Elderly couple die as wildfires sweep Greek island of Salamina
An elderly couple died and several other people were injured on Sunday as fast-moving wildfires swept through the Greek island of Salamina west of Athens on the biggest
August 16, 2026An elderly couple died and several other people were injured on Sunday as fast-moving wildfires swept through the Greek island of Salamina west of Athens on the biggest
August 16, 2026
Police have made one arrest after a security incident caused transportation delays for fans and athletes leaving Alexander Stadium following Saturday night’s session at the European track-and-field championships in Birmingham, England
August 16, 2026
The BBC has asked a U.S. court for help getting documents and testimony from U.S. President Donald Trump's family in connection to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster
August 16, 2026
A dozen people were killed and at least 10 seriously
August 16, 2026
Firefighters battled with the aid of Dutch helicopters on Sunday to contain Belgium's biggest wildfire, which has already
August 16, 2026
Thieves stole four artworks by 15th century painter Antonello da Messina from a museum in his Sicilian hometown, a loss to the island's
August 16, 2026
Russia carried out a wave of airstrikes on Ukraine overnight, killing two people at a steel plant, and Kyiv launched a heavy drone attack on the
August 16, 2026
Ukrainian drones struck Moscow region overnight on Sunday in what the provincial governor said was one of the largest attacks to have targeted the region, and which he said
August 16, 2026
Police say a passenger bus traveling on a highway in Hungary early Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others
August 16, 2026
For more than a century, cafes in the Italian city of Padua have welcomed customers for an early evening drink, or
August 16, 2026
An F-18 fighter on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone that illegally breached Romanian national airspace, the fourth unmanned aircraft shot down over the
August 16, 2026
Athens’ iconic Panathenaic Stadium is undergoing its first systematic cleaning in more than a century
August 16, 2026
Moroccan police arrested at least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta,
August 15, 2026
Fans have gathered in a Welsh village to bid farewell to singer Bonnie Tyler
August 15, 2026
Cambridge professor found dead after scrutiny over academic record faced ‘sustained abuse,’ family say
August 15, 2026
A magnitude 5 earthquake struck the southern Spanish city of Granada in the early hours of Saturday, with the regional government saying houses and cars were damaged but no
August 15, 2026
Sicily's Catania airport has restarted flights, it said on Saturday, after authorities downgraded to orange from red the aviation alert colour of Mount Etna's recent volcanic
August 15, 2026
A wildfire in western Germany that forced the evacuation of thousands of people on Friday has stabilised, local authorities said on Saturday, although
August 15, 2026
Champions League titleholder Paris Saint-Germain has bolstered its star-studded attack by signing World Cup winner Ferran Torres from Barcelona on a five-year year contract
August 15, 2026
In the weeks before a rush of more than 70,000 migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, border workers
August 15, 2026
Hungarian authorities will sink two barges in the Danube on Saturday to raise the water level at the Paks nuclear plant to avert a shutdown of one of its last two
August 15, 2026
Former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism found dead
August 15, 2026
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges over the killing of health insurance executive Brian Thompson, paving the way for him to try to
August 15, 2026
A wildfire engulfed homes in a picturesque Croatian resort overnight, killing one person, injuring 40 and forcing 1,200 to evacuate, officials said,
August 14, 2026
Surrounded by more than 30 other prospective parliamentarians including three "loonies" and someone from the Everyone is God party, Count
August 14, 2026
A British sociologist who resigned from the University of Cambridge last week following plagiarism accusations was found dead Friday
August 15, 2026
26-year-old winger will begin first full campaign at Manchester City after his January move from Bournemouth.
August 14, 2026
The United States urged the European Union on Friday to ease its laws putting responsibility on large firms for the environmental and social
August 14, 2026
France's top court on Friday blocked a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression
August 14, 2026
Officials in Akron, Ohio, have fired a police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old boy
August 15, 2026
While talks to end the Iran war have stalled, the Trump administration appears to be reaching out to a broader swath of countries that might be able to help pressure Tehran or ease its hardline position where traditional mediators haven't succeeded so far
August 15, 2026
An Italian fighter jet, part of a NATO mission, shot down a drone of unknown origin that entered the airspace of NATO and EU member Latvia on Friday during Ukrainian
August 14, 2026
Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai announced on Friday plans to deploy more than 2,000 robotaxis in Europe under an expanded partnership with Uber.
August 14, 2026
Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's populist Reform UK party, said on Friday he had regained his parliamentary seat, but would not be present at the vote
August 14, 2026
Nigel Farage has regained his seat in Parliament, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties
August 14, 2026
Nigel Farage wins election in which his main rival was a trash can
August 14, 2026
More than 2,000 people were evacuated from their homes in western Germany on Friday, after a wildfire near the Belgian border spread towards a village, local
August 14, 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage won his self-triggered by-election in southern England on Friday, but saw his strategy
August 14, 2026
Firefighters across Europe are battling multiple wildfires as a record-breaking heat wave grips the continent
August 14, 2026
Russian jet-powered drones have struck a home in northern Ukraine, killing a 29-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son
August 14, 2026
Ash spewing from Sicily’s Mount Etna has forced the closure of the island’s largest airport for the fifth consecutive day
August 14, 2026
Italian authorities have recovered three stolen artworks by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse worth millions of euros
August 14, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee The yen is back in the intervention zone, but its fate now appears to rest with the Fed's policy path and hopes of aggressive
August 14, 2026
For decades, the Gulf served as the center of gravity for much of Lebanon's creative talent, with swathes of designers and marketing executives flocking to
August 14, 2026
Russia has significantly stepped up its online disinformation campaign in Poland, using a dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv
August 14, 2026
Flights at Catania airport in Sicily will remain suspended until Saturday afternoon because of ash from Mount Etna's ongoing volcanic activity, which has
August 14, 2026
Russia believes the United States is deeply involved in Ukrainian attacks against it and has raised the issue with Washington, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in
August 14, 2026
UniCredit's CEO Andrea Orcel has a blueprint for Commerzbank: slash costs, strip out management layers and push harder for revenue growth,
August 14, 2026
Spanish authorities on Thursday removed the remains of three kings who ruled the Aragón region in the 11th century from a monastery threatened by a wildfire.
August 14, 2026
Civilian casualties from the war in Ukraine rose by nearly a third month-on-month in July, to the highest level since May 2022, as Russia struck towns and
August 14, 2026
European shares finished lower on Friday and snapped a four-week winning streak, as rising crude prices and renewed
August 14, 2026
French authorities have evacuated 525 people from the village of Luglon after a wildfire broke out in the southwestern Landes region, not far
August 14, 2026
Low water in Rome’s drought-hit Tiber river exposes ancient ruins of Nero’s Bridge
August 14, 2026
Person fined $5,000 for using foghorn to disturb sleeping polar bear
August 14, 2026
A passenger train has derailed near London, marking the second such incident in two days
August 14, 2026
Philippe Sly has taken on the challenging title role in “Saint François d’Assise” at the Salzburg Festival
August 14, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian drone struck the destroyed nuclear power plant at Chernobyl near Ukraine’s border with Belarus. Russia has denied the allegation. Zelensky also said radiation levels appear normal and will continue to be monitored. Video released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service shows the alleged moment of attack.
February 14, 2025
Thousands have rallied all across Slovakia to mark the seventh anniversary of the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee
February 22, 2025
CIA director John Ratcliffe said the US paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine after a contentious White House meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh analyzes the impact cutting off intelligence sharing could have on Ukraine's fight against Russia.
March 05, 2025
The Czech government has decided to gradually raise its defence spending to 3% of gross domestic product by 2030, from around 2% now, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday.
March 06, 2025
The European Central Bank cut interest rates for the sixth time in nine months on Thursday, sticking to its easing plan in the face of economic upheaval from an
March 06, 2025
French inflation dropped below 1% for the first time in four years in February, final data from statistics office INSEE showed on Friday.
March 14, 2025
A German government spokesperson said on Friday that "nothing is off the table" with regards to punitive measures in response to the threat of U.S. tariffs.
March 28, 2025
Apple was hit with a 150 million euro ($162.4 million) fine by French antitrust regulators on Monday for abusing its dominant position in mobile app
March 31, 2025
Russia has released a Russian American imprisoned on treason charges that Washington has dismissed as ludicrous
April 10, 2025
Following is the statement from the European Central Bank following its policy meeting.
April 17, 2025
The European Central Bank cut interest rates for the seventh time in a year on Thursday, looking to prop up an already struggling euro zone economy that will take a large hit from
April 17, 2025
The Bulgarian government, led by Rosen Zhelyazkov, survived a vote of no confidence on Thursday, launched over what the opposition says was its failure to fight against widespread
April 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin says there has been no need to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine and expressed hope that such a scenario will not arise
May 04, 2025
Russia and Ukraine swapped 205 prisoners of war each in an exchange mediated by the United Arab Emirates, both sides said on Tuesday.
May 06, 2025
A major grass fire in Stourbridge, central England, has affected six properties and left two people suffering from the effects of heat and smoke, emergency services said on
August 13, 2026
Israel's military said it intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen and that sirens had sounded twice across the country including in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Thursday, as
May 22, 2025
The European Commission said on Wednesday Bulgaria can enter the euro zone and become the bloc's 21st member from 2026.
June 04, 2025
The European Central Bank cut interest rates as expected on Thursday and kept all options on the table for its next meetings even as the case grows for a summer pause in
June 05, 2025