The European Union’s executive branch recommended Sunday that the bloc suspend around 7.5 billion euros (dollars) in funding to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money.

Alain Robert, the free climber dubbed the “French Spiderman”, scaled a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris on Saturday, fulfilling a goal he had set for himself once he reached the age of 60.

6:30 am (0530 GMT): The lying-in-state ceremony formally ends at Westminster Hall and the doors close to the public, ready for the transfer of her coffin to nearby Westminster Abbey.

Britain’s new Queen Consort Camilla paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II yesterday for carving her own role as a “solitary woman” in a world dominated by men.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Turkey would pay for a quarter of its Russian natural gas imports in rubles under a new set of deals designed to boost trade.

One of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant’s four main power lines has been repaired and is once again supplying the plant with electricity from the Ukrainian grid two weeks after it went down, the UN nuclear watchdog said yesteraday.

Princes William and Harry stood vigil at either end of the coffin of their grandmother Queen Elizabeth yesterday, heads bowed as a line of mourners streamed past the late monarch’s lying-in-state. 

A young Iranian woman who fell into a coma after being arrested in Tehran by the notorious morality police died on Friday, state media and her family said, with activists urging those responsible for her “suspicious” death be brought to justice.

When she was a child growing up in Nigeria, Timie Ogunmola’s father used to show her black-and-white pictures of his trip to London in 1953 to attend Queen Elizabeth’s coronation as an official in what was then his country’s colonial administration.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping yesterday called for a shake-up of the world order as they met with Asian leaders for a summit challenging Western influence.

The European Commission unveiled a raft of new rules yesterday to ensure media independence after growing fears of state meddling in eastern EU countries such as Hungary and Poland.

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a series of proposals to curb the energy price spike that has rocked Europe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while stressing that the EU's solidarity with Kyiv would be "unshakeable."

Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave cinema, died “peacefully at home” yesterday aged 91, his family said.

Queen Elizabeth’s coffin will be flown to London yesterday at the end of 24 hours of lying at rest in Edinburgh’s historic cathedral, where her son King Charles and his three siblings held a silent vigil.

Russia yesterday said it was carrying out “massive strikes” across the Ukrainian front line as Kyiv said it aimed to liberate all of its territory after driving back Russian forces in the northeast of country in a rapid offensive.

Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said yesterday, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years.

Sweden yesterday began a days-long wait for the final results of its too-close-to-call general election, with an unprecedented right-wing and far-right bloc in position to wrest power from Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats.

The fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria has saved 50 million lives over the past 20 years, the Global Fund said yesterday, appealing for $18 billion to save millions more.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said yesterday that Iran has failed to agree to proposals from European countries on reviving a deal on restricting its nuclear programme, warning this would put any accord out of reach “in the near future”.

King Charles called Britain’s parliament the “living and breathing instrument of our democracy” and pledged to follow his late mother Queen Elizabeth’s example in maintaining its independence in an address to both chambers yesterday.