Heatwaves, flooding and droughts will be more frequent and more intense as the world is set to hit the 1.5C global warming limit in the next 20 years, a landmark United Nations review has predicted.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from hotels, campsites and homes across an Italian seaside resort as a wildfire spread through the area.

It is hard to know what time of day it is on Evia.

It is the completeness of the destruction in this small town that hits you first.

A minister has told Sky News he would like staff in his department to be coming into the office "at least" two or three days a week, after the government insisted it would follow a "cautious" approach to civil servants returning to their desks.

South Asian food bloggers have criticised the overuse of the word "curry" over claims it is rooted in British colonialism.

Alibaba has fired one of its managers over claims he sexually assaulted a female employee on a business trip, its chief executive has confirmed.

Harry Dunn's alleged killer Anne Sacoolas could have been "distracted by her mobile phone" moments before the fatal road crash, his family's lawyers have claimed.

Researchers in Australia have announced a new species of flying reptile from a fossil discovered in western Queensland, saying: "It's the closest thing we have to a real life dragon."

As they closed the Olympics in Tokyo, organisers celebrated how they had brought the world together and overcome the pandemic hurdles placed in front of them.