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Two Austrian ministers have stepped down in one day, as the coalition government under Chancellor Karl Nehammer struggles to maintain power after the retirement of ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz last year. Announcing her resignation in a statement on Mon…

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is much less likely than Delta to result in long Covid in people who have had two doses of vaccine, new figures in the UK suggest. Data shows the odds of double-vaccinated adults infected with the Omicron BA.1 strain rep…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken with China’s head of state and ruling party leader Xi Jinping about the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The discussion also covered the conflict’s impact on global food supplies and energy security, governm…

The son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos is leading an unofficial vote count to be the next Philippine president. Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr received more than 15.339 million votes, based on a partial count of election returns sent …

Ukraine is to get a first answer in June about its application to join the European Union, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Twitter on Monday. The EU executive “will aim to deliver its opinion in June,” von der Leyen said afte…

It might be a last pop concert, or a trip to the airport to watch the planes take off – or relaxing in the comfort of your own garden. The final wishes people have vary – but the German Wünschewagen Rhein-Main has spent the last five years trying to fu…

Two naked female bodies sit in a room, their faces covered, as though they are decorative objects. A cut-out photo of an African mask, humanized with a naked female body and eyes, looks critically at a black princess. South African artist Teresa Kutala…

Sawdust will be a key component in tomorrow’s toilets. It is part of the basic kit that makes up a composting toilet, at least those created by S’Klo, a company from the Black Forest in Germany. Most other firms in the business use a similar model. Fri…

London is pulling all the stops to mark 70 years of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on the throne at the beginning of June this year. Given the monarch’s increasingly rare public appearances, it might be a last chance of getting a glimpse of her in person, n…

From the outside, the moms gathered in a Santa Monica, California, living room could have been conferring about carpools, school boards or fundraisers, any of the myriad mundane meet-ups that come with parenting. A quick survey of the scene might miss …