Five things that have gone wrong for Manchester City
AFP | English champions Manchester City slumped to a third shock defeat in four Premier League games at Leicester on Boxing Day to slip to...
Sister Wendy Beckett, nun who became TV star, dies at 88
AFP | Sister Wendy Beckett, the Roman Catholic nun who left her cloistered convent life to launch a television career in later life and became...
Queen warns of ‘tribalism’ in Christmas address
AFP | Queen Elizabeth II warned of religious "tribalism" in a Christmas message on Tuesday delivered against a backdrop of Britain bickering over its impending...
‘Anti-Muslim Denmark’: Handshake made mandatory for citizenship
News Desk | In the new citizenship bill, the government of Denmark has made it compulsory for applicants to shake hands with the officials conducting...
Oil giant Total fined in France for Iran corruption
AFP | A French court on Friday fined oil giant Total 500,000 euros ($575,000) for corruption over bribes it paid to secure a huge gas...
Two arrests over London airport drone chaos as flights resume
AFP | Two people were arrested in connection with the "criminal use of drones" at London Gatwick Airport, police said Saturday, after three days of...
Protesters return to streets as Hungary’s Orban digs in
AFP | At least 5,000 demonstrators took to the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest late Friday, as rightwing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban dismissed...
British Army joins drone hunt after London airport shutdown
AFP | Britain called in the army Thursday after dozens of drone sightings grounded all flights from London's Gatwick airport for more than 24 hours,...
Spanish government to meet in Barcelona amid separatist protests
AFP | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will hold a cabinet meeting in Barcelona on Friday amid tight security as Catalan pro-independence groups plan to...
EU probes hack of ‘thousands’ of diplomatic cables
AFP | The EU announced an urgent investigation on Wednesday after suspected Chinese military hackers accessed thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables. Area 1 Security, a...
German govt plans to relax rules to attract foreign workers
AFP | Worker-starved Germany plans to ease immigration rules to attract foreign job seekers and replenish its fast ageing workforce, despite mounting public resistance against...
How Germany will turn lights out at last black coal mine
AFP | After more than 150 years, Germany's last black coal mine will close in the Ruhr region, posing a gigantic geological and environmental challenge...