Russia praises US security strategy shift

The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia’s own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.
8 December 2025

Roman slaves ate better than ordinary people

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than “speaking tools”, some received better food than ordinary people, Italy’s culture ministry said on Friday, citing evidence from recent excavations.
7 December 2025

French town offers birth bonuses to save local clinic

A small French town is to offer expectant mothers 1,000 euros from next year to give birth at the local maternity ward in a bid to save it from closing.
6 December 2025

AI chatbots can influence voters: studies

A brief conversation with a partisan AI chatbot can influence voters’ political views, studies published Thursday found, with evidence-backed arguments -- true or not -- proving particularly persuasive.
5 December 2025

Putin and Modi discuss trade, peace in New Delhi summit

Raft of agreements and deals to be announced
5 December 2025

Putin to hold summit talks with Modi in Delhi

Will discuss defence, oil, and nuclear energy
5 December 2025

Putin visits Delhi as Russia and India seek to increase and diversify trade

India, Russia aim for $100 billion in trade by 2030
4 December 2025

Putin arrives in India for summit talks with Modi

Two leaders will hold summit talks on Friday
4 December 2025

No conspiracy in collapse of China spy case: UK inquiry

A high-profile case against two British men accused of spying for China collapsed because of “systemic failures” and not a government conspiracy, a UK parliamentary inquiry concluded yesterday.
3 December 2025

Sick young ants invite destruction to save colony

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.
3 December 2025

French pastry chefs auction chocolate sculptures

Chocolate artworks by some of France’s most famous pastry chefs sold at auction Monday for more than 100,000 euros in a charity event that had bidders smacking their lips.
2 December 2025

Fraud probe: 3 arrests as EU diplomatic arm raided

Police arrested three people yesterday following raids on EU offices and a prestigious graduate school in a probe into suspected fraud linked to the training of future diplomats, prosecutors said.
2 December 2025

'If Europe wants a war, we are ready'

Putin warns European superpowers that their defeat will be swift if they start a war
2 December 2025

Russia bans HRW

Russian authorities have outlawed Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable organisation”, a label that, under a 2015 law, makes involvement with it a criminal offence.
29 November 2025

Russian threat France’s Macron unveils voluntary military service

France will introduce a voluntary military service of 10 months beginning next summer, President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday, in the face of what he called a growing threat posed by Russia.
27 November 2025

Two break out of French jail in 'old-fashioned' bed sheets escape

The pair 'seem to have sawn through bars' and 'fled using bed sheets'
27 November 2025

France must not be ‘weak’ against Russia ‘threat’

French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday that France must not be “weak” faced with the threat from Russia, while emphasising it had no intention of “sending our young people” to fight in the Ukraine war.
25 November 2025

What did nations agree to at COP30?

The COP30 climate summit has drawn to a close after two weeks in the Amazonian city of Belem where protests, street marches and even a fire caused unexpected moments of drama.
23 November 2025

BBC apologises to Trump over speech edit

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sent a personal apology to US President Donald Trump on Thursday but said there was no legal basis for him to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary his lawyers called defamatory.
14 November 2025

US designates four groups in Europe as terrorists

Groups ascribe to anti-Americanism, 'anti-capitalism,' and anti-Christian ideologies, says Rubio
14 November 2025