By Gilles Guillaume PARIS (Reuters) -France beat competition from Germany and the Netherlands for ProLogium's first overseas car battery plant

Swiss voters have approved a new law to cut the use of fossil fuels and significantly reduce levels of planet-heating pollution, as the country faces alarming levels of glacier melt.

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey told a court in London Thursday in his ongoing sexual assault trial that he touched the complainant -- who is one of four men who made allegations against the actor -- in a "romantic and intimate" way.

The White House plans to send a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime.

It comes as Ukraine's president says the country's counter-offensive is making advances on all fronts.

Apple removed Andrew Tate's Real World Portal app due to allegations of operating as a pyramid scheme and promoting misogyny

US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on joint efforts to combat fentanyl, restore high-level

Pennsylvania's plan for rebuilding a collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia involves tons of small glass nuggets, each one about an inch wide and light as Styrofoam

Colombian President Gustavo Petro urged commercial banks to cut interest rates on loans and added that central bank

The director of the British Museum says he's stepping down immediately amid investigations into the theft or disappearance of hundreds of items from its massive collection, including gold jewelry, semi-precious gems and antiquities dating to the 15th century B.C. Hartwig Fischer says he's resigning now, rather than waiting until next year, as he had originally planned

Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli spends most of his life around a bunch of Twins

AstraZeneca Plc shares fell as results from a high-level study of a new cancer medicine raised concern the