Germany’s Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht has decided to step down from her post, several major national media reported on Friday, after she came under fire over a series of gaffes.

Polling stations yesterday reopened for day two of Czech presidential polls with a billionaire, a general and an academic leading in the first of a likely two-round vote seen as too close to call.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday joined a large-scale protest in Germany yesterday to stop the demolition of a village to make way for an open-cast coal mine extension.

Prince Harry left out revelations about his family in his memoir, saying he did not want “the world to know because I don’t think they would ever forgive me,” according to an interview published by the Daily Telegraph on Friday.

European countries will eventually resume higher imports of Russian gas, Qatar's energy minister and gas company CEO predicted on Saturday, warning that market volatility could last for years.

The sarcophagus of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II is to return to Paris in April for the first time in almost 50 years, on a rare loan of the relic outside Egypt.

The sarcophagus of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II is to return to Paris in April for the first time in almost 50 years, in a rare loan of the relic outside Egypt.

Prince Harry’s autobiography “Spare” sold 1.4 million English-language copies on its first day in the UK, United States and Canada, smashing Penguin Random House’s sales record, the publisher said yesterday.

Human Rights Watch yesterday hailed the international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts.

The world’s oceans, which have absorbed most of the excess heat caused by humanity’s carbon pollution, continued to see record-breaking temperatures last year, according to research published yesterday.

The cost-of-living crisis will be the biggest global risk over the next two years, a survey by the World Economic Forum warned yesterday ahead of its Davos meeting next week.

Canada has issued a travel ban on former Sri Lankan presidents -- and brothers -- Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa for human

Several people were lightly wounded today by a man wielding a knife at the busy Gare du Nord station in Paris, French police sources said.

The ozone layer that shields life on Earth from deadly solar radiation is on track to recover within decades, but controversial geoengineering schemes to blunt global warming could reverse that progress, a major scientific assessment warned Monday.

Iran is weaponising the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent, and its execution of protesters without due process amounts to state-sanctioned killing, the UN said yesterday.

The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said yesterday.

A regional migration and drug smuggling crisis was expected to dominate talks between US President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday.

Prince Harry said he decided to publish his memoirs to defend himself against years of tabloid spin, as British television aired his first interview on the book’s explosive revelations.

The Kremlin yesterday said moves by France and other Western countries to supply Ukraine with weapons -- including light tanks -- would only make life more difficult for Ukrainians.

Prince Harry was scheduled to discuss his memoirs in television interviews yesterday after the book’s explosive revelations about royal rifts, sex and drugs cast doubt on his future in the British royal family.