Rome’s Colosseum metro station reveals ancient treasures
17 December 2025, 18:22 PM
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EU to deploy observers for national polls
16 December 2025, 21:30 PM
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Italian team crafts 3D‑printed pastries from plant cells
16 December 2025, 18:35 PM
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Thousands of glaciers to melt each year by mid-century: study
16 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Small boat migrant crossings resume in English Channel
14 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Germany blames Russia for polls interference
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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UN urges Ethiopia, Eritrea to respect border pact
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Spanish PM slams US ‘extrajudicial ops’ off Venezuela
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-graft protests
12 December 2025, 08:25 AM
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Russia praises US security strategy shift
8 December 2025, 18:34 PM
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New push to reach plastic pollution pact
Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard.
2 August 2025, 20:04 PM
Russia’s actions in Ukraine ‘disgusting’
US President Donald Trump threatened fresh sanctions Thursday while slamming Russia’s military actions in Ukraine as “disgusting,” as strikes on Kyiv killed at least 16 people.
1 August 2025, 20:00 PM
4,000-year-old handprint found on Egypt tomb
British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said on Monday.
29 July 2025, 19:20 PM
US, EU make trade deal
The United States struck a framework trade deal with the European Union yesterday, imposing a 15 percent US import tariff on most EU goods, while averting a spiralling battle between two allies that account for almost a third of global trade.
27 July 2025, 21:09 PM
Russian rocket puts Iran satellite into space
A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space yesterday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.
25 July 2025, 21:07 PM
Walking 7,000 steps a day a huge boost to health: research
People who walk 7,000 steps a day have a dramatically lower risk of a broad range of serious health problems, the largest review of the evidence yet said yesterday.
24 July 2025, 18:00 PM
X calls French probe ‘politically motivated’
A French probe into alleged foreign interference and bias via the algorithm at Elon Musk-owned social network X is “politically motivated”, the company said in a post yesterday, adding that it was refusing to cooperate.
21 July 2025, 20:08 PM
Europe’s oldest lake settlement uncovered in Albania
Archaeologists working on the shores of Ohrid Lake in Albania are convinced they have uncovered the oldest human settlement built on a European lake, finding evidence of an organised hunting and farming community living up to 8,000 years ago.
18 July 2025, 19:12 PM
World’s first IVF trial cuts genetic disease risk
Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the results of a world-first trial said Wednesday.
17 July 2025, 19:21 PM
Spain arrests eight after anti-migrant unrest
Spanish police have arrested eight people in connection with rare anti-migrant unrest that rocked the town of Torre Pacheco over the weekend, the interior minister said yesterday.
14 July 2025, 19:36 PM
German doctor goes on trial for 15 murders
A German doctor yesterday went on trial accused of killing 15 patients with lethal injections and acting as “master of life and death” over those in his care.
14 July 2025, 19:36 PM
EU population hits 450m on migration boost
Migration into the European Union pushed its population to a record 450.4 million people last year, offsetting a natural population decline for the fourth straight year, EU data released yesterday showed.
11 July 2025, 18:57 PM
Police free 1,194 in global trafficking raids: Europol
Police rescued 1,194 potential human trafficking victims and arrested 158 suspects in coordinated raids across 43 countries last month, the European Union’s law enforcement agency said yesterday.
11 July 2025, 18:06 PM
EU parliament approves start of automated border system
The European Parliament yesterday gave final approval to a phased rollout of a new border check system for non-EU nationals which will do away with passport stamps.
8 July 2025, 19:32 PM
Swiss Alps hits annual glacier tipping point weeks early
The snow and ice accumulated in the Swiss Alps over the winter has already melted away, a monitoring service said yesterday, marking the second earliest arrival of a tipping point known as “glacier loss day”.
4 July 2025, 19:17 PM
Roman bigfoot?
A stash of “unusually large” 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists searching for an explanation, they told AFP on Thursday.
4 July 2025, 18:47 PM
Canada turns to drones for reforestation
A large aerial drone flies over the charred remains of Canadian forests devastated by wildfires, bombarding the ground with seed capsules to accelerate reforestation.
2 July 2025, 18:29 PM
Europe bakes in summer’s first heatwave as continent warms
Southern Europeans braced Saturday for their first heatwave of the northern hemisphere summer, as climate change pushes thermometers on the world’s fastest-warming continent increasingly into the red.
28 June 2025, 18:35 PM
France bans smoking in beaches, in parks and bus shelters
France will ban smoking on beaches and in parks, public gardens and bus shelters from Sunday, the government said
28 June 2025, 07:22 AM
Russian strike kills 5, wounds 14 in Ukraine
A Russian strike yesterday killed five people and wounded more than a dozen in Ukraine’s industrial Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow has stepped up fatal bombardments.
27 June 2025, 21:33 PM