Italy's fertility rate fell to a new low of 1.14 children per woman in 2025 -- one of the lowest levels in the world, official data released on Tuesday showed.Fertility rates in the EU as a whole fell from 1.57 children per woman in 2010 to 1.34 in 2024.

Five men have been detained on suspicion of planning an attack on a Christmas market in southern Germany, the public prosecutor in Munich said on Saturday. Formal arrest warrants were issued for four of the men, while one was taken into preventive custody for the suspected plans to attack a Christmas market in the Dingolfing area in the south of the state of Bavaria, the prosecutor said.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories Tuesday in outrage after Israel's parliament passed a measure establishing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. Palestinians young and old held sit-ins and marches in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the territory where the new law is most sweeping. It orders West Bank military courts — which try only Palestinians — to make the death penalty the default sentence for