Meet My Mama: how home cooks turned chefs are spicing up the French catering market
“My cuisine is a bridge between Congo, my home country, and France,” says Marie-Clarisse, a home cook turned professional chef by Meet My Mama, a French start-up that’s serving up…
Ireland, as ‘honest broker’, reckons with the high price of dirty business
Ireland is facing the music over its continued sales of alumina to Russia. The scandal put a damper on the start of the country’s EU presidency and raised uncomfortable questions…
Plovdiv travel guide: How to spend 48 hours in Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited city
In this travel guide to Plovdiv, discover Roman sites, Bulgarian Revival houses and the best restaurants and bars. Read More
Latest news bulletin | July 4th, 2026 – Morning
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this July 4th, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. Read more at…
Lefebvrists answer Pope after excommunication as Redemptorist schism looms
The Lefebvrists of the Society of St Pius X reject the Holy See’s excommunication after consecrating bishops without Leo XIV’s approval. Now it’s the turn of the Transalpine Redemptorists: another…
World’s largest digital camera starts mapping the universe
The Rubin observatory in Chile has begun its decade survey of the sky, snapping hundreds of images, to help researchers understand dark matter. Read More
A Silk Road destination wants tourists to stay longer
Tourist trips to Uzbekistan rose from 6.63 million in 2023 to 11.7 million in 2025. Authorities are linking that growth to new air routes, Central Asian travel packages and higher…
Prospective UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham rules out early general election
Burnham indicated he still backs reforming Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system, which has historically benefited the country’s traditional two main parties. Read More
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori wins Peru’s presidential election in runoff
Voters were primarily concerned with increasing levels of crime, especially extortion by violent organized crime gangs, and Fujimori pledged to combat crime with an iron fist. Read more at Read…
Two Romanian men jailed by UK judge over London stabbing of Iranian TV presenter
Iran International, a private broadcaster based in a heavily secured building in west London, was labelled a “terrorist” organisation by Tehran in 2022 along with the BBC’s Persian-language channel. Read…