U.S. President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies to sharply raise defense spending as leaders gathered in Ankara, singling out Spain as a "terrible partner" for refusing to commit to a 5% GDP target by…
Count Binface has become the only challenger to Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election after all major parties declined to field candidates, turning the contest into a likely two-man race. Farage tri…
Norwegian prosecutors have requested a further four weeks of pre-trial detention for Marius Borg Høiby, citing a persistent risk of reoffending that they argue makes his release inadvisable. A court i…
Syrian authorities have arrested the cell responsible for twin bombings in Damascus that killed one person and wounded dozens earlier this week, Interior Minister Anas Khattab announced Wednesday. The…
France is grappling with an intense heatwave and widespread wildfires, prompting Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to convene an interministerial crisis cell on 10 July. Nine western departments are un…
An American biotechnology company is developing an implantable weight-loss device as an alternative to weekly injections of GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy. Researcher Adam Mendelsohn, based in…
Thousands of protesters gathered outside Budapest's Sándor Palace on Thursday in a rally organised by Fidesz against the removal of President Tamás Sulyok, the opposition party mobilising under the sl…
The European Parliament voted on July 7 to open negotiations on a legal framework for a digital euro, clearing a key legislative hurdle for the proposed central bank currency. Lawmakers in Strasbourg…
A powerful magnitude-5.5 earthquake initially reported on Thursday near the Czech-Slovak border was downgraded to a minor tremor after seismologists determined the alert was triggered by routine quarr…
Global equities fell sharply and oil prices surged on Wednesday after the United States launched airstrikes on more than 80 targets in Iran and President Donald Trump declared an end to a temporary ce…
Western Europe recorded its hottest June in history in 2026, with an average temperature of 20.74°C that exceeded the 1991–2020 baseline by more than 3°C and surpassed the previous regional record set…
The NATO leaders' summit in Ankara entered its second and final day on Wednesday with a North Atlantic Council session at the heads-of-state level, as the alliance works to shift conventional defence…
The Metropolitan Police has paid £25,000 in compensation to Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan following his arrest by armed officers at Heathrow Airport in September 2025. The force apologised and ac…
Polestar delivered 30,423 vehicles in the first half of 2026, a marginal 0.4% increase from a year earlier, as the Swedish-Chinese electric vehicle maker navigates an impending exclusion from the US m…
Russian attacks killed at least 265 civilians and wounded 1,816 others across Ukraine in June 2026, marking the deadliest month since the first months of the full-scale invasion, according to prelimin…
President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies on Tuesday to channel rising defence budgets into American weapons systems, casting a shadow over a summit in Ankara where economic commitments dominate the…
France advanced to the 2026 World Cup semi-finals after a 2-0 victory over Morocco in Thursday's quarter-final, securing a meeting with the winner of Spain vs. Belgium. Kylian Mbappé opened the scorin…
Muhammad and Olivia were the most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2025, with Muhammad leading the boys' list for the third consecutive year and Olivia holding the top girls' spot for a deca…
Germany's Standing Committee on Vaccination has dropped its recommendation for a baseline Covid-19 vaccination for healthy adults, saying broad immunity across the population and declining severe outc…
Andy Burnham has apologised for Labour's early response to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, conceding the party "was not good enough" and that the UK took too long to demand a ceasefire, in a video…
Volkswagen's supervisory board meets on July 9 to consider eliminating up to 100,000 positions worldwide and closing four German factories, a dramatic expansion of restructuring presented by CEO Olive…
A four-year-old girl died on Wednesday afternoon after being bitten multiple times by a dog in Drosa, a village in the municipality of Osternienburger Land in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt…
The UK government has opened a 12-week consultation on proposals to mandate plain packaging for vapes, restricting device colours to white, black, or grey, limiting flavour descriptions, and requiring…
Oil prices jumped more than 5% on Wednesday as mutual military strikes between the United States and Iran intensified and Washington moved to choke off Iranian crude exports. Brent futures climbed $3.…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented each leader attending the NATO summit in Ankara with a loaded revolver engraved with the recipient's name, accompanied by a box of ammunition and a let…
Porsche reported a sharp decline in global deliveries during the first half of 2026, with sales falling 16 percent to roughly 122,300 vehicles compared with the same period last year. The steepest los…
The European Union executive on Wednesday proposed a new sanctions framework aimed at migrant smugglers, human traffickers, and other organized-crime networks operating outside the bloc, marking a sig…
The Democratic Unionist Party has commissioned an independent safeguarding review into what was known within its ranks about the conduct of former leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who was convicted last mont…
The BMW iX3 and Zeekr 7GT have become the first vehicles to secure five-star safety ratings under Euro NCAP's comprehensively revised 2026 testing protocols, the organization announced on Wednesday. T…
Ukraine has installed 97 onshore wind turbines between 2023 and 2025, far outpacing Denmark's 22 over the same period, prompting questions to Danish Climate and Energy Minister Samira Nawa about the c…