After decades spent exploring other worlds, NASA announced two new robotic missions to the hottest planet in the solar system, Venus.

Organisers revealed that thousands of volunteers who were expected to take part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo resigned in recent months.

European diplomats have expressed hope an agreement could soon be reached for Iran to comply with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Madrid has a high level of pollution like many big cities and capitals across the globe. But Madrid is also in the unique position of being protected by a national park and mountain range called the Sierra of Guadarrama, which brings fresh air and cl...

Centrist Yair Lapid and ultranationalist Naftali Bennett said they reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, which also includes a small Islamist party.

Flights were suspended on Tuesday and Wednesday amid escalating tensions between Russia and the West after Belarus diverted a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist.

Oulu won with a project promising “cultural climate change”, focussing on the participatory nature of art and culture.

Athens has faced criticism for not including asylum-seekers earlier in its vaccination campaign.

Parents of children allegedly killed by police or the local mafia have been using street art to campaign for justice and warn other youngsters to steer clear of crime.

The pandemic is not just a public health crisis. It is also a job crisis that has pushed millions of workers into poverty, a new report warns.

A date had been set for a meeting between Kosovo’s new prime minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbian President Aleksander Vucic.

Iranian officials offered no cause for the incident, which comes after a series of mysterious explosions targeting ships in the region since 2019.

Isaac Herzog has been elected as the new President of Israel, as opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu try to reach a last-ditch agreement on a new coalition government.

"It has become evident that greater public health risks are currently associated with B.1.617.2, while lower rates of transmission of other lineages have been observed," the WHO said on Tuesday.

Efforts to tow the container vessel carrying nitric acid and other chemicals out to sea have failed, threatening marine life and Sri Lanka's famed beaches.

The US President said he had "come to fill the silence" about one of the nation’s darkest — and long suppressed — moments of racial violence.

Opponents of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are racing against time to finalise a coalition government ahead of a midnight deadline on Wednesday.

A Hong Kong museum commemorating the 1989 killings in China’s Tiananmen Square was shut after three days, as Chinese authorities continue to tighten control on the city.

The world’s largest meat processing company, JBS, was hit by a cyber attack, disrupting production around the world.

Millions of tons of conventional and chemical munitions have been dumped into the sea after the 20th century world wars. As the shells being to rust, their deadly contents start entering the seawater - and marine food webs.

China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine "meets international standards for safety, efficacy and manufacturing," the UN health body said on Tuesday.

“The fishmeal and fish oil industry, and all governments and companies supporting them, are basically robbing local populations of livelihoods and food," said Dr Ibrahimé Cissé, senior campaigner at Greenpeace Africa.

The Catholic Church is changing its laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse of adults by priests, and to include laypeople who hold church office in sanctions for similar crimes.

They fled war and poverty, now they're bringing a taste of home to Italy: Meet the female refugees carving out a new career in the kitchen.

The coronavirus variants widely known by the name of the country in which they were first discovered - such as the Indian, Brazilian or British variants - have been renamed by the WHO.

Carrying just her passport, money and a few essentials in her handbag, Arina Malinovskaya fled for the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

The leader of a movement seeking independence from Morocco has testified in a Spanish investigation into allegations against him of torture and genocide. The court's decision to keep him free is likely to infuriate Rabat.

Despite the successful vaccination campaign in the UK, there are fears a third wave of COVID-19 may have already begun.

The move follows Minsk's intervention last month forcing a Ryanair flight to land in Belarus to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.

Peru more than doubled its official COVID-19 death toll on Monday, after the government updated the figures.

Air pollution in North Macedonia is said to kill hundreds of people a year. The country is trying to conform to EU standards when it comes to legislation to minimise pollution, but the quality of air in the capital is still a major problem.

"The houses were falling down on people," said one 11-year-old. "We lost hope. Some people ran away and the paramedics told us to run to the hospital."

Osaka was fined 12,300 euros after refusing to do press conferences at French Open to protect her mental health

Vietnamese people were brought to Europe on fraudulent visas, then forced to work in brothels

“I just want them to stop coming to me and waking me up at nighttime,” jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny told a judge on Monday.

"We have premature deaths caused by pollution, we have diseases linked to pollution, we have ecosystem destruction linked to pollution" - Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for the Environment, Ocean and Fisheries, explains how the EU plans to ...

French judges have begun questioning fugitive former auto magnate Carlos Ghosn in Beirut over suspicions of financial misconduct.

Czech police recommended the indictment of Prime Minister Andrej Babis over alleged fraud involving European Union subsidies

Restrictions on the number of births were first introduced in 1980 but were eased in 2015 to allow couples to have two children.

Leading travel companies, airlines and tourism boards from over 80 countries showcased at the exhibition, with 10,000 people attending the event - a feat that would have been unimaginable 12 months ago.

Finland’s ninth-largest city is, with its modest population of just 120,00 inhabitants, not used to being a capital. But this year is different. Here's why.

Turkey's Foreign Affairs Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, is in Greece for talks with his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias.

Tomislav Tomasevic, who pledged a progressive environmental policy to improve life in the Croatian capital, won 65% of the vote.

"As we withdraw our Armed Forces, it is only right we accelerate the relocation of those who may be at risk of reprisals," Britain's Defense Minister Ben Wallace said on Monday.

Several European nations want Denmark to explain how the United States could eavesdrop from Denmark on leading politicians and senior officials in Europe.

The Belgian government also waived the diplomatic immunity of its ambassador's wife so that she could be investigated by South Korean police, the embassy said in a Facebook post.

Nigerian media report gunmen abducted around 200 students from the Salihu Tanko Islamic School.

The world number two was fined €12,300 and threatened with disqualification after she refused to make media appearances at the French Open.

Waste water pollution near Bulgarian beaches has largely been remedied, despite some recurring incidents. Now Bulgaria is aiming to remedy water treatment deficiencies to respond to a growing population and to prevent environmental emergencies.

Copa America without host country two weeks before kickoff