Liz Truss, the favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister, yesterday criticised rival Rishi Sunak over his tax policies while finance minister as the pair kicked off six weeks of campaigning.

Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance, the operator said.

Italian Premier Mario Draghi resigned Thursday after key coalition allies boycotted a confidence vote, signaling the likelihood of an early election and a renewed period of uncertainty for Italy and Europe at a critical time.

The French government yesterday urged citizens to make the effort to save energy in the face of record high oil and gas prices, including by cutting wifi routers when heading off on holiday.

The French government yesterday urged citizens to make the effort to save energy in the face of record high oil and gas prices, including by cutting wifi routers when heading off on holiday.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has endorsed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine saying if Moscow didn’t start the war, the West would have.

Emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain's hottest day that the fight against climate change needed to be stepped up.

The French government urged citizens on Wednesday to make the effort to save energy in the face of record high oil and gas prices, including by cutting wifi routers when heading off on holiday.

To one last round of cheers from his recently mutinous MPs, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson bowed out of his final set piece event in parliament Wednesday, signing off by saying: "Hasta la vista, baby!"

The European Union told members states on Wednesday to cut gas usage by 15% until March as part of an emergency plan after President Vladimir Putin warned that Russian supplies sent via the biggest pipeline to Europe could be reduced further.

Giuseppe Paterno, who is 98, has become Italy's oldest graduate - again.

The European Union will amend its sanctions on Moscow on Wednesday by allowing the unfreezing of some funds of top Russian banks that may be required to ease bottlenecks in the global trade of food and fertilisers, a draft document showed.

Alphabet’s GOOGL.O Google was fined 21.1 billion roubles ($373 million) by a Russian court for a repeated failure to remove content that

Researchers at the European Commission warned yesterday that nearly half of the EU’s territory is currently at risk of drought, as southwest Europe wilted under a punishing heatwave.

The Ukraine war shows that the West’s dominance is coming to an end as China rises to superpower status in partnership with Russia at one of the most significant inflection points in centuries, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.

Orphaned elephants manage to overcome the loss of their mother by living in a herd, highlighting the importance of a social life for the species, according to a study.

A cargo plane with eight people on board crashed near the city of Kavala in northern Greece late on Saturday, the fire brigade and state TV said.

The five remaining Conservative candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister clashed Friday night over tax and honesty in politics in their first TV debate, as they fight to make an eventual two-person run-off.

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe.

Britain’s foreign office yesterday summoned Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin to express “deep concern” over reports of the death of a British aid worker. “I am