Last week, for the second time in eight months, the world failed to come up with a global treaty to fight plastic pollution.

Populist opponents of immigration thrive on the confusion. The debate now resembles a fairground hall of mirrors. Nothing is ...

Rie Qudan’s prizewinning Japanese novella packs in themes from crime to architecture, tech to generational disconnect ...

European leaders are pleased that Trump gave them a more sympathetic hearing than they were braced for, but they did not ...

Stock prices fall as Trump vows to involve Zelenskyy in peace discussions with Putin and Kyiv vows to buy US weapons ...

Wildfires in Spain spanning a burnt area twice the size of London will trigger disaster declarations for the worst affected regions, its prime minister said, clearing the way for funding for aid and ...

Air Canada has reached an agreement with the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants and cabin crew to end a ...

Bill Gates is funding a $1mn competition to spur the use of artificial intelligence to find innovative treatments for ...

Epping District Council has been granted a temporary injunction that will block asylum seekers from being housed in a local hotel, after a surprise intervention by the UK government failed to convince ...

Female graduates in the UK fall behind men from the very start of their careers, even when they have taken the same courses, and are out-earned after studying more than four-fifths of university ...

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, told the Financial Times the UK had “agreed to drop” its ...

Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn of American weapons financed by Europe in a bid to obtain US guarantees for its security ...