Amazon executives in India charged with using website to smuggle drugs

Local Amazon executives in India have been charged with using the website to smuggle marijuana, police have said.Offices in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men with 20kg of the drug on...

Khashoggi’s fiancee in plea to Bieber: ‘Do not sing for the murderers of my beloved Jamal’

Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee has urged Justin Bieber to cancel his December performance in Saudi Arabia.Bieber is due to sing in Saudi Arabia's second-largest city, Jeddah, on 5 December as the country hosts the Formula...

Face masks burned as thousands protest against start of Austria’s new national lockdown

Austria has started another national lockdown to tackle rising COVID-19 cases as tens of thousands of protesters rally in cities across Europe.The lockdown is the first since vaccines became widely available, with most gathering...

‘Deafening cries and screams’: Five dead and more than 40 injured after car drives through US Christmas parade

Five people have died and more than 40 are injured after a vehicle drove through a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin.The red SUV hit dozens of people in the city of...

‘I was groomed’: Shamima Begum insists she ‘didn’t hate Britain’ when she fled to Syria – and now wants to face trial in UK

Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl who fled to Syria and joined IS, has told Sky News she was groomed by friends and older men she met online before joining the terror group.Speaking from...

‘Missing’ Chinese tennis star claims to be safe and well in video call

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, believed to have been missing for nearly three weeks, has held a video call with the president of the International Olympic Committee.In the 30-minute call, she told Thomas Bach...

Hundreds forced to leave homes on Vulcano island due to potential lethal gases amid volcanic activity

Hundreds of people on the island of Vulcano, north of Sicily, are being told they cannot stay in their homes overnight due to potentially lethal gases in the area amid a build-up of volcanic...

Sudan’s prime minister reinstated to lead interim government after military coup

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is to be reinstated - almost a month after being placed under house arrest in a military coup.In addition, government officials and politicians who have been arrested since the...