Europe

Germany's nationwide station alcohol ban treats drinking less as a private choice than as a public cost imposed on workers, passengers and shared space.

Wildfires advancing towards Bordeaux show that Europe's climate threat is no longer confined to remote forests or its traditionally hottest southern regions.

Renewed Gulf hostilities have driven shipping premiums to crisis levels again, leaving European economies exposed to a war fought far from their shores.

Japanese anime helped romanticise Europe for global audiences. If the industry weakens, Europe may lose one of its strangest and most flattering cultural mirrors.

Europe's bathing waters are mostly safe to swim in, but the rules around who can wear what, where and how are becoming harder to ignore.