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Policymakers in many nations are trying to reform the gig economy. Yet regulations have a long way to go to meet the needs of growing numbers of platform-based workers.

The child was filmed singing the track from the Disney film while sheltering in a Ukraine basement.

The EU Commission outlines an ambitious roadmap to cut imports of Russian gas by two thirds in a year.

The US bans Russian oil, targeting the Russian economy's "main artery" over its invasion of Ukraine.

What do experts make of the diet Shane Warne was on?

In 1938, a Ukrainian-born grandmother created one of art's biggest shocks – but it was attributed to the US painter Jackson Pollock, writes Kelly Grovier.

Hassan travelled 1,200km to Slovakia with two bags, a passport and his relatives' phone number.

False claims have been spreading that the Ukraine war is a hoax and that actors have been involved in staging events.

Renaissance-era ice cream moulds, 500-year-old cookbooks, recipes meant only for popes: Rome's newest museum is a fascinating homage to Italy's history of food and cooking.

Our modern kitchens are much safer than cooking over smoke-filled open fires. But, Veronique Greenwood writes, not every danger has disappeared.

From the entirely pointless (grape scissors, we’re looking at you) to the ever so useful. Which of these cooking gadgets do you wish had stuck around?

To pull reluctant workers back to the office, some employers are upping pay packets and offering perks just for stepping through the door. Is it the right approach?

Even after a mild infection, the overall size of the brain had shrunk, researchers found.

Gidikumar Patil, who bought two big cats, said he will not leave home without his pets.

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Uncommon baby names are rising across the globe, even in more traditional societies. Why are parents increasingly determined to make children's names ‘unique’?

Along US Route 40, African diplomats were routinely denied service at local establishments. But their treatment set off a civil rights struggle that led to outlawing segregation.

Consumers can struggle to unravel whether claims about a brand or product's sustainability are accurate, but regulators are cracking down on misleading climate claims in advertising.

The shifting of European history's tectonic plates is not really that unexpected, explains Kevin Connolly.

The temporary suspension comes in response to a new Russian law which threatens reporters with prison.

Lindsey Graham says only way Russia's invasion of Ukraine ends is for someone "to take this guy out".

A bombing inside a Shia mosque in the city of Peshawar kills more than 50 people and wounds many more.

After Russia seizes two nuclear plant sites, experts weigh the risk to Ukraine and the world at large.

Household bills for energy, food and petrol likely to worsen after commodities rise, analysts warn.