En los conventos de todo el país, la tradición de vender dulces sigue viva.
Since her son was killed with 15 others in a railway station collapse in Serbia, Dijana Hrka has become the face of widespread anti-government protests.
More than a dozen Italian pasta makers, accused of dumping their product in the United States, face tariffs of over 100 percent.
Investigating the discovery of a seemingly long-lost diamond had both the intrigue of a mystery novel and the fact-checking hurdles of a history paper.
Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Some are now speaking about their trauma.
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.
But left unspoken at a Vatican meeting with film stars were the deep divisions over issues like abortion and homosexuality.
Frankie, a young Caribbean Flamingo, flew 130 miles from captivity. Her keepers said they would likely have to leave her in France.
The question of how to be a public broadcaster for everyone isn’t going to get easier, but the British broadcaster can do better in the attempt.
With board members and executives deadlocked over how to respond, the news organization kept silent for days, allowing a controversy to snowball.
Moscow’s attacks on gas supplies, the main source of warmth for most Ukrainian households, could plunge millions into the cold.
The State Department’s search for leftist groups to designate as terrorist organizations appears rooted in President Trump’s executive order on domestic groups that he calls antifa.
When she studied acting in London in the 1950s, she was told she was unlikely to find work. She ended up starting one of the country’s foremost Black theaters.
Gnocchi Parisienne is what the French call this speedy take on potato gratin, which uses store-bought potato gnocchi instead of sliced potatoes.
She maintained a triangular correspondence with the two men, who overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the field of psychoanalysis.
The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.
The exit by RedBird Capital Partners comes months after it agreed to buy control of the media company in a deal that valued it at $658 million.
The diamond-encrusted jewel, which the 19th-century French emperor wore on his hat, was lost along with other valuables as he retreated from his final battle.
Russia fired hundreds of drones and more than a dozen missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, killing several people and damaging neighborhoods across the city.
Some of the most impressive photographs on display at the Paris Photo Fair were made many decades ago but are now being seen anew or, in some cases, for the first time.
Xu Chao admitted to multiple attacks against female Chinese students over a three-year period, confessing to drugging, assaulting and filming his victims.
The deal would reduce an extraordinarily high tariff rate that had threatened to cripple Swiss exports.
A strike that killed six was the latest in a series of aerial assaults, many of which have targeted the power grid in an effort to deprive Ukrainians of energy as winter looms.
The revelations are a remarkable reversal for the Ukrainian president, who once presented himself as a leader who would clean up the country’s politics.
Buyers can find a classic apartment in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a San Sebastián unit in a belle epoque building, and a contemporary house on the city outskirts.
President Volodymyr Zelensky removed Odesa’s mayor, raising fears he might be using his wartime powers to tighten control over opposition-run cities.
President William Ruto’s government acts as an arm of an industry whose leaders compare women to dogs and blame them for their own abuse, a Times investigation found.
The BBC said it would not rebroadcast a misleadingly edited documentary but added, “We strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”
Newly released files from Jeffrey Epstein include correspondence with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to Washington.
Several memorials were held in honor of the more than 130 people who were killed by Islamic State militants in coordinated attacks in and around Paris in 2015.
Lisette Model’s candid and cruel portraits spawned an American genre. But the key to understanding her might lie in Europe, where she was born.
Military analysts and some Ukrainian commanders worry that Kyiv may be repeating the mistake of staying in an embattled city longer than it should, aiming to inflict far more casualties than it suffers.
The Faroe Islands, rugged green specks in the North Atlantic, are an underdog. Most of the guys on the team have day jobs.
The Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk is on the verge of becoming another shattered trophy for the Russian Army.
The 1961 film, which was banned in Spain, has been restored and revived in a limited run at Film Forum.
A decade ago, Islamic State militants killed 130 people in an assault that shocked France. Some survivors are still struggling, but for many of their compatriots, memories of the attacks are growing more distant.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said no one raised the Caribbean military operation in closed-door meetings at a G7 summit. But ministers from France and the European Union publicly called them unlawful.
The government pledged 2.5 billion pounds for initial site work, but the decision to build a small, modular design may disappoint others, including the U.S. nuclear industry.
Prosecutors say a Syrian security official accused of torture hid in plain sight in Europe for years, protected by Israeli and Austrian intelligence agents.
A geomagnetic storm that made the aurora borealis visible farther south than normal is expected to continue for another night. But clouds may obscure your view.
AIDOL, Russia’s first artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot, collapsed onstage moments after it was revealed at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday.
The Belgian government is in talks with the Trump administration to save birth control stranded in a warehouse, but another shipment has been incorrectly stored.
Boualem Sansal, an Algerian-French writer, was arrested on accusations of undermining national security during a visit to his homeland a year ago and sentenced to five years in prison.
An attempt by Keir Starmer’s allies to undercut a rival has forced into the open a party debate over whether to replace the prime minister.
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.
A C-130 cargo plane returning to Turkey from Azerbaijan crashed in Georgia, killing 20 members of Turkey’s Air Force.
A 9.51-carat blue stone that once belonged to the heiress Bunny Mellon sold for $7 million less than at its last auction, a sign of profound shifts in the diamond industry.
La atribulada estrella de la tauromaquia afirma que ha enfrentado a su último toro. Los aficionados apreciaron su talento, pero también su honestidad al abordar su lucha contra sus problemas de salud mental.
Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands, features museums, gardens, murals and plenty of ways to stretch your mind.
José Antonio Morante Camacho says he has fought his last bull. Fans appreciated his artistry but also his honesty about his struggles with mental illness.
Clothes with extreme proportions and surreal silhouettes can’t help but make a statement.
Astronomers identified more than 3,000 stars associated with the cluster, and there might be even more.
The Turkish defense minister said that 20 Air Force servicemen died when their military cargo plane crashed after taking off from Azerbaijan on Tuesday.
Legal experts say President Trump’s litigation track record offers both hope and warning to the British public broadcaster, which he has threatened with a $1 billion suit.
Una cueva oscura en los Balcanes alberga lo que, según los investigadores, es una singular obra de cooperación entre dos especies de araña habitualmente hostiles.
Prosecutors accused Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, of leading a criminal organization. The opposition called the case politically motivated.
The photo of a dapper man in a fedora sparked many questions: Was the person real? A Sherlock Holmes-inspired detective on the case? Or just being very French?
Official advice provided to the government before its ban on Palestine Action underestimated the significant public protests that followed, records show.
How fashion connected a designer, a farmer, Grindr and a herd of male-oriented rams.
A German sheep farmer and a Los Angeles fashion designer have collaborated to produce a knitwear collection made from the wool of sheep that have been saved from the slaughterhouse.
David Szalay became the first British Hungarian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel “Flesh.”
Finlandia ha pasado décadas excavando cuevas en su lecho rocoso. Ahora, mientras Rusia se muestra amenazante, los finlandeses nerviosos quieren saber: “¿Dónde está mi refugio?”.
To imagine the cost of an “America First” policy, walk through World War II cemeteries in Europe.
El episodio ha contribuido a aumentar la preocupación entre los aliados de los servicios de inteligencia de que Kash Patel, impetuoso y partidista, sea también impredecible e incluso poco fiable.
The British public service broadcaster apologized on Monday for a misleadingly edited documentary about President Trump. But the scandal had already claimed two of its top executives.
The chair of the BBC board, Samir Shah, apologized on Monday after two top executives resigned over claims of misleading editing of a speech by President Trump.
Las salidas se dieron tras un informe que sugería que la emisora había editado de forma engañosa un discurso que el presidente Trump dio antes de los disturbios del 6 de enero en el Capitolio.
A lawyer for the president said the BBC’s editing of a speech Mr. Trump gave on Jan. 6 was “defamatory.” The broadcaster on Monday apologized for an “error in judgment.”
Months after Ukraine’s president tried to cripple them, the agencies said they had uncovered a major scheme involving the state-owned nuclear energy company.
After days of pressure, two top executives quit after a memo by a former adviser said that the public broadcaster had misleadingly edited a speech by President Trump.
Nicolas Sarkozy served about three weeks of a five-year prison sentence for his conviction in a campaign finance scandal.
The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.
Ukraine faces a major draft evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.
In convents across Spain, the tradition of selling sweets is alive and well.
A French tradition since at least the 14th century, trompe l’oeil sweets are especially well suited to our social media age.
A favorite of 16th-century sultans, the syrup-soaked and oft-reinvented sweet is still beloved by Turkish diners today.
Leave your worries on the shore at resorts in places like an azure Caribbean bay, a crystal-clear Cambodian river and a pristine Thai lake.
La atención mediática a un asesinato ocurrido hace décadas ha traído visitantes, y dolores de cabeza, a un pequeño pueblo en España que se volvió el destino preferido de los aficionados a los relatos de sucesos criminales.
The abrupt moves followed controversy over claims that a documentary had been edited to suggest that President Trump had encouraged the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
A decades-old killing in a tiny village in a northern mountain town has turned the village into a destination for true-crime enthusiasts, creating a headache for remaining residents.
The United States has imposed sanctions on nations buying Russian oil, but President Viktor Orban successfully argued that Hungary had few other options.
His Oscar-winning 1965 film “The War Game” depicted a post-nuclear-attack England, one of his many fictionalized docudramas against war and repression.
A correspondent for Reuters, he became a global symbol of China’s isolation and of the anti-foreigner hysteria spawned by its Cultural Revolution.
The attack by Russian missiles and drones targeted the capital, Kyiv, and the large cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv, as well as several smaller municipalities.
If all other institutions fail, is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy before dissolution?
His decoding the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He wrote a celebrated memoir and later ignited an uproar with racist views.
Four people were arrested after a protest at an Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra Concert in Paris on Thursday. Audience members shouted and set off flares during the show, according to French officials.
In the first installment of our new series, we hunt down a sofa from Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name.”
Several audience members shouted or lit flares as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Paris. After the concert, the ensemble received 10 minutes of applause and played the Israeli national anthem.
A consummate political survivor during his country’s shift from brutal communist regime to flawed democracy, he served three stints as prime minister.
Despite a fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through.
New U.S. penalties on Russian energy could be a sticking point as President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary meet.
Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification.
Finland has spent decades digging caves into its bedrock. Now, as Russia rears its head, nervous Finns want to know: “Where’s my shelter?”
Freed in a major prisoner swap, Aleksandra Skochilenko said “the values of freedom of speech, of peace, could be more important than spending even 10 years in jail.”
Desde hace más de 30 años, una tienda de Milán vende flores y plantas hechas a mano con láminas de cobre y alambre sorprendentemente parecidas a las reales.
He wrote about the accident that killed his brother nearly 70 years ago. The book also describes his respect for Gen. Francisco Franco, the former dictator.
The country’s dairy farmers produced a bumper harvest of milk, but higher U.S. duties have forced them to consider ways to cut back, including slaughtering cows.
Settling in England as a young woman, she turned her nostalgia for the food of her youth in Sumatra into a career as an influential cookbook author.
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His work examined the tensions between his country’s social and economic strata, as well as his roots in postindustrial Leeds.
He wrote a history of the Irish Republican Army and directed a project that secretly collected oral histories of paramilitary fighters.
Una joya legendaria de la dinastía de los Habsburgo —que no se veía desde 1919 y se creía perdida, robada o mutilada— lleva en realidad décadas a salvo en un banco canadiense.
A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to push the often-magical light display farther south than usual.
Customs officials were ordered to inspect more than 200,000 packages entering the country at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
A frontline visit to bring attention to Russian drone attacks on civilians sheds an inadvertent light on the Ukrainian Army’s troop shortages.
Drones, missiles and other crucial components of Europe’s rush to rearm itself rely on an increasingly unsteady supply of minerals from China.
Villagers in Hellesdon, England, are pushing to change the name, but local bureaucracy makes it difficult.
The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has long coveted.
A legendary jewel of the Hapsburg dynasty — not seen since 1919 and thought lost, stolen or recut — has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades.
Kiran Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” is the favorite, but books by Andrew Miller, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi are also in the running for the prestigious award.
Western capitals should be wary of treating democracy in Turkey as a luxury rather than a necessity.
Sadiq Khan has been attacked by President Trump and misrepresented on social media. “I’m a mayor who happens to be Muslim,” he said, “and I think Zohran is the same.”
Osama Elmasry Njeem was arrested in Italy in January but sent back to Libya, as critics accused the Italian government of failing to stand up for human rights.
Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, has built a close relationship with President Trump, who has groused about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
The crackdown, ordered by the prime minister, added to the controversy over the Chinese fast-fashion retailer as it opened its first store in Paris amid chaotic scenes.
The crash killed nine people and forced a halt to operations at UPS Worldport, a major automated package sorting facility. UPS said that some deliveries could be delayed.
A truck driver’s grainy video spurred bewilderment and speculation about a lion roaming in Ireland. Turns out it was a dog with an aggressive haircut.
A blaze at a retirement home in a Bosnian city killed at least 11 people, mostly residents, according to the authorities. The cause of the fire remains undetermined.
The country’s prime minister called the blaze “a disaster of enormous proportions.” The cause was still to be determined.
Both men have faced virulent attacks from the far right for their Muslim faith and progressive politics, although there are notable differences in their policies.
Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community.
Kataib Hezbollah, a hard-line Iraqi militia linked to Iran, held Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, hostage for more than two years.
When a couple found a classic Haussmannian apartment, they chose an architect who’d give it a pared-back feel.
Suiza ha puesto en marcha un plan para reconstruir Blatten, un pueblo sepultado por el deshielo de un glaciar. Es una señal de los costos económicos y emocionales del calentamiento de Europa.
Sleek social media posts and a shift rightward on immigration helped a center-left party win last week’s election. But can its leader, Mr. Jetten, form a government?
The city’s new leader will have to contend with preparing for deadly floods, rising electricity costs and the future of an ambitious energy efficiency program.
The country will introduce fixed-term military contracts to try to attract recruits and ease the strain on soldiers after years of fighting.
Bucking the anti-immigration trend in British politics, remote areas of Scotland would like to attract foreign workers to offset declining local populations.
How one decades-old Milan shop makes remarkably realistic blossoms out of copper.
The island, a Portuguese territory, is only 35 miles long, but its mountains are laced with scenic trails, tumbling cascades and inviting villages.
Los ‘best-sellers’ del escritor francés surgieron de un profundo afecto a Rusia. Pero desde que Moscú invadió Ucrania, ha reconsiderado sus opiniones.
Poland and other countries across Europe that found economic success in an era of collaboration are now facing a crumbling of international alliances.
The center-left D66 party edged the far-right party of Geert Wilders in the popular vote, giving it the first crack at forming a new government.
The Russian authorities canceled a festival in St. Petersburg, branding it “Satanist,” as part of a larger assault on anything viewed as a Western influence.
The police are examining whether the suspect in the stabbing spree on a London-bound train on Saturday was connected to three other incidents involving a knife.
The 3,500-year-old artifact, likely stolen from Egypt during the Arab Spring in 2011 or 2012, was found at an elite European art fair in Maastricht.
El acervo de perfiles de ADN de Francia ha ayudado a resolver delitos de gran repercusión, como el atraco del Louvre, y sigue creciendo.
Three of the four people whom the police believe carried out the theft have been arrested. But the jewelry is nowhere to be found.
The Torre dei Conti, a 13th-century medieval tower near Rome’s Colosseum, partially collapsed on Monday. Two restoration workers had to be rescued, and a third suffered critical injuries.
Rescue workers were trying to remove the man from the debris at the medieval tower, but said it was a dangerous operation. Another man was seriously injured in the collapse.
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Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the war-torn country to rethink his views.
It’s not all baguettes and cheese.
Switzerland is racing to rebuild Blatten, which was crushed by a glacier. It’s a sign of the economic and emotional costs of a warming Europe.
France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.
The climbers were in two groups in northern Italy on Saturday night when an avalanche struck. Two people survived.
U.K. officials said they did not believe the attack on a train to London was connected to terrorism. Two of the 11 people wounded in the stabbing spree remain in critical condition, the police said.
Fra Angelico’s work is not merely artistically significant. It is a spiritual experience.
By sharing details of her seafaring life, a young designer found an audience for her cozy game about cleaning polluted waterways.