Royal Mail loses 360-year monopoly on delivering parcels from Post Office sites
Royal Mail is to lose its 360-year-old monopoly on delivering parcels from Post Office branches, after concerns about poor quality of service persuaded the postal service to sign deals with…
The head of Hungary’s National Museum has been sacked for allegedly letting under-18s view LGBT content.
A controversial Hungarian law bans the “display and promotion of homosexuality” in materials accessible to children, such as books, films or artwork. The museum recently hosted the World Press Photo…
Death sentence bear rescued and sent to England
A brown bear, that was set to be killed in Sweden, has arrived in Devon after travelling by Eurotunnel. Wildwood Trust, a conservation charity, said it had helped rescue Diego…
The hostage situation at Hamburg Airport involving a man and his daughter has ended after 18 hours, according to local police.
The man, 35, drove through a security barrier and on to the airport tarmac on Saturday night with his four-year-old daughter in the car and parked under a plane. After…
Donald Trump Jr took the stand in the ongoing fraud trial against his father and the family business on Wednesday and tried to distance himself from the financial statements at the centre of the case.
Trump’s eldest son, 45, is the first family member to testify in the civil trial brought by the New York attorney general, Letitia James. His younger brother Eric will testify…
French couple who sold an African mask to a second-hand goods dealer for €150 (£130) have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m (£3.7m) at auction.
Campaigners insist that the rare artefact should be returned to Gabon, in a case that has raised questions over Africa’s cultural heritage plundered by colonial France. The unnamed retired couple,…
Over 10,000 dead in war between Israel and Hamas
A settlement mediated by Egypt, Israel, and Hamas called for over 500 foreign passport holders, many of them dual-citizen Palestinians, and about 80 injured individuals to be… The first of…
Train crash in India kills at least 13
At least 13 people have died and about 50 are injured after two passenger trains collided in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state on Sunday. A rescue operation was launched and…
FTAs boost Thai exports to US$46 bn in first 7 months
According to Ronnarong Phoolpipat, director-general of the Department of Foreign Trade (DFT), Thai exports reached US$46.18 billion between January and July as a result of FTAs.The top five FTAs responsible…
New York judge fines Trump $5,000 for gag order violation
The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial on Friday fined the former US president $5,000 for disobeying a partial gag order and warned him that further…