Category: 4. World

Glaciers in the European Alps are likely to reach their peak rate of extinction in only eight years, according to a study, with more than 100 due to melt away permanently by 2033. Glaciers in the western US and Canada are forecast to reach their…

That means only 110 of the region’s roughly 3,200 glaciers would survive to see the next century. Those are located in the Alps, as the region’s other mountain range, the Iberian Peninsula’s Pyrenees, is set to lose its remaining 15…

The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, was closed on Monday after workers walked out on strike in protest against working conditions and other complaints, dealing another blow to the landmark after an embarrassing jewellery heist in October.

The CFDT union said the vote was…

The UK’s chief rabbi has said his cousin and cousin’s wife “spent 15 terrifying minutes hiding under a doughnut stand” as gunmen opened fire during an attack on a Hanukkah event in Bondi Beach.

“People to their right and left were being shot…

Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French national from the Paris region, was one of the 15 people killed in an attack on a Jewish Hanukkah festival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday.

Elkayam held a master’s degree in computer engineering and had been working in Sydney since December 2024.

The…

Berlin prosecutors say they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party with making a Nazi salute in parliament.

The suspect allegedly “greeted a party colleague … at the east entrance to the Reichstag building…

London, United Kingdom – Lawyers and loved ones of hunger strikers linked to the protest group Palestine Action are warning the activists could die in prison as they accuse British prison officials of a lack of care and communication and the…

MADRID — Spain’s government has fined Airbnb 64 million euros ($75 million) for advertising unlicensed tourist rentals, officials said Monday.

The rentals didn’t include license numbers — a requirement in many regions in Spain — or included…

A pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins off the coast of British Columbia have been observed cooperating with orcas, a traditional enemy that’s better known for taking out great white sharks than friendly…