The European Commission set out a years-long plan to regain competitiveness in global industries, as European businesses face fierce competition from China and new challenges under U.S. President Donald Trump.

France, Germany and 10 other European Union countries want the European Commission to use its powers under the Digital Services Act to protect the integrity of European elections from foreign interference,

Britain’s government has backed a tortured effort to build a third runway at Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, throwing its weight behind a decades-old proposal that has been beset by political, legal and environmental challenges.

Extreme heat could kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe unless countries get better at cutting emissions.

EU nations must work together quickly to help the bloc compete against global economic powerhouses like China and the U.S., European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

"Huijsen seems to be the name on everybody's lips if you're a top football club in Europe at the minute." The words of former Cherries defender Joe Partington on Dean Huijsen - the 20-year-old central defender who was signed for just an initial £12.

Coca-Cola has recalled some of its soft drinks in Europe after higher-than-normal levels of a chemical called chlorate were detected in bottles and cans at a Belgian production plant.

Up Helly Aa - Europe's biggest fire festival - is traditionally held on the last Tuesday of January and celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage. Thousands of visitors travel to the UK's most northerly islands to watch the evening torchlit procession through Lerwick, which reaches its climax when the replica of a Viking long ship is set on fire.

New research shows more people will die from overheating in the coming years than the fall in deaths from extremely cold weather.

Neymar is set to sign a six-month contract on his return to boyhood club Santos as the Brazil international wants to return to Europe's top five leagues after the stint, sources have told ESPN.

Context: The EU appointed its first housing commissioner last year to deal with the increasingly dire living situation. In 2023, some 16 per cent of the EU population lived in an overcrowded household, and almost 9 per cent spent more than two fifths of their household income on housing, according to Eurostat.