What Love Island tells us about the changing face of dating
On the fourth series of Love Island UK in 2018, Megan Barton-Hanson pulled fellow Islander, Wes Nelson, for a chat. Just moments earlier, she had ended her relationship with Eyal Booker after admitting the pair had little more than physical chemistry.…
Flavio Bolsonaro launches presidential bid in Brazil despite challenges
Battered by a string of political crises, Flavio Bolsonaro on Saturday prepared to formally launch his candidacy for Brazil‘s October presidential election, seeking to follow in the footsteps of his father, Jair Bolsonaro. Far-right firebrand Jair…
Left-wing Democrats are riding high – but can they lure back swing voters?
On a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit’s opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and…
Nearly 98,000 hectares burned in France, a 'historic record' says government
The threat posed by a wildfire raging in the southwestern French department of Gironde «remains very serious,» the top regional official, Sophie Brocas, said Saturday.»The threat remains very serious. We are still facing a grave situation,» she said,…
Would you pay $58.5m to live New York City’s historic Flatiron Building?
When New York design firm Studio Sofield was hired to reimagine the building’s interior, it had to address the problem of the building’s previous life as an office space, co-founder William Sofield said. Another big hurdle came with the…
Live: Bordeaux evacuates 55,000 more as fires worsen in France and Spain
Home Europe Live Issued on: 26/07/2026 – 00:57Modified: 26/07/2026 – 03:14 Firefighters work at the scene of a wildfire, in Andernos-les-Bains in the Gironde department, amongst worsening drought conditions following a heatwave and water…
Jail Time Records: The notorious Cameroonian prison with its own record label
New Bell – a notorious prison in Douala, Cameroon – is a city within a city. The facility has its own «taxis» (inmates who whizz through congested courtyards on foot to hand deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help…
Van rams into Berlin Pride crowd, killing one and injuring 15
A van drove into a crowd gathered for Berlin‘s annual LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 15 others before crashing into a tree, prompting police to cancel the event and launch a search for possible…
Italy was once a model of healthy eating – now it has a child obesity problem
Obesity is an «escalating global epidemic», says the WHO. More than one billion people worldwide are now obese, and childhood obesity has quadrupled since 1990. In 2025, Italy became the first country to pass a national law recognising obesity as a…
200,000 people flee their homes in France as wildfires continue
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