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The UK could be set to have had its warmest year on record, according to forecasters.

Idris Elba, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, as well as England's victorious women's football and rugby teams, are among 1,157 people recognised in the New Year Honours list.

Passengers have been stuck on a Eurostar train for hours overnight, after the train network was forced to cancel large parts of its London-Europe service on Tuesday.

A fierce blaze that broke out in a Swiss ski resort during New Year's Eve celebrations has killed about 40 people and injured 115, police said on Thursday afternoon.

The row between Europe and Washington about what you can do online just ramped up.

Space is an alien environment for humans.

Annual energy bills are set to fall by £138 in April due to government changes, trusted forecasters have said.

Sir Keir Starmer is promising that the change he pledged to deliver in the 2024 election will finally arrive in 2026.

A man who witnessed a bar fire in Switzerland has told Sky News he saw patrons walking over people as they tried to escape the packed venue.

Brigitte Bardot was the sultry film siren who helped ignite a sexual revolution, a woman whose cultural significance extended beyond her acting career.

A police officer who lost his wife and two children in a house fire on Boxing Day has paid tribute to his family as "three of the greatest humans to ever grace our presence".

The UK has celebrated the arrival of 2026 with large firework displays across the country.

A millionaires' playground, Poole in Dorset boasts some of the most expensive properties in the UK, and has been called Britain's Palm Beach.

"The air is absolutely poison, in the last two years we've not had even one single good a day in spite of the monsoon rain," says Bhavreen Kandhari, an activist spearheading a public movement on clean air.

Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital days after a car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends.

The largest protests in Iran in three years reached a deadly climax overnight into Thursday, with several people killed, Iranian media and a rights group have reported.

A total of 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the Channel on a small boat - the second-highest annual figure on record.

West Midlands Police told a safety planning meeting that Jewish groups warned excluding Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from an Aston Villa match "could be perceived as antisemitic" - weeks before telling MPs the Jewish community backed the ban, according to documents obtained by Sky News.

A raccoon that passed out drunk after running amok in a Virginia liquor store is suspected of two other "break-ins".

Iranian protesters attempted to storm a local government building on Wednesday, state media reported, as demonstrations over the cost of living reached their fourth day.

Nigel Farage has vowed to go "double or quits" on May's local elections with a spending blitz of £5m.

New York's new mayor Zohran Mamdani has made history and been inaugurated in a disused subway station.

Children from struggling families will be able to be vaccinated at home across parts of England in a new government pilot scheme.