El Nino to be ‘biggest for over a century’
22 August 2026
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Europe
Italian scientists bet on octopus to fight crab invasion
21 August 2026
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Europe
UK PM urges ‘reflection’ after death of Cambridge professor
16 August 2026
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Europe
UK homes burnt, residents evacuated in fires
15 August 2026
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Europe
Explosion rocks ammunition factory near Rome
15 August 2026
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Europe
Europe Heatwave: More than 135m in Europe face 35°C plus
13 August 2026
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Europe
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
Europe’s GPS rival Galileo suffers outage
Europe’s Galileosatellite position system, a future rival of the American GPS network, has been out of service since Friday, its oversight
15 July 2019
WHO warns of too sugary baby foods
Commercial baby foods often contain too much sugar and display confusing ingredient lists, according to a UN report that proposed new
15 July 2019
Australian children take 900km drive in stolen car
Four children took a stolen four-wheel drive on a 1,000-kilometre (620-mile) road trip across the Australian outback before being
15 July 2019
Spain rescues 141 migrants at sea
A total of 141 migrants from the sub-Sahara region were rescued at sea Saturday between Spain and Morocco, from a variety of
14 July 2019
France announces creation of a space force command
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday announced the creation of a new national military space force command that would
14 July 2019
Iran tanker will be freed if it doesn’t head to Syria
British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt sought to ease tensions with Iran on Saturday, saying a tanker held by Gibraltar would be released
14 July 2019
Power back in Manhattan after huge power outage
A power outage that gripped New York’s Manhattan ended on Saturday after it plunged Broadway theaters into darkness, brought subways to a halt
14 July 2019
Turkey ignores US warnings over Russian S-400 missiles
Turkey ignored US warnings as it continued yesterday to take delivery of Russia’s S-400 missile defence system near Ankara, a defence
13 July 2019
New Zealanders give up weapons
Dozens of New Zealanders handed in their firearms yesterday as a gun buyback scheme went into operation aimed at ridding the country
13 July 2019
Police warning to media stirs anger, condemnation
Senior British politicians, including both contenders to be the next prime minister, joined journalists yesterday in criticising police for
13 July 2019
Gibraltar police release all crew members of detained Iranian tanker
Gibraltar police have said that all four crew members of the Iranian Grace 1 tanker have been released on bail without charge after it was detained last week on suspicion of breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria.
13 July 2019
Merkel okay after third trembling spell
German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted she was “very well”, despite suffering her third trembling spell in less than a month yesterday. Merkel began shaking involuntarily as national anthems were being played at the reception of Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne. But she
10 July 2019
Bangladeshi-origin workers paid least
Workers of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage have the lowest median hourly pay of any ethnic group, in the latter case earning 20.1% less than white British workers, the first official statistics on the subject show.
10 July 2019
Paris says its missiles found on pro-Haftar rebel base in Libya
The French government yesterday said that its missiles had been found in Libya on a base used by rebel forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, in
10 July 2019
Turkey orders arrests of 200 troops over coup
Turkish police began nationwide raids yesterday aimed at detaining over 200 military personnel suspected of ties to the group blamed
9 July 2019
New UK PM must hold 2nd Brexit referendum
Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday said Britain’s next prime minister must put their Brexit plan to a second
9 July 2019
Maduro ‘optimistic’ after Venezuela crisis talks
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said Monday he was “optimistic” after dialogue between his government and the opposition
9 July 2019
Greece will be proud again
Greece’s new conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in yesterday after a sweeping election victory put him in
8 July 2019
Maximum sentences sought for bosses
French prosecutors on Friday urged a Paris court to find the former bosses of France Telecom guilty of “moral harassment” and hand
6 July 2019
China, UK in war of words
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that he had not backed violent protests in Hong Kong, after Chinese state media blamed “Western ideologues” for fomenting unrest in the former British colony.
4 July 2019