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Technology to lower working hours could also reduce widespread mental health illnesses and physical ailments associated with overwork, the research found.

An Italian tribunal on Monday convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups. The mafia group, which is tied to some 150 Calabrian families, has a near monopoly on the European cocaine trade, bringing in €50 billion annually according to some estimates, FRANCE 24’s Seema Gupta said. 

An Italian tribunal on Monday convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups. 

Just when you thought nature couldn’t get any more bizarre.

Holding olive branches and white banners, French performers from different religious and ethnic backgrounds led thousands of people on a silent march through central Paris on Sunday to call for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and unity in France.

Auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat said the hat was one of Napoleon’s trademarks.

The teenager’s season could be over.

The man told police he had planned to jump off at the next red light but ended up under the truck for hundreds of miles.

Former OpenAI boss Sam Altman pictured at firm’s HQ amid reports of return Sam Altman, the ex-boss of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has posted a…

Far-right outsider Milei wins Argentina presidential run-off election Javier Milei has won Argentina’s presidential run-off poll, according to provisional results. The far-right libertarian has received…

Israel hopeful of Hamas deal to release hostages in ‘coming days’ The US remains hopeful of reaching a deal to free a significant number of…

The Australian naval frigate had been helping to enforce UN sanctions in the region when its propellers got tangled up in fishing nets.

French Senator Joël Guerriau is facing preliminary charges of drugging a fellow lawmaker with the intent to commit “rape or sexual assault”, prosecutors confirmed Friday, in a case that has shocked France. Guerriau was suspended from both his Horizons party and his Senate group on Saturday. 

Thousands of protesters took part in rallies across France and Britain on Saturday calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza war.

Man given whole life sentence for Ashling Murphy murder Jozef Puska, 33, has been convicted of murdering schoolteacher Ashling Murphy has been handed a whole…

It caused a flash of light and a noise like a ‘sonic boom’

Pedro Sanchez won the backing of Spain’s parliament on Thursday for another term as prime minister, with the country divided over his decision to grant Catalan separatists an amnesty in exchange for their crucial support in a vote of confidence.

David DePape was convicted on Thursday of attempted kidnapping and assault of a federal official

Cassie filed the lawsuit on Thursday.

‘”Hidden gems” are a bit of cliché, but Madeira has an air of something different…

Jeremy Goodale’s nose began bleeding uncontrollably after the tearful apology.

He previously criticised Putin for allowing a ‘third-ranking’ air force.

Alsu Kurmasheva is a dual US-Russian citizen and journalist who has been detained by Russia since October 18, charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent” despite having travelled to Russia for a family emergency. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted. Her husband has called for the State Department to designate her as “wrongfully detained”. “She is a US citizen and has the same rights as any US citizen,” he says.

China: 25 dead, scores hospitalised in Shanxi building fire A fire that tore through an office building in northern China has killed at least 25…

An insidious war-time theft has been kept under wraps, until now.