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The US coastguard has indicated those on board the missing submersible that lost contact near the wreck of the Titanic may have no more than a couple of days at best before its life support systems fail. The submersible craft, Titan, went missing on Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean some 435 miles (700km) south of

A UK billionaire, French submersible pilot and the CEO of the company that supplied the vessel are believed to be three of the people that were on board. OceanGate Expeditions, a company that deploys vessels for deep sea expeditions, confirmed that one of its submersibles had gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean and that a

A submersible which takes tourists to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing, Sky News understands. It is not clear how many people, if any, were on board at the time, and it is understood that coastguards are looking for the vessel in the North Atlantic Ocean. Sky News has located the Polar

Three people have died and 29 others have been injured during a raid by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. The shoot-out took place in the streets of the city of Jenin on Monday. Three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, were among those killed in the incident, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Israel’s

A 76-year-old woman who was wrongly declared dead and surprised family members by knocking on her coffin has now passed away. Bella Montoya spent seven days in intensive care but died on Friday evening after suffering a stroke, Ecuador‘s health ministry said. She was under “permanent surveillance” after the bizarre incident in the city of

Scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a new species of duck-billed dinosaur that roamed Chile 72 million years ago. Dubbed Gonkoken nanoi, the plant-eating creature weighed up to a tonne and could grow to 4m (13ft) in length, according to research published in Science Advances. The find follows an almost decade-long investigation. In 2013,

There is by now a degree of predictability to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s outbursts. Cause maximum outrage, swear a lot, declare that this is the point of no return and then, somewhat miraculously, settle with the warring party which is invariably Russia’s Ministry of Defence. Thus it was in the fight over ammunition, when Prigozhin

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged a group of African leaders to ask Vladimir Putin to free political prisoners. The presidents of Zambia, Senegal, Comoros, South Africa and Egypt’s prime minister are there, alongside senior officials from Uganda and Congo-Brazzaville. They are expected to travel to Russia for a meeting with President Putin on Saturday in St

Up to 500 people are missing after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the United Nations has said. Seventy-eight people are known to have died after the vessel got into difficulty and sank 45 miles off the coast of Greece in the early hours of Wednesday. Speaking at a briefing

A bus carrying mostly elderly people has collided with a lorry in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police have said. Rob Hill, commanding officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities are deploying all their

A British man has told Sky News he fears his relatives are among the hundreds who are missing after a fishing boat overloaded with migrants sank off the coast of Greece. Aftab Khan, from Wolverhampton, travelled to Greece following the tragedy in the early hours of Wednesday morning. At least 78 people drowned and 104

One of the three British passengers who died after a dive boat caught fire in Egypt has been named. Christina Quinn, 58, was chief executive of St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth, and had a long career in the NHS. A spokesperson for her family said: “It is with great sadness that we confirm the tragic death

At least 78 people have died and dozens are feared missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of southern Greece, authorities have said. A large search and rescue operation has saved 104 people so far, four of whom have been taken to hospital with symptoms of hypothermia. It was unclear how

Belarus has started to receive tactical nuclear weapons from Russia, its leader has said. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian state TV that his country is taking delivery of the weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. “We

At least 100 people have been killed after a boat capsized in northern Nigeria, police have said. A search for survivors is under way after the boat overturned on the River Niger on Monday morning (12 June), close to neighbouring Niger state, Kwara state police spokesman Okasanmi Ajayi said. The victims, including children, were returning

A bus driver was driving too fast when the vehicle crashed in Australia, killing 10 wedding guests and injuring 25 others, police have alleged. Brett Button was arrested after mandatory hospital tests and had been in police custody but was released on bail when he appeared at Cessnock Local Court on Tuesday. He appeared in

Three people were killed and 10 injured after Russian forces shelled three small boats taking elderly residents to safety after the destructive flooding in southern Ukraine.  The area has been devastated by catastrophic flooding along the Dnipro river after the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up. Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of destroying

The Foreign Office says it is supporting British nationals who were on a boat which caught fire off the coast of Egypt. Three people are missing after a dive boat burst into flames at Marsa Alam in the Red Sea, according to local reports. Police are reported as saying 29 people were on the vessel,

Counteroffensive action against Russian forces is under way, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, with troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line. Speaking at a Kyiv news conference alongside Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau, Zelenskyy was responding to Vladimir Putin’s comment that Ukrainian forces were taking “significant losses”. Mr Zelensky said: “The counteroffensive,

Four children have been found alive – five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed into thick jungle. They were rescued by the Colombian military, not far from where the Cessna 206 crashed. Three adults on board, including the pilot, lost their lives. Exhaustive searches have been underway for the children – who