Europe

Like thousands of French children whose parents believe they have autism, Rachel’s six-year-old son had been placed by the state in a psychiatric hospital day unit. The team there, of the school of post-Freudian psychoanalysis, did not...

After protracted talks, Angela Merkel’s conservatives have made a deal with the Social Democrats over a new coalition contract in Germany. The SPD confirmed this in a message to its members, who will have the final...

Theresa May’s Brexit “war cabinet” of senior ministers is set to thrash out the thorniest issues for Britain’s future relationship with the EU at a crunch meeting on Wednesday. The prime minister and key cabinet ministers on different...

A Russian pilot who was shot down in Syria has been posthumously honored after reportedly killing himself with a grenade. Russian warplanes have been ordered to fly higher as they intensify attacks in Idlib. The Russian...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Pope Francis for “cordial” private talks on Monday, marking the first visit to the Vatican by a Turkish head of state since 1959. Erdogan and the pontiff “spoke about the...

20 years and 40 collections add up to an important chapter of the Italian fashion history, written by an icon of the international style: Francesco Scognamiglio. The famous couturier closed another loop of his career which was started...

Silvio Berlusconi has pledged to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants from Italy should his centre-right coalition enter government after elections on 4 March, as tensions simmer over the shooting of six Africans by a far-right extremist on Saturday....

Ruling out any continued customs union with the EU is “a profound mistake”, the Labour chair of the Brexit committee, Hilary Benn, has said, warning that it could both harm the economy and risk conflict in Northern...

The only surviving suspected member of the jihadi group that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks has refused to answer questions at the start of his trial in Belgium on separate terrorism charges. Salah Abdeslam stands accused...

Two leading Conservative MPs have launched a bid to make Theresa May keep the UK in a customs union with the European Union, as the prime minister faces cabinet and party splits over the issue. Anna Soubry,...