Half of world’s soils are in poor condition: UN
AFP, Paris
28 August 2026 Europe
El Nino to be ‘biggest for over a century’
AFP, London
22 August 2026 Europe
Italian scientists bet on octopus to fight crab invasion
AFP, Cesenatico
21 August 2026 Europe
UK homes burnt, residents evacuated in fires
AFP, London
15 August 2026 Europe
Explosion rocks ammunition factory near Rome
AFP, Rome
15 August 2026 Europe
Western Europe logs hottest June–July on record
AFP, Paris
11 August 2026 Europe
Ukrainian drone hits Belgorod
AFP, Kyiv
10 August 2026 World
Kremlin critic Nadezhdin flees Russia for France
AFP, Moscow
4 August 2026 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