WORLD- British child among four injured in attack in French playground
A man armed with a knife attacked a group of preschool children playing by a lake in the French Alps on Thursday, injuring four...
‘Global North owes $170 trillion for excessive CO2 emissions’
Industrialised nations responsible for excessive levels of CO2 emissions could be liable for $170 trillion in compensation by 2050 to ensure climate change targets...
World-At least 288 killed in Indian train crash with hundreds injured
A three-way train crash in India killed at least 288 people and injured hundreds more, in one of the most deadly train crashes in...
Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological...
Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new Earth Commission study published today in...
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would save billions from dangerously hot climate
Current climate policies will leave more than a fifth of humanity exposed to dangerously hot temperatures by 2100, new research suggests.
Despite the Paris Agreement pledge to keep...
New UN ‘roadmap’ shows how to drastically slash plastic pollution
Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80 per cent by 2040 if countries and companies use existing technologies to make significant policy shifts and...
World-At least six killed as fire rips through New Zealand hostel
At least six people have died in a blaze at a hostel in New Zealand
The fire at the four storey Loafers Lodge hostel broke...
‘Silent emergency’: Premature births claim a million lives yearly
A “silent emergency” that is claiming one million tiny lives born premature each year requires concerted action to swiftly improve children’s health and survival,...
Three students and three adults killed in mass shooting at Nashville school
A female shooter wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol killed three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville.
The suspect...
Putin pays a surprise visit to devastated Mariupol
Vladimir Putin made his first trip to territory captured by Russian forces since the war in Ukraine began, traveling to the ravaged city of...