LVMH, War and the Luxury of Trees
As war dents luxury sales and Europe's tree cover grows more unequal, an old truth is returning: comfort is becoming easier to buy than to share....
After the Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting, Trump Changes Tone
After gunfire erupted at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, Donald Trump responded with less fury than after earlier political attacks, and that...
Deraa First Trial Puts Syrian Justice on the Stand
This week's public trial of Atef Najib returned Deraa to the centre of Syrian politics, with the first courtroom reckoning for the crackdown that helped ignite the...
Homer in a Mummy Rewrites Cultural Borders
This week's discovery of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy has reopened an old truth: classical culture was never as neatly Greek as modern Europe likes to...
How Foreign Students Offset Europe’s Demographic Decline
New Eurostat projections show the EU losing 53 million people by 2100, as French elite schools turn to foreign students to offset demographic decline....
Paramedics Last Shift: Lebanese Healthcare in Peril
The paramedic's red crescent, once a universal guarantee of safe passage, has become a kill-zone beacon across a broadening regional conflict....
Sex in Parliament: Westminster Reaches for the Punchline
Kemi Badenoch accused Labour of "fiddling while Rome burns" at PMQs this week, after a backbencher announced a campaign to make 2026 a "summer of sex."...
Populists Collide: Behind the Meloni-Trump Feud
From golden praise to bitter fury, Meloni's rebuke of Trump's papal attack over Iran ends their special bond....
Pope Leo XIV Returns Augustine to Algeria
Pope Leo XIV landed in Algeria this week on the first-ever papal visit to the country, hours after Donald Trump told him to stop "catering to the Radical Left" over...
Melania Defends Reputation as Epstein Story Returns
Standing in the White House Grand Foyer this week, Melania Trump delivered a six-minute statement denying ties to Jeffrey Epstein that even her husband did not know...
