Europe doesn’t run on one throne or one title. Power here is layered — spread across national leaders, EU institutions, economic gatekeepers, and figures whose influence is felt even from outside the bloc. That’s why POLITICO’s annual power ranking isn’t about popularity or election wins, but about who actually moves the pieces.Based on wider political, … Read more

A federal judge in Maryland sentenced a man to 17 years in prison this week for robbing U.S. Postal Service mail carriers at gunpoint. DeAngelo Lewis, 30, was sentenced for armed robbery of mail carriers, bank fraud, stealing mail and using and brandishing a gun while committing a violent crime. Following the conclusion of his … Read more

Around 5,000 people have been displaced by a powerful earthquake in Indonesia that has caused at least 51 fatalities. Rescuers continue to search for survivors of the shallow magnitude 7.7 quake, which struck the island of Flores shortly before 05:00 local time on Saturday (22:00 GMT on Friday). Preliminary reports indicate more than 900 homes … Read more

The 90s might have been filled with questionable trends, but they also gave us TV and movie couples that shot our expectations of romance into the unattainable. Decades later, we still hold these on-screen couples near and dear to our hearts. But in the years that passed, these actors have gone through so many changes. … Read more

A print by Pablo Picasso, initially stolen from a Milwaukee gallery in 2018, was found by a landlord and turned in to the local police. The print is a work titled “Torero,” completed in 1949, and was stolen on Feb. 16, 2018, before being turned in to a police station on Aug. 5, the Milwaukee … Read more

Gregory Melotte, one of those working to extinguish the blaze, told Belgian broadcaster RTBF: “We managed to calm the fire coming from the plain, to prevent it from spreading into the fir forest. We still succeeded in our mission, but it’s not over yet. “The flames are coming towards us, the wind has shifted twice, … Read more

We’re all familiar with the term “wardrobe malfunction”, the most famous one being the Super Bowl halftime show with Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. We’re not sure exactly if that’s when the term was coined or if it existed before, but it’s funny how that term sounds so neutral and technical, borderline innocent, yet we … Read more

China’s recent test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile without adequate warning prompted the U.S. and 40 countries to demand greater advance notice of such tests, the State Department said in a joint statement. The joint statement submitted to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva by the 41 democratic nations noted recent missile testing in … Read more

Prof Andrew Challinor, from the University of Leeds, said the images were “consistent with widespread water stress”, which “does not bode well” given much of Europe’s land is covered by crops meaning it could hit the agriculture industry and food production. In the worst-affected areas, soil moisture is lower than on about 98% of comparable … Read more