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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese toy company’s better than expected results may allay analyst concern over sustainability of its sales surge ...

Hines was hired by Trump as executive director of the White House Crypto Council in December. He has helped to forge close ties between Washington and the crypto industry, including pushing forward ...

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

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 ...

Ukraine’s allies were holding their breath ahead of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with President Donald Trump yesterday afternoon, fearing a repeat of the public spat in February, which ended with the ...

A Spanish judge has charged Begoña Gómez, the wife of the prime minister Pedro Sánchez, with embezzlement of public funds, in a further escalation of the premier’s conflict with the judiciary. The ...