Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard.

US President Donald Trump threatened fresh sanctions Thursday while slamming Russia’s military actions in Ukraine as “disgusting,” as strikes on Kyiv killed at least 16 people.

British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said on Monday.

The United States struck a framework trade deal with the European Union yesterday, imposing a 15 percent US import tariff on most EU goods, while averting a spiralling battle between two allies that account for almost a third of global trade.

A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space yesterday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.

People who walk 7,000 steps a day have a dramatically lower risk of a broad range of serious health problems, the largest review of the evidence yet said yesterday.

A French probe into alleged foreign interference and bias via the algorithm at Elon Musk-owned social network X is “politically motivated”, the company said in a post yesterday, adding that it was refusing to cooperate.

Archaeologists working on the shores of Ohrid Lake in Albania are convinced they have uncovered the oldest human settlement built on a European lake, finding evidence of an organised hunting and farming community living up to 8,000 years ago.

Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the results of a world-first trial said Wednesday.

Spanish police have arrested eight people in connection with rare anti-migrant unrest that rocked the town of Torre Pacheco over the weekend, the interior minister said yesterday.

A German doctor yesterday went on trial accused of killing 15 patients with lethal injections and acting as “master of life and death” over those in his care.

Migration into the European Union pushed its population to a record 450.4 million people last year, offsetting a natural population decline for the fourth straight year, EU data released yesterday showed.

Police rescued 1,194 potential human trafficking victims and arrested 158 suspects in coordinated raids across 43 countries last month, the European Union’s law enforcement agency said yesterday.

The European Parliament yesterday gave final approval to a phased rollout of a new border check system for non-EU nationals which will do away with passport stamps.

The snow and ice accumulated in the Swiss Alps over the winter has already melted away, a monitoring service said yesterday, marking the second earliest arrival of a tipping point known as “glacier loss day”.

A stash of “unusually large” 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists searching for an explanation, they told AFP on Thursday.

A large aerial drone flies over the charred remains of Canadian forests devastated by wildfires, bombarding the ground with seed capsules to accelerate reforestation.

Southern Europeans braced Saturday for their first heatwave of the northern hemisphere summer, as climate change pushes thermometers on the world’s fastest-warming continent increasingly into the red.

France will ban smoking on beaches and in parks, public gardens and bus shelters from Sunday, the government said

A Russian strike yesterday killed five people and wounded more than a dozen in Ukraine’s industrial Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow has stepped up fatal bombardments.