The US has issued new sanctions targeting Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro’s family, oil tankers and shipping companies, as Washington ramps up pressure on Caracas.

It is no secret that a tabby named Larry wields considerable power in Downing Street. Now in Belgium, a rescue cat named Maximus has shot to social media stardom as bewhiskered sidekick and PR weapon of Prime Minister Bart De Wever.

Russia’s central bank said on Friday that the European Union’s plans to use its assets were illegal and that it reserved the right to take any measures necessary to protect its interests. It added in a separate statement that it is suing the Brussels-…

United States President Donald Trump has warned that the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict could potentially snowball into a “third world war”.

The findings push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal sites (northern France) dating to about 50,000 years ago.

After weeks of protests across Bulgaria, PM Rosen Zhelyazkov’s government resigned on Thursday. France24 Elitsa Gadeva tells us what was different about the protests and what’s coming next for the country, seen as the second most corrupt in the EU by …