Category: 3. Europe

Published on
02/01/2026 – 8:00 GMT+1

Tiny crabs have secretly been playing an “unheralded role” in cleaning up the planet by hoovering up microplastics.

A new study, published in the…

Zohran Mamdani has pledged to “reinvent” New York during his first speech as mayor, where he has vowed to govern “expansively and audaciously” during his swearing-in ceremony.

After working part of the night in his new office, the new mayor returned to City Hall in a taxi cab around…

Zum Start ins neue politische Jahr spricht Gordon Repinski mit Ulf Poschardt, Herausgeber der „Premium-Gruppe“ des Axel Springer Verlags, zu der neben der WELT-Gruppe auch POLITICO Deutschland und Business Insider Deutschland gehören, über den Zustand der deutschen…

A shadow banking crisis erupts

And spare a worrying thought for the unregulated private credit market and the so-called shadow banks. The usually staid Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has already tolled the alarm bell. 

In October, he warned of parallels with the 2008 financial…

His discovery in 2018 proved a serious setback to an initiative begun four years earlier under David Cameron’s government, which set up a commission to plan a monument to ensure that “in 50 years’ time the memory and lessons of the Holocaust will be as strong and as vibrant as…

“The Lives of the Twelve Caesars,” by Suetonius

The historian of ancient Rome’s early imperial era, who chronicled 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, would surely have been fascinated by our current crop of larger-than-life rulers — including Trump, Putin and…