FIFA plans to double Women's World Cup prize money next year but will not deliver on Gianni Infantino's ambition to match the cash paid out at the men's tournament, Sky News has learnt.

Shares in Google's parent company Alphabet have suffered their worst-ever day on the US stock market, falling more than 12% and knocking around half a trillion dollars off its value.

Opposition politicians in Albania have set off flares in the country's parliament following weeks of violent anti-government protests.

Sky News has obtained copies of leaflets promoting medical clinics in illegal Israeli settlements by a company seeking to recruit British Jewish doctors at an event in London

On Wednesday, Flavio Bolsonaro, who last week lost Brazil's presidential election, was seen arriving in the US on a private jet after having fled in the dead of night.

The French head of the European Central Bank (ECB) is to step down from the role, just months ahead of the troubled country's presidential election.

Police in the Philippines have been handed a warrant by a court to start examining digital material alleged to contain child sex abuse images belonging to the Duchess of Sussex's father, Thomas Markle Snr.

North Korea has launched ballistic missiles off its east coast into the Sea of Japan, South Korea said on Thursday, as tensions continued to rise between the two countries.

An eight-year-old girl has been seriously injured in a wolf attack at a wildlife park in Germany. 

The Federal Reserve has left interest rates unchanged - despite persistently high inflation and repeated calls from Donald Trump to lower borrowing costs.