AI not a reliable source of news, EU media study says
22 October 2025, 02:41 AM
Sarkozy begins 5-yr prison sentence
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
France's ex-leader Sarkozy jailed, proclaiming his innocence
21 October 2025, 17:44 PM
EU seeks ways to step up checks on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
20 October 2025, 18:21 PM
Amazon’s outage disrupts internet services
20 October 2025, 18:19 PM
Italian coastguard rescues dozens of migrants, 2 dead
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Louvre denies tapping Israeli firm in theft probe
20 October 2025, 15:44 PM
Louvre’s prized jewels stolen in daring heist
19 October 2025, 18:17 PM
Ex-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term
19 October 2025, 14:15 PM
Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck
19 October 2025, 02:45 AM
Climate change may have toppled Hittite Empire: study
Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BC, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilisation to the modern world’s climate crisis.
9 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Nord Stream Sabotage: Kremlin endorses report on US involvement
The Kremlin yesterday endorsed a blog post by the US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that alleges the United States was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, saying it should be taken seriously.
9 February 2023, 18:00 PM
One in 3 lacks access to drinking water: UN
One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability to learn, the United Nations said yesterday.
8 February 2023, 18:00 PM
UK faces biggest round of health service strikes
Nurses and ambulances staff yesterday stepped up their demands for better pay to combat the UK’s cost of living crisis with their biggest round of health service strikes.
6 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Tremors felt as far away as Greenland
Tremors from the powerful earthquake that rocked Turkey and neighbouring Syria yesterday were felt as far away as Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said.
6 February 2023, 18:00 PM
7 children, their mother dead in France fire
A mother and her seven children aged two to 14 died after a fire broke out while they slept in their house in northern France today, police and firefighters said.
6 February 2023, 07:31 AM
Western arms won’t hit Russia
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky agrees that weapons supplied by the West will not be used to attack Russian territory, Germany’s leader said in an interview yesterday.
5 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Woman, child drown; 41 rescued
A woman and child have drowned and 41 people were rescued after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey sank off the Greek island of Leros, Greece’s coastguard said yesterday.
5 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Italy recovers eight bodies from boat
Italy’s coastguard recovered the bodies of eight migrants in the Mediterranean, officials said yesterday, as a debate rages over Rome’s crackdown on rescue charities in the world’s deadliest crossing.
3 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Man detained after attack threat on French train: police
French security forces yesterday detained a 24-year-old man who threatened to blow himself up on a high-speed train and were evaluating his psychiatric health after finding no explosives on him, police said.
3 February 2023, 18:00 PM
France hit by new wave of strikes against pension reform
Striking workers disrupted French refinery deliveries, public transport and schools today, in a second day of nationwide protests over President Emmanuel Macron's plan to make people work longer before retirement.
31 January 2023, 13:21 PM
Russia claims incremental gains
Russian forces claimed incremental gains in eastern Ukraine yesterday adding up to their biggest advances in months, after relentless battles that Kyiv described as human wave attacks which showed Moscow had no regard for the lives of its own men.
30 January 2023, 18:00 PM
UK PM fires ally over tax scandal
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dismissed a senior ally whose murky tax dealings have focussed anger at the government as a cost-of-living crisis brings misery to millions.
29 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Ex-NATO general Petr Pavel wins Czech presidential vote
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel beat billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis in a presidential election run-off Saturday, interim results showed.
28 January 2023, 14:50 PM
Insomnia drove late Pope Benedict to resign: report
Recently deceased ex-pope Benedict described years of persistent sleeping troubles as the “main reason” behind his shock decision to step down in 2013, according to a German media report yesterday.
27 January 2023, 18:00 PM
EU wants to send more people back to ‘home’
European Union migration ministers were set to meet yesterday to discuss visa restrictions and better coordination inside the bloc to be able to send more people with no right to asylum in Europe back to their home countries.
26 January 2023, 18:00 PM
1 killed in Spain church attack, 'terror' motive probed
At least one person was killed and another was severely injured by a man wielding a bladed weapon in southern Spain on Wednesday, officials said.
26 January 2023, 03:19 AM
ChatGPT bot passes US law school exam
A chatbot powered by reams of data from the internet has passed exams at a US law school after writing essays on topics ranging from constitutional law to taxation and torts.
25 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage
US tech giant Microsoft yesterday said it was working to fix a networking problem that had left users across the world struggling to
25 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Chris Hipkins takes charge as NZ PM
Hundreds gathered to applaud Jacinda Ardern as she left New Zealand’s parliament to resign as prime minister yesterday, before
25 January 2023, 18:00 PM