A minister has told Sky News he is "confident" the government is doing the right thing by lifting almost all coronavirus restrictions in England, as a top World Health Organization (WHO) envoy warned: "This virus hasn't gone away."

Frontline health workers in England are to be spared self-isolation rules in an emergency move to tackle the "pingdemic" that has triggered an NHS staffing crisis.

In the moments leading up to 19 July, people waiting in the nightclub queue counted down from 10. Then, as the clock struck midnight they cheered for the moment they'd been waiting for. The wait has been more than 480 days.

Amy Winehouse's goddaughter Dionne Bromfield has offered a fascinating insight into the late singer as part of a new Sky News podcast.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told her nation that a recovery plan will be in place within days, after visiting some of the areas that were worst affected by the country's floods.

A New York police officer kept a stabbing victim alive by using an empty bag of crisps and tape.

Katie Hopkins is going to be deported from Australia after her "appalling" behaviour while quarantining in a hotel.

A toddler who was found abandoned and half-naked on a secluded road in Mexico has been reunited with his mother in Honduras.

Athletes in the Olympic Village have been proving how robust their cardboard beds are amid rumours they were designed to prevent competitors having sex.

A US special forces veteran and his son have been jailed in Japan for helping former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn flee to Lebanon.