Oscar Nominees Bring Candour To Annual Lunch

By Hilary Costa, Sky News Online It is an awards season cliché, Jessica Chastain admitted, but one that for many actors might actually be true: sometimes it is enough just to be nominated. "I feel like I've already won," the Academy-Award-nominated...

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Syria: Exodus Swells Border Refugee Camps

By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent The numbers of refugees from Syria is growing by the day. The reasons are simple; they can't take the bombing anymore; they can't live with the fear. So they make the journey north, south, east and west to...

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Dreamliner Batteries Get CT Scans Over Meltdown

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Timeline Updated: 9:31am UK, Tuesday 05 February 2013 The turbulent history of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Feb 5, 2013: Japanese official reveal CT scans of failed batteries does not reveal fire cause. Feb 4, 2013: Boeing requests...

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North Korean Ruler Caught With A Smartphone

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been seen with a smartphone - prompting speculation he could be using a product made by arch enemy South Korea. The device was seen in a photo of the communist leader chairing a meeting, which was taken some days...

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Alabama Hostage Boy 'Doing Well' After Rescue

A boy who was held hostage for a week is safe and his captor dead after FBI agents stormed an underground bunker in Alabama. Officials said the raid went ahead after negotiations with 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes deteriorated and he was seen with a gun....

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India Rape Trial: Victim's Friend In Court

A man who was with the student who died after being gang-raped in India "will go to any lengths to ensure the guilty are punished", according to his father. The woman's companion appeared in court on Tuesday as a prosecution witness in the trial of...

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Jodi Arias Admits In Court She Killed Boyfriend

The woman at the centre of a sensational murder trial in Arizona has made a surprise appearance in the witness box. Jodi Arias is charged with stabbing and shooting dead her on-off boyfriend in June 2008, in what prosecutors describe as a jealous rage....

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Tug-Of-War Students Lose Their Fingers

A boy and a girl have had several fingers torn off during a game of tug-of-war at their high school in Southern California. The two South El Monte High School students were rushed to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where doctors were preparing...

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Indian Girl Rock Band Quit After Fatwa

An Indian high school all-girl rock band has quit after a senior Muslim cleric issued a fatwa against them and branded them "indecent". The teenagers became victims of an online hate campaign and were called "sluts" and "prostitutes" on social networking...

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Magdalene Laundries: Ireland PM Apologises

Ireland's prime minister has apologised to thousands of women sent to Catholic-run workhouses were they were subjected to a regime of hard work and prayer. The Magdalene laundries started in the late 1700s as places to rehabilitate so-called "fallen"...

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