2022

Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.

Tributes are pouring in for Pelé, the “King of football” who died on Thursday at age 82. The footballing legend won a record three World Cups… Read More »Tributes pour in for Pelé, Brazil’s ‘king of football’

More than six decades after he first wowed the world on the football pitch, Pelé is no more. The superstar Brazil nicknamed “O Rei” – the King –… Read More »Brazilian football legend Pelé, who won a record three World Cups, dies at 82

The European Union’s health agency said Thursday it believed the introduction of mandatory Covid screenings of travellers from China was “unjustified,” despite a surge in… Read More »EU says mandatory Covid screening for travellers from China ‘unjustified’

Over the past year, our team examined thousands of images taken by citizen journalists from around the world. These images captured everything including the war in… Read More »The Observers top images from 2022

After returning from Europe in October, the cleric was detained without being charged or put on trial.

Some Kenyan students blame intensified curriculum for the spike in numbers of boarding school fires.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday blamed media outlets for calling the graft scandal at the European Parliament an “Italian job,” and said it… Read More »EU graft scandal not ‘Italian’ but rather a ‘Socialist job’, says PM Meloni

A female lawyer was shot in the main city Lagos as she was returning home from a church service.

A Turkish appellate court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a leading critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose jailing has added to tensions in… Read More »Turkish court upholds life sentence for rights campaigner and Erdogan critic Osman Kavala