Leaders of the 20 richest countries will recognise the existential threat of climate change, a draft communique seen by Reuters shows, as Pope Francis yesterday said the COP26 summit must give future generations “concrete hope” by matching words with deeds.

Britain yesterday threatened to board French fishing boats and France stood by a plan to impose sanctions on British vessels in a deepening row over post-Brexit fishing rights.

Leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies are set to commit to supporting cutting to 100 days the period in which pharmaceutical companies can develop new vaccines, drugs and tests during a pandemic, according to a draft joint document.

The Kremlin warned Wednesday that the use of Turkish-made drones could further aggravate the conflict in Ukraine, after Kiev released footage of its military employing the weapons against pro-Russian separatists for the first time.

A German man was handed a two-year suspended sentence yesterday for passing on floor plans of parliament buildings to Russian secret services while employed by a security company.

A group of 12 European countries yesterday urged Israel to scrap plans for the construction of more than 3,000 settler homes in the occupied

Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on Wednesday admitted he should have acted "differently" after accusations he plagiarised swathes of his university thesis.

Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.7 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, in another stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks.

Only 158 investment funds with just 0.5 percent of assets under management are currently in line with Paris accord goals of limiting the increase

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

The German government has cut its economic growth forecast for this year to 2.6 per cent, but lifted its estimate for next year to 4.1  per cent as supply problems are delaying the recovery in Europe’s largest economy, two sources familiar with the decision said on Tuesday.

A decade-old target for rich countries to contribute $100 billion a year to help poorer ones fight climate change should be attainable in 2023, ministers said yesterday ahead of the COP26 summit.

Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020, the UN weather agency said yesterday, warning that the world was “way off track” to reach its goals for capping rising temperatures.

1951 - Winston Churchill was appointed British prime minister for a second time after his Conservative party narrowly won an election.

For some people, going to prison can feel like escaping to freedom. 

The Facebook whistleblower whose revelations have tipped the social media giant into crisis has launched a stinging new criticism of Mark Zuckerberg, saying he has not shown any readiness to protect the public from the harm his company is causing.

German police said on Sunday they had stopped more than 50 far-right vigilantes armed with pepper spray, a bayonet, a machete and batons who were trying to patrol the Polish border to stop migrants from entering the country.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors from Western countries 'persona non grata' for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

Ukraine’s capital on Friday reimposed restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus as the ex-Soviet nation reported record Covid-19 deaths and cases for the second day in a row. 

Russia is reporting a record high number of coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths as the country approaches a week of nonworking days aimed at stemming the sharp surge in cases.