Hundreds of Italian schools hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax
Emails containing the false warnings were sent to schools in Rome, Naples, Vicenza, Florence, Pisa, Trieste and other Italian cities, officials say.
Belgian plan for ICE-style immigration raids on homes criticised as ‘law of fear’
Rights groups oppose new law that will let police forcibly enter homes to remove refused asylum seekersBelgium could see ICE-style home raids, echoing the US crackdown on immigrat…
British and French culinary rivalry heats up in Paris – archive, 1976
11 November 1976: Five top British chefs prepare a lunch for analysis and textural criticism by their cross-Channel counterpartsBritish and French gastronomic chauvinism fought a …
AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite climate risks, research reveals
181GW of gas-fired capacity proposed for sites in US and Europe because of delays in connecting to national grids, says reportDevelopers of AI datacentres plan to build on-site cl…
Humble house sparrows roosting in Spain evoke a childhood memory
Forget the hoopoes and the ring-necked parakeets, the highlight of our trip was a sound I hadn’t heard for 50 yearsAs dusk falls on a warm October evening, I gradually become awar…
‘Homosexuality was coined by a Hungarian’: the gay-sauna travelogue questioning central Europe’s illiberal image
A new book, With Wittgenstein in a Gay Sauna, reveals the deep-rooted queer subcultures in cities from Budapest to Prague – defying regional stereotypes and inspiring an art exhib…
Federal judge allows Trump’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against BBC to proceed
Trump-appointed judge Jeffrey T Kuntz partially denies British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss over editFederal judge Jeffrey T Kuntz ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s lawsuit …
Brilliant Noskova dismantles Gauff to reach WTA Finals last four
Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova dismantles Coco Gauff to become the first player to reach the last four at the WTA Finals.
Spain's king and queen attend memorial service for rail crash victims
Sixty-nine people died in the collision near Toledo two weeks ago and 28 are still in hospital.
French police raid Ritz hotel in Mohamed Al Fayed sexual abuse investigation
Arrests made after three properties were searched in relation to inquiry into late businessmanFrench police have made arrests after raiding three properties, including the Ritz ho…
UN chief urges Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia to turn fossil fuel promises into action
António Guterres calls for ‘clear next steps’ as countries face pressure to agree concrete measuresTurkey and Australia, the co-hosts of crucial climate talks, must urgently move …
Britain willing to discuss paying into EU to join electricity market, says minister
Hamish Falconer says UK has ‘not accepted principle’ of linking electricity trade to ‘cohesion fund’ but two sides will discuss issueBritain is willing to discuss paying towards i…
Inside devastated front-line city that Russia wants Ukraine to give up
The BBC gains rare access to a specialist drone unit defending the eastern city of Slovyansk from heavy Russian fire.
Tinto Brass obituary
Italian director drawn to the erotic best known for his 1979 film Caligula, which is now regarded as a cult favouriteNo matter how one defines the films of the director Tinto Bras…
Arrests made in Mohamed Al Fayed probe in France, police say
The Ritz hotel in Paris, which is still owned by the Al Fayed family, is one of the properties searched by police.
French wartime resistance heroine Solange Alexandre dies aged 104
With 30 men under her orders, she organised sabotage operations, sheltered Allied airmen and joined the fight against the occupying German forces.
Whispers in the Woods review – paddling in the moonlight in tender study of human-animal interaction
Director Vincent Munier takes his father and son into the Vosges forest in France and finds lynx, serene foxes and deerCannily timed to overlap but also contrast with the BBC’s Bl…
At least 11 dead after motorway pile-ups in Bulgaria fog
A further 46 people were injured in the pile-ups that occurred in both directions along a section of the Trakia motorway, officials have said.
France’s response to protests is making Islamophobia worse. But ministers won’t even utter the word | Kamélia Ouaissa
French people like me live in fear because far-right hate speech goes unchecked. The consequences can be deadlyAnger at the dilapidated state of schools may have been the starting…
Police officer dies and another injured after backpack explosion in Oviedo
Officers attended the scene in connection with a separate incident at a residential building in the city.
Viktor Orbán’s brother detained in people-smuggling investigation, Hungarian PM says
Arrest made by anti-corruption body set up to investigate alleged graft during former PM’s 16-year ruleHungarian authorities have detained the brother of Viktor Orbán as part of a…
Author Jojo Moyes among UK travellers at risk of EU ban amid digital border system glitches
Errors in entry and exit records leave some Britons wrongly flagged as having overstayed post-Brexit 90-day limitEU sues IBM and two European firms over entry/exit border systemTh…
‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes
Seven films in Seville programme highlight how Roma are creating their own narrativesGrowing up in Romania, whenever Alina Șerban spotted Roma people on television or in movies, t…
Disruption warning amid huge security operation in Dublin for EU meetings
Irish police say it is going to be the largest security operation in the history of the state.