Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson yesterday announced he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on until his successor was chosen.

Soaring global food and energy prices have forced 71 million people into poverty in the world’s poorest countries, according to a United Nations Development Program report published yesterday.

The European Parliament yesterday approved a contentious EU proposal giving a sustainable finance label to investments in gas and nuclear power, sparking claims of “greenwashing” by environmental lobbyists.

Cabinet ministers gathered in Boris Johnson’s official residence yesterday to tell him to quit as British leader after he insisted he would not stand down in the face of a mounting rebellion within his party.

Ukraine has so far thwarted an attempted Russian advance into the north of its Donetsk region, but the city of Sloviansk and other civilian areas there were being heavily shelled, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

World hunger levels rose again last year after soaring in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Ukraine war and climate change threatening starvation and mass migration on an “unprecedented scale” this year, according to UN agencies.

Police in five European countries yesterday launched a cross-border operation against people smuggling and made several arrests, German authorities said.

France repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State fighters yesterday, in the largest such operation by Paris after pressure from campaigners.

Eight of the people missing after the deadly collapse of part of a mountain glacier have been safely located, Italian media reported on Tuesday, bringing some relief for rescue teams searching for survivors.

Germany recorded its first monthly trade deficit since 1991 in May as a result of higher import prices, figures released Monday show.

The chief suspect in a Copenhagen mall shooting was remanded into a psychiatric care facility yesterday, one day after three people, including two teenagers, were shot dead.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday reshuffled his government looking to reset a second term off to a rocky start after his failure to win a parliamentary majority.

A shooting in a Copenhagen shopping mall which left three people dead and several wounded could not be viewed as an "act of terror" based on current evidence, Danish police said on Monday. A 22-year-old Danish male has been arrested and charged with manslaughter. He will face questioning in front of a judge later on Monday.

Parts of a mountain glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps on Sunday amid record temperatures, local authorities said, killing at least six people and injuring eight.

Turkish customs authorities have detained a Russian cargo ship carrying grain which Ukraine says is stolen, Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey said on Sunday.

Several people were killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen on Sunday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and could not rule out it was an "act of terrorism".

The world is still not using one of its most effective weapons against Covid -- properly ventilating public spaces -- more than two years into the pandemic, experts warn. 

World leaders must do more to protect the oceans, a major United Nations conference concluded on Friday, setting its sights on a new treaty to protect the high seas. 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday filed an appeal against his extradition to the United States, as supporters denounced the British government.

Scottish voters remain divided over independence with those against breaking away from the United Kingdom having “the narrowest of leads” over those in