“Children are eating out of piles of garbage” – that was the answer from UNICEF’s Salim Oweis when I asked if aid was now getting to those who need it. The phone call was intended for background to try to get a clearer idea of the latest aid distribution in Gaza, but it’s a conversation…

The British government has said it will officially recognise Palestine as a state in September – unless Israel meets certain conditions. The UK follows France, which recently said it would also recognise Palestine as a state before the UN conference in September. Ireland, Spain and Norway all officially recognised a Palestinian state last year. Britain…

Donald Trump described Scotland’s first minister as a “special guy” as he officially opened his new golf course in Aberdeenshire. The US president asked the SNP leader to stand up during the ceremony at Trump International Golf Links, saying: “John Swinney is a terrific guy – and loves golf and loves the people of this…

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men were fatally stabbed at a business in central London. Emergency crews were called to Long Lane, Southwark, at about 1pm on Monday following reports of multiple stabbings inside a commercial property. The Metropolitan Police said four people were treated for stab wounds. A…

A manhunt is under way after a married couple were killed while hiking with their children in an Arkansas state park. Clinton Brink, 43, and Cristen Brink, 41, were walking with their daughters, who are aged seven and nine, when they were attacked in Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday afternoon, according to Arkansas State…

A Palestinian community leader has been killed in an area in the West Bank which was documented in the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, according to the movie’s directors. The local leader, Awdah Hathaleen, was killed in front of a community centre in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Monday evening, film co-director Basel Adra, who…

At least 30 people have been killed and tens of thousands evacuated due to heavy rain and flooding in and around Beijing. Heavy rains intensified around the Chinese capital and surrounding areas on Monday, with the city experiencing rainfall of up to 54cm (21 inches) during a period of “continuous extreme rain”, China’s official Xinhua…

A girl who was stabbed in the Southport attack has told Sky News how she thought she was going to die that day. Warning: Some readers may find this content distressing It is exactly a year since Axel Rudakubana killed three girls and attempted to murder eight others at a summer holiday Taylor Swift-themed dance…

Three young men have been killed in the Turks and Caicos Islands, in what authorities are calling the British territory’s first mass shooting in recent history. A further 10 people were injured in the incident at a popular nightspot on Providenciales, the archipelago’s main island, early on Sunday. At least four suspects were involved but…

The suspect in the fatal shooting of a mother and her two children in Northern Ireland has died. Ian Rutledge, a 43-year-old agricultural worker, had himself suffered a gunshot wound during the attack in the village of Maguiresbridge in County Fermanagh on Wednesday morning. He was taken to hospital where he remained in a serious…