Europe

        Learning a new language in just 15 hours sounds too good to be true. Impossible, even. We were cautiously optimistic when a university study found that complete beginners only need 15 hours of studying...

 West Bromwich Albion defender Jonny Evans believes Saturday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur can act as the perfect platform for the club to improve their league position with back-to-back home games coming up. Tottenham...

Hungary finds itself in an ideological battle with Brussels and several EU states. Part of the problem lies with the Hungarian government’s refusal to accept EU migrant quotas. In 2015 Hungary erected a barrier topped with...

UK Finance minister, Philip Hammond has delivered his second annual Budget, unveiling lower growth forecasts and higher borrowing due largely to Britain’s vote to quit the European Union. Mr Hammond – who has been accused of...

Russia’s meteorological service has confirmed “extremely high” concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 were found in several parts of the country in late September, confirming European reports about the contamination this month. “Probes of radioactive aerosols...

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on them to rethink their positions after coalition talks with Merkel collapsed. Germany’s president is to meet party leaders after talks to form a new government between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc,...

In Poland, last weekend’s independence day celebrations mutated into perhaps the ugliest international congregation of the extreme right seen in Europe in recent times. The grotesque procession of militant nationalists, white supremacists, and radical Islamophobes included...

Pierre Paganini took part in track and field in his youth, and when he first decided to become a coach he was interested above all in working with soccer stars. But it is in tennis, a...

A new trove of leaked documents, the so-called Paradise Papers, have revealed that Yuri Milner, a Russian businessman with extensive investments in Silicon Valley, used funds from two Kremlin-controlled—and now U.S.-sanctioned—banks to make large investments in...