Russian leader Vladimir Putin declared yesterday at the St Petersburg Economic Forum that Russians and Ukrainians are the same people and in this sense “all of Ukraine” belongs to Russia.more

The UK House of Commons yesterday passed the Assisted Dying Bill, which will allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives, AP reported. 314 MPs voted in favour of the bill, with 291 voting against. The bill will now go to the House of Lords.more

World ranking leader Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka won over Jelena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 7:6 (8-6), 3:6, 7:6 (8-6) in the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 tournament on grass courts in Berlin after a very tight match. The match lasted two hours and 45 minutes.WTA tournament in Berlin: Sabalenka struggled to beat Rybakina in the quarter-finalsmore

The WHO has designated Nimbus as a ‘variant under monitoring’ and considers the public health risk low at the global level. Current vaccines are expected to remain effective. The variant has earned a new nickname – ‘razor blade throat’ Covid.more

Police detained eight men yesterday who attacked pro-Israeli demonstrators outside London's Iranian embassy, SKY News TV reported. In an official statement, Scotland Yard does not link the arrests to the demonstration.more

More and more tourists, especially foreigners, wanting to avoid the hardships of sightseeing in the oppressive heat, choose much later hours for strolls through historic cities. In Rome, the offer of night walks among the ancient monuments on the Fori Imperiali avenue is also aimed at them.more

Robert Gumny is leaving Augsburg as his contract will not be renewed. The Polish footballer has played 106 games for the German club since 2020, in which he scored two goals and recorded three assists.more

A good sunscreen is an essential part of staying protected in the sun, but we've uncovered two that failed key safety tests in our 2025 sunscreen investigation. We tested 15 different sun creams, covering big brands, own-labels and supermarket options from SPF30 to SPF50+, and two products failed our tests.more

Thousands of European airline staff are being trained to stop people boarding flights to Britain without valid visas, in a move billed by the foreign secretary as a digital upgrade to border controls.more

Manchester City have been fined more than £1m by the Premier League over delayed kick-offs or restarts related to nine matches last season. The league entered into a sanction agreement with the club over the breaches of its rules, which occurred between October and February.more

Overseas-trained dentists are working in McDonald’s and other takeaways in the UK even though millions of patients are finding it impossible to get NHS dental care. The disclosure comes in a new report being sent to MPs on Wednesday, which urges ministers to slash bureaucracy stopping dentists from abroad plugging the huge gaps in NHS dental care.more

Two members of a pro-Palestine group broke into RAF Brize Norton and damaged two aircraft, Palestine Action has claimed. In footage posted on social media, the group claims to have entered the base in Oxfordshire and to have escaped undetected overnight.more

European officials have warned US authorities that an attack on Iran could endanger Western citizens held by the regime and trigger terrorist attacks in Europe, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday, citing diplomatic sources.more

Almost three-quarters of Britons support the Assisted Dying Bill, which would allow terminally ill people who meet certain criteria to be helped to end their lives, according to data published by pollster YouGov.more

Poland is among the three cheapest EU countries in terms of household expenditure in 2024, according to Eurostat calculations.more

A serial rapist feared to be one of the worst sexual offenders in British history has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years for drugging and raping 10 women in the UK and China.more

Lionel Messi's goal secured Inter Miami's victory over FC Porto 2-1 in Group A of the Club World Cup, which is ongoing in the United States. It is also the first defeat of a European team in this tournament against an opponent from another zone.more

The planned launch of the Ax-4 mission with Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski on Sunday has been canceled to allow additional time to analyze the situation on the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said. This is related to a leak in the Russian Zwiezda module.more

Britain will rely on electricity from France to guard against the risk of blackouts this coming winter, officials have said. The National Energy System Operator (Neso), which oversees Britain’s electricity grid, said it would import power from France and other nearby European neighbours this winter to help backstop the network.more

The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. That's the stark warning from more than 60 of the world's leading climate scientists in the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming.more

The UK could see a boom in endangered sharks, rays and native oysters as species move habitats to respond to rising ocean temperatures, according to scientists. But some, including a clam that is the world's longest living animal, could struggle to adapt.more

Social media, online video channels and influencers are increasingly becoming the main source of information about the world, according to a report by the Reuters Institute. In 2024, Poland, the US and Australia saw the largest increase in people getting news from the X platform.more

The second-ranked tennis player, American Coco Gauff, 12 days after winning the French Open, suffered a defeat in the first match of the WTA 500 tournament on grass courts in Berlin. In the second round, she was defeated by Chinese Xinyu Wang, winning 6-3, 6-3.more

"The Telegraph" selected – in no particular order – 10 lovely British seaside spots where you can promenade in a posher fashion.more

Britain is experiencing its first heatwave of the year, with temperatures set to peak on Friday and Saturday, with temperatures set to reach 33C. Meanwhile, weather forecasters say the climate is changing rapidly across the UK, with scorching summers with temperatures reaching 40C set to become the norm within the next 12 years.more