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The US Coast Guard searching for a missing submersible has said it doesn’t know what the “noises” are that have been detected – but it is expanding the search area. The area is now more than twice the size of the US state of Connecticut. A Coast Guard spokesman said they “need to have hope”

A former employee of the missing Titan submersible operator has revealed he had raised “safety concerns” over the vessel but was reportedly “met with hostility” before later being sacked, court documents have shown. OceanGate’s former director of marine operations, David Lochridge, had raised concerns over “safety and quality control issues regarding the Titan to OceanGate

The submersible that went missing on its way to the wreck of the Titanic may have imploded and collapsed into pieces, an expert has told Sky News. Dr David Gallo, who describes the Titan’s pilot, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, as his “best friend”, said the timeline suggests something happened “mid-water”. Contact with the vessel was reportedly lost

The US coastguard has indicated those on board the missing submersible that lost contact near the wreck of the Titanic may have no more than a couple of days at best before its life support systems fail. The submersible craft, Titan, went missing on Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean some 435 miles (700km) south of

A submersible which takes tourists to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing, Sky News understands. It is not clear how many people, if any, were on board at the time, and it is understood that coastguards are looking for the vessel in the North Atlantic Ocean. Sky News has located the Polar

China’s President Xi Jinping has met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing – as the world’s two biggest economies look to cool rising tensions. Speaking after the meeting on Monday, Mr Xi said he hoped that Mr Blinken would make “more positive contributions” to stabilising ties between the two countries, state media reported.

A 76-year-old woman who was wrongly declared dead and surprised family members by knocking on her coffin has now passed away. Bella Montoya spent seven days in intensive care but died on Friday evening after suffering a stroke, Ecuador‘s health ministry said. She was under “permanent surveillance” after the bizarre incident in the city of

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Beijing. His arrival marks the first visit of a top American diplomat to China in five years, as relations between the two countries have become increasingly frosty. Having postponed a February trip after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over US airspace, Mr Blinken is set

There is by now a degree of predictability to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s outbursts. Cause maximum outrage, swear a lot, declare that this is the point of no return and then, somewhat miraculously, settle with the warring party which is invariably Russia’s Ministry of Defence. Thus it was in the fight over ammunition, when Prigozhin

At least 40 people, most of them students, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school in Uganda, officials have said. Other students have been abducted and a dormitory in the school has been set on fire in the attack, believed to have been carried out by Ugandan militants with ties to

Up to 500 people are missing after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the United Nations has said. Seventy-eight people are known to have died after the vessel got into difficulty and sank 45 miles off the coast of Greece in the early hours of Wednesday. Speaking at a briefing

A bus carrying mostly elderly people has collided with a lorry in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police have said. Rob Hill, commanding officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities are deploying all their

Conor McGregor has denied allegations of sexual assault against a woman at game four of the NBA finals on Saturday. A statement issued via his lawyer, Barbara R Llanes, said: “The allegations are false. Mr McGregor will not be intimidated.” Miami Police have confirmed they are investigating a report issued to them on 11 June,

A massive search operation is continuing for “hundreds” of missing migrants after at least 78 drowned when a fishing boat sank off the coast of Greece. Officials said 104 survivors were rescued after the vessel capsized about 50 miles from the southern coastal town of Pylos. But charity Alarm Phone, which operates a network supporting

At least 78 people have died and dozens are feared missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of southern Greece, authorities have said. A large search and rescue operation has saved 104 people so far, four of whom have been taken to hospital with symptoms of hypothermia. It was unclear how

Belarus has started to receive tactical nuclear weapons from Russia, its leader has said. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian state TV that his country is taking delivery of the weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. “We

At least 100 people have been killed after a boat capsized in northern Nigeria, police have said. A search for survivors is under way after the boat overturned on the River Niger on Monday morning (12 June), close to neighbouring Niger state, Kwara state police spokesman Okasanmi Ajayi said. The victims, including children, were returning

A bus driver was driving too fast when the vehicle crashed in Australia, killing 10 wedding guests and injuring 25 others, police have alleged. Brett Button was arrested after mandatory hospital tests and had been in police custody but was released on bail when he appeared at Cessnock Local Court on Tuesday. He appeared in

The governments of the Netherlands and Canada have filed a complaint against Syria in the International Court of Justice for breaches of the UN Convention against Torture.   The complaint claims Syria has failed to respect its obligations under international treaty law for widespread human rights violations, including acts of torture, prohibited by the Convention

The Foreign Office says it is supporting British nationals who were on a boat which caught fire off the coast of Egypt. Three people are missing after a dive boat burst into flames at Marsa Alam in the Red Sea, according to local reports. Police are reported as saying 29 people were on the vessel,

Counteroffensive action against Russian forces is under way, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, with troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line. Speaking at a Kyiv news conference alongside Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau, Zelenskyy was responding to Vladimir Putin’s comment that Ukrainian forces were taking “significant losses”. Mr Zelensky said: “The counteroffensive,

In the deep depths of a Colombian jungle, four children have been found alive weeks after a deadly plane crash. After surviving 40 days alone, the siblings were rescued by Colombian soldiers on Friday. A saga which captivated many Colombians as search teams frantically combed through the rainforest hunting for the children, aged 13, nine,

Four children have been found alive – five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed into thick jungle. They were rescued by the Colombian military, not far from where the Cessna 206 crashed. Three adults on board, including the pilot, lost their lives. Exhaustive searches have been underway for the children – who

Italy’s controversial former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died. The 86-year-old senator and leader of the Forza Italia party, whose string of financial and sex scandals made him the most polarising figure in modern Italy, was admitted to hospital on Friday. He had been discharged from hospital last month where he was treated for over

Greta Thunberg says she is “technically” taking part in her final school strike for climate today – with a warning: “The fight has only just begun.” The Swedish climate activist who inspired a worldwide youth climate strike movement with her one-person school protest starting in 2018, said although she is graduating from school, “I’ll continue

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Sky News he will do “whatever we need to do to defend ourselves” against Iran – and diplomacy has failed to stop Tehran from developing its nuclear capabilities. Speaking exclusively at the prime minister’s offices in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu rejected US attempts to resolve the growing crisis only

Three children are in a life-threatening condition after a knife attack in Annecy in southeast France, police have said. Four children and an adult were injured in total, officers added. The youngsters are all about three years of age, police said. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said a suspect had been arrested “thanks to the swift

One of the most active volcanoes in the world has begun erupting after a three-month pause. A glow was detected in webcam images from Kilauea’s summit early on Wednesday morning, indicating that an eruption was occurring within the Halemaumau crater, the US Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The images from the peak on Hawaii‘s

There was a steady stream of boat landings throughout the day in Kherson city in southern Ukraine as the rescue efforts were ramped up to reach those stranded by floodwaters. The water levels rose about 11 feet in about 24 hours according to emergency services, with some areas reaching a depth of 17 feet. It

The torrent of water unleashed by the breaching of the Nova Kakhovka dam has engulfed whole villages, towns, agricultural land and large sections of Kherson city in southern Ukraine. We watched as the waters rose and rose in Kherson city – sweeping debris, branches, tyres and anything else in its path. Residents scrambled to leave

The PGA Tour has agreed to merge with its Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf. The proposed merger comes after the two tours had been embroiled in lawsuits regarding antitrust claims. The two tours signed an agreement that would combine the PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s commercial businesses and rights into a new, yet-to-be-named for-profit company. The

A dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine has been damaged by shelling, leading to flooding in the area already hit by months of conflict. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials blamed each other for destroying the Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine’s military said that Russian forces blew up the dam. “The

Russian reports that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun are being used to distract from Russian losses in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian deputy defence minister has said. The comments from deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar come after Moscow said it had thwarted a major Ukrainian assault in the south of Ukraine‘s Donetsk region. Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian