The Kremlin yesterday branded Finland’s Nato membership an “assault on our security” and said it would take countermeasures.

Around one in every six adults experiences infertility, the World Health Organization estimated yesterday as it called for an urgent increase in access to fertility care.

Finland will join Nato today, marking the completion of a swift journey into the military alliance for the Nordic nation following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, officials said.

Their power to dissolve the ozone layer shielding Earth from the Sun prompted a worldwide ban, but scientists yesterday revealed that some human-made chlorofluorocarbons have reached record levels, boosting climate-changing emissions.

Russia yesterday accused Ukraine of organising the murder of a prominent war blogger in a St Petersburg cafe and arrested a young Russian woman shown in a police video admitting planting the bomb that killed him and injured over 30 others.

UK passport office workers launched a five-week stoppage yesterday, the latest walkout in strike-hit Britain as the country reels from the worst cost of living crisis in a generation.

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci led a violent campaign of murder and torture against opponents during the 1998-1999 independence war with Serbia, prosecutors told the start of his war crimes trial yesterday.

Mexico has recovered from the United States a giant stone statue known as an “Earth monster” that dates to the Olmec civilization before the Christian era, authorities said.

The European Union will guard against any abuse during Russia’s presidency of the United Nations Security Council during the month of April, the bloc’s foreign policy chief said.

Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman yesterday said the UK government was “in negotiations” after three British men were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Four artificial intelligence experts have expressed concern after their work was cited in an open letter – co-signed by Elon Musk – demanding an urgent pause in research.

Russia said on Friday that if the United States threatened Moscow over its arrest of Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich, it would reap a “whirlwind”, the state-owned news agency RIA reported.

Italy’s privacy watchdog said yesterday it had blocked the controversial robot ChatGPT, saying the artificial intelligence app did not respect user data and could not verify users’ age.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed off on a new Russian foreign policy strategy aimed at curtailing Western “dominance” and identifying China and India

The devastating earthquake that hit southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria in February damaged more than 20 percent of Turkey’s agricultural production, the UN’s food agency said yesterday.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday warned Beijing that its stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine would determine Chinese-EU ties but said Europe was not looking to “decouple” from China.

The UN General Assembly yesterday adopted by consensus and to cheers a landmark resolution calling for the world body’s top court to lay out nations’ legal obligations in combatting climate change.

Scientists have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the Moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the “explorers of tomorrow”.

Cancer-causing chemical compounds called nitrosamines have been detected in a range of everyday foods and could pose a health risk to consumers, the European Food Safety Agency warned yesterday.

The 27 EU member states yesterday approved a deal between Brussels and Germany that lifted Berlin’s block on a planned phase-out of sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035.