Quince festivals and truffle markets: Why Provence is better in shoulder season

In October, food is a serious matter for the inhabitants of Cotignac.

While foreign tourists flock to the south of France in summer, locals in the know prefer to...

Is hot weather putting you in a bad mood? Science suggests it might be

Scientists analysed over a billion social media posts to find out how sweltering temperatures are impacting our mood.

If scorching temperatures have you losing y...

What’s in a hat? White House merchandise room includes ‘Trump 2028’ caps

Donald Trump continues to put his personal touch on the White House, with a miniature MAGA merch store set up in the West Wing. And one of the items seen in the g...

Europe to halt postal services to US after tax deal scrapped

The UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and other EU member states will temporarily suspend services as of next week.

Several European countries will be halting th...

59 years ago today, the first photograph of Earth from lunar orbit was taken.

On 23 August 1966 the Lunar Orbiter 1 probe captured the first image of our planet from lunar orbit, a historic photograph which changed our perspective of our pl...

Data centres: too many blank spots in Central and Eastern Europe

EU Tech Loop makes the case for European investment in AI gigafactories to be built on the bloc's eastern flank.

Central and Eastern Europe remain underserved by...

Nursery and crèche: How much do families spend on childcare across Europe?

Among the top economies in Europe, Germany and Italy rank best, both in nominal childcare fees and in salary share spent on nurseries, while the UK remains among ...

Protests in UK against asylum seeker housing continue, counter-protests arise

The government is legally obligated to house asylum-seekers. Using hotels to do so had been a marginal issue until 2020, when the number of asylum-seekers increas...

Lesia Khomenko unveils monumental train station artwork on Ukraine’s Independence Day

Lesia Khomenko’s new painting at Kyiv’s main train station honours the people sustaining the country’s war effort – soldiers, medics, railway workers – and reclai...

Rising visitor numbers are leaving a harmful human footprint on Antarctica’s ecosystems

Annual visitors numbered fewer than 8,000 in the 1990s. Last year, more than 124,000 visited.

Antarctica, Earth’s last great wilderness, is facing growing pressu...

Expert: drone incidents will continue in Poland as long as there is a war across our border

'If the conflict across our border continues, the risk of further incidents is significant', warns Andrzej Kinski, editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Wojsko ...

At least 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza

Close to three dozen Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday across Gaza as Israel intensifies its assault on the enclave and prepares for a major...

Arrested Ukrainian 'probably' head of Nord Stream sabotage plot: was Kyiv involved?

According to the latest findings, the Ukrainian arrested in Italy is said to have masterminded the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines. Was the Ukrainian governm...

Lithuanian customs uncovers 'particularly audacious' scheme to circumvent sanctions against Russia

According to the investigation, the water treatment equipment was received by Russian oil industry enterprises.

The criminal service of the Lithuanian Customs De...

Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump 'was never inappropriate with anybody.'

Jeffrey Epstein's ex-partner in crime also told the US court that the much discussed client list does not exist.

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's ex-partner Ghisla...

Death of a 17-year old teenager in the Netherlands sparks outrage over violence against women

'We all have 24 hours in our day. 24 hours that we are free to use how and where we choose,' Dutch actrice and author Nienke Gravemade wrote in a post that went v...

More than a million people in Ukraine require evacuation from frontline areas, officials say

Over one million people in Ukraine need evacuation amid heavy Russian shelling and military assaults in the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions in Eastern Ukraine....

We need to make sure Putin never tries to attack Ukraine again, NATO chief says

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday that the security guarantees agreement for Ukraine will consist of two layers: strengthening Ukraine’s army and c...

FBI searching home of Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, source says

The search of Bolton's home comes as the Trump administration has taken steps to examine the activities of other perceived adversaries of the Republican president...

Libya announces probe after Russian-made rocket hits near UN mission in Janzour

Security forces found a vehicle carrying two other rockets of the same type, as well as the rockets’ launcher, the government said.

The United Nations’ mission i...

EU's position taken into account by Ukraine and US, Kyiv's representative to the EU says

Europe rallied behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a meeting with Donald Trump on Monday in an "exceptional format," Ukraine's ambassador to the EU, Vsevolod Chentsov, ...