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Around 2.5 million young girls are at risk of early marriage by 2025 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a charity has warned. Save the Children described the numbers as the greatest surge in child marriage rates in the last 25 years, reversing progress made towards ending the practice. This year, an estimated 500,000 more girls

Residents in Madrid will be banned from leaving the city, except on essential trips, under strict new coronavirus restrictions imposed by the Spanish government. Currently a hotspot for infection, the Madrid region accounts for more than a third of the 133,604 cases diagnosed in Spain over the past two weeks. Madrid has 735 cases of

Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to be cured of HIV, has died from cancer. “It is with great sadness that I announce that Timothy passed away… this afternoon surrounded by myself and friends, after a five month battle with leukaemia,” his partner, Tim Hoeffgen, said in a post on Facebook. He said Mr Brown

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden began the first presidential debate with heated exchanges over coronavirus and health care. The two men frequently interrupted each other with angry interjections, with Mr Biden eventually snapping at his opponent: “Will you shut up, man?” As the discussion about the Supreme Court quickly turned to coronavirus,

Heilongjiang province, on the edge of Siberia, is China’s rust belt. Abandoned factories and container ports crumble away, testament to how other provinces have taken its old place as the centre of Chinese industry. Battered nodding donkey oil pumps diligently bob up and down, scrounging what’s left of the riches beneath the earth. Image: China

Fresh evidence of possible war crimes against civilians by Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen has been uncovered by Sky News. In an extensive investigation, our team travelled hundreds of miles through armed checkpoints and rough terrain in Yemen to gather testimony from the families of victims, witnesses and survivors. The investigation centres on – but

“There are no heroes in Yemen, just criminals and victims.” Those are the words of a human rights investigator, a petite woman who has devoted her life to fighting for the victims and tracking down the criminals. There are far too many of both in this country. The victims are the millions of ordinary Yemenis

A Sky News investigation has discovered evidence of a recent potential war crime in northern Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition, which is backed by the US and Britain. There’s already growing controversy over why Britain is still supporting a campaign which has led to the country being declared the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster. The Sky

More than a million people around the world have now died in the coronavirus pandemic. The data from Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the outbreak, also shows more than 33 million COVID-19 cases have been reported. It comes after a significant rise in infections has triggered local lockdowns in countries such as France,

The number of global coronavirus deaths could reach two million before a vaccine is found and widely used, the World Health Organisation has warned. It comes as the death toll in the nine months since the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, nears one million. Dr Mike Ryan, director of the WHO’s emergencies programme, said the

For four days Kanupriya and her family spent agonising hours trying to find a plasma donor for her critically ill father.   Former military captain Mukesh Gombar, 69, had been admitted to a Delhi hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. Doctors had asked the family to organise plasma therapy when Mr Gombar’s condition began to

Four people have been wounded in a knife attack near the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, police have said. Associated Press reporters at the scene saw police flooding into the neighbourhood in eastern Paris, near the Richard Lenoir Metro station. Image: Soldiers rush to the scene Officers cordoned off the area,

Patients with sufficient levels of vitamin D are less likely to experience complications and die from COVID-19, according to a new study in the US, while another has found it also reduces infection rates. Vitamin D sufficiency was linked with a significantly decreased level of inflammatory markets, and higher blood levels of immune cells, in

A landmine detection rat has been awarded a gold medal for showing “lifesaving bravery and devotion to duty”. The giant African pouched rat, named Magawa, has discovered 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance in Cambodia. Magawa has cleared more than 141,000 square metres of land, an effort that has earned him a PDSA

Israel’s government has voted to tighten a week-old national lockdown as figures reveal the extraordinary extent of the country’s coronavirus challenge. The cabinet met late into Wednesday night and concluded, not without huge disagreement, that a “hermetic” lockdown must be implemented by Friday. The country’s infection rate is by far the highest among known rates

A man accused of being the Claremont serial killer in Australia has been found guilty of two of three murders of young women in the 90s. Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of the killings of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon, but was acquitted of the murder of Sarah Spiers. The 51-year-old former children’s athletics coach