French PM survives two confidence votes days after reappointment

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survived two confidence motions Thursday, just days after appointing his new government and making a key political concession to stay in power.
16 October 2025, 18:45 PM

World hunger a collective failure: Pope

Pope Leo XIV yesterday condemned the world’s failure to stop millions of people from going hungry, blaming a “soulless economy” and calling on others to rethink their lifestyles and priorities.
16 October 2025, 18:43 PM

France systematically violating child migrant rights: UN committee

France is committing "grave and systematic violations" of the rights of unaccompanied migrant children, leaving many homeless, deprived of basic care and in degrading conditions, a UN watchdog said Thursday..The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child noted that France provides
16 October 2025, 15:43 PM

UK jails Afghan migrant who threatened hard-right leader Farage

A UK court jailed an Afghan migrant for five years yesterday after he threatened in a TikTok post to kill hard-right, anti-immigrant political leader Nigel Farage.
14 October 2025, 18:30 PM

Flights cancelled as Belgium hit by national strike

Brussels airport -- Belgium's largest -- cancelled all departures as security workers downed their tools
14 October 2025, 08:46 AM

Trio wins economics: Nobel for work on innovation, growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize yesterday for their work on how innovation and the forces of “creative destruction” can drive economic growth and lift living standards across the globe.
13 October 2025, 18:18 PM

Crisis in France: Lecornu again appointed PM

Pressure mounted yesterday on France’s newly reappointed premier Sebastien Lecornu to get an austerity budget approved, as more parties threatened to topple a man whose first term lasted a mere 27 days.
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM

Macron reappoints Sebastien Lecornu as France's PM

Both allies and the opposition had been hoping for a fresh face in government to help end months of paralysis over an austerity budget
11 October 2025, 02:15 AM

Spain reaffirms Nato commitment after Trump threat

Spain hit back at Donald Trump yesterday after the US President suggested expelling the country from Nato for failing to meet his ramped-up defence spending target.
10 October 2025, 18:00 PM

September third-hottest globally on record

The world just had its third-hottest September on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday, as global average temperatures remained stuck near historic highs for yet another month.
9 October 2025, 18:37 PM

German police to get power to shoot down drones: minister

German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Wednesday, after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate.
8 October 2025, 19:37 PM

French PM resigns hours after naming cabinet

France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his govern-ment resigned yesterday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country’s political crisis.
6 October 2025, 18:05 PM

‘Signs of life’ on Saturn’s moon Enceladus!

The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus harbours complex organic molecules, a study said yesterday, offering further evidence that the small world could have all the right ingredients to host extraterrestrial life.
5 October 2025, 18:45 PM

UK cops quiz 6 after attack on synagogue

Six people arrested on suspicion of “terrorism”-linked offences after a fatal car-ramming and knife attack on a UK synagogue remained in police custody yesterday, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged people not to take part in pro-Palestinian protests.
4 October 2025, 18:00 PM

Finland dismisses case over Baltic cable cuts

A Helsinki court on Friday dismissed a case against three members of a ship from Russia’s “shadow fleet” suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables, saying it was beyond its jurisdiction.
3 October 2025, 19:38 PM

UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operations

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed initiative seeking carbon neutral investments by banks, announced Friday its immediate shutdown -- at a time of faltering climate commitments in the United States and Europe.
3 October 2025, 19:35 PM

Sarah Mullally first woman to lead Church of England

The Church of England named Sarah Mullally yesterday as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to serve as ceremonial head of Anglican Christianity worldwide, prompting immediate criticism from conservative church leaders in Africa.
3 October 2025, 19:33 PM

Munich airport halts flights after drone sightings

Germany's Munich airport halted flights after several drone sightings, a police spokesperson told AFP early Friday, the latest in a string of similar aviation disruptions across Europe
3 October 2025, 03:46 AM

Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: EEA

Europe is a world leader in the fight against climate change but must do more to improve its resilience against global warming, the European Union’s environment agency warned on Monday.
29 September 2025, 19:35 PM

Air France, Airbus back on trial over doomed 2009 Rio flight

An appeals trial of Air France and Airbus opened Monday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in the French flag carrier’s history.
29 September 2025, 19:33 PM