UK firms pause hiring as Iran war stings, REC survey shows
Britain's jobs market cooled rapidly in May after employers put the brakes on permanent hiring after the Iran war heightened cost pressures and uncertainty about the
June 08, 2026Britain's jobs market cooled rapidly in May after employers put the brakes on permanent hiring after the Iran war heightened cost pressures and uncertainty about the
June 08, 2026
The leaders of Britain, Germany and France said on Sunday they supported a proposal for talks between Ukrainian
June 07, 2026
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday said Russian magnate Roman Abramovich had met him in Kyiv and offered to take a message to the Kremlin on peace prospects, but the
June 08, 2026
Airbus SE has been notifying some customers of delays on A320neo series jets that are due to be delivered in 2027 and 2028, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar
June 08, 2026
The leaders of Britain, Germany and France said on Sunday they supported a proposal for talks between Ukrainian
June 08, 2026
Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party won Kosovo's parliamentary election on Sunday, the Balkan country's third in just 18 months, but fell short of the
June 07, 2026
The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.
June 07, 2026
Moldova's President Maia Sandu said the war in neighbouring Ukraine showed that her country badly needed high-technology interceptor drones and new
June 08, 2026
The leaders of the U.K., Ukraine, France and Germany discussed the “urgent need” to ramp up production of weapons to combat Russia’s powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missiles in a meeting in London on Sunday
June 07, 2026
The ruling party of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti appears to have won most votes in an early parliamentary election
June 07, 2026
Kimi Antonelli’s rise to the top of Formula 1 continued in bizarre circumstances as the 19-year-old Mercedes driver won a much-delayed Monaco Grand Prix
June 07, 2026
Alexander Zverev is no longer one of the best players never to win a major title
June 07, 2026
Dua Lipa and Callum Turner throw a big Italian wedding
June 08, 2026
Ukraine’s deadly strikes are bringing the war home to Russians, and discontent is bubbling up
June 07, 2026
Italy’s ITA Airways will decide within the next eight weeks whether to sue aerospace supplier RTX’s Pratt & Whitney due to engine problems that
June 07, 2026
Armenians are voting in a parliamentary election as the government seeks to loosen ties with Moscow and increase cooperation with the West
June 07, 2026
Britain’s deputy prime minister said Sunday that he told U.S. Vice President JD Vance he was wrong to blame immigration for the death of a university student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from a stab wound
June 07, 2026
Israeli settlers could face further sanctions in coming days in protest at the escalation of illegal settlements in the West Bank and a surge in violence by settlers against
June 07, 2026
Over a million people filled the streets near one of Madrid's main squares on Sunday to join Pope Leo for an outdoor Mass, likely to be the
June 07, 2026
Armenians voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of the government's efforts to forge a peace deal after a crushing military defeat
June 07, 2026
An opera by a Ukrainian composer that premiered in Kyiv this week tells the story of two mothers and a grandmother who risked their lives to travel 3,000 miles
June 07, 2026
Russian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's Chornobyl power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, in an "
June 07, 2026
It is time for Europe to give up its long-standing political resistance to joint debt issuance, as a large-scale safe asset would bolster the bloc's sovereignty and
June 07, 2026
Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Free-iliad Group said on Saturday they
June 07, 2026
Divisions, migration and Bad Bunny. What Pope Leo’s Spain visit tells us about his priorities
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo XIV acknowledges that he's competing with another VIP in Madrid this weekend
June 06, 2026
A massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania
June 03, 2026
Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was already a tennis phenom at age 15
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo on Saturday urged global leaders to stop dividing their electorates with "sterile simplifications," calling on them to listen
June 06, 2026
King Charles III, Queen Camilla and other senior British royals were among guests attending the wedding of Charles' nephew, Peter Phillips
June 06, 2026
King Charles and senior British royals gathered at a village in south-west England on Saturday to celebrate the wedding of Princess Anne's businessman son, Peter
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo may have traded his life in Chicago for the ornate apartments at the Vatican's apostolic palace, but he still plans to root for
June 06, 2026
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June 06, 2026
Armenian authorities arrested six candidates for a pro-Russian opposition party on Saturday, a day before they were due to stand in general elections,
June 06, 2026
Lithuania's ruling Social Democrat party voted on Saturday to remove the populist Nemunas Dawn, whose leader was sentenced for antisemitism, from the
June 06, 2026
Residents of St. Petersburg have been told to stay indoors after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city
June 06, 2026
Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France, has died
June 06, 2026
Armenia's parliamentary elections Sunday will focus on its geopolitical future as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seeks closer ties with the EU and the U.S. That is despite Armenia's longstanding relations with Russia that are favored by most of the country's opposition parties
June 06, 2026
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June 06, 2026
Putin rebuffs Zelensky’s call for face-to-face talks, saying there is ‘no point’
June 05, 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s weeklong visit to Spain will bring him to a once-staunchly Catholic country that has long been in the throes of waning religious practice
June 06, 2026
Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, insists voters will support him despite controversies about his past
June 05, 2026
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June 06, 2026
UK’s Starmer hits out at people ‘trying to interfere in our democracy,’ after Vance blames Nowak death on mass migration
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo will meet with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his week-long visit to Spain, the Vatican said on Friday.
June 06, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office has condemned comments by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who blames immigration for the death of a university student
June 06, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's open letter offering face-to-face peace talks to end the war in Ukraine was addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin but
June 05, 2026
Russia accused Ukraine on Friday of killing Azerbaijani crew on board two cargo vessels headed for a Russian port, in a drone attack which Baku said had killed at least five
June 05, 2026
Dash cam video shows wrong-way driver on Interstate 295 in Portland, Maine
June 06, 2026
A firestorm of recrimination rages in France over the death of an 11-year-old girl named Lyhanna
June 05, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting, saying he sees “no point” in it
June 05, 2026
Actor Anthony Head, known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72
June 05, 2026
Serena Williams’ comeback will include a stop in Berlin this month
June 05, 2026
Two Romanian men whom British prosecutors said were acting as proxies for the Iranian government were on Friday found guilty of stabbing a journalist working for a Persian-
June 05, 2026
A British man on Friday pleaded guilty to helping the perpetrator of a deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue in October to carry out earlier reconnaissance on a UK defence
June 05, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he currently saw no reason to meet Volodymyr Zelenskiy after the
June 05, 2026
French anti-terrorism prosecutors said on Friday they had opened a preliminary investigation into suspected torture and war crimes over the alleged mistreatment by Israeli
June 05, 2026
Commerzbank said on Friday that shares equivalent to 7.85% of its capital have so far been tendered under UniCredit's €40 billion takeover bid, as the two
June 05, 2026
The European Commission is weighing legislation that could force companies in sensitive sectors to cut reliance on single suppliers - notably in China
June 05, 2026
The U.S. military is waiting for clarity from the Pentagon following President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth on troop levels in Europe
June 05, 2026
Far from its European homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina has zealous fans in the American Midwest as it prepares for its second World Cup
June 05, 2026
A father of six has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for a rape 23 years ago, which another man was wrongly convicted of
June 05, 2026
Norway rejects a U.S. assessment that the Nordic country has failed to prevent forced labour, its foreign minister told Reuters, adding that the allegation was unfounded and should
June 05, 2026
A sea drone self-destructed near an oil terminal in Romania's Black Sea port of Constanta on Friday, without causing casualties, as Ukraine said Russia
June 05, 2026
Switzerland has agreed a military cooperation plan with neighbouring France for the upcoming gathering of world leaders at the Group of 7 summit in mid-June, the government
June 05, 2026
Italy appealed on Friday for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been
June 05, 2026
Finnish police investigating last year's damage to two subsea telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea said on Friday that four people are suspected of a crime, and that
June 05, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will hold talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on
June 05, 2026
A Ukrainian maritime drone has exploded at a Black Sea port in Romania, with three others self-detonating outside the port, according to Romanian authorities
June 05, 2026
Ukraine and Russia each exchanged 185 service personnel in the latest prisoner of war swap on Friday, officials in both countries said.
June 05, 2026
Armenia holds a parliamentary election on Sunday that pits the governing Civil Contract party, which is pursuing closer ties with the West, against an
June 05, 2026
Istanbul ‘corn star’ becomes tourist attraction
June 05, 2026
Montenegro is on track to join the European Union by 2028, according to EU leaders and the country's president
June 05, 2026
A Russian amusement park in St Petersburg has named one of its rides the "Oreshnik", after a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that Moscow has fired three
June 05, 2026
The European Union must show it is willing and able to take in new members, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday
June 05, 2026
A Swedish court has ruled that the seizure of a cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea was lawful and that the ship can be handed over to Ukraine, where it is suspected of
June 05, 2026
A body discovered in southwestern France was identified on Friday as that of a missing 11-year-old girl whose case
June 05, 2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday denied knowing about an alleged plot to derail investigations into corruption cases dogging his Socialist Party, saying he was
June 05, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sublet cottages on Royal Lodge estate while he paid peppercorn rent, report says
June 05, 2026
Hungary's government will submit to parliament next week anti-corruption legislation needed to release billions of euros worth of suspended European
June 05, 2026
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) has begun an investigation into the Boeing 787 jetliner whose nose gear collapsed on Thursday at a gate at
June 05, 2026
The United States warned on Friday that it would reconsider its role in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) after the international body overseeing the Balkan country's peace
June 05, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been informed about an open letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Izvestia news
June 05, 2026
A Russian drone attack on a dairy factory in a region surrounding the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has killed four people and injured seven more, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
June 05, 2026
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant after a significant deterioration in her health that likely gave
June 05, 2026
Hungary's government will stop issuing worker visas to employees from the Philippines, Georgia and Armenia from Friday, a government spokeswoman said, calling the move a
June 05, 2026
Apollo Global Management and Britain's Bodycote have ended talks over a £1.52 billion ($2 billion) takeover proposal, they said on Friday, sending shares of the
June 05, 2026
Switzerland will continue trade talks with the United States while rejecting allegations that it failed to combat imports of goods made with forced labour, the government
June 05, 2026
Russian nationalists dismissed on Friday an open letter penned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to President Vladimir Putin as a malicious public
June 05, 2026
Norway’s crown princess on waiting list for lung transplant
June 05, 2026
A report by Britain's public spending watchdog shows that the former Prince Andrew made money by subletting cottages on the estate where he lived rent-free for two decades
June 05, 2026
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June 05, 2026
Italy's economy will grow by 0.7% this year, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, trimming a previous forecast of 0.8% made in December.
June 05, 2026
Britain is running out of time to boost its defences in response to the threat posed by recent Russian actions, the country's military chief said on Friday,
June 05, 2026
World food prices slipped in May from a revised April level, with vegetable oil prices falling for the first time this year while cereals and sugar
June 05, 2026
British businesses expect to increase prices less quickly in the year ahead than they did in April as some of the initial energy price shock caused by the
June 05, 2026
European shares slipped on Friday and ended the week lower, as uncertainty about Middle East peace efforts kept investors on
June 05, 2026
The European Central Bank is expected to hike interest rates on Thursday,
June 05, 2026
Setting out as a trio of ambitious young former Goldman Sachs bankers, Partners Group rose from plucky startup to become a global player in private equity,
June 05, 2026