Rome’s Colosseum metro station reveals ancient treasures

Beyond the entrance of Rome’s newest metro station under the Colosseum, there are display cases filled with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during a decade-long construction project.
17 December 2025, 18:22 PM

EU to deploy observers for national polls

The European Union has announced that it will deploy an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) to monitor Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections scheduled for February 12, 2026.
16 December 2025, 21:30 PM

Italian team crafts 3D‑printed pastries from plant cells

Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process into ‘pastries’ with high nutritional content.
16 December 2025, 18:35 PM

Thousands of glaciers to melt each year by mid-century: study

Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday.
16 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Small boat migrant crossings resume in English Channel

Migrants resumed attempts to cross the English Channel to reach Britain on Saturday, four weeks after the last small boat arrived.
14 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Spanish PM slams US ‘extrajudicial ops’ off Venezuela

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned as “unacceptable” the “extrajudicial operations” carried out by the United States on alleged drug-trafficking boats off Venezuela, in an interview published yesterday.
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Germany blames Russia for polls interference

Germany yesterday accused Russia of cyberattacks targeting its air traffic control and February’s general election, and said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest.
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM

UN urges Ethiopia, Eritrea to respect border pact

The United Nations on Friday urged Ethiopia and Eritrea to respect each other’s territorial integrity, voicing concern over “renewed tensions” between the two neighbouring countries.
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-graft protests

Outgoing govt previously formed in Jan 2025
12 December 2025, 08:25 AM

Russia praises US security strategy shift

The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia’s own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.
8 December 2025, 18:34 PM

Roman slaves ate better than ordinary people

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than “speaking tools”, some received better food than ordinary people, Italy’s culture ministry said on Friday, citing evidence from recent excavations.
7 December 2025, 18:52 PM

French town offers birth bonuses to save local clinic

A small French town is to offer expectant mothers 1,000 euros from next year to give birth at the local maternity ward in a bid to save it from closing.
6 December 2025, 18:43 PM

AI chatbots can influence voters: studies

A brief conversation with a partisan AI chatbot can influence voters’ political views, studies published Thursday found, with evidence-backed arguments -- true or not -- proving particularly persuasive.
5 December 2025, 18:00 PM

No conspiracy in collapse of China spy case: UK inquiry

A high-profile case against two British men accused of spying for China collapsed because of “systemic failures” and not a government conspiracy, a UK parliamentary inquiry concluded yesterday.
3 December 2025, 18:31 PM

Sick young ants invite destruction to save colony

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.
3 December 2025, 18:26 PM

French pastry chefs auction chocolate sculptures

Chocolate artworks by some of France’s most famous pastry chefs sold at auction Monday for more than 100,000 euros in a charity event that had bidders smacking their lips.
2 December 2025, 18:28 PM

Fraud probe: 3 arrests as EU diplomatic arm raided

Police arrested three people yesterday following raids on EU offices and a prestigious graduate school in a probe into suspected fraud linked to the training of future diplomats, prosecutors said.
2 December 2025, 18:00 PM

'If Europe wants a war, we are ready'

Putin warns European superpowers that their defeat will be swift if they start a war
2 December 2025, 17:27 PM

Russia bans HRW

Russian authorities have outlawed Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable organisation”, a label that, under a 2015 law, makes involvement with it a criminal offence.
29 November 2025, 18:00 PM

Russian threat France’s Macron unveils voluntary military service

France will introduce a voluntary military service of 10 months beginning next summer, President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday, in the face of what he called a growing threat posed by Russia.
27 November 2025, 19:38 PM