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After months of back and forth, the US space agency NASA is getting a new boss. December 18, 2025, 03:10December 18, 2025, 03:10 Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s confidante, Jared Isaacman, was confirmed by the Senate with 67 votes to 30 and is now expected to push forward US President Donald Trump’s ambitious lunar program. In […]

Moose Campbell/BBC The Flamingo missile is a new, long-range Ukrainian cruise missile, designed for deep strikes against Russia with a range of up to 3,000km Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent in Kyiv We’re driven blindfolded to a secret location where Ukraine is making one of its latest weapons. We’re told to turn off our phones – such […]

Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent Tribune News Service via Getty Images More than two million turkeys have been culled in the US since late August due to avian flu For years, scientists have warned that bird flu – better known as H5N1 – could one day make the dangerous leap from birds to humans and trigger a […]

Vladimir Putin is unforgiving towards European heads of state. (archive image)Image: keystone Vladimir Putin insults Western politicians. He only explicitly excludes one. December 17, 2025, 10:45 p.mDecember 17, 2025, 10:45 p.m Russian head of state Vladimir Putin made drastic comments about Western heads of state and government on Wednesday. According to media reports, at a […]

Heavy rains over the past week have compounded the already dire living conditions of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, UN agencies say. Unicef spokesman Jonathan Crickx told the BBC that the weather overnight had been “horrendous”, with the rain so intense that he had seen up to 15cm (6in) […]

Published on 17/12/2025 – 18:37 GMT+1 •Updated 6:48 p.m European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said “There can be no place for the poison of anti-Semitism” at a ceremony in Brussels on Wednesday which saw her light a Chanukiah to observe the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Von der Leyenslammed what she called the resurgence […]

Published on 17/12/2025 – 17:39 GMT+1 The European Parliament has approved a non-binding resolution asking to establish a fund to help women with no access to safe abortions in their home country. This financial mechanism, which MEPs endorsed in a vote on Wednesday, would enable EU members to provide access to the termination of pregnancies […]

The new Biotech Act, presented by the European Commission, aims to set up a framework that helps biotechnology reach the market faster, improving the bloc’s competitiveness over China, and the United States. The Commission on Tuesday acknowledged in its proposal that the European Union (EU) lags behind other global regions when it comes to turning […]

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has raged against the protests and the prosecutors he blames for halting the project, saying the country was the big loser.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has raged against the protests and the prosecutors he blames for halting the project, saying the country was the big loser.