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Published on 09/01/2026 – 10:12 GMT+1 Your dog’s dinner could have a much larger climate impact than you think, particularly if they have a penchant for ‘premium’ brands. Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter recently calculated the carbon footprint of 996 types of dog food sold by a single retailer in the UK. The selection included dry, wet and raw foods with plant-based and grain-free options. Published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the study warned that the production of ingredients used in UK dog food contributes to around 0.9 to 1.3 per cent of the country’s total…
By Euronews with AP Published on 09/01/2026 – 9:55 GMT+1 In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the United States-Japanese-Russian crew of four will return to Earth in the coming days, earlier than planned. NASA cancelled its first spacewalk of the year because of the health issue. The space agency did not identify the astronaut or the medical issue, citing patient privacy. The crew member is now stable. NASA officials stressed that it was not an onboard emergency, but are “erring on the…
Europe had barely switched off its out-of-office replies before geopolitics came roaring back. In the first days of January, events in Caracas — and rhetoric from Washington — jolted Brussels out of its post-holiday slumber and straight back into crisis mode. A U.S. special forces operation captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and left more than 100 people dead, reopening old questions about power, sovereignty and just how reliable an ally the United States really is. This week on EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton is joined by Allison Hoffman, Nick Vinocur, Eva Hartog and Bartosz Brzeziński to unpack what Donald Trump’s…
The West Midlands city of Birmingham is blanketed in snow as Storm Goretti hits the UK, with forecasters predicting snow of up to 30 centimetres in some areas and disruptions to road and rail transport. Roads have been closed in Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire with the area blanketed in snow. British forecasters have issued weather warnings for severe winds, large amounts of snowfall and freezing temperatures. In France, some 380,000 households lost power, the vast majority in the northern Normandy region, the Enedis power provider said, while some 65,000 households lost electricity in Britain.
Jim Jarmusch has always excelled in the art of extracting the extraordinary in seemingly commonplace situations. Nowhere is this better seen than in the director’s superb 2003 anthology film Coffee And Cigarettes, an unexpectedly poetic collection of sketches that turns awkward meetings and missed conversations into something resonant and deeply human. He returns this year with Father Mother Sister Brother, another go at the underappreciated cinematic format which won him the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival. This time, he’s less concerned with caffeine and nicotine spears, and more preoccupied with water and watches. That, and the frayed…
Despite the attacks on Leo from his allies, Trump himself has also appeared wary of a direct showdown. When asked about the pope in a POLITICO interview, Trump was more keen to discuss meeting the pontiff’s brother in Florida, whom he described as “serious MAGA.” When pressed on whether he would meet the pope himself, he finally replied: “Sure, I will. Why not?” The potential for conflict will come into sharper focus as Leo hosts a summit called an extraordinary consistory this week, the first of its kind since 2014, which is expected to provide a blueprint for the future…
As Donald Trump marches ahead with his no-holds-barred agenda to expand America’s sphere of influence, the European Union is scrambling to find its footing, bogged down by internal divisions and a fear of antagonising the US president. The US operation to remove Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela’s president and Trump’s renewed threats to seize Greenland from Denmark have forced the bloc to confront uncomfortable questions about its decades-long alliance with the world’s largest economy – and the dependencies that relationship has entrenched. At the same time, the EU, a self-proclaimed advocate of the multilateral system, is dealing with growing doubts about…
From construction and energy, to ports and telecommunications, Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard or IRGC dominates large parts of the economy. The IRGC is not simply a military force — it is a parallel power centre with a revolutionary and religious mission. Set up after the 1979 power shift in the country, it seeks to guard the Islamic foundations of the republic and project force abroad. Its economic role expanded during the Iran–Iraq war from 1980 to 1988, when it built independent engineering and logistics capabilities to sustain the conflict. Iran is currently in the throes of ongoing nationwide protests sparked…
Published on 09/01/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 Two stunning new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS – one captured from Earth by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, and another taken from deep space by NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – have been released to the world. The comet made global headlines in 2025 when astronomers confirmed it was passing through our Solar System after forming around a distant star. It is thought to be the oldest comet ever observed – and one of only three interstellar objects ever discovered in our Solar System. The first image was taken on November 26,…
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