Month: June 2026

Courage is one of those virtues we admire from a distance but rarely think we will personally need. Amal Clooney, a human rights lawyer who has spent her career defending…

July often arrives with warm evenings that make it easier to spend time outdoors after sunset. For skywatchers, those comfortable nights also coincide with a calendar packed with changing celestial…

The two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, killing more than 180 people, were part of a seismic phenomenon known as a “doublet”. The twin tremors marked…

A German court has sentenced a Saudi psychiatrist to life in prison for driving a car into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing six people, including a nine-year-old…

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is pushing ahead with a sweeping overhaul of the country’s electoral system, a move that opposition parties have condemned as an “authoritarian” attempt to tilt…

A gruelling heatwave has embroiled France, leading to 55 deaths through drowning. The drowning death toll in France has risen to 55 since the heatwave began on June 18, with…

King Charles makes historic tax disclosure as Royal public funding approaches £100m / Image – file Britain’s royal finances have entered a new era of transparency after King Charles became…

A 23-year-old man from Louisiana has become one of the first people in the United States to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease using Casgevy, the world’s first approved…

A British TikTok influencer has been charged with premeditated murder in Dubai after the fatal stabbing of a British man she had travelled to the UAE to meet.The 23-year-old woman,…

A replica of an OroraTech wildfire-detection satellite is displayed at the company’s facilities in Athens, Greece, on Thursday, June 18, 2026, as Greece integrates a new constellation of wildfire-detection satellites…