Half of world’s soils are in poor condition: UN
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El Nino to be ‘biggest for over a century’
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Italian scientists bet on octopus to fight crab invasion
21 August 2026
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UK PM urges ‘reflection’ after death of Cambridge professor
16 August 2026
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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 Heatwave: More than 135m in Europe face 35°C plus
13 August 2026
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Western Europe logs hottest June–July on record
11 August 2026
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Ukrainian drone hits Belgorod
10 August 2026
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Kremlin critic Nadezhdin flees Russia for France
4 August 2026
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Europe
Teenager charged over London train attack
British police yesterday said they had charged an 18-year-old man with attempted murder following last week's bombing of a London
22 September 2017
May proposes two-year Brexit transition deal
Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday outlined plans for a transition period of around two years after Brexit during which Britain would
22 September 2017
21 killed as boat sinks off Turkey
Twenty-one people drowned and up to 15 more were missing yesterday after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey's Black Sea
22 September 2017
Spain using goats to prevent forest fires
Spain has taken a very unusual step this time to prevent its forests from catching fire. Much of Europe was scorched this summer, with numerous forest fires breaking out and in Spain goats and sheep are helping to fight the blazes - one nibble at a time, Business Insider UK.
22 September 2017
Spanish crackdown dealt a blow: VP
Catalonia's vice-president yesterday admitted that plans to hold an outlawed independence referendum had been dealt a major blow by a
21 September 2017
Merkel's party dips in poll before vote
Angela Merkel's conservatives dropped one percentage point in a poll released yesterday, three days before a German election in which
21 September 2017
Erdogan to meet Putin on Syria peace plan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he will meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin next week to discuss a plan agreed
21 September 2017
Sixth arrest over London Underground attack
A sixth man was arrested in Britain early yesterday as part of the probe into the bomb attack on a London Underground train last week,
21 September 2017
3 more arrested over London train attack
British police arrested three men in south Wales over last week's bombing of a busy commuter train in west London,
20 September 2017
Protests as cops detain Catalan govt officials
Spanish police detained 13 Catalan government officials yesterday as they crack down on preparations for an
20 September 2017
Turkey threatens tough sanctions
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to impose sanctions against Kurdish northern Iraq over a planned
20 September 2017
Eiffel Tower starts work on anti-terror upgrade
Works have started Monday to boost security at the Eiffel Tower as an anti-terrorism measure, city hall said, with bulletproof glass walls set to go up around the world's most visited monument.
20 September 2017
Twitter says its controls are weeding out users advocating violence
Twitter says its internal controls have been allowing it to weed out accounts being used for the "promotion of terrorism" earlier rather than responding to government requests to close them down.
20 September 2017
'The man who saved the world' dies in Russia
Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died
19 September 2017
British cyclist sets new world record
A British cyclist set a new world record Monday by travelling around the globe in 79 days -- beating the fictional exploits of Phileas Fogg
19 September 2017
Rohingya refugee crisis: Britain suspends Myanmar military training
Britain suspended its training programme for military in Myanmar due to the violence in Rakhine state, a British government spokesman says.
19 September 2017
Top official leaves Brexit ministry
The top official at Britain's Brexit ministry quit yesterday to start working directly for Prime Minister Theresa May, in what opposition
18 September 2017
Threat level lowered after second arrest
Britain downgraded its terrorism threat level to severe from critical yesterday, after police made a second arrest in
17 September 2017
No softening of stance
The White House pushed back Saturday at a European suggestion it was softening its stance on the Paris climate accord, insisting Washington will withdraw from the agreement unless it can re-enter on more favorable terms.
17 September 2017
Water: Garments’ invisible price
Bangladesh boasts as the world’s number two garment exporter. Every third European has a t-shirt made in Bangladesh on his back. Every fifth American wears jeans manufactured in Bangladesh.
But this is not a story of how many million pieces we export. This is a story of the invisible price we pay every time a jeans rolls out of a factory in Bangladesh. The western buyers little know how much water, that precious resource, was used to wash and dye his shirt.
The figures are mind boggling.
17 September 2017