Europe

The key to Finland’s success is to view education not as a privilege, but a right.

Throughout history, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of people have been spontaneously compelled to dance until collapsing or dying from exhaustion. What explanations are there for this bizarre phenomenon?

Worryingly, these are not just two random collections of countries, but two blocs with a lot of pre-existing enmity.

There are some undeniable parallels between Jewish history and the Big Blue Boy Scout.

Best case: Redrawing borders leads to peace, prosperity and EU membership. But there’s also a worst case.

It may create the conditions for further inequality.

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She met mere mortals with and without the Vatican’s approval.

The new charge was announced in a tweet by the city’s mayor.

The sharp drop-off in world trade growth is a major risk in the coming year.

TheTrueSize.com offers hours of fun while you stretch and shrink countries and states all over the globe.

Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.

Luxembourg will offer the world’s first fare-free public transit system, but is there really such a thing as a free ride?

All the prayers in the world to the Flying Spaghetti Monster probably won’t help.

Meanwhile, Spaniards are the least likely to say their culture is superior to others.

Amongst other things, you can’t get away with handling a salmon suspiciously in Scotland.

This 100-year-old map, originally made for American consumption, highlights the famines that swept across Europe after WWI.

Most other countries don’t have universal healthcare because of poverty or war. Why does the U.S. keep clinging to a bad system?

In more than a dozen countries as far apart as Portugal and Russia, ‘Smith’ is the most popular occupational surname

Coercion requires justification. How can we justify the invisible walls of our visa policies?  

Paris, France is just too real for some tourists to handle. This results in Japanese tourists getting sick, and seeking therapy because of unmet expectations. 

Caught between a rock and a hard place, the EU had better get ready for some of these exit-names

Slavoj Žižek examines the situation out of which refugees are created, and criticizes conservatives and liberals alike for their “conspiracy theories”.