[ad_1] The British government said on Monday it would block new legislation that would make it easier for people in Scotland to change their gender legally, sparking a clash with transgender rights advocates and the nationalist Scottish administration in Edinburgh.…
[ad_1] The death toll from Russia’s weekend missile attack on an apartment building in the city of Dnipro in southeastern Ukraine has risen to 40, authorities said on Monday, as Western analysts pointed to indications the Kremlin was preparing for…
[ad_1] Mursal Nabizada, a former member of the Afghan parliament, has been killed by unidentified gunmen at his home in Kabul, police said. Nabizada and his bodyguard were shot dead and his brother wounded in an attack over the weekend,…
[ad_1] Actor Kevin Spacey was in the northern Italian city of Turin on Monday to receive a lifetime achievement award, teach a master class and introduce a screening of the 1999 film. American Beauty. The sold-out event was billed as…
[ad_1] Relentless storms from a series of atmospheric rivers have filled steep mountains and bare hillsides scarred by wildfires along California’s long coast, triggering hundreds of landslides this month. So far, the debris has mostly blocked roads and highways and…
[ad_1] When some of the world’s richest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last year, a session on climate change created high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems. But…
[ad_1] Gina Lollobrigida, who has died aged 95, rose to fame in the 1950s as a Mediterranean sex symbol, then became a photographer and sculptor after leaving the film world. At her peak in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, known…
[ad_1] Convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was arrested at a clinic where he was receiving treatment…
[ad_1] In recent days, the city of Soledar has become the latest killing field in Ukraine. Russian forces appear to have finally taken control of at least most of the devastated communities in the eastern Donbas region – but not…
[ad_1] In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined the Nepalese airline Yeti, following in the footsteps of her husband, a pilot who had died in an accident four years earlier when a small passenger plane he was flying for a domestic carrier…