-- 2021-08-02 11:46:26
Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants, including Bangladeshis, from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday in an operation lasting about six hours,...
-- 2021-08-02 10:28:56
Restaurants, ride-hailing apps and food delivery services are backing Britain’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, offering discounts and even free slices of pizza to persuade young people to roll up t...
-- 2021-08-01 10:56:56
Thousands of people protested in Paris and other French cities on Saturday against a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to a wide array of public venues, introduced by the government as it ba...
-- 2021-07-31 11:25:13
The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast has risen to four and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day on Friday after the evacuation of dozens of villages and some hotels....
REUTERS 2021-07-31 10:30:12
Syrian volunteers have rushed to towns hit by Germany's most devastating floods in 60 years to clean them up and renovate homes, drawing on their experience with catastrophes in their homeland to help...
REUTERS 2021-07-27 20:08:31
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that his dog Dilyn had "romantic urges" and was "endlessly at people's legs" in Downing Street. Johnson and Carrie Symonds revealed in 2019 that t...
REUTERS 2021-07-23 14:05:36
Bad Muenstereifel's transformation from picturesque but sleepy German tourist town into an outlet shopping centre put it on the map for millions of visitors. Then floods laid waste to its medieval st...
-- 2021-07-22 18:12:20
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate released a new photograph of their son Prince George with a beaming smile to mark his eighth birthday on Thursday. The photograph taken by his mother,...
-- 2021-07-21 21:28:19
A relief official dampened hopes on Wednesday of finding more survivors in the rubble of villages devastated by floods in western Germany, as a poll showed many Germans felt policymakers had not done...
-- 2021-07-20 15:03:04
Simon Dring, a famous British foreign correspondent, television producer and presenter, who rose to fame for covering wars and revolutions around the world, has died at the age of 76, bdnews24.com rep...
-- 2021-07-20 10:48:09
European authorities have revised down the number of people missing as waters receded after devastating flooding in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland last week, even as the death toll...
-- 2021-07-20 09:43:43
The Duke of Sussex will share "mistakes and lessons learned" during his life in a memoir to be published next year. Announcing the deal with publishers Penguin Random House, Prince Harry said he...
REUTERS 2021-07-18 19:37:29
Flash floods hit southern Germany on Sunday, killing at least one person, turning roads into rivers and adding to the flooding devastation that has claimed the lives of more than 180 people across Eur...
REUTERS 2021-07-18 15:29:00
Britain has opted against mass Covid-19 vaccinations for all children and teenagers, with ministers instead preparing to offer doses to vulnerable 12 to 15-year-olds and those about to turn 18, the Te...
-- 2021-07-17 20:08:43
British health minister Sajid Javid on Saturday said he had tested positive for COVID-19, but that his symptoms were mild and he had had two doses of vaccine against the disease, reports Reuters. Jav...
REUTERS 2021-07-17 19:16:42
Rescue workers searched flood-ravaged parts of Germany and Belgium for survivors on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this week collapsed houses and claimed at least 157 lives. Some 133 pe...
-- 2021-07-16 20:24:32
More than 1,000 people were missing in flood-stricken regions of western Germany and Belgium on Friday, where waters were still rising with the death toll already well over 100 and communications in s...
REUTERS 2021-07-16 19:20:06
The Eiffel Tower reopened on Friday after an eight-month shutdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, its longest closure since World War Two. As a countdown clock at the foot of the tower turned to ze...
REUTERS 2021-07-16 18:36:17
A Russian Antonov An-28 passenger plane carrying up to 17 people disappeared from radars on Friday while flying over the Siberian region of Tomsk, local officials said, the second such incident this m...
REUTERS 2021-07-16 08:27:41
At least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing on Thursday as swollen rivers caused by record rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages, leaving cars upended, ho...
REUTERS 2021-07-15 20:25:59
At least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing on Thursday as record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, swept away homes and flooded cellars. Eighteen peo...
REUTERS 2021-07-15 20:11:55
Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R De Vries has died just over a week after being shot in the street, his family and his employer RTL Netherlands news said on Thursday. De Vries, who was 64, had...
-- 2021-07-15 16:34:57
Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, the European Union's top court said on Thursday in a ruling on two cases brought by women in Germany who were susp...
REUTERS 2021-07-13 17:31:18
France's antitrust watchdog slapped a 500-million-euro ($593 million) fine on Alphabet's Google on Tuesday for failing to comply fully with temporary orders the regulator had given in a row with the c...
-- 2021-07-11 18:23:45
A 90-year-old Belgian woman who died from COVID-19 in March had contracted two variants of coronavirus at the same time, which is believed to be the first documented case of its kind, a scientific con...
-- 2021-07-09 10:37:00
All nine people onboard were killed when a small airplane crashed at a Swedish airport on Thursday evening, Swedish police said. "It's a very severe accident," Swedish police said on their website. "...
REUTERS 2021-07-08 18:57:59
COVID-19 infections in England have quadrupled in a month since early June, a large prevalence study showed on Thursday, ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to fully re-open the economy in tw...
-- 2021-07-06 17:17:37
There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying. The Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop...
REUTERS 2021-06-28 20:04:55
Sweden will ease many of its restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 on July 1, allowing larger crowds at stadiums and restaurants, the minister of health said on Monday. Sweden has...
The Guardian 2021-06-27 21:15:48
Two-thirds of countries classified as ‘not free’ because of their dire record on human rights and civil liberties have received weapons licensed by the UK government over the past decade,...
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