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Victims of grooming gangs and modern slavery are being denied compensation by a government scheme because of their criminal records, Sky News has learned.

The owner of the Daily Mail is in talks to buy the Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister title for £500m, a deal that would finally end the more-than two-year hiatus over their future.

The first G20 summit to be held in Africa has opened - without US president Donald Trump.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been criticised by US politicians after he failed to respond to their request for an interview.

Boris Johnson has rejected claims he presided over a toxic and chaotic culture at the heart of the UK government during the pandemic, and accused the COVID-19 Inquiry of being "totally muddled".

The first saplings grown from the Sycamore Gap tree, which was deliberately cut down in 2023, are being planted on Saturday.

Regulators have approved the first clinical trials of puberty-blocking drugs in children since their use in gender clinics was banned following a major review last year.

Nathan Gill was at Manchester airport, about to board a flight to Russia, when accepting bribes finally caught up with him.

Celebrations from Scotland fans as they secured a place at the men's World Cup with a 4-2 victory over Denmark were so intense that they caused the earth to shake - with the tremors picked up by the UK’s national earthquake monitoring agency.

A critical incident has been declared over a 40ft-high mountain of waste after it was branded "utterly appalling" by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.