For decades Auroville held fast to its lofty ideals as a self-governing haven for yoga enthusiasts and seekers of spiritual freedom of "all creeds and nationalities".
Europe struggled to cope with a record-breaking heatwave on Wednesday, with at least 94 million people expected to experience temperatures above 35C, most of them in France and Spain.
A French court on Thursday ordered TotalEnergies to account for its clients' emissions and outline measures to address them, in a ruling that NGOs hailed as a victory in the major climate case.
The deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, which sparked international alarm, should be formally declared over on July 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday.
Germany on Wednesday unveiled a monument to Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted and murdered by the Nazis, a group that experts say has been historically overlooked in commemorations of the Holocaust.