A man has been found dismembered in his cellar – with his mother and girlfriend reportedly confessing to the killing. The remains of Alessandro Venier were found in Gemona del Friuli, northeastern Italy, on Thursday. Sky’s Italian news service, TG24, says it’s understood from sources close to the case that the women have already claimed…

In a move that seems to have caught Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu by surprise, Sir Keir Starmer has sent a clear message to Israel: end the war in Gaza or the UK will recognise Palestine. It is a symbolic but largely meaningless move by the prime minister. What is needed right now in Gaza…

At a critical port on the Taiwanese island of Penghu, there is a sudden bang of explosions. For emergency crews, it is a race to respond, attend to the injured and contain what damage they can. It is noisy and chaotic. But this time, it is just a rehearsal. Please use Chrome browser for a…

Conor McGregor has lost his appeal against the finding of a civil jury that he sexually assaulted a woman. Three judges in the Court of Appeal in Dublin rejected all grounds of McGregor’s appeal. The MMA fighter was accused of raping Nikita Hand after a jury at Dublin’s High Court found in November that McGregor…

More than 25,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel so far this year – the earliest the figure has been reached. Almost 900 migrants (898) were detected crossing the Channel on Wednesday, in 13 boats – bringing the total number of arrivals recorded since 1 January to 25,436. Last year, the…

An American doctor working at a hospital in Gaza has pleaded with Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy to come and see the reality of what is happening on the ground. Doctor Tom Adamkiewicz, a paediatrician working at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, told Sky News the majority of the hospital’s patients have signs of malnutrition and…

Canada is planning to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September, the country’s prime minister has said. Mark Carney told reporters that the planned move is dependent on certain conditions – including that the Palestinian Authority commits to fundamentally reforming its governance and to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas…

As earthquakes go, this was a monster. At 8.8 on the magnitude scale, it’s up there with the most powerful ever recorded. It’s also one that some seismologists were anticipating. Wednesday’s quake, in Russia’s Far East, occurred on a fault line running along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench – a scar on the seabed caused by the…

An enormous 8.8 magnitude earthquake has hit off the far east of Russia – potentially the sixth largest on record. The quake has triggered waves of up to 4m (13ft) in the Kamchatka Peninsula, where buildings were damaged and several people injured, officials said. It has also led to tsunami fears across the Pacific, with…

An earthquake off the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka has triggered tsunami warnings in Japan, China, Hawaii, the US and central and Latin America. The 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred 12 miles below the surface of the water and around 80 miles southeast of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, northeastern Russia on Wednesday, according to the US Geological…