The Latest Breaking News from The Week

Israel has seen some of the largest protests in its history after the country’s parliament, the Knesset, passed the first of a series of bills aimed at overhauling the judiciary.

From wildfires in Rhodes and Corfu to airport staff strikes, families are facing plenty of disruption to their summer holidays this year. 

A large piece of unidentified space debris has been discovered washed up on a remote beach in Western Australia.

A Channel 4 satire last night pretended that human meat will be sold to address the cost of living crisis. During the show, “Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat”, Wallace said that he was visiting a company that sold “engineered human meat” as a way to combat the cost of…

Rishi Sunak has criticised the European Union for a “regrettable choice of words” after it appeared to endorse the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands, “Islas Malvinas”.

Spain is facing months of political gridlock after parliamentary elections saw the conservative bloc fail to win enough votes to form a government.

Some UK airlines are continuing to sell flights to Rhodes, even as travel companies struggle to repatriate thousands of evacuated tourists while flames ravage the Greek island. 

Millions of sports fans around the world seek to strike it lucky by creating virtual teams from popular athletes and tracking their real-life performances in the hope of winning a cash prize. But in India, this form of entertainment appears to be turning into something much more harmful.

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak could water down or even drop much of their green agenda, as both look to prioritise the economy in a bid to win voters ahead of the next general election.

The green man will be displayed longer at crossings because Brits are getting “fatter and older”, said the Daily Star. Guidelines are being tweaked to allow the green man 20% longer at crossings so a slower, fatter, older population can cross the road. Under government guidelines, pedestrians have 6.1 seconds…

Jesus Lizana, Marie-Curie research fellow in the Department of Engineering Science, Nicole Miranda, senior researcher and college lecturer in Engineering, and Radhika Khosla associate professor, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford explain the easy ways to keep cool as the mercury rises.