New construction boom threatens Spanish coastline
AFP | Sandwiched between the crystalline blue sea and green pine trees lies Aiguafreda, one of Spain's last largely unspoiled Mediterranean coves, which is threatened...
Scotland takes a heroic step towards women empowerment
Aliyah Sohail | In late August, this year, Scotland became the first country to supply free sanitary products at schools, colleges and universities. This generous...
Hunger stones tell Elbe’s centuries-old tale of drought
AFP | Once an ominous harbinger of hard times and even famine due to critically low water levels, a massive hunger stone embedded deep in...
‘Our mortgage doubled’: The Iceland families bearing cost of crash
AFP | It's been 10 years since Iceland's economy crashed, but Asthildur Thorsdottir and her husband Hafthor Olafsson are still struggling with crippling debt and...
Merkel, German intel chief clash on ‘foreigner hunt’ reports
AFP | The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency Friday raised doubts about reports of a "hunt on foreigners" by neo-Nazi mobs in a flashpoint...
Wasteland makeovers bring creative cool to Paris suburb
AFP | Music throbs from a bar set up on a patch of scrubland and artists toil in what was once a tyre factory. This...
Britain and EU face trade differences in Brexit talks
AFP | Britain's Brexit negotiator met his EU counterpart on Thursday as Brussels and London scramble to reconcile divorce demands ahead of next month's summit...
Volkswagen faces German court showdown over ‘dieselgate’
AFP | Three years after the "dieselgate" scandal shook it to its foundations, Volkswagen next week faces a first major court case in Germany over...
Criticism of Saudi leadership seeps through cracks as report questions kingdom’s utility for Britain – James Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Signs of opposition to policies of Saudi King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and potentially increased domestic...
Sweden, land of emigrants turned safe haven
AFP | A poor country of emigrants more than a century ago, Sweden is now a land of immigrants, home to hundreds of thousands of...
Times are a-changin’ in London where contactless is king
AFP | For centuries, London has sustained a street-level economy where performers and vendors make a living from the spare change of strangers but they...
Miss England contestant in hijab first
AFP | A Miss England contestant is set to wear a hijab in the finals on Tuesday, in a first for the organisation. Sara Iftekhar,...