The 2027 Met Gala will celebrate the potential of everyday objects and materials, from jeans and T-shirts to paper and plastic. The accompanying exhibition next spring will explore how designers transform ordinary items into works of art.
The European Union has announced that it has started to work on creating a certificate for "AI literacy" that would be delivered to successful 15-year-old students for the next school year.
In a letter to European Council President António Costa, Giorgia Meloni says multiple negotiating formats are making Europe “less credible” to end the war.
After US midterms, European campaigners bring the data centre backlash to Europe.
Fireworks may be a staple of celebrations, but their health risks are prompting experts to call for stricter regulations and greater public awareness.
The accounting black hole at Ueno Bank is wiping out public funds, leaving thousands without access to their deposits and pushing Paraguay into its worst institutional crisis in years.
The accounting black hole at Ueno Bank is draining public funds, leaving thousands unable to access their deposits and pushing Paraguay into its worst institutional crisis in years.
Tens of thousands marched through Lyon area during a nationwide strike over wages and purchasing power. Police charged demonstrators and used tear gas as clashes erupted along the protest route.
Azerbaijan is working to reduce aviation emissions while handling growing air traffic. From fuel-efficient aircraft and airport carbon accreditation to digital air navigation, the industry is exploring ways to make flying more sustainable.
Nearly 7,000 apartments are complete, three ministries already operate there and university facilities have opened. Projects worth $50bn (€44.8bn) are planned for the first phase, with a FIFA-standard stadium under construction and a metro connection proposed.
The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4% as it tries to curb rising prices fuelled by the Iran war.
Portugal legend Cristiano Ronaldo says "the day has come for me to hand back the number seven shirt".
Kremlin spokesman responds to midterm results
Seoul said pirates have recently ventured further from the Somali coast and added that it wanted to send a patrol aircraft to protect merchant ships off Oman while keeping its forces out of the ongoing Iran war.
The Bank estimates that the national rate fell from 17% in 2021 to 5.8% in 2025, with 3.7 million people moving above the threshold. The government separately reports 3.6% for the first nine months of 2026.
Argentine President Javier Milei and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez exchanged a brief and frosty greeting at the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid on Wednesday. Their encounter comes two weeks after Milei called Sánchez an “unpresentable dictator”.
Hundreds of thousands joined a fourth nationwide day of protests across France. Police used tear gas outside a Paris school, while major demonstrations disrupted Marseille and Nantes.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos met four Student List representatives in Brussels on Monday, the party’s first high-level EU contact since its landslide win. Talks centred on democracy and domestic affairs, as polling irregularities delay the new government.
Despite ongoing talks to rebalance EU-China trade, Brussels is preparing a powerful new tool to shield its market from a surge of cheap Chinese imports.
Leonardo recorded a 28% increase in orders in the first nine months of 2026. The Italian group is focusing on defence, aerospace, drones and new industrial partnerships, while the acquisition of Iveco Group's Defence division has strengthened its position.
The charges against the group of six also include violations of regulations governing the international trade in goods and technologies of strategic importance for national defence and international security.
"To the Portuguese people, the day has come for me to hand back the No. 7 shirt of our national team,” the 41-year-old Ronaldo said in a long video message on social media.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said last year that human rights in North Korea have shown no improvement over the past decade and had in fact worsened in many cases.
Demonstrators in Tehran burned a banner depicting US and Israeli leaders during rallies marking the 1979 US embassy takeover. The protests followed a major electoral setback for Donald Trump.
The chef had stated that putting pineapple on pizza was "offensive to his culture".
German defence giant Rheinmetall warned of delays to military contracts and ammunition approvals, sending its shares down more than 17% in early trading on Thursday.
A new initiative under the EU's Chips Act targets a segment where European firms account for less than 1% of global revenues.
A fire broke out at an Ozon warehouse in Adygeysk, southern Russia, on Wednesday. The Russian e-commerce giant said the facility had been targeted in a drone attack.
ABB is expanding into Uzbekistan through the acquisition of Davr Bank, as regional financial institutions accelerate digital banking growth across Central Asia and emerging markets.
The Russian captain was ordered jailed for three years and six months and the crew member, an Azerbaijan national, for two years and 10 months.
At least 18 flights across Europe are affected in what the UK government calls a "malicious hoax threat".
A Russian strike on a logistics facility in Sofiivska Borshchahivka, in the Kyiv region, injured one man and sparked a major fire, with emergency crews battling the flames following an overnight attack involving 128 drones and two missiles.
From 2027, passengers would pay 500 roubles on domestic flights and 1,000 on international flights to fund the lease and operation of 258 Russian-built aircraft, as sactions over Moscow's all-out war in Ukraine continue to bite.
Five of France's unions join a wave of strikes and protests in a national day of action.
The mobilisation comes a day after French lawmakers rejected the first part of the 2027 budget bill, in a unified consensus across party lines.
The incidents come after some 10 European flights were targeted by bomb threats on Tuesday, forcing the brief closure of a Warsaw airport and the scrambling of air force planes in Rome.
US President Donald Trump has warned that impeaching him would damage the Democratic Party, after Republicans suffered major losses in the midterm elections.
In a rare event, three American astronauts voted in Tuesday's US midterm elections from the International Space Station, using advanced links to send electronic ballots to officials on Earth.
Delegation members plan to "explore opportunities for renewed US engagement on climate, energy, and economic policy" at the UN summit.
Xavier Volatier, head of Transatlantic Private Wealth, speaks to our Stefan Grobe on the effects of the US mid-terms' result on the global markets.
Residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky have arrived back in Ukrainian-controlled territory, reuniting with relatives after enduring worsening living conditions.
Stefan Grobe speaks to Kevin Curran, Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Ulster. He explains that the attack was 'not sophisticated', and vulnerabilities were known long term.
Eric Ham, US political analyst, said that US Democrats believe that many African-American, Latino and young voters are again "up for grabs" after they gave their support for Trump in past presidential elections.
A displaced Palestinian in Gaza has built a makeshift wind turbine to bring electricity to tents in Khan Younis. Unable to afford solar panels, he has found a way to harness the wind to power everyday essentials.
A new report commissioned by Greenpeace Germany found that oil companies earned €36 billion in additional margins from the fallout of the US-Iran conflict between March 1 and October 19. Can Europe tax these profits to help ease rising energy bills?
He had told his employer, an Australian restaurant, that pineapple on pizza was "offensive" to Italian culture.
Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah of Iran, thinks the Iranian regime is "willing to go all the way for its own survival".
Françoise Degois publishes "You are all too hard on me", a book in which she records her private exchanges with the president.
The American rapper, who has been an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, posted a seemingly AI-generated version of the famous killer doll in a MAGA election day post. This did not sit well with Don Mancini, Chucky's creator.