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Beach cleans rapidly and dramatically reduce plastic fragments released into the environment, according to the first scientific evidence of its kind. Experts from Norce, one of Norway‘s largest research organisations, found that within a year of volunteers removing bottles, bags and other large pieces of plastic from the shore of an island near Bergen, the

Locals now call Wadi Derna “the dam of death”. In a moment’s notice, the structure unleashed tens of millions of cubic metres of floodwater on Derna’s residents. The torrents swept generational homes and entire families into the Mediterranean sea – leaving onlooking survivors in a state of shock and horror. Read more: Desperate search for

The players in Spain’s women’s football league have called off a strike after reaching a deal to increase their minimum wage. Last weekend’s first round of fixtures were not played due to the industrial action. Last season, the minimum salary for the women’s league until now was €16,000 (£13,700) compared to €182,000 (£156,000) for the

A Mexican congressional hearing where two alleged “non-human” alien corpses were displayed has been described as an “unsubstantiated stunt”. The mummified specimens were displayed in glass cases during a hearing at Mexico’s Congress. Ryan Graves, a former US Navy pilot who in July claimed the number of UFOs or UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) was being

Earth is exceeding its “safe operating space for humanity” in six of nine key measurements of its health, and two of the remaining three are heading in the wrong direction, a new study has said. The planet’s climate, biodiversity, land, freshwater, nutrient pollution and “novel” chemicals (human-made compounds like microplastics and nuclear waste) are all

Ukraine struck a Russian submarine and warship in an overnight attack against a major Russian naval base in Crimea, a Ukrainian official has said. If confirmed, it is thought to be the first known strike against a Russian submarine in the war. Russia said Kyiv had launched cruise missiles that damaged two ships at the

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has crossed the border into Russia for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. This is the first time since 2019 that Kim has left North Korea – and a lot has changed since then. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson sits down with security and defence analyst Professor

Chinese state media appears to have censored itself after taking down a video that was supposed to promote the host city of this month’s Asian Games. The People’s Daily was hoping to show literary links to Hangzhou, but one poem by Lin Sheng caused a bit of a stir. Dating back to the 12th century,

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is stranded in India after unspecified issues with his plane. Mr Trudeau’s office cited “technical issues” on Sunday evening in New Delhi, where the G20 summit took place over the weekend. It is unclear what the problem is with the plane, called CFC001. “Upon our departure for the airport, we

Airstrikes have been pummelling Khartoum in the Sudanese army’s aerial war against paramilitary forces who have terrorised and occupied residential areas for nearly five months. At the weekend, an airstrike that hit a market in the capital left at least 43 people dead and 60 injured. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blamed the military’s

Libya has asked for international help with around 2,000 people feared dead after a massive flood ripped through the city of Derna following a powerful storm. Mediterranean Storm Daniel has caused catastrophic flooding, resulting in the complete engulfing of entire neighbourhoods after it hit the country’s eastern region. On Monday night, Libya’s government declared the

Up here, in a remote mountain village, a scene of unbearable pain. A man with sunken, exhausted eyes, walks through the rubble and destruction following the earthquake in Morocco, cradling his small dead son, wrapped in a red blanket. He walks towards an area of wasteland just to the side of the road, which is

Israel’s Supreme Court will today hear a challenge against the government’s judicial reforms that threatens to throw the country into a constitutional crisis. In July, the ruling coalition successfully changed a law removing the power of the Supreme Court to strike down government laws on the grounds of ‘reasonableness’. Israel has no written constitution or

Ethiopia says it has finished filling a reservoir for its controversial hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river – a project which once prompted Egyptian politicians to discuss military action. Construction of the $4bn (£3.2bn) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began in 2011 and Ethiopia sees the project as crucial to powering its economic development. “Our

Dozens of people have been killed following a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco, officials have said. Many of the fatalities are said to be in hard-to-reach areas south of Marrakech. The earthquake struck late on Friday – damaging buildings in major cities and sending panicked people pouring into the streets. Witnesses in Marrakech told the

French President Emmanuel Macron was booed during the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup. It began when he walked onto the pitch at the Stade de France in Paris. While chants of “Allez Les Bleus” also rang out around the stadium, some of the jeering continued. Image: Emmanuel Macron at the Rugby World Cup

The world is falling well short of the action needed to avoid serious climate disruption from rising temperatures, a major new report has warned. A “global stocktake” compiled by the United Nations ahead of the COP28 climate summit later this year says greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut far faster to have any hope

Elon Musk has sparked a backlash as he admitted his Starlink satellite communications network was not activated near the Crimean coast – effectively thwarting a sneak attack by Ukrainian forces on Russian ships. Ukrainian officials have reacted furiously to claims in a new biography of the tech billionaire which reportedly says the secret order meant

Mexico’s Supreme Court has decriminalised abortion nationwide. The decision comes almost two years after the court unanimously ruled that penalising abortion is unconstitutional, in what was hailed a “watershed moment” for all women. That ruling in September 2021 only covered the northern state of Coahuila, where officials declared any woman imprisoned for terminating a pregnancy

Leaders of African nations needing to pay for expensive climate measures have called for a new global tax on polluting industries like fossil fuels, shipping and aviation to help raise funds. The proposal is the culmination of the first ever African Climate Summit, held in Kenya and involving leaders from the continent of 1.3 billion