Millions of French motorists to get €100 to help them cope with rising fuel costs

Millions of French motorists will be given EUR100 (GBP84) to help them cope with rising fuel costs.French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the one-off grant would be given to about 36 million people who...

Barbados elects its first-ever president, removing Queen and shedding colonial past

Barbados has elected its first-ever president as it takes the first steps to becoming a republic.Dame Sandra Mason, 72, was elected on Wednesday by a two-thirds vote of a joint session of the Caribbean...

Eastern European countries battle vaccine hesitancy as COVID strengthens its grip

Some European countries are seeing a resurgence in COVID-19, with the continent's eastern nations hampered by widespread vaccine hesitancy.Polls show that trust in state institutions and public healthcare is much lower in eastern Europe...

Poland told to ‘respect the rules’ of EU club in rule-of-law row

The argument now distracting and dominating the European Union is an unequal battle with the potential for far-reaching consequences. On one side is Poland, enthusiastically supported by Hungary, and determined to prove that one...

$1m reward offered in ‘heartbreaking’ case of girl, four, missing from Australian camping trip

Police in Western Australia are offering a A$1m (GBP542,845) reward for information about the disappearance of a four-year girl.Cleo Smith was last seen in her family's tent at about 1.30am on Saturday at the...

Donald Trump launching social network

Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to "stand up to the tyranny of big tech". The former US president - who was banned from Twitter and Facebook earlier this year -...

Netflix staff stage walkout after streaming giant refuses to pull Dave Chappelle show

Staff at Netflix's headquarters in Hollywood have staged a walkout in protest at the release of a controversial special by the stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle.Chappelle, one of the biggest names in American comedy, has...

‘They kill us and we are helping them’: Ethiopia’s increasingly nasty civil conflict

We could see a seemingly endless line of trucks as we headed down the highway in northern Ethiopia.As their contents drew closer we knew the battle ground was shifting in this country's increasingly nasty...