In the heart of the Pacific, there's a place that illustrates better than any speech how political decisions can outlive their own authors. It's a story of Cold War legacies, hasty choices, radioactive contamination and climate crisis.
Cuba is plunging into darkness. Not only because of the increasingly frequent power cuts, but also due to uncertainty in a country used to resilience, yet now more fragile than ever.
In 2024, Palitana, in India's Bhavnagar district, made history by becoming the first city to ban the sale and consumption of meat.
PFAS chemicals—used for decades in food packaging, waterproof textiles, and hundreds of other industrial and consumer products—have accumulated in water, soil, and air.
Another young life destroyed by a 'challenge' circulating on social media. In London, Freddie Davis, 11, died in his bed after inhaling a deodorant spray containing butane, a propellant commonly used in aerosol cans. The conclusion of the investigation into his death in January 2025 has re-focused the spotlight on an extremely dangerous practice known as chroming, a 'challenge' that went viral via videos on TikTok and YouTube.
On the beach of the Milazzo Tennis and Sailing Club, in the province of Messina (Italy), an unexpected guest has appeared, a creature that rarely shows itself.
From 2026, traceability of fish and aquaculture products in the European Union will be entirely digital. This is provided for in Regulation (EU) 2023/2842.
On February 16, the Belgian singer backtracked on the announcement of an investigation by the French tax authorities, who accuse her of concealing income from the tax authorities.
Mexico's most wanted drug lord, El Mencho', or Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, has been killed in a military operation. The move is considered far from out of the blue; it follows Trump's mounting pressure on Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to crack down on drug trafficking. In fact, the United States had already warned that it might intervene itself if Mexico did not act more aggressively against the cartels. And so it did, but at what cost?
With the installation of the upper arm of the cross over the tower of Jesus Christ, La Sagrada Familia has written a new page in architectural history.