Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize yesterday for their work on how innovation and the forces of “creative destruction” can drive economic growth and lift living standards across the globe.

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was negotiating yesterday to form a government after losing a key political ally, with time running short before a fast-approaching budget deadline.

Pressure mounted yesterday on France’s newly reappointed premier Sebastien Lecornu to get an austerity budget approved, as more parties threatened to topple a man whose first term lasted a mere 27 days.

Both allies and the opposition had been hoping for a fresh face in government to help end months of paralysis over an austerity budget

Spain hit back at Donald Trump yesterday after the US President suggested expelling the country from Nato for failing to meet his ramped-up defence spending target.

The world just had its third-hottest September on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday, as global average temperatures remained stuck near historic highs for yet another month.

French President Emmanuel Macron was yesterday racing to find a new prime minister within a two-day deadline after the resignation of outgoing premier Sebastien Lecornu tipped the country deeper into political crisis.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen survived two confidence votes Thursday in the European Parliament -- touting “strong support” from the assembly despite the tensions laid bare by the challenge.

German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Wednesday, after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate.

France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his govern-ment resigned yesterday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country’s political crisis.

A rift within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is emerging as a flashpoint in efforts to end the war in Gaza, threatening to derail a US push to reshape the political landscape of the Middle East.

The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus harbours complex organic molecules, a study said yesterday, offering further evidence that the small world could have all the right ingredients to host extraterrestrial life.

Six people arrested on suspicion of “terrorism”-linked offences after a fatal car-ramming and knife attack on a UK synagogue remained in police custody yesterday, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged people not to take part in pro-Palestinian protests.

A Helsinki court on Friday dismissed a case against three members of a ship from Russia’s “shadow fleet” suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables, saying it was beyond its jurisdiction.

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed initiative seeking carbon neutral investments by banks, announced Friday its immediate shutdown -- at a time of faltering climate commitments in the United States and Europe.

The Church of England named Sarah Mullally yesterday as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to serve as ceremonial head of Anglican Christianity worldwide, prompting immediate criticism from conservative church leaders in Africa.

Germany's Munich airport halted flights after several drone sightings, a police spokesperson told AFP early Friday, the latest in a string of similar aviation disruptions across Europe

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday warned Europe that recent drone incursions showed Russia was looking to “escalate” its aggression, as he offered his country’s war-honed expertise to help counter the threat.

Prada’s €1.25bn takeover of Versace cleared

Europe is a world leader in the fight against climate change but must do more to improve its resilience against global warming, the European Union’s environment agency warned on Monday.