‘Strangest’ dinosaur covered in spiked armoury: scientists

A dinosaur dubbed one of the “strangest” ever boasted an elaborate armoury of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, according to findings published in the science journal Nature.
29 August 2025, 18:57 PM

UK vows to speed up asylum claims as hotel protests spread

The UK government vowed on Sunday to overhaul its asylum system after weekend protests broke out across the country at hotels housing migrants, with more planned.
24 August 2025, 18:00 PM

Give up Donbas, no membership to Nato: Putin

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
21 August 2025, 19:33 PM

Spanish PM says ‘difficult hours remain’ in wildfire fight

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Tuesday that “difficult hours remain” in the fight against wildfires that have ravaged a record area of land, despite temperatures dropping.
19 August 2025, 18:40 PM

Landmark Swedish church sets off on road trip to survive

Sweden’s landmark Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home yesterday, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine.
19 August 2025, 18:28 PM

20 killed, 134 hurt in blast at Russia ‘gunpowder plant’

The death toll from an unexplained blast last week at a factory in Russia’s Ryazan region has jumped to at least 20, with another 134 people injured, emergency services said yesterday.
18 August 2025, 19:24 PM

Spain, Portugal battle wildfires as death toll mounts

Thousands of firefighters backed by the military and water-bombing aircraft yesterday battled dozens of wildfires across Spain and Portugal, as the death toll increased to six since the outbreaks began.
18 August 2025, 19:23 PM

Blast at Russian gunpowder factory kills 11

At least 11 people were killed and dozens more injured in a factory blast in a Russian region outside Moscow, Russian authorities said yesterday.
16 August 2025, 18:28 PM

Spain issues heat alert amid escalating wildfire threat

All of Spain was on a heatwave alert yesterday, while the weather agency warned that much of the country was at “very high to extreme risk” from wildfires.
15 August 2025, 19:17 PM

England faces ‘significant’ water shortfall

England’s water shortfall was classed as “nationally significant” as it experienced its driest first six months of the year since 1976, the Environment Agency said yesterday.
12 August 2025, 18:49 PM

World food prices at 2-yr high on rising meat, oils: FAO

World food commodity prices rose in July to their highest in over two years, as a jump for vegetable oils and record levels for meat outweighed falling cereal, dairy and sugar prices, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said.
8 August 2025, 18:52 PM

Rare ‘Hobbit’ first edition auctioned for £43,000

A rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” sold for 43,000 pounds ($57,000) at auction on Wednesday, after it was found during a house clearance in southwest England.
8 August 2025, 18:49 PM

Third-hottest July on record wreaks havoc

The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures, but many regions were devastated by extreme weather amplified by global warming, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday.
7 August 2025, 20:55 PM

Trump, Putin to meet in ‘coming days’

The Kremlin yesterday said that a summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Ukraine was set for the “coming days” as US-led efforts to broker peace rumble on.
7 August 2025, 20:12 PM

Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed a decree that would allow Russia to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by a fifth by 2035 compared with 2021 levels.
6 August 2025, 19:44 PM

Two killed in Russian attack on holiday camp: Kyiv

A Russian attack that set ablaze a holiday camp in central Ukraine yesterday killed two people and wounded another dozen, local authorities said.
6 August 2025, 19:22 PM

UK-France migrant returns deal takes effect

A “one-in, one-out” deal in which Britain can return some migrants who cross the Channel in small boats back to France came into force yesterday, the UK government announced.
5 August 2025, 18:49 PM

Russian army seizes new village in Ukraine’s central region

Russia said yesterday that its army had seized a new village in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region, accelerating its claimed advance into the key industrial area.
5 August 2025, 18:00 PM

Banned Russian media sites ‘still accessible’ across EU

Websites of banned Russian media can still be easily accessed across the EU in the “overwhelming majority” of cases, experts said yesterday, slamming the bloc’s “failure” to publish up-to-date guidance.
5 August 2025, 18:00 PM

Germany says ‘very insufficient’ aid entering Gaza

The amount of aid entering Gaza remains “very insufficient” despite a limited improvement, the German government said on Saturday after ministers discussed ways to heighten pressure on Israel.
2 August 2025, 21:49 PM