China will lose access to a strategic space tracking station in Western Australia when its contract expires, the facility’s owners said, a decision that cuts into Beijing’s expanding space exploration and navigational capabilities in the Pacific region.

The Fairphone 3+'s new camera module is also available to Fairphone 3 owners.

In the EU, 13 percent of deaths are linked to pollution, said a new report published on Tuesday by the European Environment Agency (EEA), which stressed the current pandemic put environmental health factors in the spotlight.

A Kilkeel farmer said he is "devastated" at the loss of at least 2,000 pigs in a fire. The farrowing house at Glenmarshal Pedigree Pig, a shed where sows and their piglets were kept, was destroyed. Owner Trevor Shields said fire fighters did a "tremendous job" in stopping the fire from spreading. "In layman's terms it's the maternity ward and there were 140 sows in there with baby piglets, up to about three weeks old," Mr Shields said.

Dead dolphins are washing up on France’s Atlantic coast in such high numbers that local populations of the mammals are at risk, according to marine biologists. The overwhelming majority of dolphins are found drowned in the nets of fishing trawlers, and post mortems often show fractures, broken tails and flippers, and deep incisions cut into their skin by the nets.

After Fukushima in 2011, Germany decreed the end of nuclear power by 2022. A decision strongly criticized, especially in France, world champion in nuclear power and accused of replacing nuclear with coal, thereby increasing their CO 2 emissions. A “fake news” that always lasts. In accordance with the agreement of the coalition government, the latter appointed this June 6 a commission responsible for drawing up the timetable for the exit of the coal.

Apple agrees to pay a £21m fine in France for not making it clear that it slowed down old iPhones.

The Scottish parliament on Tuesday is due to approve plans to make sanitary products freely available to all women - the first nation in the world to do so. The legislation would make products such as tampons and sanitary pads free for all women in Scotland, available at designated public places such as community centers, youth clubs and pharmacies.

The president made the announcement after the number of coronavirus cases reached over 1,000 and the stock market plummeted

More on the latest figures from Italy, which is already the country with the most recorded deaths from the outbreak. On Friday, the number of deaths climbed by 627 to 4,032 which is the largest daily rise since the outbreak began. The total number of confirmed cases in the country rose to 47,021 from 41,035. The hardest hit northern region of Lombardy remains in a critical situation and has seen the majority of recorded deaths.

An outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) was confirmed on Monday on a farm near the village of Więckowice near Poznań in western Poland, less than 150km (93 miles) from the border with Germany. African swine fever is a highly contagious virus which is fatal to pigs. It is transmitted directly between animals or through infected meat or animal feed and has also been seen as having the potential to transmit to humans. There is an ongoing outbreak in China that has already already wiped out 40% of pigs in the country.

White-tailed eagles — one of the largest birds of prey with a 2.5-metre wingspan — have been spotted for the first time in 240 years soaring above the North York Moors. The incredible creatures, also known as Sea Eagles, went extinct in England in the early 20th century due to illegal killing. But thanks to a pioneering project by Forestry England and the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, there is new hope for the majestic birds.

As Pierre Villiers slides open a heavy door, it is the smell that hits you. Inside the chilled room sit rack after rack of rapidly maturing cheeses. Many of them are cut into a heart shape - that is the tradition of Neufchatel. Others are prepared into circles, or squares. All of them have that distinct strong smell. But the trouble is, it's too strong. They are going off, now too mature to sell to customers who, in the most part, have stopped buying cheese anyway.

We’ve been here before: a pandemic, income inequality, economic stagnation and climate change brought down Medieval Europe

As the coronavirus crisis continues to take a terrible toll on lives and livelihoods worldwide, the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has warned the EU's forthcoming Biodiversity Strategy will be an early test of whether Europe is taking nature, including biodiversity, seriously in its economic thinking.

The European Union will contract 7.4% in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic brings the worst economic shock since the Great Depression in the 1930s, the European Commission said Wednesday. The executive arm of the EU has released its latest economic forecasts — the first estimates since European countries introduced lockdown measures to stop the spread of the virus. In February, the European Commission estimated a 1.4% rise in GDP for the EU this year.

In the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Europe has become an unexpected battleground for a different kind of threat: a propaganda war. As Beijing tries to shape the narrative of the outbreak, it has ramped up its efforts to influence how Europeans think and talk about China and the pandemic in ways that are alarming policymakers across the bloc.

Airbnb has revolutionised travel and since it was founded in 2008 hundreds of thousands of property owners have used the holiday accommodation platform to make ends meet, make a living and, in some cases, make a killing. But while hosts, as they are known, are wringing their hands over the collapse of the travel industry and their loss of income, many city authorities are rubbing theirs at the prospect of thousands of holiday lets returning to the traditional rental market.

Some 1,500 years ago, the Plague of Justinian spread via ships from North Africa to Europe and Asia, killing up to 50 million people.

One in five Europeans are exposed to harmful levels of noise pollution, and this number is set to rise in the next decade, with road traffic the biggest culprit, a new study has shown. Excessive noise can cause physical and mental illness, and is associated with higher levels of heart disease, stress and sleeplessness.