The strategically vital port city is slowly getting back to normal life, after the final Ukrainian forces surrendered By Alexandra Wigreiser, Russian journalist, in Mariupol The term ‘a return to peace’ may be a cliché, but it’s the simplest way of putting things.

A bill advancing through Parliament could pave the way for a boom in gene-edited crops and livestock British lawmakers could soon relax restrictions on genetically altered foods, with new legislation proposing more gene editing be allowed on certain crops, while insisting they will not constitute “genetically modified organisms” (GMOs), which are subject to heavy regulation.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has told Kiev’s foreign backers at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos that they should curb optimism about the situation on the ground in the east of the country.