he took just under 4kg of the drug from an evidence store. He also used

British Transport Police have released a picture of a man in connection with an attempted abduction of a child on a train.  A stranger grabbed a baby out of its mother’s arms as she was preparing to leave the train at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, at 7.30pm on 17 August. The force said “a relative managed to

Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users, including actors Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale, have shared a post that supposedly revokes Meta’s right to train its artificial intelligence tool using their information.  “Goodbye Meta AI,” it says before saying the user does “not give Meta or anyone else permission to use any of personal data, profile

A student who heckled Sir Keir Starmer during his speech at the Labour Party conference has told Sky News the prime minister would “not lift a finger” to help the people of Gaza amid the conflict with Israel. Daniel Riley, who is 18 and from Jersey, interrupted Sir Keir’s speech in Liverpool to shout about

The Cure will release their first new song in 16 years on Thursday. The goth rock band shared a short burst of the song titled Alone on social media, along with close-up black and white images of a stone statue’s face. Image: The Cure performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2019. Pic: PA

Police Scotland’s chief constable has said the force remains “absolutely committed” to solving the murder of a banker who was fatally shot on his doorstep nearly two decades ago. Dad-of-two Alistair Wilson, 30, was shot in the Scottish Highlands in November 2004. To this day, his killer has never been caught. Scotland’s top law officer,