Peter Frankopan

Russian recruits now survive only minutes once thrown into assaults, and Ukraine's far thinner ranks wage an equally brutal fight to hold their ground.

Seattle's Pride celebration and an oil giant's World Cup logo have stripped away FIFA's carefully maintained pretence of political innocence, once and for all.

Meloni built her authority on being the far-right leader Europe could work with; Vannacci's rise and Trump's humiliation are now dismantling that formula from opposite sides.

Europe's heatwave is pushing millions towards the coast at the same moment that warming seas are making some of those shores riskier than they have ever been.

Finland's vote to allow nuclear weapons and Switzerland's push for new reactors both trace back to a familiar French ambition to lead Europe's atomic future.