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In Northern Ireland, where tribal tensions run high already, a viral video of an ISIS-style beheading attempt on the streets of Be…

Markets often resemble a crowded movie theater: when panic breaks out, everyone rushes for the exits. Investors who wait until fea…

The left-wing liberal alliance with political Islam in the West was always a harebrained scheme that harmed the countries in which…

Germany bought billions of masks during the pandemic. Most were never used. Now thousands of metric tons of medical supplies are b…

Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt is within reach of a November showdown with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, turning anger over …

Wolfgang Büscher, spokesman for the German children’s charity Die Arche, warns in an interview with Statement of religious pressur…

US court orders demanded identifying data from Google on users who had watched certain YouTube videos, according to Forbes. If eve…

Anthropic, developer of Claude Opus 4.8, one of the world’s most advanced AI models, is concerned that its creation is taking ever…

Collagen powders, capsules and drinks promise smoother skin, stronger joints and a more youthful appearance. Some studies suggest …

Sometimes photos have the power to change our understanding of the world – and in the UK, a haunting image of Henry Nowak's hand m…

A few local-currency banknotes in your wallet do more than serve a practical purpose. They can also act as a financial brake and h…

In the name of protecting children, French lawmakers considered forcing priests to break the seal of confession. The proposal was …

Few questions unsettle the relationship between the French state and the Catholic Church as reliably as confessional secrecy. A bi…

The parliamentary election on 7 June could decide Armenia’s future direction, with Moscow warning against a Western turn and Lukas…

Do more billionaires necessarily mean more inequality? A new Swedish study challenges that assumption, suggesting that wealth crea…

Donald Trump's conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu are, by all accounts, extremely direct. Despite the harsh language, officials…

What national voters and parliaments rejected, European judges have now imposed from above. Some of those judges had spent years p…

Nigeria's embattled Christian community is set to come under independent international scrutiny as the UN's top religious freedom …

Bitcoin's sharp plunge is not a disaster but a necessary correction. How Strategy's token sale tested faith in halving cycles.

For the young people in your life who don’t know how to speak to the opposite sex, there’s AI. Hinge, one of the world’s most popu…

Pope Leo’s appointment of the EWTN News chief to a senior Vatican role was taken by some as a rebuke of his predecessor’s dislike …

After a Russian drone hit a residential building in Romania last week, injuring two people, a maritime drone has now exploded in t…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has revealed plans to raise $75bn on the stock market. It would be the largest IPO in history, and the company …

Investors seem to believe that reality no longer applies to them. Oil-market tensions are rising and Europe faces a new inflation …

As France’s centrists fight among themselves, new polling suggests the 2027 presidential election could bring the far right and fa…