A welcome dip in temperatures came to parts of Europe yesterday, bringing relief to areas which have sweltered through a widespread,

Two people are stabbed to death in separate incidents in London, including a woman who was about eight months pregnant, police say.

The Sea-Watch 3 charity ship carrying dozens of migrants rescued off Libya forced its way into the Italian port of Lampedusa after a lengthy standoff, the charity has said.

The United Nations must drop its bureaucratic timidity and stand up to its member states if it is to tackle global problems, a top UN official told Reuters in an interview.

China yesterday said it would import Iranian oil in defiance of US sanctions on Tehran, a day before US and Chinese leaders are to meet to try to resolve thorny trade disputes.

France registers its highest temperature since records began as the death toll rises from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe.

A viral video has turned a young man into the hero of the hour in Istanbul after he was seen catching a toddler as she plummeted from a second-floor window.

Europeans yesterday braced for the expected peak of a sweltering heatwave that has sent temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), with schools in France closing and wildfires in Spain spinning out of control.

France wants the G20 to issue a statement committing to strong action on climate change and considers the issue a “red line”, President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday ahead of the summit.

Fraudsters posing as police officers stole 3.3 million euros ($3.7 million) from a Swiss woman, Swiss media reported yesterday. A female

Nato yesterday urged Russia to destroy a new missile before an August deadline and save a treaty that keeps land-based nuclear

The world is on course for “climate apartheid”, where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor

The UN rights chief yesterday called for countries to repatriate family members of suspected foreign fighters in Syria, including

Jeremy Hunt, the underdog in a bitter battle with Boris Johnson to become Britain’s next prime minister, yesterday called on his rival

Istanbul returned to the polls yesterday in a re-run of the mayoral election that has become a test of Turkish democracy as well as

Britain’s leadership contest was rocked yesterday by reports that police were called to a late-night “row” between frontrunner Boris

The EU’s top leaders yesterday fired a Brexit warning to whoever wins the battle to become the next British prime minister, saying the existing divorce deal could not be changed.

Seventeen of the 64 Bangladeshi migrants, who had been stranded in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis for nearly three weeks, return home.

Two cabinet ministers were left fighting it out yesterday to join Boris Johnson in the run-off vote to become Britain’s next leader, amid fresh warnings of the risk of a “no deal” Brexit.

British leadership favourite Boris Johnson won the endorsement of a key Brexit-backing rival yesterday despite accusations he was softening his rhetoric on leaving the EU.