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Cartoons like Peppa Pig are blamed for the lack of women working in the construction industry in Spain.Spanish MP Marta Serrano said the children's show discouraged women from entering work, for example in road maintenance, by portraying…

The torturous experiences of liberated Syrian prisoners in the Assad regime's prisons include shaking, unable to speak and suffering from severe memory loss. They have been exposed in harrowing photos and videos emerging from the…

Germany could leave the European Convention on Human Rights if it fails to overhaul the European asylum system, one of the country's leading conservative politicians has said.Jens Spahn, minister under Angela Merkel and representative of…

By GERARD COUZENS Published: 08:37 GMT, December 10, 2024 | Updated: 11:16 GMT, December 10, 2024 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- …

A top investigative journalist has claimed that Australia and New Zealand are the only places you could survive a global nuclear war. American author Annie Jacobsen published a post-apocalyptic non-fiction work earlier this year, entitled…

By MEGAN HOWE and PETER ALLEN IN PARIS Published: 01:29 GMT, December 10, 2024 | Updated: 02:16 GMT, December 10, 2024 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- …

The 52-year-old, who has not been named, was reportedly bitten on the headBy ELENA SALVONI Published: 12:58 GMT, December 9, 2024 | Updated: 14:02 GMT, December 9, 2024 <!-- <!-- <!--…

Mystery surrounds a plane that disappeared from a flight tracker while over Syria - sparking theories that it was carrying President Assad and could have crashed or even been shot down. Flight tracking website Flightradar 24 showed a plane…

Italian police have arrested 12 neo-Nazis accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to spark a civil war and overthrow the government, local media reported.The "Werewolf Division," a group operating on Telegram,…

By DAVID AVERRE and REUTERS Published: 14:34 GMT, December 6, 2024 | Updated: 15:00 GMT, December 6, 2024 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!--…