Tom Stoppard, one of Britain's best-known playwrights, has died at the age of 88. Below are some tributes and reactions.
November 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, emphasizing Christian unity during his trip to Turkey
November 29, 2025
U.S. and Ukrainian officials completed roughly four hours of talks aimed at finding an endgame to the war between Russia and Ukraine
November 30, 2025
Pope Leo urged political leaders in Lebanon on Sunday to make peace their highest priority in a forceful appeal in a country that remains a target of
November 30, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that he was naming Ukraine's former ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, as his new adviser on reconstruction and investment.
November 30, 2025
Trump says there’s a ‘good chance’ a deal can be reached to end the war after US-Ukraine talks in Florida
November 30, 2025
Swiss voters have decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms as men must do already
November 30, 2025
Talks between Russia and the U.S. on ending the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were constructive, but much work remains
December 02, 2025
Greek farmers clashed with police on Sunday during protests in central and northern regions over the delayed payment of European Union subsidies prompted by an
November 30, 2025
A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens has sold for $2.7 million at an auction Sunday
November 30, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he was proud of last week's budget, defending not only what he described as the "fair
November 30, 2025
A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and
December 01, 2025
Ukrainian officials met with U.S. President Donald Trump's representatives Sunday, and Washington officials are expected in Moscow for more peace talks this week
December 01, 2025
Pope Leo XIV visits holy sites in Lebanon on Monday, drawing Christians and Muslims
December 01, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Lebanon's tradition of interfaith coexistence as a beacon of hope for a conflict-torn region
December 01, 2025
British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq said a Bangladeshi court process which has sentenced her in absentia to two years in prison was "flawed and farcical" and said the verdict
December 01, 2025
HSBC said on Monday it had signed a multi-year deal with French start-up Mistral AI to integrate generative artificial intelligence tools across the bank, aiming to speed up
December 01, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee The year that started with a rate hike in Japan might just end with another after the clearest signal yet from Bank of Japan
December 01, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has shared his thoughts during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned himself to the inevitable and put the rest in God’s hands
December 02, 2025
OSCE election observers said on Monday that a weekend parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan had been efficiently run, but stifled by a restrictive campaign
December 01, 2025
Electric-vehicle maker Tesla has sold more cars in Norway in 2025 than any other automaker ever did in a full year, registration data showed on Monday,
December 01, 2025
Norway's Labour government failed to win backing for its 2026 draft budget by an end-November deadline but talks will resume in parliament
December 01, 2025
Britain's manufacturing sector recorded its first increase in activity since September 2024 last month, bolstered by improved domestic demand and less of a slowdown in orders
December 01, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will pay his first official visit to Ireland on Tuesday, the government said in a statement.
December 01, 2025
Euro zone manufacturing activity slipped back into contraction territory in November on weakening demand that forced firms to cut jobs at the quickest rate in seven
December 01, 2025
German consumer sentiment has slumped to its lowest point of the year, just as shoppers should be flocking to stores for Christmas gifts, raising concerns
December 01, 2025
Germany's manufacturing sector experienced a marked deterioration in business conditions in November, as new orders fell at the fastest rate in ten months,
December 01, 2025
French manufacturing contracted further in November as a drop in production and slower demand for goods hit the sector, a survey from S&P Global said on Monday.
December 01, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended his Treasury chief Rachel Reeves against claims she misled the public about government finances before last week's tax-hiking budget
December 01, 2025
The president of the International Criminal Court said on Monday U.S. sanctions imposed on senior court officials disrupt their personal lives but vowed the institution
December 01, 2025
Tesla registrations in several key European markets plunged in November from a year earlier as the U.S.
December 01, 2025
Russia said on Monday that remarks by NATO's most senior military officer that the U.S.-led military alliance could consider a "pre-emptive strike" to be extremely
December 01, 2025
European leaders rallied to show support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday after U.S.-Ukrainian talks to revise
December 01, 2025
Spain, which is mobilising to contain an outbreak of African swine fever in Barcelona, received confirmation from major pork importer
December 01, 2025
Ruling party lawmakers in Italy are backtracking from assertions that the central bank's $300 billion in gold reserves belong to the state, a document showed, in a bid to avoid
December 01, 2025
Four people were killed and 40 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the eastern-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Monday, Ukrainian officials said.
December 01, 2025
Stellantis Chief Executive Antonio Filosa on Monday welcomed Berlin's call to soften European Union car emissions rules, saying Germany's proposals aligned with industry
December 01, 2025
Dec 1, 2025 - UK stocks dipped on Monday, dragged down by losses in industrials stocks, amid a general risk-off global sentiment across markets, with investors monitoring domestic data sets and the
December 01, 2025
Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe said on Monday it had agreed with union IG Metall to cut or outsource about 11,000 jobs, or 40% of its workforce, and reduce production capacity to a
December 01, 2025
A court in Azerbaijan on Monday ordered a key opposition figure to be held in pre-trial detention until mid-February following his arrest on charges of plotting to overthrow
December 01, 2025
A charitable foundation is making 25 Christmas stockings from the drapes of King Charles III’s Sandringham estate
December 01, 2025
Belgian authorities are puzzled by the theft of an infant Jesus icon from a Nativity scene in Brussels
December 01, 2025
Woman's car hit by piece of Route 120 bridge
December 01, 2025
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday over a peace plan to end the war with Ukraine
December 02, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea
December 01, 2025
The head of Britain's fiscal watchdog resigned on Monday after the agency last week inadvertently released key details of the government's
December 01, 2025
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Monday he is investigating Shein, to determine whether the fast fashion retailer violated state law related to unethical
December 01, 2025
A Libyan war crimes suspect was transferred from Germany to The Hague and put into the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the ICC said on Monday.
December 01, 2025
Balloon incursions are ‘hybrid attack’ on Lithuania’s airspace, EU says as it summons Belarusian representative
December 01, 2025
Canada has reached an agreement to join the European Union's Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative, which will give Canadian defense companies expanded access to the
December 01, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the capture of the key Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk would enable the military to proceed with its tasks in its offensive operations in Ukraine,
December 01, 2025
Russia claims to have captured key city of Pokrovsk, as Ukraine dismisses Moscow’s ‘loud statements’ ahead of Witkoff talks
December 01, 2025
Police in Britain will be able to require illegal migrants to remove their coats and allow mouth searches at British ports so officers can look for mobile phones or SIM cards
December 01, 2025
President Vladimir Putin hailed what his commanders said was Russia's full capture of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine as an important victory, but the Ukrainian
December 01, 2025
Thousands of people rallied in the Bulgarian capital Sofia and several other cities on Monday, protesting against the 2026 budget plan, the first drafted in euros before the
December 01, 2025
British store chains last month reported lower inflation in the run up to Black Friday sales but higher costs in 2026 mean retailers might struggle to keep inflation on its
December 02, 2025
Britain's private sector expects output to slide over the next three months in their gloomiest outlook since May, as cautious consumer spending and cost pressures continue to
December 02, 2025
Canada has joined a major European Union defense fund
December 01, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to China this week for his fourth state visit, as Europe seeks to balance economic and security threats from
December 02, 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was crowned best feature film and the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won three awards Monday at the 35th annual Gotham Awards, a starry kickoff to the film industry’s awards season
December 02, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wrapped up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon
December 02, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin met U.S.
December 02, 2025
A decade after it began working on a capital markets union, the EU is still struggling to agree a framework that encourages savers to
December 02, 2025
However Donald Trump’s latest push to end the war in Ukraine pans out, Europe fears the prospect of a deal – sooner or later – that will not punish or weaken
December 02, 2025
A Russian-flagged tanker loaded with sunflower oil reported a drone attack off the Turkish coast on Tuesday, but its 13 crew members were
December 02, 2025
British house prices rose slightly faster than expected in November, defying concerns about the impact of finance minister Rachel Reeves' budget, and higher wages were
December 02, 2025
Germany's government must do more to save industry from the country's economic "free fall", said the BDI sector association on Tuesday, as it slashed its
December 02, 2025
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December 02, 2025
The Prada Group has officially purchased Milan fashion rival Versace for $1.375 billion
December 02, 2025
Apple can be sued in a Dutch court for antitrust damages, Europe's highest court said on
December 02, 2025
Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev will meet U.S. special representative Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Tuesday, sources close to U.S.-Russia talks told Reuters.
December 02, 2025
Euro zone inflation unexpectedly ticked up last month, likely solidifying bets that no further European Central Bank rate cuts are coming anytime soon, data from Eurostat
December 02, 2025
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul will visit China from December 8 to 9, two sources familiar with his plans said, after he abruptly cancelled a planned
December 02, 2025
Italy's government is set to delay the approval of a decree that would allow Rome to prolong military supplies to Ukraine into next year, sources close to the
December 02, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators had "refined" a framework peace agreement developed in Geneva during their recent
December 02, 2025
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party narrowed the gap on opposition rival Tisza in November, an opinion poll showed on
December 02, 2025
Inflation in the euro zone is practically at the European Central Bank's 2% target and will fluctuate around it despite a tariff-induced price rise in the United States,
December 02, 2025
A task force of EU vets began work in Barcelona on Tuesday to help contain an African swine fever outbreak as Spain, one of the world's
December 02, 2025
NATO Chief Mark Rutte repeated on Tuesday that the consensus needed for Ukraine to join the alliance is not there at the moment.
December 02, 2025
U.S.
December 02, 2025
Belgian police on Tuesday detained former European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and a current senior EU diplomat as part of a
December 02, 2025
Amazon is cutting the fees it charges sellers in Europe as it responds to competition from marketplaces like Shein and Temu that sell clothes, homeware and
December 02, 2025
Switzerland may need to get used to U.S. tariffs, a top Swiss trade negotiator was quoted as saying on Tuesday after the country reached a tariff deal to get parity with the
December 02, 2025
Airbus is assessing the impact on year-end deliveries of a fuselage quality issue on some A320 jets after the newly discovered snag led to "weak" November
December 02, 2025
Indonesia and the Netherlands on Tuesday signed a deal to repatriate two elderly Dutch prisoners convicted of drug offences, officials said, one of whom was on death row.
December 02, 2025
France's ageing population will drive public spending to pandemic-era highs in coming decades while eroding tax income, the public audit office warned on Tuesday.
December 02, 2025
Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyaryov says the country’s skiers and snowboarders have won a court ruling to get the chance to apply to compete as neutral athletes for qualification events to the Winter Olympics
December 02, 2025
The message behind Putin’s camouflage-clad claim of victory in a key Ukrainian city
December 02, 2025
Isack Hadjar will team up with his childhood hero Max Verstappen at Red Bull next year after an impressive rookie season
December 02, 2025
A long-running investigation into the 1989 Hillsborough stadium soccer tragedy has found that 12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct proceedings for their failings during and after Britain’s worst sports disaster
December 02, 2025
Pavarotti statue stuck in skating rink sparks outrage in Italy
December 02, 2025
In a labour market where artificial intelligence is quickly transforming and sometimes replacing jobs, student Maryna Yaroshenko wanted
December 02, 2025
Romania's government sought fast-track parliamentary approval on Tuesday for a bill raising the retirement age for judges and prosecutors and capping their pensions after
December 02, 2025
President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of
December 02, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened on Tuesday to sever Ukraine's access to the sea in response to drone attacks on tankers of Russia's "shadow fleet" in the Black
December 02, 2025
Hermes heir Nicolas Puech has sued Bernard Arnault and his LVMH luxury conglomerate, among other parties, in a civil case related to
December 02, 2025
Police in Britain must act urgently to prevent sexual offences against women and girls and have shown a "troubling lack of momentum and ambition", an inquiry into the case of
December 02, 2025
Eugene Hasenfus, who played a key role in unraveling the Iran-Contra affair after his CIA-backed supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986, has died
December 02, 2025
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor denied six-figure compensation payout for leaving Royal Lodge, crown estate says
December 02, 2025
Slovakia's parliament gave initial approval on Tuesday to dismantle the country's whistleblower protection office and replace it with a new body, a move critics say
December 02, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had some optimism around peace efforts due to the speed of the process and the United States' interest in finding a
December 02, 2025
Pope Leo revealed on Tuesday that at the moment of his election as leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church, he turned to God with
December 02, 2025
Fabergé egg fetches record $30.2 million at rare auction
December 02, 2025
Gunvor's new CEO, Gary Pedersen, said on Tuesday there were no immediate plans to rebrand the Swiss-based commodities trader, a day
December 02, 2025
Ireland's media regulator began investigations into TikTok and LinkedIn on Tuesday over concerns that their illegal content reporting mechanisms are not easy to access or do
December 02, 2025
Police arrested prominent Tunisian opposition figure Ayachi Hammami at his home on Tuesday to enforce a five-year prison term on a conviction for conspiracy
December 02, 2025
Conservative legislators in Germany voted by a large majority in favour of a contested pension reform package in what had been billed as a trial ballot ahead
December 02, 2025
Putin says US plan could be ‘basis’ of a Ukraine deal but threatens to take land by force if Kyiv doesn’t withdraw
November 27, 2025
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November 27, 2025
European nations agreed on Thursday to increase spending on space over the next three years by about 30% to 22.1 billion euros, part of an effort to try to catch
November 27, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are to meet this week to work out a formula discussed at talks in Geneva to bring peace and
November 27, 2025
Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV
November 27, 2025
Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt has started the World Cup super-G season with a Thanksgiving win at Copper Mountain and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde reduced fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin to tears by making his comeback after nearly two years out
November 27, 2025
Moldova's Parliament voted on Thursday to close a Russian cultural centre, a new bid to reduce Moscow's influence in the country a day after Russia's ambassador was
November 27, 2025
Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, whose supply chain was broken up when the Dutch government took over the company in September, urged its Chinese units in an open letter on
November 27, 2025
The European Commission should resist automakers' calls to allow cars to run on biofuels beyond 2035 because they are in short supply and not truly carbon-
November 27, 2025
‘Greatest of them all’: Fabergé’s Winter Egg is poised to smash auction records
November 28, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has marked a significant moment in his first foreign trip to Turkey by visiting the site of the historic Council of Nicaea
November 28, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has joined Orthodox patriarchs and ecumenical leaders in Turkey to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea
November 28, 2025
A rare Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before the revolution is going up for auction
November 27, 2025
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has met Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks at the Kremlin
November 28, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country’s lead negotiator in talks with the U.S. The resignation on Friday came hours after Yermak’s residence was searched by anti-corruption investigators
November 28, 2025
Zelensky’s top aide and key peace negotiator resigns after anti-corruption raid of his home
November 28, 2025
The Louvre museum has approved a ticket price increase for non-EU visitors, raising it from 22 to 32 euros starting in January
November 28, 2025
EU antitrust regulators will examine whether Apple's Apple Ads and Apple Maps should be subject to the onerous requirements of the bloc's digital
November 28, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's powerful chief of staff Andriy Yermak, a close ally who has headed Ukraine's negotiation team at fraught U.S.-backed peace talks, quit
November 28, 2025
Alphabet's Google on Friday dropped its EU
November 28, 2025
Euro zone growth and inflation remain on a benign path, a slew of fresh data suggested on Friday, supporting economists' bets that no further European Central Bank rate cuts are
November 28, 2025
German inflation accelerated more than expected in November, reaching the highest level since February, while the number of people out of work rose and retail sales
November 28, 2025
Italy's economy posted marginal growth of 0.1% in the third quarter from the previous three months thanks mainly to exports, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, revising
November 28, 2025
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said the European Union's plan to use frozen Russian state assets to fund Ukraine could endanger the chances for a
November 28, 2025
Bulgaria's government will resubmit to parliament for approval its 2026 budget plan, the first drafted in euros before the country adopts the currency on January 1, the prime minister
November 28, 2025
Spanish retail sales rose 3.8% in October from a year earlier on a calendar-adjusted basis and excluding the effects of inflation, after falling from a revised 4.1% in September, the
November 28, 2025
Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate fell to 3.1% in November, from 3.2% in the period through October, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE)
November 28, 2025
Sweden's gross domestic product grew 1.1% in the third quarter of 2025 from the previous three month period and grew 2.6% compared to the same quarter a year earlier, final
November 28, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow on Friday on a rare visit by an EU and NATO leader, saying he would still be happy for
November 28, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee On perhaps the slowest trading day of the year, investors are dealing with an outage on CME Group platform affecting
November 28, 2025
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday became the first German head of state to visit Guernica, the Basque town devastated by a Nazi air raid during
November 28, 2025
Ask Ukrainians who the country's most powerful figure was after the president, and many would say Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff and a key negotiator during four
November 28, 2025
China has banned pork imports from Barcelona province after Spain detected its first case of African swine fever in three decades in two wild
November 28, 2025
French telecoms group Orange is right to temporarily close its site in Marseille to protect staff from problems related to drug gangs in the area, the country's
November 28, 2025
Workers went on strike at Amazon warehouses in Germany on Black Friday aiming to disrupt operations on a key sales day as they push for a collective bargaining
November 28, 2025
The International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that the Philippines' 80-year-old former President Rodrigo Duterte must remain detained despite a
November 28, 2025
Romanian Defence Minister Ionut Mosteanu resigned on Friday after admitting he had lied about his studies in his resume, saying he did not want his personal "mistakes" to distract
November 28, 2025
The United Nations said on Friday that the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces the previous day appeared to be a "summary execution."
November 28, 2025
The EU executive will unveil next week measures to cut the bloc's over-reliance on China
November 28, 2025
After losing her son to Russia's war in Ukraine, Olya Kachmaryk hopes a new U.S.-backed peace plan can finally end the fighting - even if it could mean giving
November 28, 2025
Germany's Lufthansa wants to increase profitability at its core brand next year after it is set to return to the black this year, Lufthansa Airlines' CEO Jens Ritter said on
November 28, 2025
Italy’s fashion house Armani has appointed a new board to guide the company following the death of its founder Giorgio Armani earlier this year
November 28, 2025
Putin and Modi to discuss Russia-India trade and defense ties amid US pressure
Shops empty in a Hispanic neighborhood as immigration crackdown comes to Louisiana
Trump ventures deeper into anti-immigrant language by calling people from Somalia 'garbage'
Rory McIlroy's late birdie burst means he'll be playing on the weekend at the Australian Open
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street inches closer to its all-time high
Jahmyr Gibbs rushes for 3 TDs and Lions get much-needed 44-30 win over Cowboys