Europe

In the late fifteenth century, when the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci accomplished “Vitruvian Man” — one among his most well-known drawings, which depicts the proportions of the human physique — he couldn’t have predicted it might be reproduced onto low-cost notebooks, coffee mugs, T-shirts, aprons, and even puzzles. Centuries later, the Italian authorities […] More

A novel a couple of girl grieving her twin and one other tracing North and South Korean historical past by way of a household of railway employees are among the many six titles nominated for this yr’s International Booker Prize, the celebrated award for fiction translated into English. Jenny Erpenbeck, a German novelist usually talked […] More

In the {photograph}, Anna Haidarzhy and her 4-month-old son, Tymofii, are barely seen beneath the bloodstained blanket. They lie within the rubble, on the ft of rescue staff in black and fluorescent uniforms. Just two arms, one from the mom, 31, one from her son, could be seen protruding of the blanket. “It regarded like […] More

Germany on Tuesday defended itself towards accusations that its arms gross sales to Israel have been abetting genocide in Gaza, arguing on the International Court of Justice that many of the tools it has provided since Oct. 7 was nonlethal and that it has additionally been one of many largest donors of humanitarian support to […] More

Simon Harris was three years right into a college diploma when he dropped out in 2008. A job had come up as a parliamentary assistant to an Irish senator, and Mr. Harris, an formidable 20-year-old from a coastal city in County Wicklow, south of Dublin, noticed “a possibility to try to make a distinction,” he […] More

For simply over per week, Mt. Etna, one in every of Europe’s most energetic volcanoes, has been spewing round, principally white smoke rings into the skies over Sicily. It’s not the primary time Mt. Etna has enchanted onlookers with its puffing (it’s been dubbed the Gandalf of volcanoes, after the pipe-puffing wizard in “Lord of […] More

Public security officers in England, France and Spain stated Tuesday that they might step up safety for matches this week within the Champions League, Europe’s marquee soccer competitors, after ISIS-related teams known as for violent assaults on the contests. The first of 4 quarterfinal matchups had been scheduled in London and Madrid on Tuesday, and […] More

Europe’s prime human rights court docket mentioned on Tuesday that the Swiss authorities had violated its residents’ human rights by not doing sufficient to cease local weather change, a landmark ruling that specialists mentioned may bolster activists hoping to make use of human rights regulation to carry governments to account. The court docket, the European […] More

Two and half years in the past, bankers and buyers attended the United Nations local weather summit in Glasgow, an annual occasion usually dominated by activists and policymakers. It was thought-about a milestone because the monetary sector agreed to place its may into tackling local weather change. Hundreds of banks, insurers and asset managers vowed […] More

I joined throngs of individuals in Manhattan’s Central Park to look at the partial eclipse. It felt like nightfall by 3:20 within the afternoon, and other people cheered when only a cuticle of solar remained. Many Central Park spectators departed lengthy earlier than the solar absolutely emerged from behind the moon. People appeared extra contemplative […] More

The doc issued on Monday by the Vatican places human dignity on the middle of Catholic life, however in doing so, it broaches a few of the most tough and delicate social points, people who Pope Francis has spent his papacy avoiding. On Monday, although, his church leaned onerous into them within the doc, referred […] More

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog company has condemned drone strikes on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, saying “such reckless assaults considerably enhance the chance of a significant nuclear accident and should be stopped instantly.” At least three drones detonated on the plant on Sunday, in accordance with inspectors from the U.N. International […] More