Switzerland’s Aletsch glacier is western Europe’s largest expanse of ice, but Swiss scientists say it’s receding at an unprecedented pace, losing up to 12m (13 yards) of ice a year.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, leading polls to succeed Angela Merkel as head of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU), said she would consider legislation to ensure better representation of women in parliament, unless her party changed its approach.

Pupils assemble contents from the robotics kit together during the Robotics and Coding Club Meeting at the Sedi-Laka Primary School in Ivory Park, Johannesburg.

UN peacekeepers serving in the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo attend a special parade for six colleagues, who were killed in clashes with militias in Beni territory, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Central American migrant caravan faced a desperate situation on Friday as its numbers swelled at the US-Mexican border, where it got a cold welcome and a warning that its chances of entering the United States were “almost nil.”

The crushed wreckage of an Argentine submarine has been located a year after it vanished into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean with 44 crew members, in the country’s worst naval disaster in decades.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has decided to launch its first public contact campaign.

Top bureaucrats – the Cabinet secretary, the Establishment secretary, and the principal secretary to the prime minister – will recommend a panel of three most suitable officers to Imran Khan for the appointment of federal secretaries.

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said yesterday that he has no plans to call an election before Christmas and that uncertainty over Brexit must take precedence over the outcome of talks to extend an expiring government cooperation deal.

More than 50 people have been arrested as thousands of demonstrators occupied five bridges in central London to voice their concern over the looming climate crisis.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has told the plotters planning to overthrow her that their alternative Brexit plans would not resolve all their problems with her draft deal.

President Rodrigo Duterte is poised to boot out another official upon his return to the Philippines from two international summits.