Lars Findsen, who headed the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) from 2015 to 2020, had his phone and house wired with bugs by former colleagues.
EPA
The curious case of the Danish spy chief and former minister may be over, but key questions about secrecy and democracy remain.
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, makes a statement at La Moncloa to detail the composition and priorities of the new Executive.
Pool Moncloa/José Manuel Álvarez. La Moncloa, Madrid
Pedro Sánchez faces a series of challenges after his party’s controversial investiture.
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Anti-SLAPP legislation is being drawn up to protect journalists from being hounded out of reporting on corruption – but agreeing on key definitions is proving difficult.
Kilian Jornet pendant l'ultratrail du Mont Blanc en 2018: 170 kilomètres en altitude et dans des conditions météorologiques difficiles.
JEFF PACHOUD, AFP
Do extreme-sport athletes and explorers have personality traits in common that help them adapt to difficult and surprising conditions?
EPA/Robin Utrecht
Extremists are not ‘capturing’ our systems – they are part of them.
EPA/Remko de Waal
The controversial Dutch politician has won the most seats in parliament, but may still find it expedient to be the junior partner in a coalition government
EPA/Julien Warnand
Europe’s radical right and radical left share a distaste for the status quo – but while one turns disquiet into votes, the other fails to make an impact.
A scientist examines a digital broodcomb.
Hiveopolis
Two EU-funded projects are looking at high-tech solutions that could transform honeybee colonies into bio-hybrid entities.
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Deceptive content on social media is being monetised by digital platforms, advertisers, and influencers
A boy scavenges through rubbish in a slum in New Delhi, India.
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The UN has officially recognised children’s right to be protected against climate change.
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Nationalist parties are the most likely to be found dreaming of a glorious past in their campaign literature, especially in central and eastern Europe.
Volodymyr Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen at a joint press conference in Kyiv.
EPA/Sergey Dolzhenko
Unless the EU itself reforms, Ukraine’s membership would make it one of the biggest beneficiary of the bloc’s budget.
Aller au café avec des amis, un exemple de pause utile.
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Relax: keeping your sense of humour and taking regular breaks will go a long way in helping you land a job.
The Ayès lake, in the Ariège region of the Pyrenees.
Dirk S. Schmeller
Many mountain lakes in the Pyrenees have turned green, a phenomenon that is a warning about the multiple pressures on ecosystems.
A night of pro-independence protests in Barcelona.
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Pedro Sánchez is offering Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont amnesty for his role in illegal independence referendums in 2014 and 2017.
Lord Byron on his death bed, by
Joseph Denis Odevaere.
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Lord Byron’s drank vinegar for weight loss, with catastrophic health effects. His eating disorders were reflected across 18th century Europe.
Dans cette édition illustrée de La cousine Bette (1948), l'héroïne célibataire a les traits durs, la mine sévère et triste.
Editions Albert Guillot, Paris 1948.
In his collection of stories, “The Human Comedy”, the French 19th-century writer Honoré de Balzac turned the shaming of single women into an art.
Location of the Buran Kaya III (1), Zlatý Kůň (2), Fournol (3), Serinyà (4), Krems-Wachtberg (5) and Věstonice (6) archeological sites, whose remains were were analysed in the study. Also shown are one of the analysed skull fragments and pierced beads discovered with the bone fragments from the Buran Kaya III site, as well as the Venus statuettes from Věstonice, Willendorf and the Dame de Brassempouy (from right to left).
E-M. Geigl
Genetic analysis of two skull fragments dating back almost 40,000 years shows that our species colonised Europe from the east and interbred with our Neanderthal cousins.
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We’re experiencing an influx of pictures from conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza – and that takes a physical toll on our bodies.
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The number of bugs on our windscreens has plummeted in recent years. Are we driving faster? Or are there fewer of them?