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The Guardian newspaper famously predicted back in 1999 that by the year 2020, “Spain will be ridden with malaria, the eastern Mediterranean will be as hot as the Sahara desert, flash floods will swamp parts of the American coastline and there will be almost no snow in the Alps.”

Can you explain why one of these is so empowering it has to be displayed everywhere and the other is so demeaning it had to be banned?

Pope Francis said Wednesday that weeping for one’s sins is a grace that Christians should aspire to.

The Spanish parliament has approved a proposed law by the new Socialist-led government to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.

Nokia on Wednesday became the latest company to drop out of one of the world’s biggest tech fairs over Coronavirus worries.

Forget World Wars I and II, the rise of Communism in Russia and China and the Cuban missile crisis: the single biggest moment of the 20th century was the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

A British man who was extradited from Thailand, has collapsed in a UK prison and is feared to have contracted the deadly coronavirus.

The return of the British blue passport could happen as early as March, which will “symbolise our national identity” has been regained.

More than six in ten voters have said that Labour deserved to lose the election, with respondents to a poll criticising Jeremy Corbyn’s lack of patriotism and his sympathies for known terrorists, while mocking prospective party leader Rebecca Long-Bailey as “Jeremy in a skirt”.

A top UN official warned that Europe will face a new migrant crisis if the situation in Lebanon, a country that has been ravaged an economic crisis and internal strife, is not resolved before it becomes a failed state.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday fired his chief of staff, Andriy Bohdan, replacing him with a senior aide named Andriy Yermak.

Tech giant Apple has been fined €25 million ($41 million) by the French consumer watchdog for its lack of transparency in deliberately slowing down older iPhones.

The United Kingdom will press ahead with a costly high-speed railway, Boris Johnson confirmed on Tuesday, despite its cost continuing to spiral apparently beyond control, serious doubts about the value of the project, and already massive government debt.

A Swedish court has sentenced an Iraqi asylum seeker to eight years in prison for honour crimes after he beat his daughter with a kebab spit, locked up his wife, and forced his daughters to wear Islamic veils.

European Union member states want to be able to suspend elements of a future trade deal with the UK as part of their arsenal of punishments should Britain disobey rulings by a dispute panel overseeing the agreement.

The Manchester Arena bomber used government benefits provided to his mother to purchase bomb-making equipment, a jury heard at the Old Bailey in London.

Britain sees huge trading opportunities in Southeast Asia and seeks to build a “new modern and dynamic” relationship with the region.

A 30-year-old Islamic convert who was arrested after brandishing a machete over the weekend is said to have quarrelled with a neighbouring family whose 11-year-old daughter he wanted to marry.

Sailors onboard the Iranian Navy’s 66th flotilla took to international waters Tuesday to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the Iran Islamic Revolution by shouting angry insults and threats at U.S. and Israeli forces.

Spain on Tuesday resumed the search for 67 migrants missing from a boat trying to reach Europe after authorities rescued 119 others.

An Islamic terrorist has been convicted of plotting attacks on London landmarks, just one year after being cleared in a case in which he attacked police officers outside Buckingham Palace with a samurai sword.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the government must strip Huawei from its plans to develop the country’s 5G network as soon as possible over security concerns.

The European Commission has reported a Brexit day stunt promoted by the First Minister of Scotland to the police in Belgium.

In its latest projection, the Swedish Migration Board has predicted that the number of asylum seekers entering the country will rise this year, with an increase in Syrian and South American migrants.

Brazilian military leaders consider France to be their country’s biggest threat over the next 20 years as a result of disputes surrounding the Amazon rainforest, according to a leaked document published by Brazilian media this weekend. 

Brexit leader Nigel Farage was confronted by a heckler at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia, last week. “Why don’t you stay and listen, and ask some questions?” said Farage to the heckler as he left the room, still screaming.

A review has been ordered of NHS rules that allow young teens to have transgender medical treatments without parental involvement.

Vote Boris, Get Jeremy Corbyn. If only the Tories had made this a bit clearer during the general election…

A Downing Street spokesman has confirmed that “work is underway” on planning Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proposed bridge linking Great Britain with Northern Ireland.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has announced her intentions to step down as party leader.

The United Kingdom has announced the creation of up to ten “free ports” throughout the country, in a move that Boris Johnson’s government says will “turbocharge” the post-Brexit economy by creating thousands of new jobs in undeveloped regions, boost trade, and remove costly red tape and regulations.

Ireland adjusts to a new reality after election that saw the left-wing nationalist party Sinn Fein win the biggest share of votes.

Greece is planning to use emergency legal powers to create detention centers for migrants on five islands to speed deportations to Turkey.

BBC Studios’ Science Unit announced Monday it is working on a new series fronted by Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg in an effort to both tell her life story and chronicle her global travels.

The Conservative government is set to lower the salary threshold for some migrants in its overhaul of immigration laws post-Brexit.

An Islamist hate preacher continues to proclaim jihad on his YouTube channel, despite having been arrested and banned from social media.