
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…

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…

While STIs are rising across Europe, the EU agency responsible for disease prevention and control does not provide a broad breakdo…

Rising household purchasing power has fueled a surge in car ownership in Prague, with Czech families increasingly able to afford a…

InPost is expanding its French parcel-locker network after becoming one of Poland’s most visible corporate success stories abroad.…

In Texas and Maine, Republicans and Democrats are fighting mirror-image campaigns built around the same message: the worst of ours…

The Russian president said Moscow was prepared to discuss a peace agreement, but gave no sign it would abandon its territorial cla…

European efforts to bring Russia to the negotiating table are gathering pace, even as Moscow rolled out the welcome mat this week …

Germany has failed for the first time to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Austria and Portugal prevailed in Ne…

Bill Pulte made his name handing out cash on Twitter before becoming Trump’s housing finance chief. Now the president wants him at…

Critics warn that the EU is moving towards US-style migration enforcement, while lawmakers hail the agreement as a breakthrough in…

Peter Magyar says his government has secured broader linguistic, educational, cultural and political rights for the Hungarian mino…

The European Commission has removed Greece from its list of countries with macroeconomic imbalances, a decision Athens hailed as a…

Questions over money and cyber espionage are colliding in a controversy surrounding Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Colombia faces a defining political choice. After Abelardo de la Espriella, a hard-right lawyer known as “El Tigre”, won the first…