France

As punishing heatwaves push European power grids toward their limits, a small Swiss railway trial hints that ordinary tracks could double as solar farms.

Denmark's screen rollback in schools is being sold as a cure for Gen Z overload, but its real significance is simpler: one country has decided that less tech can mean more authority.

Three stories in a single week, a murdered child, a pop icon charged with rape, and a former mayor appealing his blackmail conviction, are not the same scandal but they are feeding the same mood in France.

The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has done something the virus itself cannot: it has reactivated the full Covid-era misinformation machine, and the results arrived faster this time.

The 79th Cannes Film Festival has arrived carrying less confidence in art's neutrality and more pressure to explain what cinema is for in a harder world.