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Europe wildfires: more than 300,000 flee homes and holiday accommodation as fires rage

Europe wildfires: more than 300,000 flee homes and holiday accommodation as fires rage

Fires displace people on massive scale and trigger one of the largest peacetime civilian evacuation operations ever carried out in France More than 250,000 people flee wildfires in France and Spain Hello and welcome back to our rolling…

Peshawar University teacher honoured with Ashoka Award in London

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Peshawar University teacher honoured with Ashoka Award in London

PESHAWAR: Prof. Gul Rahim Khan has been awarded the prestigious Oriental Numismatic Society (ONS) Ashoka Prize 2025 in London for the best paper published in the journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society (JONS) during 2025. This…

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A third of UK journalists have changed how or what they report over fears for safety, study finds

A third of UK journalists have changed how or what they report over fears for safety, study finds

Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’ Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump’s administration and trans issues because of…

‘Scandalous, irrational and irresponsible’: French beekeepers’ fury at lifting of pesticides ban

‘Scandalous, irrational and irresponsible’: French beekeepers’ fury at lifting of pesticides ban

Allowing use of two neonicotinoids to combat crop-ruining disease will kill bees and reduce harvests, union says Beekeepers and environmentalists in France have reacted furiously after parliament approved a bill reauthorising two banned…

How Chinese scientists created an alloy that can survive 2,400 degrees Celsius

How Chinese scientists created an alloy that can survive 2,400 degrees Celsius

A team of Chinese scientists says it has developed an alloy that retains strength at ultra-high temperatures using tantalum – a very hard and flexible metal. For applications in aerospace, hypersonic vehicles and nuclear reactors…

Universities must drive solutions to insecurity, food crisis — Tinubu

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Universities must drive solutions to insecurity, food crisis — Tinubu

President Bola aTinubu has called on Nigerian universities to provide evidence-based advice and innovative solutions to the country’s pressing challenges, including insecurity, food insecurity, climate change and technology lag. Tinubu…

The Punch

‘Difficult night’ as France and Spain fires intensify again

Japan Times

‘Difficult night’ as France and Spain fires intensify again

The fires in Spain and France advanced quickly because of tinderbox conditions worsened by successive heat waves the two countries have experienced since May.

Japan Times

Residents allowed to return after Cairngorms wildfire evacuation

BBC

Residents allowed to return after Cairngorms wildfire evacuation

The fire was declared a major incident on Friday, but that has now been stood down by Police Scotland.

BBC

TASS

International space crew to return to Earth after 241 days in space

The return vehicle of the Soyuz MS-28 manned spacecraft will land in Kazakhstan on Sunday afternoon

TASS

The 'race against time' to save a nation's precious film collection

ABC News

The 'race against time' to save a nation's precious film collection

Work is underway to preserve Papua New Guinea's collection of more than 1,300 film reels and tapes, stored at its small National Film Institute in Goroka, before climate change causes permanent damage.

ABC News

The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent

The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent

On July 13, more than 200 leading economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organised by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic…

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Philippines has lost an ally in marine biodiversity conservation and protection, and the fight for territorial…