London / Europe

Boris Johnson has said that he will “almost certainly” take parental leave when his fiancée Carrie Symonds gives birth in the summer.

Lord Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, said the Vatican “got it badly wrong about China” in its secret 2018 accord with the Communist Party on the naming of bishops.

International trade secretary Liz Truss has said that the UK will not “trade away” Britain’s fishing waters in exchange for a deal with the EU, the remarks coming after France’s Europe minister said that negotiations could collapse over fishing rights.

LGBT activists forced a local council in England to take down flags bearing the dictionary definition of ‘female’ ahead of International Woman’s Day, saying the message was transphobic.

Using “incorrect” words and language may have a negative meaning and fuel stigmatizing attitudes towards coronavirus victims, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday.

PARIS (AP) – Tens of thousands of students in virus cluster zones are home from school in France on Tuesday, with a smaller number in Germany and Poland facing quarantines or days without class. France’s education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, said

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that it is “highly likely” there will be a “growing number” of coronavirus, with the government’s chief medical officer saying that around one per cent of Britons who contract the virus could die.

A teacher has expressed her opposition to a mooted ban on headscarves in schools, saying those in favour have no place in the country at all.

Dr Freeman Dyson, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, mathematicians and public intellectuals, has died aged 96 but the mainstream media doesn’t want to know.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Monday that “millions” of migrants would soon head for Europe and its open borders, making good on threats made over the past five years to send a flood of people into E.U. heartlands.

Pope Francis submitted himself to a test for coronavirus as a precaution, Italian media report Tuesday, and the test results have come back negative.

A two-week United Nations meeting on gender equality, female empowerment and “women’s issues” was cut Monday due to the coronavirus outbreak.

A woman given gender reassignment therapy as a teen is suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust for having “rushed” her into the treatment.

An animal rights activist has won a case of wrongful dismissal by his former employer over his “ethical veganism”. The tribunal judge had earlier ruled that his dietary preference was a philosophical belief and deserved protection from discrimination like other ‘protected characteristics’ like faith, race, or sexual orientation.

Almost two-thirds of Conservative activists in the United Kingdom believe there is no ‘climate emergency’, according to a poll of members.