Sudan’s warring sides must face “accountability” for the “crimes” committed in their conflict, which risks spiralling into a regional crisis, the head of UN mission in the country said yesterday.

From October, France will pay a bonus to encourage people to have their clothes and shoes repaired rather than throwing them away, the government said.

More than 61,000 people died due to the heat during Europe’s record-breaking summer last year, a study said yesterday which called for more to be done to protect against even deadlier heatwaves expected in the coming years.

At least 300 people who were travelling on three migrant boats from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands have disappeared, migrant aid group Walking Borders said on Sunday

The “Ivory Man”, whose remains were found in an opulent tomb in Spain in 2008, is believed to have been the most powerful and influential person of his ancient society nearly 5,000 years ago.

A regional correspondent for leading Mexican newspaper La Jornada was found slain on Saturday, shortly after he went missing in the western state of Nayarit, prosecutors said.

The International Maritime Organization, overseer of the highly-polluting shipping industry, sealed a landmark deal yesterday to improve its target to cut carbon emissions but green campaigners said it fell far short.

Six people have died and at least 68 have been injured following an overnight fire in a retirement home in Milan, Italian emergency services said today

This past June was the hottest June globally on record in terms of sea and air temperatures, according to a statement by the EU-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said yesterday up to 40 aid workers have been killed in Myanmar since the military coup that ousted democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.

Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine have taken Iran to the International Court of Justice to seek damages for families of passengers on a jetliner downed by Tehran in 2020, the tribunal said yesterday.

Clashes between French police and rioters de-escalated again overnight, the government said yesterday, eight days after the killing of a teenager by police sparked the worst urban violence in years.

Global average temperature leaped to a record high for the second day in a row yesterday, according to preliminary readings by US meteorologists.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday met with hundreds of French officials to begin exploring the “deeper reasons” for the country’s plunge into riots after the killing of a teenager at a traffic stop.

Russian shelling wounded at least 31 people, including nine children, in the small town of Pervomaiskyi in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region yesterday,

Iran has hanged at least 354 people in the first six months of 2023, a rights group said yesterday, adding that the pace of executions was much higher than in 2022.

Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, said late on Sunday.

A French fireman died while seeking to douse burning cars north of Paris, during a sixth consecutive night of rioting over the police killing of a teenager, the interior minister said yesterday.

The UK this year has seen its hottest June on record, both in terms of mean temperature and the average maximum temperature, the British Meteorological Office said yesterday.

A French fireman died while seeking to douse burning cars north of Paris, during a sixth consecutive night of rioting over the police killing of a teenager, the interior minister said on Monday