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Defending Champions England Beat Spain On Penalties To Win Women's Euro 2025

Chloe Kelly converted the decisive kick as England beat Spain 3-1 on penalties to lift the Women's Euro 2025 trophy after Sunday's game had finished 1-1 at the end of extra time, allowing the Lionesses to avenge their defeat in the World Cup final two years ago and retain their continental crown.

Jul 28, 2025

Tadej Pogacar pedals past the Sacre-Coeur basilica in Montmartre

Imperious Pogacar Wins Tour De France For Fourth Time

Tadej Pogacar completed a supreme performance to win the Tour de France in a rainy Paris on Sunday, crushing his rivals to collect a fourth title.

Jul 28, 2025

Golfers look for a ball in the rough as snipers and security personnel inspect the area before Trump played another round at his Trump Turnberry Golf Courses, ahead of a key meeting with the EU chief

Trump, EU Chief Seek Deal In Transatlantic Tariffs Standoff

US President Donald Trump and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen prepared to meet Sunday in Scotland in a push to resolve a months-long transatlantic trade standoff that is going down to the wire.

Jul 27, 2025

Local tourism has seen a boost from the league's popularity

Amateur Football Leagues Win Over Cynical Chinese Fans

On a summer's day in the city of Suzhou, about 40,000 people crowded into a stadium while thousands more gathered by public screens to watch China's hottest sport -- amateur football.

Jul 27, 2025

US tariffs on China-made products could bounce to higher levels from August 12 if officials fail to extend a current truce

Battling Tariffs Is No Trivial Pursuit For US Games Retailer

At a strip mall in Maryland, a miniature landscape extends across a table between Dash Krempel and his friend as a war game unfolds.

Jul 27, 2025

Sheep moving to pasture in the Otago region of New Zealand in September 2023. Rural New Zealand once abounded with rolling pastures, rickety wire fences hemming in millions of sheep chewing on the green grass.

New Zealand Farmers Battle Pine Forests To 'Save Our Sheep'

New Zealand sheep farmers are fighting to stop the loss of pasture to fast-spreading pine plantations, which earn government subsidies to soak up carbon emissions.

Jul 27, 2025

Edwuar Hernandez (R), a Venezuelan migrant repatriated from a prison in El Salvador, is welcomed by his family upon arrival at his home in Maracaibo, Venezuela

'Welcome To Hell': Freed Migrants Tell Of Horrors In Salvadoran Jail

Mervin Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life.

Jul 27, 2025

Hidaya al-Mutawaq, 31, cradles her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed, who is showing signs of malnutrition, inside their tent in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.

Britain Leads Calls For Airdrops As Gaza Hunger Crisis Deepens

International pressure was mounting on Saturday for alternative ways to be found to deliver food to hungry Palestinian civilians in Gaza, with Britain vowing to back airdrops.

Jul 27, 2025

The California City Immigration Processing Center in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles awaits reopening as a privately operated immigrant detention facility

US Migrant Raids Spark Boom For Private Detention Providers

Donald Trump's promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in US history has appalled some Americans.

Jul 27, 2025

Displaced Palestinians at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza seen hauling hard-to-get food parcels and other items

'Famine', 'Starvation': The Challenges In Defining Gaza's Plight

The United Nations and NGOs are warning of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip -- a designation based on strict criteria and scientific evidence.

Jul 27, 2025

Cambodia has asked for an immediate ceasefire, its ambassador to the United Nations said

Death Toll Rises In Thai-Cambodian Clashes Despite Ceasefire Call

Thailand and Cambodia clashed for a third day on Saturday, as the death toll from their bloodiest fighting in years rose to 33 and Phnom Penh called for an "immediate ceasefire".

Jul 26, 2025

Supporters of a Taiwan recall vote shout 'Great recall, great success' in Taipei on July 22, 2025, ahead of recall elections this month

Taiwan's Opposition Protests Ahead Of Recall Vote

Taiwan's main opposition protested on Friday ahead of unprecedented recall elections targeting its lawmakers that could tip the balance of power to President Lai Ching-te's party.

Jul 25, 2025

The war in Gaza, triggered by Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel, has raged for more than 21 months

Aid Groups Warn Of Starving Children As European Powers Discuss Gaza

Aid groups warned of surging numbers of malnourished children in war-ravaged Gaza as a trio of European powers prepared to hold an "emergency call" Friday on the deepening humanitarian crisis.

Jul 25, 2025

Iran Meets European Powers Amid Threats Of UN Sanctions Snapback

Iranian diplomats met counterparts from Germany, Britain and France on Friday for renewed nuclear talks, amid warnings that the three European powers could trigger "snapback" sanctions outlined under the 2015 deal.

Jul 25, 2025

A 'Road Closed' sign is pictured laid on the verge of a road outside the Trump Turnberry hotel

Tight Security As Trump Heads To Scotland For Diplomacy And Golf

US President Donald Trump was due to arrive in Scotland on Friday for a mix of diplomacy, business and leisure, with a huge security operation swinging into place and protests planned near his family-owned golf resorts.

Jul 25, 2025

This handout satellite image taken on December 9, 2021 by Planet Labs PBC shows what Dutch peace organisation PAX says is a Turkish Bayrakter TB-2 drone parked outside a hangar at the northern part of Hara Meda air base in Bishoftu, Ethiopia

African Armies Turn To Drones With Devastating Civilian Impact

The Easter period usually offers a rare respite in Gedeb, in Ethiopia's deeply troubled north, but on April 17 death rained from the skies in this sleepy town caught up in a war between rebels and the army.

Jul 25, 2025

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, arrives outside Southwark Crown court on July 3, 2025, charged with "harassment" of two journalists.

UK Fears New Summer Of Unrest, Year After Southport Riots

Concern is mounting that recent violent anti-immigrant protests could herald a new summer of unrest, a year after the UK was rocked by its worst riots in decades.

Jul 25, 2025

Emmanuel Macron said France would recognise the State of Palestine at the UN in September

Macron Says France Will Recognise State Of Palestine, Angering Israel

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would formally recognise a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, the most powerful European nation to announce such a move.

Jul 25, 2025

Donald Trump's core MAGA base is clamoring for the release of the so-called "Epstein files."

Balancing Act For Pro-Trump Influencers As Epstein Furor Spirals

Far-right MAGA influencers are treading a tightrope as outrage escalates over the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: they are caught between a fired-up base demanding more information and President Donald Trump, who is eager to turn the page.

Jul 25, 2025