Passengers of an Italian high-speed train were left stranded last week after it departed almost one hour early — so it could arrive on time, the train operator acknowledged Monday. Rome’s Termini station had been full of travellers last Friday anxious about the effect of a national transport strike which stopped local buses, trams and [

The fight against climate change is “bigger than one election”, US envoy John Podesta has said. Mr Podesta was speaking at the UN COP29 climate talks after his party lost the White House to Republican and climate sceptic Donald Trump. The re-election of Mr Trump, who is expected to again pull the United States out […]

The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L’Alliance Lepep, has suffered a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary election. “The population has decided to choose another team,” Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth told journalists on Monday. Jugnauth was seeking a second five-year term,

A malnourished emperor penguin has been found in Australia for the first time – more than 2,200 miles north of the Antarctic coast. The adult male was discovered on 1 November on a tourist beach in the town of Denmark in southwest Australia. The emperor is the largest penguin species and has never been reported […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to resume a dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon” to discuss the conflict in Ukraine. “Yes, I have resolved to speak to the Russian president at the right time,” the German leader told a Sunday evening talk show on public broadcaster ARD. “But I am a responsible polit