New VW ID.Buzz electric buses are parked in a parking lot at the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles plant.Sales of electric vehicles in Germany collapsed in 2024 following the cancellation of a government subsidy, official figures showed on 06 January. Julian Stratenschulte/dpa Sales of electric vehicles in Germany collapsed in 2024 following the cance

Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich Merz has caused a stir with a new proposal to reform the law on citizenship. “Friedrich Merz is deliberately playing with right-wing populist fire and is not suitable as chancellor for all Germans,” said Saskia Esken, the co-leader of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD

The top bidder at a fish market auction in Tokyo has paid more than one million pounds for a tuna. The 276kg bluefin tuna – around the size and weight of a motorbike – was bought for 207m yen (£1.05m) at Toyosu Fish Market. The winning bid was made by Michelin-starred sushi restaurateurs the Onodera […]

LONDON (AP) — A man has been charged with assisting a former British soldier later convicted of spying for Iran in his escape from a London prison, police said Monday. Imran Chowdury, 25, was charged with one count of assisting an escaped prisoner for helping Daniel Khalife after he broke out of Wandsworth prison in […]

The body of an Indian investigative journalist has been found in a septic tank. Mukesh Chandrakar, 32, was a freelance journalist in Chhattisgarh state who reported on alleged corruption in the construction industry on his YouTube channel, Bastar Junction. Police found his body in a septic tank in the state’s Bijapur district on 3 January. [&