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Star Trek and X-Men actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died after a "brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's and dementia.

Andy Burnham has said he is "open" to calls for Britain to make a formal apology for its role in the slave trade as the King continues his tour of the Caribbean.

Cyber hackers have targeted fridges and freezers in supermarkets in several European countries including Ireland – causing temperatures to increase and food to spoil.

Cyber attacks have affected the UK meat processing industry, a top security official has said in the wake of hacks that hit supermarkets across Europe.

A major UK business group has called on the government to "fundamentally reassess" the country's relationship with the EU, as it said the current system is still "failing to deliver".

The prime minister has said the UK will play a leading role reshaping the Commonwealth, including pursuing a debt "reset" to help nations struggling with higher borrowing costs.

Artificial intelligence is "helping to industrialise cyber attacks" and is "highly likely" to be used in attacks on Britain's critical national infrastructure by 2028, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.

Police have closed the investigation into Hayden Panettiere's death after a post-mortem found she died accidentally.

Tenerife football player Jesus de Miguel has died after suffering a cardiac arrest following an on-field collision in a match on Monday.

FIFA will give members of its ruling council access to some documents for the first time related to the World Cup sell-off, Sky News understands.

Men are driving a fall in appetite for full-time work, while job satisfaction has dropped to an all-time low, new research shows. 

The US military has carried out "limited strikes" on Qeshm Island in Iran - hours before the midterms are due to take place.

British troops will be allowed to fire back at Russian forces if attacked as part of a multinational mission to secure any future peace in Ukraine, Western officials have said.

Australia's landmark social media ban for under-16s faces challenges in court over accusations that it amounts to censorship and creates privacy issues.

Poundland's controlling shareholder has told the government it stands by its stewardship record even as it faces mounting pressure over the crisis which has left the discount retailer on the brink of administration.

Water industry bosses have hit out at reforms proposed by Ofwat, the industry regulator, which they claim would force them to recruit dozens of additional directors with the cost being borne by billpayers.

Energy giant Drax has announced plans to build an AI data centre on 4.5 hectares of land at its North Yorkshire site.

Selma Blair has spoken publicly for the first time since she was charged with assault following an incident on a plane earlier this month.

Sky News has expanded its partnership with media platform Arc XP to provide the technology underpinning its new app and website.

A photocall of foreign ministers was cancelled by the US after the UK's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and other European counterparts refused to be pictured with Russia's envoy Sergei Lavrov.

Nicki Minaj said Donald Trump "has given us a future to look forward to" as she joined the US president on stage at a rally in Michigan.

Meghan Markle has said she "can't wait" to join as a host for the upcoming series of Junior MasterChef Australia.