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A crew of four aboard a SpaceX capsule embarked on the world’s first private spacewalk on Thursday, as an astronaut eased out of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a ...

An inexorable decline in the number of working age Europeans will put a huge strain on welfare systems and public finances in coming decades, according to a report that will ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised on Thursday to deliver a 10-year plan to fix the National Health Service, saying there would be no more money without reform to a ...

All three candidates running to become the next secretary-general of the Commonwealth, a 56-nation club headed by Britain’s King Charles, said on Wednesday they supported reparations for transatlantic slavery ...

Russia should clearly state its willingness to use nuclear weapons against countries that “support NATO aggression in Ukraine”, according to an influential foreign policy hawk who is pressing President Vladimir ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that increased migration flows cannot be addressed by unilaterally scrapping the Schengen zone. Germany this week announced plans to impose tighter checks ...

Three Southern California wildfires torched dozens of mountain homes, tore through a ski resort and forced thousands to evacuate in towns and cities east of Los Angeles on Wednesday. Around 40 ...

The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said six staffers were killed after two airstrikes hit a school in central Gaza on Wednesday, marking what it said was the highest ...

Several Hanoi districts remained flooded on Thursday with the weather agency forecasting little change in water levels of the Red River over the next 24 hours, as floods and landslides continued ...

The U.S. and British foreign ministers met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on a visit interrupted by air raid warnings, unveiling new support but no breakthrough on the long-range strikes into ...

Britain’s economy stagnated for a second month running in July as manufacturing output dropped sharply, an inauspicious start for the new government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer who wants ...

The Bank of England will keep its main interest rate at 5.00 per cent next week but reduce it in November even though inflation is expected to stay above the central ...

A lack of accountability for the killing of United Nations staff and humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip is “totally unacceptable,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters in ...

European Union lawmakers are backing calls for new rules around the use of “dynamic pricing” when selling online goods, after Oasis fans complained about massively inflated ticket prices for a ...

Germany’s foreign ministry mocked U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s false assertion about immigrants eating pets in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday while ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday a “victory plan” he wants to present to U.S. President Joe Biden this month would strengthen Kyiv and have a “psychological” ...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris stood alongside former President Donald Trump and his 2024 running mate, JD Vance, on Wednesday to observe the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not like the way Vladimir Putin’s name was bandied around in the U.S. presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, ...

Russia will consider the United States and its allies to be parties to the Ukraine war and Moscow will use more powerful weapons if the West allows Ukraine to use ...

By Emily Eaton, University of Regina and Jennie C. Stephens, National University of Ireland Maynooth As the climate crisis gets worse, global fossil fuel production is growing and oil and ...

Anti-war protesters and police clashed outside a defence exhibition in Australia’s second-largest city of Melbourne on Wednesday, with dozens arrested as police used sponge grenades, flash-bang devices and irritant ...

UK grocery inflation edged lower in the four weeks to Sept. 1, data from market researcher Kantar showed this week, after rising for the first time in 18 months in last month’...

While tens of millions of Americans tuned in to watch the debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris on their television screens on Tuesday, a secondary battle ...

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris put Republican Donald Trump on the defensive at a combative presidential debate on Tuesday with a stream of attacks on abortion limits, his fitness for ...