Ebola: UN Agency Admits It Botched Outbreak

By Thomas Moore, Health and Science Correspondent The World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted that it botched attempts to halt the ebola outbreak in West Africa. The UN health agency has blamed factors including incompetent staff and a lack...

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World 'Losing The Battle' Against Ebola

The battle against the ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people is being lost, the head of the World Bank has warned. Speaking after the United Nations revealed it had received less than 40% of the nearly $1bn ($600m) it had requested...

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Reeva's Family Expects Pistorius Jail Term

By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Pretoria Reeva Steenkamp's family has told the judge that they expect the man who killed her to be sent to jail. The model's cousin Kim Martin told the court that the alternative sentence of community service...

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Reeva's Parents A Picture Of Grief At Trial

By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Pretoria The elderly parents of Reeva Steenkamp have been the picture of pain and grief each time they've arrived at the High Court in Pretoria. They face the gathering of camera crews who film their every...

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Pistorius: Reeva Death 'End Of The World'

A courtroom has been reduced to tears after Reeva Steenkamp's cousin described the moment she learned the model had been shot dead by Oscar Pistorius. Kim Martin, the first prosecution witness at the athlete's sentencing, said the death of her cousin...

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Killing Of Reeva Steenkamp Devastated Family

By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Pretoria Many in the courtroom were reduced to tears as they heard for the first time how Reeva Steenkamp's killing had devastated her family. The cousin of the model and law graduate broke down as she...

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Oscar Money U-Turn May Be Due To Media Deals

The spectre of blood money - being offered and accepted - has emerged for the first time in the Oscar Pistorius trial. The court heard the athlete wanted to pay the Steenkamp parents a lump sum of more than £21,000 but this was rejected by Reeva's...

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Pistorius Offered 'Blood Money' To Steenkamps

Oscar Pistorius offered Reeva Steenkamp's family 375,000 rand (£21,305) as compensation for killing her after already making monthly payments to them, a court has heard. But chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said the Steenkamps rejected the lump...

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North Korea's Kim Jong-Un Seen In Public

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has been seen in public for the first time in more than five weeks, scotching rumours of a coup. State media said early on Tuesday, local time, that Mr Kim visited a residential district and a scientific establishment....

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IS Hostage's Letter To Parents Describes Fear

By Sky News US Team The parents of an American being held captive by Islamic State (IS) militants have released new portions of a letter sent by their son from captivity. The letter from Abdul-Rahman Kassig, formerly known as Peter, was received...

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Ebola: Nurse Is First To Contract Disease In US

Tests are being carried out on another suspected ebola sufferer in the US - hours after a female nurse was confirmed to have contracted the disease from a patient. The man was put into isolation in Boston, Massachusetts, after recently returning from...

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Ebola Crisis: Alex Crawford's Special Report

In a week when the World Health Organisation declared deaths from ebola have reached over 4,000, Sky's Special Correspondent Alex Crawford gained exclusive access to a body recovery team in Liberia. You can watch a special version of the highlights...

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Airstrikes Missing IS Front Line, Say Fighters

We met Abu Ibrahim, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) Commander, and his two friends in a coffee shop in Urfa, Southern Turkey. They had just returned from the Syrian border town of Kobane, where he told us the FSA had joined forces with Kurdish militias to...

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Hagel Expects 'Long-Term Battle' Against IS

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has said the embattled Syrian city of Kobani is a "difficult problem", but insisted that airstrikes had made some progress in driving back Islamic State fighters. Kurdish forces fighting IS militants on the streets...

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