Europe

PETER TRUDGILL on how people with no common native language once communicated, and how that gave birth to the secret slang Polari

The blue-and-yellow business complex will gradually come down over the next two years. The Mayor of Kahramanmaraş hopes this means the city's reputation will then go up.

Never mind the menace lurking on the border, Ukrainians are staying cool, sustained by their historical love of independence.

Long deemed "unmanageable", Mario Balotelli might be the man to rescue Italy's World Cup qualification

How the story of a plane full of doppelgängers became a literary sensation in France. By CHARLIE CONNELLY

A special investigation into the lives of the people who drowned in the Channel.

One of Poland's most fascinating contemporary figures, Darski is leading the charge against the country's restrictive blasphemy laws

As Gordon Ramsay recreates his ground-breaking Savoy Hotel restaurant, SOPHIA DEBOICK savours the life of Auguste Escoffier

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a Jewish actress who considered a kick in the behind from Hitler the luck of her life

PETER TRUDGILL examines the origins of words about who governs us, and finds the oligarchy has been around longer than you’d think

ROB HUGHES on the potential return of Christian Eriksen, eight months after his heart stopped suddenly on the pitch

Advice for authors is rarely as honest and valuable as in a posthumous book by a great Polish poet. By CHARLIE CONNELLY

The children in these photographs, Frieda, Silvain and Claude, were among those murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Lawyer Joe Tacopina has represented the great and the not-so-good. But what’s he doing as the owner of a club in Italy’s Serie B? By RYAN HERMAN

Few other vegetarian dishes provide such comfort on a winter’s day as this one, says JOSH BARRIE

The tech-savvy state’s digital vision makes it the world’s fastest-growing ‘nation brand’. So what’s it doing right?

A new album sees a Georgian pioneer reunite with band members from a formative period of his career

According to newspaper Il Giornale, the case symbolises a giant clogging of the country's judicial system.

An exhibition of fashion photography on A Coruña’s industrial dockside is a gift to the city. By FLORENCE HALLETT

Our columnist explains why, despite Ukraine's pleas for help, Olaf Scholz is desperately trying to ignore rising tensions at the border.

With Boris Johnson persona non grata in Europe, defence secretary Ben Wallace is minding the international store

While all eyes are focussed on Partygate, or even Adele postponing her entire Las Vegas residency, British businesses face exponential border queues. But, media outlets aren’t interested.

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a stick-up merchant whose victims were often left feeling almost flattered

Two of the leading lights behind the failed European Super League bid have since gone in very different directions

While Britain has focussed on Boris Johnson's partying and Prince Andrew, desperate people have risked their lives in cold and dangerous waters, writes NIGEL WARBURTON.

Almost unnoticed as Partygate occupies minds and headlines, new Brexit rules are already doing serious damage to British business.

Goodnight Louisa's album Human Danger shows how time spent in an alien landscape can provoke the deepest personal reflections

The Spanish festival has returned only to be met with condemnation from animal rights groups.

Would hopefuls like Liz Truss and Valérie Pécresse deliver a calmer, fresher politics in the spirit of Ardern and Merkel, or just a retread of muscular Iron Ladyism?

Politicians are determined to clean up the city’s fabled sex and drug trade. But some locals aren’t so sure.

Some inventions sounded, and even looked, brilliant, only to fall flat. But that isn’t always the end of the story for great ideas.

A Turkish farmer has claimed that putting virtual reality goggles on his cows causes them to produce more milk