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
Vietnam president Phuc resigns
Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned, state media said yesterday, after days of rumours he was about to be sacked as part of a major anti-corruption drive that has seen several ministers fired.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM
2022 brought 50pc surge in killings of journos: UN
Killings of journalists and media workers surged 50 percent in 2022 to reach 86 worldwide, marking one death every four days, UN cultural body Unesco said yesterday.
16 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Italy catches fugitive Mafia boss Denaro
Italian anti-mafia police caught Sicilian godfather Matteo Messina Denaro yesterday, ending a 30-year manhunt for Italy’s most wanted fugitive.
16 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Western firms help junta make weapons
Companies in the US, Europe and Asia have been helping Myanmar’s military manufacture weapons used in human rights abuses, according to former UN experts.
16 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Italy arrests most wanted mafia boss Messina Denaro
Italy's most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday, where the man who has been on the run since 1993 was being treated for cancer.
16 January 2023, 13:32 PM
WHO seeks more data from China
The World Health Organization on Saturday called on China to provide more data on its Covid situation, after Beijing reported almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths there in just over a month.
15 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Swiss firm claims success in removing CO2 from air
A Swiss company says it has certifiably extracted CO2 from the air and permanently stored it in the ground -- for the first time on behalf of paying customers, including Microsoft.
14 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Germany defence minister to resign: media reports
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.
14 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Three frontrunners as Czechs vote for new president
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.
14 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Thunberg joins rally to save German village
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.
14 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Left most damaging claims out of memoir
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.
14 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Europe will return to Russian gas: Qatar energy boss
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.
14 January 2023, 12:45 PM
Pharaoh Ramses II’s sarcophagus to return to Paris on loan
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.
13 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Pharaoh Ramses II's sarcophagus in Paris for rare loan
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.
13 January 2023, 13:06 PM
Harry’s ‘Spare’ sells record 1.4m copies on day 1
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.
12 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Cost-of-living crisis biggest global risk
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.
11 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Oceans were hottest in 2022
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.
11 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Several wounded in knife attack at Paris train station
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.
11 January 2023, 07:29 AM
Ozone layer slowly healing: UN
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.
10 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Iran executions amount to ‘state sanctioned killing’
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.
10 January 2023, 18:00 PM