Europe

Prada and Max Mara bring strangeness and science to Milan fashion week

A Prada show is never a straightforward beauty pageant, so when the co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons go out of their way to be contrary and challenging, the...

Axel Springer’s media assets to be split off in €13.5bn KKR deal

Axel Springer has struck a €13.5bn (£11.3bn) deal that will see its media assets, which include Politico, Business...

Thousands evacuated as Storm Boris causes havoc in northern Italy

About 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna overnight after...

Giving Cruise Missiles to Ukraine Won’t Change the Battlefield Equation

Russia and the West are quickly running out of maneuvering room to avoid a head-on military collision. In the...

UK’s ‘not for EU’ meat and dairy labelling plan postponed indefinitely

Government plans to force food manufacturers to put “not for EU” labels on all meat and dairy products...

Body of activist killed by Israeli forces in West Bank returns to Turkey

The body of the slain Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi has landed in Istanbul to continue to its final resting place in her family’s...

IMF plan to visit Russia to assess economy prompts dismay across Europe

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will send staff to Moscow next week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion...

Technology helping solar farms counter growing hailstone threat

One of the least considered hazards of climate change is the increasing frequency of hailstorms and the size and the impact of the pieces...

Grenfell survivors urge golfer Leona Maguire to axe Kingspan sponsorship

A second professional golfer, Leona Maguire, is under pressure to end her sponsorship deal with the Irish company Kingspan after the public inquiry into...

ECB cuts interest rate to 3.5% and warns of weak eurozone growth

The European Central Bank has lowered interest rates for the second time this year, as it warned that economic growth in the eurozone will...

Rare and ornate 14th-century Bible sells at auction for £5.3m

A rare, ornate, talismanic and mystical Hebrew Bible that was written by an illustrious rabbi in 14th century Spain, and whose gilded and colourful...