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Woman walking dog at night using phone as flashlight during power outage.
Blame game in Spain over power cut that left nation in the dark

Sara Aagesen, the energy minister, ruled out a cyberattack but pointed the finger at the national grid operator as well as privately run power plants

Winning EuroMillions lottery ticket with cash and champagne cork.
Irish ticketholder wins £208m EuroMillions jackpot
The Mona Lisa painting and the Louvre Pyramid.
Mona Lisa gets her own gallery — but extra cost won’t raise a smile
Illustration of Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos over an image of an island in Venice.
Bezos’s wedding would be better in Beverly Hills, says angry abbot
Reconstruction of a Mesolithic woman's face.
How scientists gave 10,000-year-old woman a face
Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, is resisting calls to resign
Pedro Sánchez fights for his political life over corruption allegations
Toddler lying in bed watching a video on a phone.
Make it illegal to put toddlers in front of screens, says French minister
The Mona Lisa painting and the Louvre Pyramid.
Mona Lisa gets her own gallery — but extra cost won’t raise a smile
The Mona Lisa painting and the Louvre Pyramid.
Mona Lisa gets her own gallery — but extra cost won’t raise a smile
Illustration of Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos over an image of an island in Venice.
Bezos’s wedding would be better in Beverly Hills, says angry abbot
Illustration of Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos over an image of an island in Venice.
Bezos’s wedding would be better in Beverly Hills, says angry abbot
Reconstruction of a Mesolithic woman's face.
How scientists gave 10,000-year-old woman a face
Reconstruction of a Mesolithic woman's face.
How scientists gave 10,000-year-old woman a face
Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, is resisting calls to resign
Pedro Sánchez fights for his political life over corruption allegations
Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, is resisting calls to resign
Pedro Sánchez fights for his political life over corruption allegations
Toddler lying in bed watching a video on a phone.
Make it illegal to put toddlers in front of screens, says French minister
Toddler lying in bed watching a video on a phone.
Make it illegal to put toddlers in front of screens, says French minister
Woman walking dog at night using phone as flashlight during power outage.
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Jun 16, 2025
Ernst Stavro Blofeld holding a white cat, with his passport open showing his details.
James Bond aficionados have a new theory about his villains

Ian Fleming based the Moonraker villain Hugo Drax on Nazi industrialists he encountered through wartime intelligence work, it has been claimed

The Times
Gérard Depardieu has “very large hands”, according to his lawyer, and his victim would therefore have suffered far more serious injuries if the actor had punched him
Depardieu risks three years in jail for ‘punching’ paparazzo

The French actor is on trial after an incident involving Italy’s ‘King of Paparazzi’ outside Harry’s Bar in Rome

The Times
An F-35 fighter jet refuelling in mid-air. Plans to station the aircraft at Lelystad airport in the Netherlands face protests
Dutch identify obstacle to Nato’s defiance of Putin: geese

A report leaked before the alliance meets in the Hague says EU red tape on animal welfare inhibits military expansion and rearmament

The Times
Screenshot of an AI-generated video depicting the liberation of France in 1944.
French officials accidentally teach children Nazis celebrated Resistance

AI-generated film put on TikTok by the government is ridiculed for showing a German soldier joining celebrations after the Allied liberation of Paris

The Times
Jun 15, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron arriving in Nuuk, Greenland, greeted by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
Is Macron’s Greenland trip a warning to Trump or a ‘lame duck’ visit?

The French president appears determined to push back against US threats to annex the vast Danish territory but he is increasingly regarded as beleaguered

The Times
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German honorary guard soldiers in a parade.
Sleeping with your comrade’s wife is ‘bad for morale’, troops told

A court martial in Germany has docked the pay of a sergeant major after ruling his affair violated his ‘duty of comradeship’

The Times
Portrait of Paolo Benati, a Franciscan friar and beer brewer, pouring a beer.
Friar who advises Meloni on tech turns his hand to pulling pints

Paolo Benanti, a Third Order Franciscan, doesn’t only think about the intersection of AI and theology — he brews IPAs, too

The Times
Collage of goats and a coastal village.
Overrun goat island calls in hunters to curb its hungry herd

Residents are outnumbered eight to one by the animals, which weigh up to 120kg, strip vegetation and scare hikers

The Times
A manta ray leaping from the ocean.
Mass beaching of Mediterranean devil rays has scientists all at sea

Warmer water is feared to be a factor in an unprecedented wave of deaths as marine experts call for new studies on the threatened and little-understood species

The Sunday Times
Man in black hoodie holding a hawk.
The Czech Trump on a mission to stop Europe ‘losing everywhere’

Andrej Babis, the billionaire former prime minister fresh from hobnobbing with Europe’s right wing, is eyeing a political comeback

The Sunday Times

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Jun 16, 2025
James Bond aficionados have a new theory about his villains

Ian Fleming based the Moonraker villain Hugo Drax on Nazi industrialists he encountered through wartime intelligence work, it has been claimed

The Times
Jun 16, 2025
Depardieu risks three years in jail for ‘punching’ paparazzo

The French actor is on trial after an incident involving Italy’s ‘King of Paparazzi’ outside Harry’s Bar in Rome

The Times
Jun 16, 2025
Dutch identify obstacle to Nato’s defiance of Putin: geese

A report leaked before the alliance meets in the Hague says EU red tape on animal welfare inhibits military expansion and rearmament

The Times
Jun 16, 2025
French officials accidentally teach children Nazis celebrated Resistance

AI-generated film put on TikTok by the government is ridiculed for showing a German soldier joining celebrations after the Allied liberation of Paris

The Times
Jun 15, 2025
Is Macron’s Greenland trip a warning to Trump or a ‘lame duck’ visit?

The French president appears determined to push back against US threats to annex the vast Danish territory but he is increasingly regarded as beleaguered

The Times
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Jun 15, 2025
Sleeping with your comrade’s wife is ‘bad for morale’, troops told

A court martial in Germany has docked the pay of a sergeant major after ruling his affair violated his ‘duty of comradeship’

The Times
Jun 15, 2025
Friar who advises Meloni on tech turns his hand to pulling pints

Paolo Benanti, a Third Order Franciscan, doesn’t only think about the intersection of AI and theology — he brews IPAs, too

The Times
Jun 15, 2025
Overrun goat island calls in hunters to curb its hungry herd

Residents are outnumbered eight to one by the animals, which weigh up to 120kg, strip vegetation and scare hikers

The Times
Jun 15, 2025
Mass beaching of Mediterranean devil rays has scientists all at sea

Warmer water is feared to be a factor in an unprecedented wave of deaths as marine experts call for new studies on the threatened and little-understood species

The Sunday Times
Jun 15, 2025
The Czech Trump on a mission to stop Europe ‘losing everywhere’

Andrej Babis, the billionaire former prime minister fresh from hobnobbing with Europe’s right wing, is eyeing a political comeback

The Sunday Times