World

Japan wants its companies and employees to adopt four-day workweeks and break with a cultural mindset that leads to at least 54 people to suffer “death from overwork” every year....

Germany’s right wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is expected to win its first election since the party was formed in 2013, as anti-mass immigration sentiment sends voters to the...

Germany’s far right is on course to win the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazis, in a major rebuke of Chancellor Olaf Scholz ruling center-left coalition....

Populist anti-mass migration parties made significant gains in state elections in Germany on Sunday, with the right-wing Alternative for Germany projected to have secured a resounding victory in Thuringia. Exit...

Austria’s poll-topping Freedom Party (FPÖ) plans to enshrine in law that there are only two genders in the country’s constitution. The move comes as part of a crackdown on “woke...

The killing of six hostages in Gaza, whose bodies were found in a tunnel on Thursday, is being partially blamed on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government for failing to reach...

In Western markets, large SUV and pickup truck sales have hit new highs. “f SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter of CO2,” Patrick Schröder wrote...

Crew members on Mike Lynch’s yacht have spoken of the moments when a storm sank the vessel off Sicily and their efforts to help save passengers, after a disaster that...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared Sunday to close the door on a cease-fire agreement with Hamas, saying that anyone who “murders hostages does not want a deal.” In a...

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway proclaimed “our love has triumphed against all odds” after she married self-styled Californian shaman Durek Verrett on Saturday. The couple tied the knot during a...