Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is 22 percentage points ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country’s next prime minister, a poll of Conservative Party members by Opinium Research showed on Saturday.

Scotland will today become the first country in the world to ensure universal access to free period products following the passing of landmark legislation in 2020.

More than 40 people were killed in a blaze that broke out during a Sunday mass in a Coptic Christian church in a suburb of Egypt’s capital Cairo, church officials said.

Three people died and several others were injured in Austria yesterday after a crammed van smuggling them tried to escape a police control and overturned, the state news agency said.

The number of migrants arriving in the European Union rose by 86 percent between January and July compared to the same period last year, the European border agency Frontex said Friday.

At least 11 people were killed during a mass shooting in Montenegro's central city of Cetinje on Friday, the country's public broadcaster said.

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet over the last 40 years, according to research published Thursday that suggests climate models are underestimating the rate of polar heating.

An Italian man had to be rescued after becoming trapped in a collapsed tunnel near the Vatican, suspected of being part of a gang burrowing its way to a nearby bank, police said yesterday.

A UN watchdog is due to begin questioning US officials about the country’s record in battling racial discrimination, amid mounting calls for reparations after

Germany's economy will lose more than 260 billion euros ($265 billion) in added value by 2030 due to the Ukraine war and high energy prices, spelling negative effects for the labour market, according to a study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).

Tunisian coastguards “rescued” more than 250 migrants who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the North African country’s National Guard said on Sunday.

Ukraine yesterday accused Russia of again shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia, and called for new international sanctions on Moscow for “nuclear terror”.

Twelve Polish pilgrims died and 30 others were injured yesterday when a bus  veered off a highway and crashed into a ditch in northern Croatia, authorities said.

World food prices fell sharply in July, partly thanks to a deal between Ukraine and Russia lifting a sea blockade that had stopped Ukrainian grain shipments, a UN agency said yesterday.

Negotiators kicked off a fresh round of talks over Iran’s nuclear programme in Vienna yesterday, seeking to salvage the agreement on Tehran’s atomic

The Kremlin yesterday called for restraint from both sides after Azerbaijan said its forces had crushed an Armenian attack near the disputed enclave of

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through time and huge amounts of dust to capture a new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing the spinning ring of colour in unprecedented clarity, Nasa and the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

The UK parliament yesterday closed its TikTok account after MPs expressed concern over the social media app’s ownership by Chinese parent firm ByteDance.

Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights.

British Conservative Liz Truss’s leadership campaign faced its first serious peril yesterday as she was forced into a policy U-turn and came under fierce fire in Scotland, against the backdrop of a shrinking poll lead.