The butter boom – how the world fell in love again with the glorious golden spread
Temperatures in Paris were approaching 41°C when Erwan Leo opened Le Butter this summer. Wildfires were already sweeping through France,…
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in France, blocking schools.
Nearly 90,000 students, staff, and parents took to the streets in cities across France as protesters blockaded hundreds of high…
A medieval manuscript has puzzled scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all along?
It has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams,…
'It could destroy an entire street': the art of defusing a World War II bomb
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The 90s: Art and Fashion review – this isn't an exhibition, it's a magazine spread
Even in the 1990s, some dismissed Jake and Dinos Chapman as overgrown adolescents peddling shock value for its own sake.…
Lidl GB's sales jumped by more than 10%, boosted by price cuts and its Deluxe range.
Lidl’s sales in Great Britain rose 10% to over £13bn this year, as shoppers looked for cheaper fresh meat, fruit,…
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election after a housing law failed to pass.
Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has once again staked his political future on a snap general election, announced three…
The euro has dropped to a 17-month low against the dollar due to concerns about French debt.
The euro has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar in 17 months, driven by growing fears that France’s…
A 15-year-old schoolboy lost his hand after picking up a police stun grenade during school protests in France.
Hundreds of schools in France were fully or partly closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings, and the…
To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates the fate of the world's slowest shark
“When I accidentally catch a shark, I feed it to my dogs,” says Henrik Jensen, a 27-year-old from Greenland’s west…