More than 550 drones were intercepted or shot down in over a dozen regions, including Moscow, in one of largest attacks of the war.
Israel spent over a year preparing a covert site in Iraq for its operations against Iran, regional officials say. Iraqi officials later confirmed the existence of a second base.
Using cash grants and subsidized loans, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is trying to increase the birthrate. It’s not working.
A new collection of photographs gives us a new picture of the Holocaust in France.
Five countries boycotted this year’s contest over Israel’s involvement, but politics took a back seat once the show in Vienna got underway.
The pocket watches, a collaboration with the luxury timepiece maker Audemars Piguet, drew crowds to stores and malls around the world.
A driver rammed a car into a group of people on the main shopping street of Modena, in northern Italy. Four of the injured were in serious condition, the city’s mayor said.
The pop star Pete Parkkonen and the violinist Linda Lampenius performed “Liekinheitin” on a stage covered in flames.
Four of the injured were in serious condition, the mayor of Modena said, praising residents who rushed to stop the car’s driver from escaping on foot.
The lack of concrete agreements with Beijing shows the risks of President Trump’s personality-driven foreign policy, which rests on the belief that he can defend U.S. interests through charm and force of will.
A freight train plowed into traffic on train tracks, starting a fire. The authorities did not immediately give a cause but said a barrier had not come down.
The man disagreed with the 800-year-old relic’s display in a church in the Czech Republic and planned to throw it into a river, police said.
When the European Fine Art Foundation alights in Manhattan, it’s something like a billionaire version of the classic television game show “Supermarket Sweep.”
The Russian leader will go to Beijing on Tuesday for talks with President Xi Jinping. The Kremlin said he had watched President Trump’s visit closely.
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The police are deploying thousands of officers, partly to keep far-right and pro-Palestinian marchers separated. The opposing events are expected to draw tens of thousands of people to London.
The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius set off alarms for a world still traumatized by Covid. For those on board, the danger was much closer.
Nobody has yet challenged Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the leadership, but his leading rival, Andy Burnham, finally has a route to Downing Street.
Ukrainian drones struck an apartment building and ignited a fire at an oil refinery in the Russian city of Ryazan on Friday. At least four people were killed in the attack on the residential building, according to the regional governor. The barrage follows a series of Russian drone strikes that killed at least 24 people in Kyiv, Ukraine.
He calmly presided over the historic 1987 trial in which a French court, for the first time, convicted a Nazi official of crimes against humanity.
The divers, including a marine scientist and her daughter, were part of a research trip and were exploring an underwater cave system when they failed to resurface.
The call, initiated by Friedrich Merz, came soon after he told young people, “I am a great admirer of America. My admiration is not increasing at the moment.”
The president has shifted the foundations of American policy toward China, throwing aside the adversarial approach of recent years.
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Three years after King Charles III was crowned, the Royal Opera House in London hung plush new stage curtains bearing the monarch’s insignia — but only after the old ones gave up the ghost.
Finland is the favorite for prediction markets and bookmakers, but singers from Australia, Denmark, Greece and Israel are coming for the title, too.
Larysa Navrotska risks her life to deliver mail, retirement checks and medicine to remote Ukrainian communities under the constant threat of Russian drones from the nearby front line. Her service has become even more crucial than it was before the war.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister, sees futuristic military technology as crucial to his country’s survival.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist right-wing party, had previously said the money was for personal security.
At the Park Avenue Armory, home to the art fair with the deepest roots in Europe, five names wooed our critic, cutting through the star system.
The body of Specialist Mariyah Symone Collington, 19, was retrieved from a coastal cave less than a week after the recovery of the body of First Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr.
Mr. Streeting, a confident communicator from the right of the Labour Party, comes from a working-class background and said he was influenced by his Tory grandfather.
Angela Rayner, who resigned last year after paying the wrong rate of tax on an apartment purchase, said an investigation found she had not done so deliberately.
It was unclear why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called off the deployment to Poland, which has close relations with the United States.
A new room in the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent display includes 13 pieces that were recovered from Germany and Austria after World War II and whose provenance is unknown.
The British health secretary stepped down on Thursday and issued an excoriating statement on the government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
A Russian attack on Kyiv killed several people and wounded dozens, the city’s mayor said. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia recently said that he believed the war with Ukraine was “coming to a close.”
El presidente será recibido con todos los honores, pero la profunda brecha que hay entre Estados Unidos y China será muy difícil de reparar.
Be seduced by the land of sirens before the high-season crowds descend.
In Skane, a fertile agricultural area bordered on three sides by the Baltic Sea, visitors will find delightful meals, baked goods and sweets, all made with a certain ‘craft nerdiness.’
At least four people were killed and dozens were wounded in a drone and missile strike, the latest in a series of attacks since a three-day truce expired on Monday.
El pueblo de Wolder exhumó un esqueleto que estaba debajo de una de sus iglesias. Espera ansioso los resultados de ADN para saber si los restos pertenecen al conde inmortalizado por Alejandro Dumas.
El líder de España ha establecido una filosofía de gobierno alternativa al trumpismo.
The president will get the red carpet treatment, but the deep rift between the U.S. and China will be very hard to repair.
What have we learned from Covid?
The police in rural France issued a warning to drivers to be on the lookout for deer “drunk” on fermented fruit, which can cause them to behave unpredictably.
The Conservative Party referred the case against Mr. Farage, the leader of a right-wing populist party in Britain, to a parliamentary watchdog.
Some wild animals, eating fermented or rotten fruits, “may exhibit completely unpredictable behavior,” the police warned drivers in Saône-et-Loire, a rural region in central-eastern France.
Catherine, Princess of Wales, traveled on Wednesday to Reggio Emilia, Italy, in her first official trip abroad since revealing her cancer diagnosis.
Israel qualified for the Eurovision final after receiving enough votes from national juries and the public at Tuesday’s semifinal. The country’s participation in the contest has been protested because of its military operation in Gaza.
Los españoles hacen fila en bodas, torneos de tenis y galas para comer jamón servido por Ernesto Soriano, uno de los mejores cortadores de jamón ibérico del mundo.
Around 50 people so far have symptoms “consistent with an acute gastrointestinal infection” on the Ambassador Cruise Line ship Ambition.
The sound of gunshots, apparently from inside the chamber, was broadcast on live television as a senator in the Philippines, who was an ally of the former leader Rodrigo Duterte, faced arrest.
The woman, who was a passenger on the MV Hondius, was breathing with the help of an artificial lung, officials in Paris said.
King Charles III read out Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda in the traditional manner, even as the British prime minister’s leadership remained under pressure.
In Britain, some argue that Prime Minister Keir Starmer, by rejecting calls to step aside, risks repeating the mistakes of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Temporary truces have become a tool of performative diplomacy, an end in themselves rather than a prelude to a lasting settlement, analysts say.
In photos by his wife, whose negatives were discovered by his granddaughter, we see more personal sides to the 20th-century master.
Wolder, near the Belgian border, is waiting to see if the skeleton it dug up in a church is Count d’Artagnan, from Alexandre Dumas’s tale.
On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up. The stars will do the rest.
Lithuanian officials hope restored peat bogs can reinforce the border in addition to locking away planet-warming carbon.
The aging statesman braved rough seas and arduous carriage rides to reach Paris, where he persuaded the French to back the American rebels. We followed in his footsteps.
Los críticos del actual primer ministro, Keir Starmer piden su renuncia para que el Partido Laborista tenga una posibilidad en las elecciones generales antes de 2029.
Los líderes europeos, atrapados en las secuelas de la guerra de Estados Unidos en Irán, han criticado al presidente públicamente. Cuando él se ha enfadado, ellos no han dado marcha atrás.
The promise of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in 2024 was renewed stability — but that now appears to be under threat.
Catherine will visit Reggio Emilia, an Italian city celebrated for its approach to early childhood education.
Stuck with the fallout from America’s war in Iran, European leaders have criticized the president publicly. When he’s been angered, they haven’t backed down.
The crisis of the West isn’t about who governs, but that no one can.
A landmark of New Wave cinema, “The 400 Blows” brought her enduring global attention. She later appeared in “La Cage Aux Folles” and “Amélie.”
Although Galka Scheyer might an unfamiliar name, the artists she championed have become famous. A exhibition in Pasadena brings her to the foreground.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer seemed to have won a temporary reprieve on Tuesday after daring his rivals to challenge him, but the underlying problems with his leadership remain.
The case could test the limits of a decades-old extradition treaty, because Italy bars extradition in cases where a defendant could face the death penalty.
La medida, aplicada a los colonos por la violencia contra los palestinos, podría ser el comienzo de una nueva era en la que Europa será más severa con Israel.
The yields on British debt pushed higher as the country’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, confronted a rebellion from members of his party.
The French president visited Kenya this week for a summit designed to build stronger ties with Anglophone African countries.
The prime minister of Britain, Keir Starmer, vowed to continue governing at a high-stakes cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Calls have grown for for him to resign since heavy Labour Party losses in local elections last week.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to continue in office on Tuesday morning. It’s one of several possible paths for the embattled leader after heavy losses in local elections.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner are among possible contenders.
Despite its long slog in Ukraine and the loss of former allies like Syria, Russia is benefiting from costly energy, a clever narrative and America’s own failure to achieve a quick victory.
Facilities tied to Coca-Cola, Cargill, Mondelez and others appear to have been deliberately hit. The Trump administration’s muted response has raised concerns.
Raffles at the OWO and the Chancery Rosewood recently opened in landmarks once teeming with generals, diplomats and spies. Both promise pampering and a dash of history. Do they deliver?
El inmueble del número 3 de la calle Savile Row, donde el cuarteto también grabó el álbum “Let It Be” se abrirá al público el año que viene.
Kyle Buchanan, who has attended the annual launchpad for Oscar contenders in France since 2013, subsists on Red Bull and around four hours of sleep.
Pedro Sánchez has established an alternative governing philosophy to Trumpism.
President Emmanuel Macron has appointed a string of allies who will remain in critical state positions after next year’s presidential election, and who could thwart a far-right successor.
Casi dos decenas de países están repatriando a ciudadanos que iban a bordo del MV Hondius, donde murieron tres pasajeros en un brote de hantavirus.
Ukrainian news outlets named the suspect as Andriy Yermak, who resigned last year amid a sweeping scandal.
The Russian leader is walking a tightrope: acknowledging public discontent while offering no indication that he might give up on his demands.
The last evacuees disembarked in the Canary Islands, and a smaller crew is now en route to Rotterdam, where the ship will be disinfected, officials said.
Israel criticized the European Union’s announcement that it will apply sanctions to Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians.
Keir Starmer, with thousands of jobs at stake, vowed to take full control of British Steel, a year after the government first intervened to keep its operations going.
Nearly two dozen countries were moving to repatriate their citizens who were aboard the cruise ship where three passengers died in a hantavirus outbreak.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain used a speech to attempt to quell a mutiny in the Labour Party after last week’s dire election results.
A family is vying for the return of a painting it thought was by Rubens. But an expert says it’s a copy because it does not include the artist’s depiction of a peeing cow.
With peace talks on ice and Ukraine now more self-reliant, President Volodymyr Zelensky seems to be stepping away from the United States.
The townhouse at 3 Savile Row, where the band also recorded “Let It Be,” will open to the public next year, the group’s record label said.
Exclusive voting data shows that, despite Eurovision’s assurances, an Israeli campaign could easily have influenced last year’s contest.
Israel’s efforts to influence Eurovision’s vote were broader and started years earlier than previously known.
Passengers and crew from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak were evacuated on Sunday after the vessel anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands.
But if his opponents mount a challenge, how would it unfold?
The British military took critical medical supplies to Tristan da Cunha, a tiny British archipelago where authorities have identified a suspected hantavirus case.
Caro Claire Burke critiques America and asks who, and what, is redeemable?
The Russian military has yet to solve a fundamental problem: how to make big advances in eastern Ukraine when drones are everywhere.
The MV Hondius, the cruise ship that had carried passengers infected with hantavirus, anchored off the Spanish territory, where other passengers would soon disembark.
Spaniards line up at weddings, tennis tournaments and galas to eat ham prepared by Ernesto Soriano, one of the world’s best slicers of jamón ibérico.
The port of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands is preparing for passengers to disembark from the cruise ship at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak Sunday morning, Spanish officials said.
Insurgent parties like Reform U.K. surged at the polls this week. But the British electoral system wasn’t built for multiparty democracy.
Rhun ap Iorwerth, a former journalist, led his party to the most seats in the Welsh Parliament, ousting the Labour Party, which had long held sway, and beating Reform U.K.
A rapid trip with the prime minister to Armenia highlighted the new era of amity between Canada and the European Union. We examine what that can and can’t do for Canadians.
The number raises the prospect that about half a million soldiers in total have died on the Russian and Ukrainian sides.
A couple grow their own furniture. Another artist polishes metal to a mirror sheen. A third collaborates with insects. Together, they are redefining craft.
The former opposition leader, who won a landslide election, now faces the formidable job of dismantling what his predecessor called an “illiberal democracy.”
The event, shrunken because of security fears, adds to a sense that Moscow and other cities can no longer be insulated from the war.
Peter Magyar, the incoming prime minister, has promised to push out “puppets of the old regime.” Many are jumping first.
Imágenes y momentos importantes de la trayectoria del que quizá sea el naturalista más célebre del mundo.
King Frederik X has appointed a right-leaning politician to try to form the next government.
The filmmaker David Attenborough, who turned 100-years-old on Friday, has spent decades documenting and advocating for the natural world.
Britain’s Labour Party had lost close to 1,100 municipal council seats across England by Friday evening, while the right-wing populist Reform U.K. had gained close to 1,200.
Reggie Burrows Hodges discusses Malta, Caravaggio and a painting inspired by the winds of the Sahara.
After losing both legs, the Italian champion persevered in auto racing. He also became a hand-cycling marathoner and Paralympian.
The police in Greenland are investigating the case of a lone man from Las Vegas who goes by Cliff. Locals said he had offered money to Greenlanders to join the United States.
Results from municipal and regional elections signaled major gains for the right-wing populist Reform U.K. and steep losses for Labour.
Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world’s most celebrated naturalist.
In an unusual move, a North Dakota court said Greenpeace International shouldn’t be allowed to pursue a lawsuit in Europe, where it is based, against the company.
Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, but images and turns of phrase have rekindled anxieties from Covid’s early days.
A voting system created when two parties dominated is being tested by the rise of newer competitors.
The unpopularity of Keir Starmer’s party since he became Britain’s prime minister has helped boost the Scottish National Party.
Opinion polls before the election suggested that the right-wing anti-immigration Reform U.K. party and the center-left Plaid Cymru would battle for the top spot in Wales.
The men were arrested in 2024, accused of surveilling dissidents from Hong Kong in Britain. The case sent a chill through pro-democracy protesters who have fled the territory.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said he took responsibility for large Labour Party losses as local election results trickled in early Friday. The right-wing populist Reform U.K. party looked set for big gains.
The voting in England, Scotland and Wales is the biggest electoral test for Keir Starmer since he became prime minister in 2024.
In early results, Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. party has won more than 400 council races across England.
A doll-focused show, a contemplative garden, a sizzling hothouse: It’s all to see at the world’s top contemporary art event.
La Bienal de Venecia siempre es abrumadora por el arte. Este año, la política también ha resultado abrumadora.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio flew to Rome this week after an unexpected spat between President Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, once one of the president’s best friends in Europe.
What Trump’s monuments look like to a British architecture writer.
A spree of thefts last summer heightened alarm in France over protection of cultural and rural heritage.