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Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include: Global death toll passes 358,000 The global death toll has increased to 358,369, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins U… Read More

Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include: Global infections exceed 5.7m The number of people infected by Covid-19 has exceeded 5.7 million, according to data compiled by th… Read More

The bodies of eight women and 31 men were found in a refrigerated trailer attached to a lorry in an industrial park in Grays, Essex, in the early hours of October 23 - Aaron Chown/PA A gang of 26 suspected people smugglers have been arrested in France and Belgium in…

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron announced an 8 billion euro ($8.8 billion) plan on Tuesday to make France the top producer of clean vehicles in Europe and urged French carmakers to make vehicles in their own country. French car plants are only just starting to rev up production after the…

The twist at the center of the disc could be the location of a new planet one day. ESO/Boccaletti et al. Scientists are seeing signs that a new planet could be forming about 520 lightyears away from Earth.Images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) show a…

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a stunning image of a planet being born around a young star located 520 light-years from Earth.The birth took place in the constellation Auriga, which is Latin for The Charioteer.“Thousands of exoplanets have been identified so far, but little is known about…

Reuters Germany and France on Monday proposed a European Recovery Fund worth €500 billion ($547 billion) to tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The plan would be the most significant transnational fiscal effort in Europe since the Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild the continent after World War II.…

France has announced that it will go ahead with a so-called ‘Apple tax’ this year, whether or not an agreement is reached on an international proposal to ensure tech giants receive the same tax treatment across 137 countries. France was the first European country to decide to impose a tax…

The mayor of Athens has said he will liberate public space from cars. His counterpart in Paris says it is out of the question for the city to return to pre-coronavirus traffic and pollution levels. I… Read More

The FDA just gave emergency authorization to a new at-home coronavirus test kit from Everlywell, which could return users' results in as little as three days.The kit includes a nasal swab and a tube of saline solution for shipping to approved laboratories.Everlywell expects the test kit to be available later…