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Donald Trump's offer of US-backed insurance and naval escorts for shipping travelling through the Strait of Hormuz has not prevented maritime premiums soaring as underwriters scramble to reassess the risks to oil, gas and cargo vessels.

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."

Defence secretary John Healey has twice declined to rule out Britain joining strikes on Iran, when asked by Sky News.

Shabana Mahmood has defended her plans for forced deportation of children under her new asylum rules. 

I have witnessed Iraqi and Iranian Kurdish fighters working with American forces in Iraq and Syria over many years.

As acts of vengeance go, which is what Hezbollah says its strikes on northern Israel in the early hours of Monday morning were, this was not especially dramatic.

South East Water is to be fined £22m for repeated supply failures, watchdog Ofwat has said.

Rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years after killing a Nepalese student in a hit-and-run collision.

Satellite images have revealed the scale of damage at Iranian military sites following US and Israeli strikes, but civilian infrastructure has also been hit, including schools and hospitals.

A major VPN service is becoming one of the first to block websites known for hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Forget science fiction. The age of AI in war is here.

BAFTAs host Alan Cumming has spoken out about the controversy surrounding the broadcast of the film awards, describing it as a "trauma triggering shitshow".

A woman who smuggled an arsenal of "terrifying weapons" and £500,000 worth of heroin into Britain in her Peugeot has been jailed for nine years.

Epping Forest District Council has launched a legal challenge to a ruling against its plan to stop asylum seekers from being housed in a local hotel.

The rise in gas prices over the past 48 hours is without precedent.

Twice, the air raid sirens sounded around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus this afternoon. We were rushed inside as soldiers lay on the floor in body armour. It was over quickly.

"Britain's loneliest sheep" has given birth for the first time.

The government wants to know if you want to ban young people from social media.

UK average diesel costs have hit a 16-month high, less than a week after war gripped the Middle East and sent oil costs rocketing.

Millions of people were left without electricity in Cuba after a shutdown at one of the country's largest thermoelectric power plants.

A company has admitted it supplied water that was unfit for human consumption after a parasitic outbreak in Devon.

The economic impacts of the Iran war are already being felt in global markets, and could raise energy prices and wider consumer bills in the UK before long.

In the most clear and consequential policy move on AI safety yet, the Trump administration has announced it will blacklist a leading AI lab over its refusal to allow unfettered access to its technology for military purposes.

Police have caught a man juggling fire while riding a unicycle on a pedestrian crossing.

People on obesity jabs will regain the majority of the weight they lose within a year of stopping the drugs, a new study suggests.

Regime change isn't what it used to be. Donald Trump himself had talked it up as a reason for attacking Iran.

It's been a snowy and bitterly cold morning in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Ukraine has raised the prospect of postponing future peace talks aimed at ending its four-year-old war with Russia, because of the Iran conflict.

Sky News has won news channel of the year and Yousra Elbagir has been named television journalist of the year at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards.