Public transport workers in London held fresh strikes Friday over pay and conditions.

China's central bank cut its interest rates on Monday for the second time this year, but analysts suspect it will do little to spur lending in an economy awash with cash but lacking in consumer demand and business confidence.

U.S. homebuilding fell to the lowest level in nearly 1-1/2 years in July, weighed down by higher mortgage rates and prices for construction materials, suggesting the housing market could contract further in the third quarter.

The European Union is planning a five-fold increase in financial support to an African military mission in Mozambique, an internal EU document shows.

Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk that has become a key focus of the near six-month war, but said they had repelled many of the attacks.

In the span of eight days in May, three young men were shot dead in a small neighborhood of the town of Orebro, part of a wave of gang violence spreading from big cities to small-town Sweden that is topping voters' concerns ahead of elections next month.

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Access to green and open space is urgently needed in central Manchester.

A huge fire broke out Thursday in a popular forest in western Berlin next to a police munitions storage site

Former finance minister Sunak has denounced Truss's "fairy tale economics", vowing to tame surging inflation first, but has admitted that he is the "underdog" against the foreign secretary.

Lengthy Covid border closures had already reduced the foreign labour force, but now bureaucratic hurdles and a ban by Indonesia on sending new workers have dramatically worsened the problems.

Holcim brushed off higher energy prices and rising interest rates to hike its full-year sales guidance on Wednesday after the world's largest cement maker beat second-quarter forecasts.

Henderson Land Development Co, one of Hong Kong's four major developers, plans to lend more land to the government to build transitional homes and is keen to help accelerate development of an area close to the Chinese border.

While a handful of member states have legislation limiting working hours in excessive heat, the thresholds vary and many nations have no nationwide heat limits.

As temperatures rise to unprecedented levels, even Spanish train lines, which typically cope well in the heat, are buckling and services are being cancelled.

Congo peat swamps store three years of global carbon emissions – imminent oil drilling could release it

Europe counts cost of heatwave as French fires come under control

Building a net zero country demands not only a transition to zero-carbon technologies, but adapting existing infrastructure to withstand the challenges of climate change.

British employers agreed average pay rises of 4% with their staff in the three months to the end of June, the joint-highest since 1992 but falling further behind inflation, industry data showed on Wednesday.

China urges banks to support property sector after mortgage boycott

Britain is set to have the lowest economic growth of any Group of Seven country, projections show.

Barclays is seeking a Chinese banking partner to set up an asset management joint venture in the country, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as part of British lender's plans to expand its footprint in the world's second-largest economy.

Last week an avalanche triggered by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps amid unusually warm temperatures killed 11 people.

Panama government reduces fuel prices in face of protests

Austria and Hungary fight nature to stop lake vanishing

The European Union plans to become the top investor in the world's tallest dam in Tajikistan, EU officials told Reuters, in a move aimed at helping Central Asia cut its reliance on Russian energy and part of EU's answer to China's Belt and Road Initiative.

British manufacturing firm Corbetts the Galvanizers used to rely on a stream of workers from Poland and Romania to fill its shop floor, where steel is dipped into a long vat of molten zinc at temperatures of around 450?C (842?F).

12 bodies found after South China Sea typhoon shipwreck

U.S. mortgage lenders, refinancing companies and real-estate brokers may lay off thousands of employees in the coming months, industry sources said, as many Americans put off buying a home.

According to analysis by the Climate Change Committee, the average cost of retrofitting a single home to net zero standard is £26,000.