Apple is investing 1.7 billion euros ($1.92 billion) in high-tech data centers in Denmark and Ireland that will be powered by renewable energy, in its largest...
The top U.N. official for refugees Tuesday urged the European Union to consider imposing a quota system to force its nations to more equitably handle a spike...
The crew was about to dig into dinner when word of the “ghost ship” came through: a freighter hurtling out of control toward Italy with no crew – and hundreds...
Many of us have fond childhood memories of visits to the beach and pleasant times spent there – whether sunbathing, walking, fishing, surfing or simply...
New research from Harvard University suggests it could put years on your life.
Nowhere has the impact of freakish summer weather been felt more painfully than in Tuscany and Umbria, where the subtly aromatic, extra-virgin oils reaped...
Russia believes NATO is destabilizing northern Europe by holding military exercises there and "transferring aircraft capable of carrying nuclear arms" to the...
Two Dutch F16 fighter jets, part of a NATO force patrolling the skies above the Baltic states, intercepted a Russian Ilyushin transport aircraft flying near...
Designed as a tribute to Britain’s World War I dead, a blood-red trench of ceramic poppies around the Tower of London has become a national phenomenon, as...
Around 15 years ago Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige began to collect some of the spam that’d collected in their Internet accounts.
Italy says it wants to halt an operation to rescue boat migrants in the Mediterranean, urging the EU to take it over.
Every day, boatloads of refugees arrive on Italian shores. European Union law requires Italy to fingerprint them, so that if they apply for asylum in another...
Europe is made up of its nations and has been for hundreds of years.
Many Europeans tremble at the likely outcome of the upcoming European Parliament election: a strong showing for anti-European protest parties, which will...
Every Sunday morning at 6 a.m., Souheil Hussein drags himself out of bed and endures a nearly three-hour bus ride east to Jounieh.
When even their president is being caught sneaking around behind his partner’s back, it is perhaps unsurprising to find the French topping a poll for...
Lebanese travel agencies have released their 2014 honeymoon packages, and between the glossy brochure pages filled with trips to Thailand and the Amalfi coast...
Soon after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, I warned that unless the right policies were adopted, Japanese-style malaise – slow growth and...
It has been shelled, threatened with demolition and became such an eyesore that it was covered by a massive sheet during the 2004 Athens Olympics, but a...
In December 2013, at a makeshift cultural center in downtown Cairo, a young Sudanese recited poems from “The Papers of Room No. 8,” a collection written by...