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Donald Trump's offer of US-backed insurance and naval escorts for shipping travelling through the Strait of Hormuz has not prevented maritime premiums soaring as underwriters scramble to reassess the risks to oil, gas and cargo vessels.

Kemi Badenoch claims Labour is "nothing like the patriotic party of yesteryear" and "playing student politics" over the Iran war.

Russian intelligence is suspected of being behind several "self-igniting" parcel fires around Europe, including one in Birmingham.

For years, geopolitical analysts warned us that among the scariest of all scenarios for the world economy was the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

A man who killed his ex-partner's sister and her three children in a house fire has been sentenced to life in prison.

Four men suspected of carrying out surveillance on the Jewish community have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran, the Metropolitan Police has said.

Indonesia has become the latest and most populous country to say it will ban social media for under-16s.

Leaking details from a National Security Council (NSC) meeting is "utterly dysfunctional and destructive", Harriet Harman has said.

A major VPN service is becoming one of the first to block websites known for hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Sky News has obtained a detailed insight into the phone calls between US President Donald Trump and Iraqi Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq at the start of the war last weekend.

Resting on young shoulders, a white coffin is carried through a youth centre in southeast London.

South East Water is to be fined £22m for repeated supply failures, watchdog Ofwat has said.

Rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years after killing a Nepalese student in a hit-and-run collision.

BAFTAs host Alan Cumming has spoken out about the controversy surrounding the broadcast of the film awards, describing it as a "trauma triggering shitshow".

Shabana Mahmood has defended her plans for forced deportation of children under her new asylum rules. 

A Pakistani man has been convicted of planning to kill Donald Trump and other prominent US politicians.

Forget science fiction. The age of AI in war is here.

A migrant worker who was killed in an aerial attack on the United Arab Emirates on the first day of the Iran war would not have been outside if he had known the conflict had started, his son says.

The son of Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott has joined the Green Party, Sky News can reveal.

"Britain's loneliest sheep" has given birth for the first time.

The spotlight is once again on the Kurds in the Middle East.

UK average diesel costs have hit a 16-month high, less than a week after war gripped the Middle East and sent oil costs rocketing.

The UK's ambassador to Israel alerted London weeks in advance that an attack on Iran by US and Israeli forces was "highly likely", a former diplomat at the embassy has revealed.

A company has admitted it supplied water that was unfit for human consumption after a parasitic outbreak in Devon.

People on obesity jabs will regain the majority of the weight they lose within a year of stopping the drugs, a new study suggests.

There are three types of people in Dubai right now: those off to play padel, those rushing to the Omani border, and those waiting for house prices to drop.

Beirut's southern suburbs have been subjected to waves of airstrikes by the Israeli military, but it has been virtually impossible to document the damage they cause. 

Britney Spears was spotted driving "erratically" before her arrest on suspicion of operating her vehicle under the influence, police say.

The BBC regrets its "serious mistake" during the BAFTAs broadcast, the corporation's outgoing director general Tim Davie has said.

Ukraine has raised the prospect of postponing future peace talks aimed at ending its four-year-old war with Russia, because of the Iran conflict.

German media giant Axel Springer is to buy Telegraph Media Group in a £575m deal that will see the Daily and Sunday Telegraph print titles and their online business come under overseas ownership.

Sky News has won news channel of the year and Yousra Elbagir has been named television journalist of the year at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards.