Europe

From Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap to Danish jazz band Alawari, artists took to the stage in Helsinki to condemn “Israel’s horrifying genocide”

There’s only one person to blame for this cycle of collapsing governments

Forget Prime or HBO, Germans are fixated by the case unfolding live in a high-security Hamburg courtroom usually reserved for terrorism cases

The country’s rentrée – the return from summer holidays – is in progress… and so are political blackmail, mass protests, corruption and the probable collapse of the government

Now formally a woman, Liebich has received an 18-month prison sentence for incitement of hatred and cheering on Russia’s war in Ukraine

The Italian government has given the green light to the Strait of Messina Bridge, a €13.5bn project to build the longest suspension bridge in the world – but not everyone is on board

Sandy Baltimore’s name has surprising links to Gaelic-speaking Ireland, colonial plantations and Caribbean migrations

Wuppertal, in western Germany, is famous for having the world’s oldest suspension railway – with one very large passenger

Britta Marakatt-Labba’s embroideries transform the herdspeople’s history into a textile protest poem

As criticism grows, prime minister Robert Fico’s far-fetched tirades are looking increasingly desperate

There’s only one way to stand up to superpowers such as the US and China, and to the authoritarian bullies like Putin

The German discount retailers are piling pressure on Asda and Morrisons. But they will find Tesco and Sainsbury tougher to beat

The chancellor's policy change will do little to alter the course of the conflict in Gaza. It has, however, alienated his party

In Iceland, where the boundaries of what’s possible are often pushed, Thermal Beets is ditching the harmful plastic ordinarily used to make records

With more and more people moving to the cities, a shortfall of workers in the countryside means authentic Turkish carpets are a vanishing commodity

Only more centralisation can save the EU from fragmentation, irrelevance - and China

From politicians and A-listers to Jägermeisters at 2am, our big three festivals have all bases covered

With the government’s failing economic policies and rampant corruption, Magyar’s ascent is accelerating each day Orbán spends in office

The Torreo-Pacheco riots in southern Spain expose just how selective Vox’s anti-immigration rhetoric is

Teaching errors made in the country’s classrooms are now making their way up to university level. Textbooks should be binned and the Italian education system needs to be rewritten

Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right

Beneath the peak of Monte Soratte near Rome is a vast, eerie tunnel complex – an underground graveyard of the German troops who died there

Thirty years on, the genocide is remembered annually, but locals feel forgotten and struggle with ongoing division

A festival in Leipzig marks half a century since sex workers and priests stood together in solidarity against police violence

To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times

The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better - and walked away from a fight not worth having

Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court

The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

The artist has taken his two-year project around the UK to the nation’s public spaces – but he has come to understand the one line that art cannot cross

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

The eccentric monarch’s fantastical Bavarian castles, once dismissed as kitsch, have finally gained Unesco World Heritage status