Injured Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappé has sparked backlash from some fans after taking a holiday in Sardinia ahead of Sunday’s Clasico against Barcelona.
The announcement follows recent ousting of several top officials in China's military.
Scientists from the Natural History Museum, London have described a new genus and species of parasitic wasp found within the Museum's collections, and named it as a birthday present for Sir David Attenborough.
Staffing issues threaten the quality of the country’s universal free school lunch system.
MoreThan Films has boarded international sales on “Summer Drift” (“Virages”), the debut feature from Swiss co-directors Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter, ahead of its world premiere in the ACID sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival later this month. The Switzerland-France
Beirut and its southern suburbs had been spared Israeli attacks since 8 April, when massive Israeli strikes across the country killed more than 350 people.
UK voters began casting ballots on Thursday, 7 May, in local and devolved elections seen as the biggest political test yet for Prime Minister Keir Starmer since Labour’s landslide victory in July 2024.
MOSCOW, May 7 - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Armenia was being drawn into what it described as the European Union's \"anti‑Russian orbit\".
Debate continues to rage over whether a strange carcass found in 1937 was a new species or a basking shark. Either way, the case reveals how little is known about what lies beneath the waves Its head resembled a dog’s, its downturned nose a camel’s, and at the end of its
In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that would have required a level of intelligence and creativity to make.
"On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me."
[Vanguard] President William Ruto of Kenya and President Emmanuel Macron of France will be joint hosts as about 4,000 African and French delegates converge in Nairobi for the Africa Forward Summit 2026 scheduled to take place from 10 to 12 May 2026.
[FrontPageAfrica] Abuja -- Former Liberian Deputy Foreign Minister, Elias B. Shoniyin, has called on African leaders to shift away from "personality-driven politics" and embrace institutional reforms, merit-based governance, and long-term development planning as the pathway to
The company is eyeing remakes and new releases after purchasing the rights to multiple titles in the classic RPG franchise.
Peering into Earth’s climate past is getting ever more bizarre
Researchers have created a next-generation obesity drug that works like a “Trojan horse,” using GLP-1/GIP signals to slip a powerful metabolic enhancer directly into target cells. In mice, it outperformed existing treatments—curbing appetite, increasing weight loss, and
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - A growing number of Democratic primary challengers are making opposition to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee a campaign issue as they seek to unseat party incumbents backed by the influential pro-Israel advocacy group.
By Mohammed Aty CHIBAYISH MARSHES, Iraq, May 7 (Reuters) - After years of drought that left large swathes of Iraq's historic marshes cracked and empty, rising water levels are beginning to revive the wetlands, drawing buffalo herders and fishermen back to areas once abandoned.
Hermes–European Study Centre expresses its strong support for the compromise text developed by the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the European Union on the revision of Directive 2011/64/EU, the Tobacco Excise Directive (TED). Hermes considers this a strong, balanced, and
A tourist has won compensation after claiming towel-hogging guests made sun loungers impossible to use on a Greek holiday – and the ruling could spell trouble for resorts that fail to tackle the “sunbed wars”.
The ex-JPMorgan banker and Wall Street high-flyer's attorney has handled a plethora of high-profile employment law, whistleblower and sexual harassment cases, including repping several alleged Jeffrey Epstein victims.
Reinhold Würth, who has made the Würth Group the global market leader in the trade of assembly and fastening materials for trade and industry, sees an opportunity above all in the fields of electronics, IT and artificial intelligence.
Millions of voters in Britain are heading to the polls in local elections today, and while Europe has barely featured in the campaigns, your reporter wonders if this vote matters for the EU?
With nearly half of our readers waiting for 5+ years before upgrading their gaming PC, it's a hell of a contrast.
A death sentence with reprieve in China is typically commuted to life imprisonment.
In March, a United States jury found Meta and Google negligent in thedesign of their platforms in a landmark ‘social media addictions’ trial.
Coetzee is the latest literary figure to call out Israel’s actions against Gaza, with several other film actors and authors also having declined working with Israeli institutions in the past few years.
Some people taking Ozempic-like diabetes drugs may be getting dramatically better results for a surprising reason: why they overeat in the first place. A year-long study in Japan found that people who tend to eat because tempting food looks or smells irresistible were much more
Health authorities are stepping up international monitoring and response efforts after additional cases linked to an Andes hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition cruise vessel MV Hondius were confirmed in Europe. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed today (6 May)
When the Trump administration announced sweeping tariffs on Asian economies on April 2, 2025, the political framing was simple. The tariffs would punish Asian exporters, shrink the US trade deficit and force capital home. Asia was cast as the vulnerable party in a contest the
Curse you, memory crisis.
"If the people want me to have a third term, I will accept," Tshisekedi says, with him due to step down in 2028.
Apple has agreed to a $250 million (€230 million) settlement after being accused of misleading iPhone buyers over unreleased AI features linked to its Siri upgrade.
What if the tools for sustainable space exploration could be found in cellular life on Earth? A NASA astrobiologist explains - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Powerful radar system is providing new data on city’s subsidence, which experts hope will draw more attention to it Walking into Mexico City’s sprawling central Zócalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital’s cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in
It’s time: Cannes’ Focus COPRO, dedicated to first feature films, has announced this year’s seven projects. That includes “A Summer Tale” (Germany) directed by Berthold Wahjudi, “Algiers Haze” (France) by Sarra Ryma, Gaël Kamilindi’s “The Zebra’s Shadow” (Switzerland), Laura
Rallies and revelations about the Israeli pavilion, shows to see in Upstate New York, and remembering Steven Durland.
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According to Forbes, Reinhold Würth is one of the three richest Germans with a fortune of $41.9 billion. In an opinion piece for Euronews, Würth explains how Germany can get back on track.
Even if you hate President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign—which has placed about 60,000 undocumented immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and has deported, depending on who you ask, somewhere between 350,000 and 605,000 people—you probably think
Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture - by Kiran Kumbhar Read on Aeon
Nikimbre Daniels spent her thirties living off the grid. Her homes included a yurt in a meadow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, countless R.V.s in nearly every region of the country, and even a tent. It was the life she chose after spending her twenties in South
Throughout the American South is an archipelago of majority-Black congressional districts that provide some measure of Black representation in Congress. These districts owe their existence to a combination of basic electoral math, federal court orders, and legislative
The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic
On November 21, 1974, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated bombs in two pubs in Birmingham, England, as part of its campaign to get the British out of Ireland. Twenty-one people were killed, and nearly 200 were injured. It was at the time the deadliest attack in
"Colorado’s San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise. Then an undercover federal agent arrived."
In the coming decades, New Orleans will be surrounded by ocean. That’s the contention of a paper published this week in Nature Sustainability . It finds that the city has already passed a “point of no return.” The authors recommend taking immediate action to start relocating
The feature directing debut of 'Boiling Point' actor Ray Panthaki, starring Clarence Maclin in his first leading role, also features in the annual spotlight on features for distributors and festival programmers.