Beyond the entrance of Rome’s newest metro station under the Colosseum, there are display cases filled with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during a decade-long construction project.

The European Union has announced that it will deploy an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) to monitor Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections scheduled for February 12, 2026.

Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process into ‘pastries’ with high nutritional content.

Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday.

Migrants resumed attempts to cross the English Channel to reach Britain on Saturday, four weeks after the last small boat arrived.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned as “unacceptable” the “extrajudicial operations” carried out by the United States on alleged drug-trafficking boats off Venezuela, in an interview published yesterday.

Germany yesterday accused Russia of cyberattacks targeting its air traffic control and February’s general election, and said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest.

The United Nations on Friday urged Ethiopia and Eritrea to respect each other’s territorial integrity, voicing concern over “renewed tensions” between the two neighbouring countries.

Outgoing govt previously formed in Jan 2025

The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia’s own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than “speaking tools”, some received better food than ordinary people, Italy’s culture ministry said on Friday, citing evidence from recent excavations.

A small French town is to offer expectant mothers 1,000 euros from next year to give birth at the local maternity ward in a bid to save it from closing.

A brief conversation with a partisan AI chatbot can influence voters’ political views, studies published Thursday found, with evidence-backed arguments -- true or not -- proving particularly persuasive.

Raft of agreements and deals to be announced

Will discuss defence, oil, and nuclear energy

India, Russia aim for $100 billion in trade by 2030

Two leaders will hold summit talks on Friday

A high-profile case against two British men accused of spying for China collapsed because of “systemic failures” and not a government conspiracy, a UK parliamentary inquiry concluded yesterday.

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

Chocolate artworks by some of France’s most famous pastry chefs sold at auction Monday for more than 100,000 euros in a charity event that had bidders smacking their lips.