A promise to end fossil fuel subsidies must not disappear from a final COP26 agreement despite opposition, the European Union's climate policy chief has warned.Major fossil fuel exporters including Saudi Arabia and Australia have...

A promise to end fossil fuel subsidies must remain in a final COP26 agreement despite opposition, the European Union's climate policy chief has said.Major fossil fuel exporters including Saudi Arabia and Australia have been...

FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, has died at the age of 85."Former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle...

Clinical trials are starting for a new Ebola vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, designed to tackle the two strains responsible for nearly all outbreaks and deaths worldwide.The university has launched a Phase...

A Maryland high school teacher who has devoted her career to teaching immigrant children has been awarded the annual million-dollar (GBP745,670) Global Teacher Prize.Keishia Thorpe teaches English to 17 and 18 year olds -...

More than half of Afghanistan's population is predicted to face acute hunger this winter as drought and a crumbling economy are causing an unfolding crisis.Humanitarian organisations have told Sky News that the suspension of...

An international arrest warrant has been issued for a grandfather accused of kidnapping his grandson, the sole survivor of a cable car crash in Italy.Fourteen people died in the tragedy on a mountainside near...

Russia's ambassador to London has denied his country shows a lack of urgency on climate change and told Sky News it is "very much alert" to the issue because temperatures there are rising faster...