Half of world’s soils are in poor condition: UN
28 August 2026
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Europe
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
'Nazi remnants, fascists'
The Netherlands barred Turkey's foreign minister from landing in Rotterdam yesterday in a row over Ankara's political campaigning
11 March 2017
F1: Alonso hints at McLaren exit after nightmare test
Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso ruled out retiring until he is handed a competitive car as his beleaguered McLaren-Honda suffered more reliability problems to end pre-season testing.
11 March 2017
Mona Lisa's smile decoded: Science says she's happy
The subject of centuries of scrutiny and debate, Mona Lisa's famous smile is routinely described as ambiguous. But is it really that hard to read?
11 March 2017
Axe attacker wounds 9 in German station
German police said yesterday an axe-wielding attacker who wounded nine people in a bloody rampage at a railway station overnight was
10 March 2017
Scottish vote likely in 'autumn 2018'
Scotland could hold an independence referendum in the autumn of 2018, just months before Britain is due to leave the European
9 March 2017
WiKiLeaks to share CIA secret files
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for keeping hacking secrets in one place
9 March 2017
8,000 evacuated in German city over WWII bomb
Some 8,000 people were evacuated yesterday from homes, shops and offices in the western German city of Duesseldorf after an
9 March 2017
Stop Nazi references
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey to stop using Nazi references in an escalating row between the Nato allies over the
9 March 2017
UK PM receives Lords blow for a second time
Prime Minister Theresa May suffered her second defeat in a week over Brexit Tuesday when the House of Lords voted
8 March 2017
Flyboard, fly like a bird!
Who have not dreamt, at least once, of flying like a bird up into the deep blue sky?
With the invention of a “flyboard”, mankind is almost on the verge of their dream fulfillment.
7 March 2017
Le Pen could win in France
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen could win the forthcoming presidential election in France, President Francois Hollande warned
6 March 2017
EU approves new military HQ
The European Union yesterday approved plans for a military headquarters to coordinate overseas security operations, foreign affairs head
6 March 2017
13 terror attack plots foiled in UK since 2013
Security services have foiled 13 potential terror attacks in Britain since 2013, its most senior counter-terrorism policeman said yesterday.
6 March 2017
Blair to be Trump's Middle East advisor?
A spokesman for Tony Blair refused to be drawn on a report that the former British prime minister wants to become US
5 March 2017
Man who cycled from India to Europe for love
News bestseller tells how a poor artist of India married a Swedish tourist, then rode four months on the hippie trail to join her.
5 March 2017
Hundreds of migrants rescued in Med ops
Rescuers plucked around 900 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday while hundreds more were brought
4 March 2017
More than 100m at risk of starvation globally: UN
The number of people facing severe hunger worldwide has surpassed 100 million and will grow if humanitarian aid
4 March 2017
How many nuclear weapons are in the world?
Nine countries in the world possess a total of 14,900 nuclear weapons and 93 percent of them are in the US and Russia, according to data from the Federation of American Scientists.
4 March 2017
Russia, Nato hold first talks over past years
Senior Russian and Nato military chiefs yesterday held their first phone talks since ties between the two sides collapsed over the crisis in
3 March 2017
Artificial 'embryos' created in the lab
Scientists in Britain have for the first time created a structure that resembles a mouse embryo using a 3D scaffold and two types of stem
3 March 2017