Arms imports into Europe almost doubled in 2022, driven by massive shipments to Ukraine, which has become the world's third-largest destination, researchers said Monday.

Demonstrators in France took to the streets yesterday for a seventh day of protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plans, with police expecting up to a million people at rallies nationwide.

More than 1,000 migrants were brought to safety at two Italian ports after the overcrowded boats they were on encountered problems in the Mediterranean, the coastguard said yesterday.The rescues came the same day as a body was discovered of the

A gunman in Germany shot dead seven people including an unborn child before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall in the city of Hamburg, police and prosecutors said yesterday.

A shooting at a Jehovah's Witness centre in the German city of Hamburg has left eight people dead, including the suspected gunman, police said Friday

Russia fired a huge wave of missiles across Ukraine on Thursday as people slept, killing at least six civilians and knocking out power in an attack Kyiv said included six Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles, one of Moscow's most valuable weapons

Denmark has inaugurated a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, becoming the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad.

British cyber security firm Darktrace yesterday warned that artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT may have increased the sophistication of phishing scams.

Sea ice in Antarctica shrank to the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decade-long decline, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said Tuesday.

Women have a harder time accessing work globally than previously thought, while the gender gap in working conditions and pay has barely budged in two decades, the United Nations said yesterday.

The United Nations announced yesterday that it had taken a significant step towards trying to fill a key gap in the fight against climate change: standardised, real-time tracking of greenhouse gases.

"As prime minister, I owe it to everyone, but especially to the victims' relatives, (to ask for) forgiveness"

The station master involved in Greece’s worst-ever train disaster had his court appearance postponed by a day yesterday as the country braced for more mass protests over the crash that killed at least 57 people.

Belarus handed a 10-year jail term to Nobel Prize winning activist Ales Bialiatski on Friday, drawing sweeping international condemnation.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez yesterday announced a gender equality law that will require more equal representation of women and men in politics, business and other spheres of public life.

The UN human rights chief denounced the “unfathomable” call by an Israeli minister for a flashpoint Palestinian town to be “wiped out”, urging an end to the violence.

UN member states were still working hard yesterday after a sleepless night spent trying to finalise a long-awaited agreement to protect the high seas, a fragile and vital treasure that covers nearly half the planet.

An eight-member Romanian consular mission is arriving in Dhaka today for a six-month stay during which they will issue around 17,000 visas to Bangladeshis seeking employment in the East European nation.

A court in Belarus on Friday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison for financing protests and other crimes, in a case that rights groups say was politically motivated.

Passengers have described scenes of horror and chaos from the crash, many dodging smashed glass and debris as the train keeled over, and breaking windows to climb out.