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Pay settlements by British employers held steady in the three months to June despite concerns about the Iran war and economic uncertainty, according to data published on
July 22, 2026Pay settlements by British employers held steady in the three months to June despite concerns about the Iran war and economic uncertainty, according to data published on
July 22, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday named a young major general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, as the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's military
July 22, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi as commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces
July 22, 2026
The England World Cup forward Morgan Rogers has completed his British transfer record move from Aston Villa to Premier League rival Chelsea
July 22, 2026
The top federal prosecutor in Seattle who was fired last week less than an hour after being sworn in is suing the government over his termination
July 22, 2026
Moroccan man’s death in Italian police custody sparks some violent protests and calls for justice
July 22, 2026
French lawmakers have adopted a bill banning children under 15 from using social media, making France the first country in the European Union to approve a blanket ban on platforms as concerns grow worldwide over the harmful effects of digital content on kids
July 22, 2026
A Milan court has rejected a request for precautionary measures filed by Telecom Italia (TIM) against KKR-backed FiberCop over new tariffs for access to Italy's main fixed-
July 21, 2026
Civilian injuries and deaths increased by more than a third in Ukraine in the first half of the year, driven by rising drone attacks, the U.N. human rights office said on
July 21, 2026
A group of 25 U.S. lawmakers has written to U.S.
July 21, 2026
Italy plans to use the European Union's so-called "escape clause" from the bloc's budget rules to fund measures aimed at softening energy costs in 2027 and 2028, a statement
July 21, 2026
A mayor in southern France was whisked from his home during the night and placed in police protection after authorities got wind of a potential
July 21, 2026
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday that flight records suggested former and current German and Russian officials had held a clandestine meeting in Baku
July 21, 2026
American rider Brandon McNulty was apparently the subject of a road rage incident before Tuesday’s time trial at the Tour de France
July 21, 2026
UEFA has punished CSKA Sofia for fans’ Nazi salutes and violent conduct at a Europa League game with a 50,000 euros ($57,000) fine and a ban on ticket sales
July 21, 2026
UK politician Ann Widdecombe was struck 21 times with a hammer, court hears
July 21, 2026
Prosecutors say the man charged with killing former British politician Ann Widdecombe struck her 21 times in the head with a hammer
July 21, 2026
Britain's new defence minister Wes Streeting on Tuesday said it was "irresponsible" for Russia to have conducted a live-fire weapons exercise off the English coast.
July 21, 2026
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday he would cut taxes on electricity bills, the first of several early moves to signal
July 21, 2026
A Russian guided-bomb attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least three people on Tuesday and injured more than a dozen, regional
July 21, 2026
Former British government minister Ann Widdecombe was killed by a man who struck her on the head 21 times with a hammer while she was eating lunch at home
July 21, 2026
Turkey's opposition leader, Ozgur Ozel, said he would form a new party to challenge Tayyip Erdogan, a political splintering that could boost the
July 21, 2026
British retailer Frasers said on Tuesday that it has raised its holdings in Hugo Boss to about 30.28%, crossing a key regulatory threshold in its takeover pursuit of the German
July 21, 2026
Britain's Rolls-Royce needs a decision from the UK government soon on whether it will provide a subsidy to help the engineering company develop
July 21, 2026
Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel said on Tuesday he would resign his post and form a new party, a political splintering that compounds the
July 21, 2026
Monkey discovered on London bus sparks renewed abandonment fears
July 21, 2026
Russian warship conducts live-fire exercise off UK as new PM Burnham reaffirms support for Kyiv
July 21, 2026
European shares rose on Tuesday as gains in technology and mining shares took the focus away from fresh strikes in the Middle
July 21, 2026
A German corporate initiative called "Made for Germany" on Tuesday said its 139 member firms have committed to invest more than €800 billion in the country through 2028.
July 21, 2026
Stranded houseboats and grounded cruise ships: Europe’s rivers are shrinking amid heat and drought
July 21, 2026
A man has stabbed and wounded two tourists near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece’s top tourist attraction
July 21, 2026
In nearly 25 years as a funeral director, Gautier Caton has never experienced anything like France's record-breaking late-June heatwave,
July 21, 2026
Euro zone banks tightened access to credit in the second quarter over geopolitical instability fears, and they expect further tightening in the current quarter, the
July 21, 2026
A European Union plan to tie free pollution permits to investments in decarbonisation could enhance corporate accountability, investors said
July 21, 2026
Spain fans filled the streets to celebrate the country’s second World Cup title after the team beat Argentina in the final. CNN’s Pau Mosquera reports from Madrid.
July 20, 2026
A descendant of an executed opponent of the Nazis tried to remove a wreath from the far-right Alternative for Germany party at an event in Berlin marking the 82nd anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
July 21, 2026
After a surge in revenue at U.S. banks, European lenders are expected to follow suit this week when they report second-
July 21, 2026
Britain's government borrowed £16 billion ($21.51 billion) in June, a third less than in the same month last year, according to official data which nonetheless showed the
July 21, 2026
Britain's jobs market appears to have stabilised at weak levels with official data showing annual wage growth and unemployment steady in the three months
July 21, 2026
As Russia deploys growing numbers of faster jet-propelled versions of its Shahed attack drone, some defence companies are racing to
July 21, 2026
A lawyer says social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom
July 20, 2026
With Israeli elections scheduled for October, far-right ministers are turning the push to rebuild Jewish settlements in Gaza into a central issue of their campaign. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, led thousands of Israeli settlers and activists to the Gaza perimeter Sunday, in a demonstration called the "March of Thousands to Gaza". CNN's Nic Robertson reports from the ground.
July 20, 2026
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July 21, 2026
Tate brothers vow to fight UK extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges
July 20, 2026
Italian police clashed with demonstrators in the northern city of Bologna on Monday, ANSA news agency reported, during a protest over a man's death after officers tried to
July 20, 2026
Any extradition of Andrew and Tristan Tate from the U.S. to the United Kingdom would ultimately rest with the State Department
July 21, 2026
Bold pledges, upbeat mood and informality: What we learned from Andy Burnham’s first day as Britain’s leader
July 20, 2026
Spain’s World Cup-winning soccer team has returned home to an estimated crowd of almost 2 million
July 20, 2026
Dancing and chanting on an open-top bus that read 'Kings of the World' and showed two large stars, Spain's national football team
July 21, 2026
Andy Burnham has taken office as Britain’s new prime minister
July 20, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met some of Ukraine’s top military commanders on Monday to try to ease growing discontent with the defence leadership that has
July 20, 2026
British prosecutors said on Monday a 28-year-old man had been charged with murdering former government minister Ann Widdecombe, and police said they were still
July 21, 2026
A reconciliation committee of France's Parliament agreed on a bill on Monday to ban access to social media for those under 15 years of age.
July 21, 2026
British prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old man with murder in the death of former politician and reality TV contestant Ann Widdecombe
July 20, 2026
Private investors are needed to funnel cash into European defence companies to plug the gap left by cash-strapped governments, but too often
July 20, 2026
Kevin Keegan, the two-time Ballon d’Or-winning soccer star who captained and coached England and won the European Cup with Liverpool, has died
July 20, 2026
Andy Burnham has become Britain's new prime minister, replacing Keir Starmer
July 20, 2026
Andy Burnham became Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday, pledging to reshape its politics to
July 20, 2026
Hungarian chess legend Judit Polgar said on Monday that she will not accept the nomination for president, only a day after Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would ask
July 20, 2026
An attack on a ship leaving Ukraine's southern port of Odesa on Sunday killed four Indians and left another at hospital in a critical condition, India's foreign ministry said in a
July 20, 2026
Ireland will raise the minimum age for the use of electric scooters to 18 from 16, and require riders to be licensed and wear helmets, the government said on Monday,
July 20, 2026
Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, said on Monday he would never take risks with the economy, re-committing to a pledge to stick to the previous government's
July 20, 2026
Plans for the new Global Combat Air Programme fighter jet to be in service by 2035 will not change even if a new country joins the British,
July 20, 2026
The 'Crack House': Meet the mom who opened her home and changed dozens of lives
July 20, 2026
Hungary's government is investigating a major foreign investment by Chinese automaker BYD
July 20, 2026
Spanish soccer has reached a level of its own
July 20, 2026
FIFA has opened an investigation after Spain’s celebrations on beating Argentina in the World Cup final took an ugly turn when players briefly clashed on the field
July 20, 2026
Alibaba's AliExpress was hit with a record €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union on Monday for failing to tackle sales of illegal,
July 20, 2026
A wildfire raged out of control across Spain's central Guadalajara province on Monday, burning for a fifth day and becoming the largest blaze of the year, as forecasters
July 20, 2026
Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian anti-war politician who had hoped to stand in parliamentary elections later this year, has announced he is ending his role in opposition politics for now
July 20, 2026
Bulgaria, a NATO and EU member, will seek parliamentary approval on Monday for up to eight U.S. tanker aircraft to be stationed at a military airport, Prime Minister Rumen
July 20, 2026
On the outskirts of Rome, an EU-funded regeneration project is seeking to improve the lot of 4,500 people living in a 1970s housing development, betting that
July 20, 2026
Scotland has quickly become a favorite team at this year’s World Cup, and that’s all to do with their passionate supporters. The “Tartan Army” has descended on Miami ahead of the team's match against Brazil. CNN's Randi Kaye visits with some of the superfans.
July 20, 2026
Ryanair's profit slumped by a third in its most recent quarter on higher fuel costs and lower fares that look set to remain weak through the key summer
July 20, 2026
European shares slipped on Monday as the deteriorating conflict in the Middle East stoked inflation fears ahead of a European Central Bank
July 20, 2026
Ukraine has launched over 400 drones toward Moscow, according to the city's mayor
July 20, 2026
Jose Simao arrived in Portugal from Angola in 2022 to work as a bricklayer, part of a wave of immigration providing a welcome boost to the country's
July 20, 2026
Euro zone firms expect selling prices to rise more moderately and see a slowdown in wage growth, an ECB survey showed on Monday, adding to evidence that a recent energy-
July 20, 2026
Russian strikes have killed 28 people in Ukraine's southern Odesa region in July, the regional governor said on Monday.
July 20, 2026
The global artificial intelligence boom has propelled ASML to the top of Europe's stock market, as soaring demand for AI computer
July 20, 2026
Russia's President Vladimir Putin met North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui an the Kremlin on Sunday, thanking her for help in what Moscow calls the special military
July 20, 2026
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July 20, 2026
European chemical companies are expected to report second-quarter results reflecting temporary support from Middle East conflict-related
July 20, 2026
Spain substitute Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute to give his team a 1-0 win over defending champion Argentina in the World Cup final
July 19, 2026
France has commemorated the Vel d’Hiv roundup, a mass arrest of Jews by French police in 1942
July 19, 2026
Troy Jackson effectively wraps up Maine Democrats’ nomination to face Sen. Susan Collins
July 19, 2026
The finance bosses at many of Britain's biggest companies are more optimistic about the impact of artificial intelligence on their businesses and a bit less worried about
July 20, 2026
Thousands danced in the streets, set off fireworks and launched red flares in Madrid as the party went on into the early hours of Monday after Spain beat Argentina 1
July 20, 2026
Spain climbed again to the summit of world football on Sunday when substitute Ferran Torres struck in the 106th minute to prise the
July 20, 2026
Why Spain’s homage to 2010 and 2024 was the right ending for one of the best World Cups ever
July 20, 2026
Spain needed an extra-time goal by substitute Ferran Torres to edge past 10-man defending champions Argentina 1-0 to win the World
July 20, 2026
Russia unleashes one of the biggest ballistic missile attacks of Ukraine war, Kyiv says
July 19, 2026
Ryan Fox capped off an amazing week at the British Open with a finish he won't forget
July 19, 2026
Ryan Fox wins first career major at 2026 Open Championship
July 20, 2026
Expect goals in the World Cup final, as history suggests
July 19, 2026
Remco Evenepoel held off Tadej Pogacar and his teammate Isaac Del Toro at the end to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France
July 19, 2026
Kimi Antonelli has seen off a challenge from Charles Leclerc to get back to winning ways at the Belgian Grand Prix as his teammate and Formula 1 title rival George Russell failed to finish
July 19, 2026
Russia has attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and bombs, killing at least six people
July 19, 2026
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said the team needs to work to restore George Russell’s confidence after the British driver blamed a lack of speed for the collision that ended his Belgian Grand Prix and damaged his Formula 1 title chances
July 19, 2026
Russia battered Ukraine's capital Kyiv overnight with one of its biggest ballistic missile barrages of the war, killing at least one person
July 19, 2026
Two American sisters checked into a quaint English B&B. The drama started when the key snapped in the lock
July 19, 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday he may now potentially have an opportunity for changes to his cabinet, a statement coming after the resignation of a top
July 19, 2026
Britain's next leader, Andy Burnham, will scrap government plans for a digital ID scheme when he takes office, signalling his intention to
July 19, 2026
Jingye Group, the former owner of British Steel, has demanded compensation from the U.K. government for investment losses after the company's nationalization last week
July 19, 2026
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities in Miami
July 19, 2026
Men are more likely than women to use outside job opportunities as leverage to negotiate higher pay in their existing jobs, helping drive persistent gender wage gaps,
July 19, 2026
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in the United States after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the
July 19, 2026
Bukayo Saka scored three goals to lead England to a 6-4 win over France for third place in the World Cup, while Kylian Mbappé surpassed Lionel Messi’s career World Cup scoring record and took the lead in the Golden Boot race with a pair of second-half goals
July 19, 2026
Kylian Mbappé moved past Lionel Messi for the career World Cup scoring record with 22 goals, scoring twice for France in a 6-4 loss to England in the third-place match
July 19, 2026
Sam Burns has a great chance to win a major he never planned on playing
July 19, 2026
Tommy Fleetwood has been dreaming of winning the British Open since he was a child sneaking onto Royal Birkdale
July 19, 2026
Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok has signed a constitutional amendment passed by Prime Minister Peter Magyar's ruling Tisza party that ends his term as
July 18, 2026
Rory McIlroy has saved one of his best shots at the British Open for Bryson DeChambeau
July 18, 2026
Kimi Antonelli has beaten a display of Red Bull formation flying to take pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix in qualifying and boost his Formula 1 title charge
July 18, 2026
Authorities say the largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history has destroyed over 100 homes
July 18, 2026
Jens Spahn, a senior member of Germany's ruling conservatives, resigned on Saturday after having a baby born to a surrogate mother in the United States, a move at odds with
July 18, 2026
Venice protesters clash with police as Trump envoy’s mega yacht crashes their party
July 18, 2026
Mount Olympus, the mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, may soon join UNESCO’s World Heritage List
July 18, 2026
Former Spain defender Joan Capdevila has asked U.S. President Donald Trump for help getting into the United States to watch Spain face Argentina in Sunday’s World Cup final, after being denied authorization to travel a decade after playing in an exhibition game in Iran
July 18, 2026
Waves of Ukrainian drone attacks killed seven warehouse workers and injured dozens more, while another attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in the wider capital region,
July 18, 2026
Warehouse workers among 8 dead in deadliest Ukrainian attacks inside Russia for two years
July 18, 2026
Germany is upgrading its security stance to a "high threat level" from a previous "abstract threat level" based on increasing reports and intelligence, the country's
July 18, 2026
Britain hopes this man will save its economy. We went to Manchester to find out why
July 18, 2026
Scottie Scheffler put on a tee-to-green clinic in his second round at the British Open and he thinks it bodes well for his chances of keeping hold of the shiny claret jug
July 18, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday took steps to repair a rift with key ally Poland over his decision in May to name a Ukrainian army unit in honour of World War Two fighters
July 18, 2026
Protesters in Kyiv called for the dismissal of Ukraine's commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's removal of a popular
July 17, 2026
Almost two decades ago, photographer Joan Monfort didn’t think much of his photo shoot of a teenage Lionel Messi bathing a cute baby boy in a plastic bathtub
July 17, 2026
Jon Rahm is the latest to receive a conduct warning at a major champion
July 18, 2026
Argentines and Spaniards are facing a dilemma as their teams meet in the World Cup final
July 18, 2026
A few hundred people in Venice protested on Friday against U.S.
July 17, 2026
More than 100 homes were destroyed by fire on Friday near the city of Drammen in southern Norway as firefighters battled to contain the flames amid strong winds, rescue
July 17, 2026
Brenda Fricker, who became the first Irish woman to win an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film “My Left Foot,’’ has died
July 17, 2026
Former Northern Ireland politician Jeffrey Donaldson on Friday sought to appeal against his convictions for historic child sex offences, his lawyer said.
July 17, 2026
Adieu Didier
July 17, 2026
The storied men’s mile record in track that has stood for 27 years will come under attack Saturday from Britain’s Josh Kerr
July 17, 2026
Swiss rider Mauro Schmid has edged Colombian Harold Tejada in a two-way sprint to win the 13th stage of the Tour de France
July 17, 2026
Vladimir Fedorchenko and his wife Lyubov are expecting a good harvest this year on their farm in southern Russia, and yet the couple are worried.
July 17, 2026
Brenda Fricker, the first Irish actress to win an Oscar for playing the determined mother of disabled artist Christy Brown in the 1989 film "My Left Foot"
July 17, 2026
The leaders of Germany and France pledged on Friday to deepen defence cooperation and counter intense economic competition from
July 17, 2026
Boris Nadezhdin, who criticized Moscow’s military action in Ukraine and unsuccessfully tried to run against President Vladimir Putin in the 2024 election, was convicted of displaying “extremist symbols” — an action that will keep him out of this year’s parliamentary race
July 17, 2026
Germany and France are set to deepen nuclear cooperation
July 17, 2026
Brenda Fricker, Oscar-winning Irish actress and ‘Home Alone’ Pigeon Lady, dies at 81
July 17, 2026
Rory McIlroy looks to have done enough to make it to the weekend at Royal Birkdale
July 17, 2026
Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns have each matched the major championship scoring record of 62 in the British Open, with one celebration far different from the other
July 17, 2026
Danish police say that a police officer and two other people have been shot including the suspected perpetrator
July 17, 2026
Andy Burnham has been officially declared leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party, clearing his final hurdle to taking office as prime minister next week
July 17, 2026
Firefighters backed by 30 aircraft struggled on Friday to
July 17, 2026
Russia attacked two Ukrainian Black Sea port cities on Friday, killing three people, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow intensifies pressure on Ukraine's key trade routes.
July 17, 2026
The Latvian government is negotiating with a strategic investor for struggling state-controlled airBaltic, Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs told Reuters, as
July 17, 2026
Hungarian authorities have been channeling water into a vast area within the country's Hortobagy National
July 17, 2026
Russian authorities have detained a blogger who criticised President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine and fined an anti-war politician, as Moscow sends a
July 17, 2026
Spain's Pedro Sanchez and U.S.
July 17, 2026
Andy Burnham, Britain's next prime minister, is staking his premiership on a goal that has eluded most British
July 17, 2026
Eric Cole had everything go wrong at the British Open and started looking at early flights home to Florida
July 17, 2026
Andy Burnham will be Britain’s seventh leader in a decade. Can he buck the trend?
July 17, 2026
Ukraine is navigating a leadership shake-up amid its ongoing war with Russia
July 17, 2026
Burberry said conflict in the Middle East was hurting tourist spending in Europe, sending the British luxury brand's shares down more than 6% on Friday even
July 17, 2026
Poland's president vetoed two bills on Friday that would have introduced "cohabitation contracts" for couples living together, dealing a blow to same-sex couples in one of
July 17, 2026
Kimi Antonelli heads into the Belgian Grand Prix with a piece of advice he picked up recently from tennis great Roger Federer
July 17, 2026
The European Central Bank meets again on Thursday, with oil prices back at the top of the worry list for policymakers.
July 17, 2026
Spiralling security risks are expected to push defence to the forefront of Britain's Farnborough Airshow
July 17, 2026
Swedish truckmaker Volvo Group reported on Friday a 35% rise in second-quarter profit and said order intake in North America more than doubled after years of sluggish
July 17, 2026
Swedish defence and aerospace group Saab reported a bigger-than-expected rise in operating earnings for the second quarter on Friday as booming demand
July 17, 2026
Andy Burnham is about to become Britain’s 59th prime minister, following the sudden downfall of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer
July 17, 2026
To air or not to air
July 17, 2026
U.S. aviation safety investigators have taken over the investigation into what caused a window to dislodge on a Ryanair flight from Greece to Germany on July 10
July 17, 2026
A junior lawyer at the International Criminal Court on Thursday repeated her allegations that prosecutor Karim Khan had non-consensual sexual contact with her, in a CNN
July 17, 2026
Russian and Ukrainian attacks on civilian areas in towns and cities, many on the front line of the more than four-year-old war, killed at least 13 people on Thursday, local
July 17, 2026
As Estonia's Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur prepared to fly to the NATO summit in Ankara this month, he revealed to local journalists that several hundred U.S. troops
July 17, 2026
So much focus was on the new Royal Birkdale
July 16, 2026
Nicaragua severed diplomatic relations with Italy on Thursday over Rome's long-running demand to extradite a former Red Brigades militant convicted for his role in the 1978
July 17, 2026
Exclusive: Lawyer goes public with sexual misconduct claims against ICC chief prosecutor. He denies the allegations
July 17, 2026
France and Germany will discuss deepening cooperation on nuclear deterrence, missile defence, long-range strike capabilities and
July 16, 2026
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to divided Cyprus at the end of July to discuss peacebuilding efforts between the Greek and Turkish
July 16, 2026