
The G7 summit opens in France under tight security following riots in Geneva and a new agreement to end the war with Iran. For Eur…

Two bills before the US Congress seek to close gaps in surrogacy laws which leave women and children vulnerable to exploitation.

The United States emits roughly three times as much greenhouse gas per capita as the EU. Without its cooperation, the Union’s camp…

AI was long sold as an efficiency machine: subscribe, prompt and cut headcount. Behind every request, however, lie real costs that…

Ireland has positioned itself as something of the opposite pole to Hungary and Poland in Europe in recent years, a characterizatio…

The proposal had been expected to produce a close result. In the end, the “no” camp won more decisively than many analysts had for…

Switzerland votes today on whether to keep its population below ten million. The referendum has become a test case for a wider Wes…

Across the Western world, “consent” has become something of a magic word when it comes to sexual matters. Ironically, that same cu…

Rumors of a chancellor swap are spreading through Berlin. Friedrich Merz is deeply unpopular, the CDU is drifting behind the AfD, …

This autumn, Ireland will play Israel. The football match should be a non-event. Instead, it has become the biggest controversy in…

Antoni Gaudí's towering masterwork, the basilica of La Sagrada Família, is nearing completion 144 years after work began. Its mess…

At a party congress in Budapest, former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered a sweeping post-mortem on Fidesz's April 2…

Debate about the state of Britain’s armed forces has reached new heights following the resignations of two senior defense official…

Germany, France and several other EU member states want to radically reshape the European External Action Service. The bloc’s dipl…

A viral post by a supposedly French AI researcher turned out to be fiction. The episode highlights a growing challenge of the AI e…

Henry Nowak died in police handcuffs after his killer falsely accused him of racism. His case exposes a deeper crisis in British p…

Summits and failed policy plans are all the German government currently manages to produce. It can deliver only miniature reforms …

Jared Kushner’s planned Albanian resort has turned the flamingo into the symbol of a revolt that has shaken the country since late…

Can aging be reversed? A new human trial will test whether gene therapy can renew damaged cells and restore lost function.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif says Washington and Tehran are close to finalizing a deal. Peace between the two countries…

Be it a railway station, an airport or an opera house, Germany can no longer keep major projects on budget or on schedule. Costs s…

A new German study finds that family background still determines educational success, with poorer children and boys falling furthe…

The 2026 World Cup cannot be more controversial than the 1978 competition held in Argentina under the military junta. But anyone f…

Gold has lost more than 26% of its value since March. This week brings the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history: Elon …

Denby Pottery survived wars and recessions, but not soaring costs and shifting tastes. Its closure points to deeper troubles in Br…

The EU has amassed extensive data on violence against women, from abuse in childhood to sexual violence in adulthood. Yet despite …