Western Europe logs hottest June–July on record
11 August 2026
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Europe
Ukrainian drone hits Belgorod
10 August 2026
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World
Kremlin critic Nadezhdin flees Russia for France
4 August 2026
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Europe
Spain, Morocco halt deadly rush on Spanish enclave after 49,000 cross in a day
31 July 2026
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Europe
UK PM pledges to tackle elderly care crisis
30 July 2026
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Europe
Two dead after plane crashes onto German house’s roof
27 July 2026
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Europe
UK PM vows to put ‘Britain’s interest first’ in Trump ties
27 July 2026
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Europe
Spain fights to ‘save lives’ as wildfires rage near Madrid
26 July 2026
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Europe
Rome to offer free movies for heat-relief
24 July 2026
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Europe
France records 5,700 excess deaths in June heatwave
23 July 2026
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Europe
WORLD REACTION TO ERDOGAN'S VICTORY
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a decisive victory in an election that will give him five more years in office with sweeping
25 June 2018
Turkey on the road to autocracy
With more than 90 percent of the votes counted Sunday night, one could predict with a great deal of certainty that Recep Tayyip
25 June 2018
Expanded powers for poll winner
Under the new constitution, the president has strengthened executive powers to directly appoint top public officials including
24 June 2018
A jogger’s ordeal at US-Canada border
A French teenager who spent two weeks in US detention after inadvertently crossing the border from Canada while jogging on the
23 June 2018
Johnson warns against 'bog-roll Brexit'
Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson, who campaigned to leave the European Union, yesterday warned Prime Minister Theresa May
23 June 2018
EU migrant row deepens
Italy yesterday doubled down on its new tough stance against migrants, calling for a German NGO's rescue boat to be impounded and its crew arrested as the EU prepares for a tense weekend mini-summit on the issue dividing the bloc.
22 June 2018
Germany foils bio attack with Tunisian arrest
A Tunisian man arrested in Germany in possession of the deadly poison ricin and bomb-making material was planning a biological
20 June 2018
A life at high altitude shapes body: study
Living the high life -- growing up, in other words, at extreme altitude -- forces a developing human body to conserve energy, and that
20 June 2018
Regime, allied forces committed war crimes
Syrian government troops and affiliated forces committed war crimes and a crime against humanity in their long siege of eastern
20 June 2018
UK PM defeats pro-EU rebels
British Prime Minister Theresa May's government saw off a rebellion by her pro-European MPs yesterday after making further concessions
20 June 2018
Macedonian MPs ratify name deal
The Macedonian parliament yesterday ratified a historic accord with Greece to rename the small Balkan nation the Republic of North
19 June 2018
Marriage is good for the heart: study
Even if marriage is sometimes more a bed of nails than roses, living into old age with a partner may help ward off heart disease and
19 June 2018
Italian minister's plan sparks outrage
Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini yesterday defended his plans to count the Roma community living in the country and
19 June 2018
Van kills one at Dutch music festival
A van slammed into pedestrians near a Dutch campsite at a huge music festival early yesterday, killing one person and seriously injuring
18 June 2018
Three killed in London after being hit by train
Three people died in south London after being hit by a train, police said yesterday, amid reports they may have been graffiti artists.
18 June 2018
Video gaming can be addictive: WHO
Video gaming can be addictive in the same way as cocaine or gambling, the World Health Organization said yesterday in a much anticipated update of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
18 June 2018
Number of conflicts doubles since 2001
The number of civil conflicts worldwide has more than doubled since the start of the century, posing new challenges for curbing atrocities, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday.
18 June 2018
Merkel gets ultimatum from ally over migrants
Hardliners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc yesterday gave her a two-week ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching Germany into a political crisis that would also rattle Europe.
18 June 2018
Russian opposition leader Navalny freed
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he had been freed yesterday, the same day the World Cup kicks off in the country, after
14 June 2018
Antarctic ice loss triples in 5 years
Antarctica has lost a staggering three trillion tonnes of ice since 1992, according to a landmark study published Wednesday that suggests the frozen continent could redraw Earth's coastlines if global warming continues unchecked.
14 June 2018