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South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting age took effect, replacing the country’s traditional ...

Wildfires burning through large swathes of eastern and western Canada have released a record 160 million tonnes of carbon, the EU’s Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service said on Tuesday. This year’...

A French police officer is being investigated for homicide after shooting dead a 17-year-old on Tuesday morning in the Paris suburb of Nanterre after the youth failed to comply with ...

General Sergey Surovikin, the deputy commander of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, had advance knowledge that the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning a rebellion against Moscow’s defence ...

The death toll has risen to eight from Russia’s attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s emergency services said on Wednesday, adding that 56 people were injured. ...

Online’s share of Britain’s grocery market slowed further in June as hot weather encouraged shoppers to visit stores for drinks and refreshments, industry data showed on Tuesday. Market ...

What would Satoshi make of it all? Bitcoin, the currency created to subvert the financial establishment, has shaken off weeks of sickness with the support of Wall Street’s finest. ...

Gay and bisexual men should get vaccinated against mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – as summer festivals risk a new rise in infections across Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned ...

By Kate Abnett A European Union Parliament committee on Tuesday rejected the bloc’s landmark law to protect nature, which the parliament’s biggest lawmaker group is leading a campaign ...

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has apologised “unreservedly” to those who faced discrimination in the game after the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) released a report ...

Turkey’s lira was mostly flat on Tuesday, after touching a new record low overnight, while bankers said the central bank’s net reserves had marked their largest rise on ...

VIPs can quaff champagne to their hearts’ delight while watching the Paris Olympics but the average fan will have to make do with soft drinks and water after organisers decided ...

British supermarket executives rejected allegations they were profiteering through a cost of living crisis on Tuesday, telling lawmakers they were not passing on price pressures in full to prevent customers ...

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in Belarus on Tuesday under a deal that ended a brief mutiny against the Russian military by his fighters, state news agency BELTA said, ...

has reached a deal that will give US electric vehicle (EV) maker Lucid Group (LCID.O) a 3.7 per cent stake in return for access to its “high performance” technology, the ...

Australian Open chief Craig Tiley believes any Saudi investment in tennis is unlikely to have the same impact as the country’s disruptive entry into golf because talks are focused ...

Starbucks plans to issue “clearer” centralized guidelines for in-store visual displays following a union’s allegations that managers banned Pride-themed decor, the coffee chain said in an internal memo to ...

IBM (IBM.N) said on Monday it will acquire technology spend-management platform Apptio from Vista Equity Partners for $4.6 billion in cash, in the latest deal to bolster its capabilities in ...

Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the ...

Sweden’s path to NATO membership remains blocked by Turkey and Hungary ahead of a July summit in Vilnius where it hopes to join Nordic neighbour Finland as a full ...

A senior Russian lawmaker who has been involved in a number of negotiations related to Moscow’s campaign in Ukraine called late on Monday for a professional army seven-million strong ...

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has told clients it can no longer guarantee full access to Russian stocks that belong to them, underlining the challenges global investors face to recover stranded ...

Companies will face more pressure to disclose how climate change affects their business under a new set of G20-backed global rules aimed at helping regulators crack down on greenwashing. ...

BlackRock’s plans for a bitcoin fund have helped push the world’s largest cryptocurrency to its highest in a year, but rising interest rates and a regulatory crackdown could ...