With an overwhelming majority of 575 votes in favour and only 33 against, the European Parliament adopted the FEMM Committee’s resolution, drafted by Greek MEP Eleonora Meleti, officially recognising, for the first time, the women and girls of Cyprus...
World leaders opened the NATO Summit in Ankara this week, and the first day alone produced new defense pledges, billions of dollars in weapons deals, and a handful of unresolved disputes.
The summit has brought together the alliance's 32 members,...
Ten European economies are forecast to grow more than twice as fast as the eurozone over the next five years, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The IMF's April 2026 World Economic Outlook projects eurozone growth of just 1.2% a...
Samothrace, a small, rocky Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, has a storied past that belies its diminutive size. One of the most rugged of all the Greek islands, its Mt. Saos rises to 1,611 meters (5,285 feet).
Known best...
A European Commission proposal to tighten state aid rules for airports in the EU has sparked pushback from Cyprus and Greece. The revised guidelines aim to phase out financial support for airports based on passenger volume, a move that...
A rare surviving copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been discovered at the UK's National Archives, marking the only known example of its kind held outside the United States.
The document was uncovered in February during a cataloguing...
Pompeii has reopened the House of Apollo Citharoedus, one of the largest ancient homes at the site, after months of restoration work. The house is now open to the public for the first time in years.
The home sits along...
A new archaeological study suggests that Roman soldiers stationed at Ambleside Fort in England's Lake District once fought off an attack, based on a scatter of ancient sling bullets found around the site.
The study, published in the journal Britannia,...
A new edition of the European Central Bank's Household Finance and Consumption Survey, published in mid-2026, reveals where Europe's wealthiest young people live and how their financial position compares across 22 countries.
The findings place Malta comfortably at the top...
Archaeologists have uncovered a monumental sixth-century B.C. funerary complex in a tomb in central Italy, providing new insight into the powerful Picene elite who lived around Mount Conero more than 2,500 years ago.
The discovery was made during preventive excavations...
The planned demolition of a surviving Hitler Reich Chancellery bunker has sparked controversy in Germany, with city officials supporting redevelopment while historians and heritage experts argue the Nazi-era site should be preserved.
The underground bunker is one of the few...
Italy has unveiled a set of rare Etruscan tomb paintings after paying $17 million to acquire them, museum officials said this week. The frescoes, once part of the François Tomb near ancient Vulci, opened to the public at Rome's...
An ancient shipwreck carrying more than 300 amphorae has been identified off the Ionian coast of Calabria, offering rare evidence of the maritime trade that connected the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in southern Italy more than 2,400 years...
About 27,500 years ago, a teenage boy survived a violent bear attack long enough to receive care from his community before his death in what is now Liguria, Italy. Researchers say his burial at Arene Candide, Italy, offers rare...
An ancient shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, is giving researchers fresh insight into how Greek and Etruscan traders moved goods across the Mediterranean more than 2,500 years ago.
The wreck, discovered in 1961 in the Bay of Campese...
