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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has defended his handling of COVID support fraud as he vowed to go after those "who took advantage" of the scheme.

Oil has hit $90 a barrel for the first time since October 2014 on latest worries about tight supply and tensions in Europe in the Middle East.

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Boris Johnson's parliamentary assistant contacted a private charter company in the hope of securing a plane to transport animals and staff during the evacuation of Afghanistan, telling them that her boss was keen, Sky News understands.

With a soldier on board, we were given directions to drive off main roads and along snow-covered tracks to a desolate spot and await further instructions. 

The US has given Russia its written responses to a set of security demands by Moscow over Ukraine and NATO amid fears President Putin's troops could invade the country.

Official statisticians are to shake up the way they collect and widen how they present inflation data amid concerns that cost of living headlines fail to reflect the squeeze being felt by the worst off.

The wait for Sue Gray's report into lockdown parties in Downing Street and Whitehall to be published looks almost certain to roll into tomorrow as the House of Commons has concluded its business - with Boris Johnson still yet to receive the findings.

"Unrelenting" and "awful", that's how a couple of senior MPs put it to me today as they hunkered down in Westminster to wait for the Sue Gray report. 

A dog in Hampshire has been rescued from rising tides with a sausage attached to a drone.

England is set to move from the government’s COVID Plan B to Plan A on Thursday.

They are the twin questions with which City executives have been grappling for some time.

American citizens in Ukraine are being urged to consider leaving because of the "increased threat of Russian military action".

More than a third of the British public blame energy company 'profiteering' for the gas crisis, according to a new poll by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit think tank provided exclusively to Sky News.

The wait for Sue Gray's report into lockdown parties in Downing Street and Whitehall to be published has rolled into another day - with Boris Johnson still yet to receive the findings.

The boss of Wizz Air has told Sky News he expects the company's UK investment and pent-up demand for travel in the country to help lead its fightback this summer from the coronavirus crisis.

The head coach of the England rugby team, Eddie Jones, is adamant he'll simply find replacements for any unvaccinated players that can't travel to France or Italy in this year's Six Nations tournament.  

A Texas man has been charged with selling a gun to a Briton who held four hostages inside a synagogue earlier this month before he was shot dead.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has said his plan to hold the World Cup every two years could stop African migrants dying in the Mediterranean Sea.

The UK is considering sending hundreds more troops to bolster NATO's flank in eastern Europe ahead of any potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sky News understands.