The 2025 winter solstice falls on Sunday, Dec. 21, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s what it all means.

The PM has ordered an investigation into foreign influence in politics after the ex-leader of Reform in Wales was jailed for taking cash to parrot Kremlin lines

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Resident doctors in England have begun five days of strike action after rejecting the government’s latest offer Streeting says he does not want people to stay away from hospitals today if they need emergency medical help. The most important message that I want us all to convey collectively as, as parliament and the NHS, is to the public’ I do not want people who need to access health care to think [they’d] better not try. So if it’s an accident or an emergency, people should have access. Continue reading...

PARIS, Dec 17 - The EU's parliament will vote on Wednesday on a scheme that would enable women from nations restricting abortion to terminate pregnancies in another member state free of charge. Read m...

The footprints date back some 210 million years and show traces of toes and claws.

Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.

Family say al-Ahmed ‘doesn’t discriminate’ and would have done anything to save lives during the attack

Ukrainian president speaks in Dutch parliament as he urges Netherlands to back EU reparations loan Commenting on Berlin talks, Zelenskyy says he held “really intensive” talks with US counterparts in Germany, “working in a great detail on documents that could stop the war and guarantee security.” But he says “every single detail matters,” adding that nothing in the proposed peace deal should be allowed to “become a reward for Russia’s aggression.” I truly hope that the next time I address your parliament it will be with gratitude for a peace that has been achieved. Continue reading...