July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, the European Union’s climate observatory confirmed yesterday. Marked by heatwaves and fires all around

Catastrophic floodwaters can topple houses, sweep away cars like matchboxes and turn basements into death traps within minutes. Time and again, nature demonstrates its overwhelming force, and we're at its mercy

The UK government on Sunday announced increased fines for employers and landlords who allow migrants without papers to work for them or rent their properties, as part of measures to deter migrant arrivals.

Russia launched a multi-wave attack on Ukraine with 70 air-assault weapons including cruise and hypersonic missiles as well as Iranian-made drones, Kyiv’s Air Force said yesterday, and at least 10 missiles appear to got through air defences.

Moscow said yesterday that weekend talks in Saudi Arabia including the US, China and India aiming to establish principles for a peaceful end to Russia’s war in Ukraine were a doomed Western attempt to align Global South behind Kyiv.

Migrants are being systematically turned away by France at the border with Italy with “acts of violence, degrading and inhumane treatment”, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said yesterday.

German police have arrested a Syrian national on crimes against humanity and war crimes including enslavement for allegedly taking part in a brutal crackdown on government opponents, prosecutors said yesterday.

Massive wildfires in Canada have already spewed out twice the smoke emissions than the previous whole-year record, the EU’s climate monitor said yesterday, with the blazes expected to continue to scorch their way through forests for weeks or even months.

Six mountaineers have plunged to their deaths or been killed by rockslides in the  southern Swiss Alps in a matter of days, police said yesterday.

Germany’s armed forces are facing major problems in attracting new recruits, the defence minister said yesterday, as Berlin seeks to overhaul its creaking military following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Bundeswehr has long suffered from a lack of

France and Italy yesterday prepared to fly out their citizens and other Europeans from Niger, six days after a coup that toppled one of the last pro-Western leaders in the jihadist-plagued Sahel and stoked anti-French demonstrations.

Russia said yesterday it had downed another wave of Ukrainian drones aimed at vessels in the Black Sea and Moscow, as an office block in the capital’s main business district was struck for the second time in a few days.

The UN’s cultural agency Unesco said yesterday its experts recommended giving Australia more time to boost protection of the Great Barrier Reef which the organisation’s World Heritage Committee has threatened to declare “in danger”.

The United States will rely on allies rather than a major expansion of its own forces to counter any Chinese military risk in the Pacific, a US general has told AFP.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made massive changes to his cabinet last week in a move political analysts say is more theater than substance, but the Liberal leader’s close advisers say it shows his determination to seek a fourth election victory.

Eight people including three small children died in Russia when trees crashed into a lakeside campsite during a storm described as a “hurricane”, authorities said yesterday.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had brought down three Ukrainian drones early yesterday that had been trying to attack Moscow.

The wreck of an ancient Roman cargo ship from more than 2,000 years ago has been found off the coast near Rome, the arts squad of Italy’s Carabinieri police said yesterday.

A tearful Kevin Spacey was found not guilty yesterday by a jury at a London court of committing historical sex offences against four men

A fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board yesterday, killing one member of the crew and injuring several others, the coastguard said.