A medic who gave up a promising Wall Street career on to serve on the frontlines in Ukraine has told Sky News it was the “easiest decision she ever made”. Viktoriia Honcharuk said she was “living the American dream” with a fledgling career in investment banking when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in […]
It’s hard to believe the London Borough of Brent was once covered in even more rubbish than it is now. Although the gleaming arch of Wembley Stadium is sometimes just a few steps away, its residential streets are a patchwork of filth. Whether it’s a sea of bottles right by the very sign for the
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As the world awaits possible US military action against Iran, has Donald Trump boxed himself into a corner with only himself to blame? There is a massive amount of American firepower now in the region, and its commander-in-chief has issued Tehran with multiple warnings: Make a deal or else. But what if they don’t? The
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Almost all NHS trusts are missing a major cancer target – with some of the worst performers seeing only about half of patients on time, data shows. Figures analysed by the Press Association (PA) for 2025 show a wide variation among trusts in England, with some patients experiencing waits of more than 104 days. The
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In the English Channel, less than two hours by fishing boat from Dover, some of the most potent weapons in Russia’s war on Ukraine are hiding in plain sight. On a misty February morning midway between Britain and France, we watch tankers carrying Russian oil worth around $100m (£74.1m) cruise past in defiance of Western
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A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl outside her mother’s embroidery shop has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years. Deividas Skebas, 26, stabbed Lilia Valutyte in the heart as she played with a hula hoop in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 28 July 2022. Skebas, a Lithuanian who has schizophrenia and told police he was
A former head gamekeeper has been found guilty of the shotgun murder of an ex-colleague. David Campbell, 77, coldly gunned down Brian Low, 65, on a remote track near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, in February 2024 and used his wife’s e-bike to flee the scene. Campbell was handed a life sentence with at least 19 years in
GP practices are set to receive bonuses of up to £3,000 a year for prescribing weight loss jabs to patients. The NHS began its mass rollout of weight loss injections last summer, but most of the estimated 2.4 million Britons taking the drugs access them privately. As part of a bid to improve access to
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Jersey has voted to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults, becoming the second of the British Isles to do so after the Isle of Man. Members of the States Assembly voted in May 2024 in favour of drawing up laws for an assisted dying service in the Crown Dependency. The vote on Thursday, after
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A baby boy has become the first child in Britain to be born to a mother with a womb transplanted from a deceased donor. Hugo Powell was delivered by caesarean section in December, weighing 6lb 13oz (3.1kg), at the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in London. Only two
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