The death of a pregnant Polish woman has reignited debate over abortion in one of Europe's most devoutly Catholic countries, with activists saying she could still be alive if it were not for a near total ban on terminating pregnancies.

World food prices rose for a third straight month in October to reach a fresh 10-year peak, led again by increases in cereals and vegetable oils, the UN food agency said on Thursday. 

Nine rebel groups battling Ethiopia’s government will “collaborate and join forces”, they said in a statement announcing the alliance, which comes as fears grow of Tigrayan fighters advancing on the capital. 

Hungary used the invasive Pegasus spy software, a senior ruling party official said Thursday, but insisted the government had not spied on citizens illegally. 

Coral bleaching has affected 98 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef since 1998, leaving just a fraction of the world’s largest reef system untouched, according to a study published yesterday.

Giannis Sariannidis, a 37-year-old Greek trader, does not believe there’s a pandemic. He’s so furious with restrictions that he pulled his son out of school. Then he got arrested. 

The carbon footprint of the world’s richest 1 percent is on track to be 30 times higher than what’s needed to limit global warming to 1.5C, a study says.

With science warning that only swift action can avoid cataclysmic global warming, countries already feeling the lash of climate change are demanding that the timetable for updating national carbon-cutting pledges be radically accelerated. 

Russia has expelled a journalist from a Dutch newspaper for “administrative violations,” the publication reported on Thursday, the second move against a member of a Western media organisation in months.

Since you have become chancellor, France has learned to know you and to love you. You have worked to keep Europe together ... . I hope that the lesson you have left us with, to stand firm against strong headwinds and to make sure that everybody remains united and that things do not fall apart, that this will stay with us.”

The European Parliament’s first official delegation to Taiwan yesterday said the diplomatically isolated island is not alone and called for bolder actions to strengthen EU-Taiwan ties as Taipei faces rising pressure from Beijing.

Developing countries need up to 10 times more funding to protect themselves from increasingly ferocious effects of climate change than the world has currently earmarked, the UN said yesterday.

Britain called an end to the era of coal on Thursday, saying it had 77 signatories to a pledge to phase out the dirtiest of the fossil fuels that cause global warming, as a study showed carbon dioxide emissions had rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels.

1942 - British troops defeated the Germans under General Erwin Rommel at El Alamein in Egypt after a 12-day battle during World WarII.

A four-year-old Australian girl abducted from a campsite 18 days ago was discovered “alive and well” during a raid on a locked house yesterday, telling her shocked and elated rescuers: “My name is Cleo.”

Attention yesterday turned to how the world will pay for its plan to decarbonise and help vulnerable nations survive climate change, after a world leaders’ summit at COP26 that yielded a landmark methane slashing deal.

In her first public address since she leaked a trove of damaging documents about Facebook’s inner workings, whistleblower Frances Haugen urged her former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, to step down and allow change rather than devoting resources to a rebrand.

It is the hope of many that the legacy of this summit - written in history books yet to be printed - will describe you as the leaders who did not pass up the opportunity; and that you answered the call of those future generations. … But we are doing this not for ourselves but for our children and our children’s children.

A crucial UN conference heard calls on its first day for the world’s major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis.

Nearly all internationally available development financing is now committed to reducing or ending investment in coal-fired power after moves by China and the G20 to stop supporting new projects overseas, new research showed yesterday.