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Surgeons have performed the world’s first ever whole-eye transplant, a feat hailed as a breakthrough despite the patient not yet regaining his sight. Doctors “never expected it to work at all”, patient Aaron James said, but the eye has shown signs of health, such as functioning blood vessels and a promising retina. It has been

Australia has committed to offering refuge to residents of Tuvalu who are displaced by climate disaster – in what has been hailed as a landmark agreement. Tuvalu – a tiny group of low-lying islands in the remote Pacific Ocean, located midway between Australia and Hawaii – is one of the most at-risk nations in the

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza neighbourhoods where Israeli ground forces have been battling Hamas militants. Fighting between Israel and Hamas has intensified in the north and in the capital of Gaza City – forcing thousands to flee to the south. Israeli strikes have pounded Gaza City overnight – and Israeli troops were

Saturn’s iconic rings will briefly disappear from view in less than 18 months – and will not return to their full viewing glory until the 2030s, NASA has said. Scientists said the famous rings will effectively vanish from the view of stargazers on Earth because Saturn will be heading into an “equinox” event. The gas

The battle against inflation could receive a boost – if a big fall in global oil costs is sustained. Brent crude futures fell by 4% on Tuesday to levels not seen since July on the back of data that suggested demand would continue to slide in China – the world’s second biggest economy. Brent was

Syrian President Bashar al Assad should not be invited to this year’s COP28 climate talks because of the environmental destruction he and his regime have caused, a report has said. Mr Assad is responsible for “extensive devastation and damage caused to the environment” through his regime’s attacks, bombing campaigns and chemical weapons use during his

Portugal’s prime minister has announced his resignation after he was caught up in a corruption investigation. Antonio Costa’s decision came hours after police arrested his chief of staff following a raid on several public buildings as part of the probe. The state prosecutor’s office said the Supreme Court was examining suspects’ “use of the prime

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will have “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after its war with Hamas. The Israeli prime minister’s comments are the clearest indication of his country’s plans to maintain control over the Gaza Strip, which is home to 2.3 million Palestinians. Mr Netanyahu told ABC News that Israel should

The Lebanese foreign minister has told Sky News that discussions with Hezbollah and its Iranian funders have left him “less pessimistic” about the outbreak of a wider war in the Middle East region. “No one wants war,” Abdallah Bou Habib told us from his office in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. “And I don’t think they’ll

The “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” is to be lifted from the floor of the Caribbean Sea on the orders of the Colombian government. The Spanish galleon San Jose, which sank more than 300 years ago, is believed to have been carrying 200 tons of treasure, including gold, silver and emeralds. Colombia President Gustavo Petro wants

Five people – including two children – have been killed and six others injured after a car crashed into a pub’s outdoor dining area in Australia. Four people, including a boy, two men in their 30s and a woman in her 40s died at the scene after a BMW SUV mounted a kerb and drove

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected claims the war with Russia is at a “stalemate”.  In an exclusive interview with Sky News’ US partner NBC News, the Ukrainian president acknowledged Kyiv’s progress had been slow and said there was “fatigue” with the conflict. But he insisted his military was “still more motivated than any Russians who came

An airport in Germany has closed after an armed man reportedly rammed a vehicle through a security gate. An armed man broke through a gate in Hamburg airport with his vehicle and fired twice into the air with a weapon, a police spokesperson said. No one appeared to be injured, but the airport announced it

Colombia has announced plans to control its hippo population amid fears it is spiralling out of control after drug kingpin Pablo Escobar introduced them to the country. The government said they plan to curb numbers through sterilisation and the transfer of the mammals to other countries – as well as possibly by euthanasia. It comes

An earthquake in Nepal has killed at 69 people – with more deaths expected to be confirmed, officials say. The earthquake struck the west of the country as many people were already asleep on Friday night. Witnesses said it caused houses to collapse and communications to many villages are said to have been cut. The

It took just four hours for a jury to find fallen “crypto king” Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of fraud. The 31-year-old has been convicted of stealing billions of dollars from customers of FTX, which was the world’s second-largest crypto exchange before its dramatic collapse last year. To this day, FTX users – at least 80,000 of

One of Kenya’s most senior politicians says moves are under way to “amend” the country’s defence agreement with the UK following the alleged murder of a Kenyan woman by British soldiers. Agnes Wanjiru was killed in 2012 and her body dumped in a septic tank. An inquest held in 2019 concluded she had been murdered

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has expressed “regret” after falling victim to a prank call where she acknowledged international “fatigue” over the Ukraine war. Believing she was talking to officials from the African Union, Ms Meloni told a pair of Russian comedians that all sides are nearing the moment in which “everybody understands that we

Police shot a woman in Paris after she allegedly threatened to blow herself up and made death threats on a train. Two police officers together fired eight shots, seriously injuring the woman, after stopping her at a train station, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. It marks the latest security incident in France, which has been

Israel’s military says it was targeting a Hamas commander in a strike on a refugee camp in Gaza in which dozens of people are believed to have died. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) say the commander of Hamas’s Central Jabaliya Battalion, who it says was one of the leaders of the massacres in Israel on