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Social media videos show black smoke billowing from a luxury yacht on fire in St Tropez in the French Riviera on Thursday.

The blaze took place on the Sea Lady II, a 41m boat which sleeps up to 10 guests and can be chartered from €65,000 (£56,000) a week.

Firefighters initially struggled to…

More than one-third of global beauty supplement launches come out of Western Europe, making it the top innovator in the world in terms of new product development. But why is this region thriving?

The beauty category today looks…

The data for the progressive polling think tank shows the new party could earn 8 percent of the vote, with Labour’s vote share subsequently dropping by 3 points — from 25 to 22 percent.

“Reform are crowing about it, because they are assuming that this kind of party could be the…

Macron has been on a state visit to the U.K., meeting Starmer as well as King Charles. The visit included a banquet at Windsor Castle during which Macron was served beans on toast followed by turkey twizzlers and then spotted dick for dessert, washed down with seven pints of…

It only escalated from there. Rama, in a series of X posts, called Farage’s figures “bonkers” and questioned how many were convicted due to the U.K.’s “outdated immigration and visa system,” yet decided to kill Farage with kindness and invite him to visit to enjoy “real sun,…

The move is likely to exacerbate tensions between the Commission and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who faces the very real prospect of losing power after 15 years in an election slated for 2026. He’s had a turbulent relationship with EU policymakers and fellow governments, which…

Ursula von der Leyen survived a motion of censure — but not without sustaining damage. In Strasbourg, tensions within her pro-European coalition burst into the open, with allies accusing her party of flirting with the far right (again) and warning they could soon turn on…