Europe

Notre-Dame Cathedral sat within the pre-dawn chill like a spaceship docked within the coronary heart of Paris, its exoskeleton of scaffolding lit by brilliant lights. Pink clouds appeared to the east as equipment hummed to life and employees began clambering round. One of them, Hank Silver, carrying a yellow laborious hat, stood on a platform […] More

A Paris faculty principal’s choice to step down after he obtained on-line dying threats over an incident involving a Muslim pupil’s head scarf has prompted nationwide outrage this week in France. Camera crews have descended on the college and the federal government stated it deliberate to sue the coed, accusing her of constructing false accusations […] More

Some members of the royal household, notably the princes and princesses of its youthful era, are simple to fit into that sufferer function. They are rich, well-known and photogenic, and their roles in public life make them beloved to many. Catherine, notably, was a ready-made focus for a conspiracy narrative, not solely as a result […] More

Peter Eotvos, a towering Hungarian composer and conductor who linked modernist traditions in Twentieth-century European music and whose multifaceted work was singularly evocative, died on Sunday at his house in Budapest. He was 80. His spouse, the librettist Maria Eotvosne Mezei, introduced his dying. Mr. Eotvos (pronounced OAT-voesh) was a tireless advocate of up to […] More

An influential United Nations human rights physique delivered a scathing evaluation Thursday on the safety of civil rights in Britain, accusing the Conservative authorities of backsliding and urging the nation to desert its controversial laws to permit asylum seekers to be despatched to Rwanda. The criticisms from the U.N. Human Rights Committee got here because […] More

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has warned that if F-16 fighter jets provided to Ukraine by its Western allies operated from airfields in different international locations, the bases could be “authentic targets” for assault. In a speech to Russian Air Force pilots late Wednesday, nevertheless, Mr. Putin rejected strategies from some Western leaders that […] More

The music has stopped in at the very least one recreation of style musical chairs. Valentino has a brand new inventive director: Alessandro Michele, the previous Gucci designer who left that model in 2022. Mr. Michele, who was recognized for having reworked Gucci right into a $10 billion powerhouse by making it a baroque treasure […] More

The British Museum on Thursday named Nicholas Cullinan, an artwork historian who presently leads the National Portrait Gallery in London, as its new director, ending an unsettled interval by which the august establishment lacked a everlasting chief. He will instantly face a bunch of challenges, together with the fallout from an embarrassing scandal by which […] More

The warning was stern: Do not enter the water. Not due to the tide. Not due to sharks. Because of the sewage. For virtually two centuries, rowers from Oxford University have raced their rivals from Cambridge in a contest that sometimes ends with jubilant members of the victorious crew leaping into the River Thames in […] More

Russia’s on-line efforts to derail Ukraine help. More

The bronze statue in Cambridge, England, is 13 toes tall. The determine wears educational robes and a mortarboard. It doesn’t precisely have a face, since its head seems to be wrapped in a twisted fabric. Who does this statue, titled “The Don,” allegedly depict? It’s, uh, Prince Philip. Sure sufficient, a plaque beneath the sculpture […] More

The assault at a live performance corridor simply exterior Moscow that killed 139 individuals final Friday has prompted some Russians to name for bringing again capital punishment in Russia, and to execute the assailants. Through a mixture of presidential motion and courtroom rulings, Russia has had a moratorium on the dying penalty for 28 years. […] More