Europe

The UK climate has shifted markedly from twentieth-century norms, with rising temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, Britain's Met Office said in a report published Wednesday. The agency said the hottest and coldest conditions the country now typically experiences...

At least 2,700 people died in England and Wales because of heatwaves in May and June, according to a study released Monday. Researchers from Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine combined weather data, climate models and mo...

British police arrested a 28-year-old man late Saturday over the murder of former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe. The arrest came hours after officers released a 26-year-old man who had been detained a day earlier. Widdecombe, 78, was found dead with serious injuries at her...

The European Union issued a preliminary warning to tech giant Meta on Friday, ordering the company to systematically overhaul the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram. Brussels formally accused the US firm of failing to protect children and vulnerable adults from platform m...

A devastating wildfire in Spain killed 12 people and injured six others as a blistering summer heatwave tightened its grip across the southern region on Friday. Emergency rescue services discovered multiple casualties trapped inside burnt vehicles after the destructive blaze rapi...

Western Europe recorded its hottest June on record this year, as an intense heatwave swept the continent and drove thousands of heat-related deaths, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said Thursday. The extreme heat pushed average temperatures more than 3C above the 1991-...

A skydiving plane crashed on Sunday in Tomblaine, eastern France, killing all 11 people on board in one of the country's deadliest ever light aircraft accidents. The victims included five instructors, five student nurses, and the pilot, according to Yves Seguy, the prefect of the...

France recorded roughly 1,000 excess deaths during a record-breaking heatwave that gripped much of western Europe, public health officials said Sunday. Public Health France said the deaths had occurred since June 24, when temperatures surpassed 40C across large parts of the count...

Authorities banned alcohol and cancelled major weekend festivities on Thursday as a deadly Europe heatwave that has overwhelmed hospitals was forecast to shift east on Friday. Medics in Britain and France warned that hospitals were struggling under the heat and a surge in emergen...

Desperate Venezuelans battled Thursday to rescue loved ones trapped alive beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings after two major earthquakes killed at least 164 people. The twin quakes, measured by the United States Geological Survey at magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, struck northern V...