Brexit future looks bleak

British Prime Minister Theresa May was accused yesterday of misleading MPs over her Brexit deal as her government published legal advice likely to increase opposition to the agreement ahead of a crucial vote next week.
5 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Govts must protect people

Governments must protect citizens from the killer effects of climate change, movie tough guy-turned-statesman Arnold Schwarzenegger
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Macron bows to pressure

France's prime minister yesterday suspended planned increases to fuel taxes for at least six months in response to weeks of
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM

'Penalised' for others mistakes

Nations facing imminent environmental disaster on Monday called on rich polluters to help them back from the brink, as the UN
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Frenchman found guilty on appeal

A Frenchman at the centre of a scandal that led to the postponement of this year's Nobel Literature Prize was yesterday found guilty on
3 December 2018, 18:00 PM

A happy ending

For many visitors to New York, Times Square is a must-see. For one British man, it was where his romantic marriage proposal went
3 December 2018, 18:00 PM

'The war will continue' in Ukraine: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he saw no end to the conflict in eastern Ukraine "as long as the current authorities
2 December 2018, 18:00 PM

COP24 begins with direst warnings

With the direst environmental warnings yet still ringing in their ears, nations gathered in Poland yesterday for a UN summit aimed at
2 December 2018, 18:00 PM

France mulls state of emergency

President Emmanuel Macron rushed to the Arc de Triomphe yesterday after one of France's most revered monuments was vandalised
2 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Another UK minister quits over Brexit

British government minister Sam Gyimah quit late Friday over Prime Minister Theresa May's "naive" Brexit plan, dealing her another blow in her fight to pass it through parliament.
1 December 2018, 18:00 PM

1.5m children need emergency aid: UN

Two-thirds of all children in Central African Republic need emergency aid, the UN said yesterday, sounding an alarm about the impoverished country's worsening "neglected" crisis.
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen yesterday pleaded guilty in a New York court to misleading Congress over the ongoing Russia investigation.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM

German police raid Deutsche Bank

German prosecutors raided several Deutsche Bank offices in the Frankfurt area yesterday over suspicions of money laundering based on revelations from the 2016 "Panama Papers" data leak.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM

UN: 2018 set to be among the hottest

Global temperatures in 2018 are set to be the fourth highest on record, the UN said yesterday, stressing the urgent need for action to rein in runaway warming of the planet.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Putin wants whole Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko yesterday accused Russia's Vladimir Putin of wanting to annex his entire country and called for Nato to deploy warships to a sea shared by the two nations.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM

'Full-scale war' looms

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned of the threat of "full-scale war" and said Russia had sharply increased its military presence on their shared border as tensions escalate between the ex-Soviet neighbours.
28 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Weak El Nino likely to form by February

There is a 75-80 percent chance of a weak El Nino weather pattern forming by February and a slightly lower likelihood that it will continue through the northern hemisphere winter of 2018-19, the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said yesterday.
27 November 2018, 18:00 PM

May's Brexit hope ebbs

Theresa May's Brexit deal is "doomed" to fail, a former Tory cabinet minister has said, in the wake of warnings from Donald Trump that the blueprint could hinder trade with the US.
27 November 2018, 18:00 PM

France to close 14 nuke reactors by 2035

President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that France would shut down 14 of the country's 58 nuclear reactors currently in operation by
27 November 2018, 18:00 PM

French official arrested For spying for N Korea

Intelligence agencies have arrested a senior French civil servant who worked at the Senate on suspicion he passed confidential
27 November 2018, 18:00 PM