Two dead after plane crashes onto German house’s roof
27 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
UK PM vows to put ‘Britain’s interest first’ in Trump ties
27 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
Spain fights to ‘save lives’ as wildfires rage near Madrid
26 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
Rome to offer free movies for heat-relief
24 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
France records 5,700 excess deaths in June heatwave
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
Hitler’s birthplace begins new life as a police station
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
Netherlands to ban Israeli settler products from Sept 22
21 July 2026, 21:12 PM
Europe
Burnham becomes UK PM
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
Andy Burnham becomes UK Labour leader
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Europe
Wildfires ravage over 1,300 hectares of historic forest near Paris
14 July 2026, 08:39 AM
Europe
UK PM vows to put ‘Britain’s interest first’ in Trump ties
New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he may “take a different opinion” from US President Donald Trump and will “put Britain’s interest first” when dealing with the American leader.
27 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Two dead after plane crashes onto German house’s roof
Two men flying in a small private plane died Saturday when they crashed into the roof of a house in northwestern Germany, police said.
27 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Spain fights to ‘save lives’ as wildfires rage near Madrid
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez yesterday said firefighters were working to “save lives” in the wildfires raging west of Madrid, warning of a “complex” struggle ahead with high winds expected.
26 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Rome to offer free movies for heat-relief
Rome will offer free screenings in 11 air-conditioned cinemas as part of a heat-relief plan Mayor Roberto Gualtieri presented on Wednesday, while most of Europe was sweltering through a hot summer.
24 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Hitler’s birthplace begins new life as a police station
The building Adolf Hitler was born in near the Austrian border with Germany officially began a new life as a police station yesterday, a conversion Austria’s government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
France records 5,700 excess deaths in June heatwave
France recorded 5,764 more deaths than usual during a record-breaking heatwave last month, health authorities said yesterday, describing the excess mortality among people aged 15 and older as “unprecedented”.
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Netherlands to ban Israeli settler products from Sept 22
Will join Ireland, Belgium and Spain among EU countries that have imposed restrictions on trade with territories occupied by Israeli settlers
21 July 2026, 21:12 PM
Burnham becomes UK PM
Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade yesterday, pledging to break with the politics of the past to deliver a new economic model to benefit a nation “fed up” with a revolving door of leaders.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Andy Burnham becomes UK Labour leader
Andy Burnham, nickna-med the ‘King of the North’, was elected leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party yesterday, the final step before becoming its seventh prime minister in a decade on a pledge to thwart the rise of the populist Reform UK.
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Wildfires ravage over 1,300 hectares of historic forest near Paris
The fire erupted Sunday in the sprawling Fontainebleau forest, a former royal hunting estate that today is dotted with quiet villages, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) southeast of the capital
14 July 2026, 08:39 AM
Oldest quasars deepen space mystery
The Euclid space telescope has spotted the oldest quasars -- the brightest objects in the universe -- ever discovered, deepening a cosmic mystery that has been puzzling scientists.
7 July 2026, 00:00 AM
UK PM ‘deeply sorry’ for decades of forced adoptions
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday formally apologised for the forced adoption of an estimated 185,000 babies born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976, calling it “a stain on our history”.
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
World’s oceans break June heat record: EU monitor
The world’s oceans just experienced their hottest June on record and could set fresh highs in the months ahead as El Nino and climate change drive temperatures even higher, scientists said yesterday.
2 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Five killed in German youth welfare centre shooting, two detained
The motive for the incident in Stade, close to the port city of Hamburg, was not immediately clear, say police
29 June 2026, 19:46 PM
Civilian plane crash kills 11 in France
A civilian aircraft carrying skydivers crashed near the eastern French town of Tomblaine yesterday, killing all 11 people on board, local authorities said, in one of France’s deadliest light aircraft accidents.
29 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Deadly heatwave: France records around 1,000 excess deaths
French health officials said yesterday there had been around 1,000 more deaths than expected during a record-breaking heatwave that has baked much of western Europe for days.
29 June 2026, 00:00 AM
France records around 1,000 excess deaths in heatwave: health agency
The heat eased across France on Sunday after days of punishing temperatures that saw the mercury rising above 40C in many areas
28 June 2026, 13:19 PM
France shuts down nuclear reactors in heatwave precaution
France’s main energy provider yesterday shut down two nuclear reactors as an environmental protection measure to avoid discharging too much hot water into rivers already warming in a record-breaking heatwave.
26 June 2026, 00:00 AM
France heatwave's first major outage leaves 68,000 homes without power
Europe's record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in northwestern France on Wednesday, authorities said, in the country's first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather
24 June 2026, 12:19 PM
Starmer resigns as UK PM
UK leader Keir Starmer announced his resignation yesterday following months of pressure, kickstarting a process that will see Britain get its seventh prime minister in a decade.
23 June 2026, 00:00 AM