Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of rockets at Israel after its air strikes killed top commanders and felled another tower block there. The escalation, which began on Monday, has triggered street violence in Israel between Jews and Is...
A former ambassador has been named as the first woman to lead Italy's secret services. Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced his choice of Elisabetta Belloni as head of the Department of Information Security (DIS) on Wednesday. The department overs...
Cloaked by darkness and guarded by police, they huddle together at the port: the latest migrants to reach Lampedusa, out of the shadows and into Europe. More than 2,000 have reached the southern Italian island since Saturday, raising fears that the...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said for the first time that climate change is being driven at least in part by humans. The agency made the acknowledgement in a new report that had been delayed by the Trump White House since 2017. ...
The US state of Ohio will award cash prizes of $1m (£710,000) to five recipients of Covid-19 vaccines as part of a lottery launched to boost flagging up-take of jabs. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said only adult residents who had had a vaccine would be...
A man has been charged with multiple counts of murder over a mass shooting at a school in Kazan, Russia. Nine people were killed in the attack at School No. 175 on Tuesday – seven pupils and two members of staff – making it Russia's deadliest sch...
But on Thursday, it backtracked on its previous comments. "We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel," Mr Musk wrote. "Cryptocurren...
"Civil war has broken out in Lod." That is how Mayor Yair Revivo described the situation after violence exploded in the mixed Arab-Jewish Israeli town, lying 15km (9 miles) south-east of Tel Aviv. Protests by Israeli Arabs in the town turned into f...
Amazon has won a court battle over €250m (£215m) in taxes it had been ordered to pay Luxembourg. The European Commission had ordered the tech giant to repay the funds as back taxes, alleging that Amazon had been given unfair special treatment. But ...
A Pacific football fish, a spooky looking creature similar to that featured in the film Finding Nemo, has washed up on a beach in California. It's a species of anglerfish that somehow found its way from ocean depths to the shores of Newport Beach. ...
