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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A 66-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Patricia Lashley, who vanished from her home in the West Midlands nearly three decades ago, authorities said Thursday. Trevor Dunkley was remanded…
Cerebras Systems unveiled plans to build a network of artificial intelligence data centres across Europe, targeting 200 megawatts of combined power capacity by the end of 2027. The announcement, made…
Major UK political parties, including Labour, the Conservatives, and the Green Party, have confirmed they will not field candidates in the Clacton byelection, clearing the path for Nigel Farage's retu…
Tadej Pogacar launched a devastating solo attack in the Pyrenees on Wednesday to win the sixth stage of the Tour de France by two minutes and 38 seconds over rival Jonas Vingegaard, seizing control of…
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose powerful, husky voice defined the 1980s power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died at the age of 75. She passed away on 8 July 2026 in a hospital in Portu…
The European Union is weighing a diluted proposal to bar Russian military personnel from entering the bloc after France and Italy pushed back against a broader initial plan from the European Commissio…
The European Parliament has voted to hold an emergency ballot on Thursday over whether to revive a lapsed regulation allowing platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp to voluntarily scan private messa…
Patrick O'Donovan, Ireland's minister for arts, media and sport, has been hospitalised in Brussels after becoming unwell on Tuesday night while attending events tied to Ireland's presidency of the Cou…
AstraZeneca shares fell as much as 11% in London trading on Wednesday, erasing roughly $27 billion in market value, after the company announced that its experimental heart drug Wainua failed a pivotal…
A replica mosque has been erected atop a loyalist bonfire in Moygashel, County Tyrone, alongside banners reading "Secure our borders" and "End the threat of radical Islam," drawing sharp condemnation…
Remco Evenepoel has publicly expressed frustration with Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe teammate Florian Lipowitz following the sixth stage of the Tour de France, accusing the German rider of refusing to prov…
A Dublin man has been sentenced to 14 years in a high-security Hungarian prison without parole for the murder of American tourist Mackenzie Michalski, a 31-year-old nurse from Portland, Oregon. The Bu…
Oslo emergency services called off a search operation at Sørenga on Wednesday evening after finding no trace of a possible diving accident victim, police said. Authorities deployed extensive resources…
Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow high temperature warning for 12 counties as Ireland braces for its most significant heat spell of the year. The warning applies from July 10 at 13:00 to July 12…
The European Union plans to postpone the launch of its ETIAS travel authorisation scheme until 2027, following a turbulent rollout of the bloc's biometric border system. The Entry/Exit System, which b…
Sizewell B, the UK's last operating pressurised water reactor, will continue generating electricity until 2055 after EDF and the British government agreed to a 20-year life extension for the Suffolk p…