Italy’s Giorgia Meloni coalition government has lost a crucial vote on an amendment to electoral reform – a significant setback ahead of next year’s general election. In a secret ballot in Italy’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday evening, MPs rejected a proposal spearheaded by her party, Brothers of Italy …

Delivery riders are to strike in several Italian cities on Wednesday, calling for better working conditions in the intense summer heat. In Milan, city authorities have limited deliveries during the hottest hours of the day until September, and riders working for Glovo and Deliveroo are to halt work in the …

The wife of a man who was nearly sucked head-first out of a cabin window in mid-air on a Ryanair plane has described her fright at the incident. “He was out for maybe two or three minutes,” she said, before adding “the lady sitting next to him and I tried …

German prosecutors have charged a 68-year-old man suspected of drugging and raping 14 women he met on online dating platforms and filming his attacks. The public prosecutor’s office in Berlin said he had been charged with 22 counts of aggravated rape involving 14 women, but that he was suspected of …

Several people have died in a fire at a building under construction in Brussels on Tuesday, local authorities have said. The cause of the fire at the Oxy tower in the centre of the city is unclear, with officials saying at least six people are missing. While it was put …

A woman who held the legs of her husband as he was nearly sucked head-first out of a Ryanair cabin window on Friday said “half of his body was sticking out of the plane.” Svetlana Grković, who was travelling with her husband Ljubisa Karović from Greece’s Thessaloniki to Germany’s Memmingen, …

Horses have been evacuated from an equestrian centre near Paris as the Fontainebleau wildfire continues to rage. Firefighters have been battling to bring the blaze under control over the last two days, with officials describing it as “virulent” and of “exceptional scale”. Interior minister Laurent Nunez indicated the fire may …

An anti-war politician who tried to challenge Vladimir Putin at the last Russian presidential election has been arrested, according to his social media account. Boris Nadezhdin was taken to a police station in a town west of Moscow on Monday morning, weeks after announcing he would run as a candidate …

The BBC’s Nick Beake sees homes razed to the ground and “a sea of black” in the village of Bédar, in southern Spain’s Almería province. The blaze spread rapidly through the region on Thursday and hundreds of firefighters have been battling the fires, which have claimed the lives of 12 …

CCTV footage from a coffee shop in the Ukrainian city of Sumy captured the moment people crouched on the floor as explosions were heard nearby. Surveillance cameras showed three different angles from the scene, one outside the shop and two inside. As soon as the explosions stopped people ran inside, …

Noskova’s second-set collapse was excruciating to watch for the 15,000-strong crowd on Centre Court, but the way in which she mentally reset in the decider was admirable. Serving for the title again an hour after her first attempt, Noskova hit an ace to set up a sixth championship point and …

A British family on holiday in Bedar has described the “terrifying” experience of escaping one of Spain’s deadliest wildfires. Twelve people in the village – among them four Britons – were killed, according to Spanish authorities. Another 23 people are still missing. Lucinda Curtois, who arrived in Spain with her …

Ukrainian intelligence agent Vladyslav Reut says he did not kill Anastasiia Berezovska – a woman suspected of trying to assassinate a multimillionaire in Monaco – despite earlier confessing to it. Reut instead blamed his co-defendant Vitalii Zhykovych for the killing of Berezovska. BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford was in the courtroom …

A passenger was reportedly nearly sucked out of a cabin window in mid-air on a Ryanair plane. Witnesses told local media the man, said to be a Serbian citizen in his 60s, was left hanging head first out of the window as far as his shoulders for several minutes, before …

Leaving the Sea of Azov is not necessarily a guarantee of safety from Ukraine’s drone strikes. Ukraine’s general staff released footage on Wednesday of a naval drone attack on a sanctioned tanker called Blue. The onboard footage shows the unmanned vessel evading fire as it approaches the tanker, before the …

Andresen said the association had “never made more money” from jersey sales than it is currently. The BBC has contacted the NFF for comment. This year’s order of approximately 250,000 kits is a record high. In comparison, around 50,000 kits were sold during the same period last year. The official …

“Five thousand planes taking off from European bases based on bilateral basing agreements in the first, in the six weeks between end of February and mid-April, till a ceasefire came into force.” With Nato’s Nordic countries uncomfortably close to Russia’s massive cluster of nuclear-armed submarine bases in the Kola Peninsula …

US President Donald Trump has used the Nato summit in Ankara to lash out again at fellow member Spain, and revive his interest in taking over Greenland. Speaking as Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte looked on, Trump said he wanted to cut off all trade relations with Spain, condemning his …

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Two 13-year-old girls have been seriously injured and a 16-year-old suspect arrested after an incident at a school in Upper Bavaria, Germany. Police said a major operation was under way in the area of Welfen-Gymnasium secondary school in the small town of Schongau. The suspect was carrying a knife as …