One of Europe’s most beautiful towns is also one of its smallest, with just over 700 residents to its name. Briones, a tiny town in Spain’s La Rioja autonomous community, owes its name to the ancient word for the region’s first inhabitants,
London has overtaken Paris and is once again home to the largest stockmarket in Europe, a Bloomberg analysis has concluded. And UK economist Julian Jessop has urged Remainers to take note, given they “made a big deal when the reverse happened”. Bloomberg’s
Hundreds of thousands of revelers packed the streets of west London on Monday for the climax of the Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean music and culture. Organizers say up to 2 million people are expected to
Finland’s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe’s most powerful by production capacity, has completed a test phase lasting more than a year and started regular output, boosting the Nordic country’s electricity self-sufficiency significantly. The Olkiluoto 3 reactor, which has 1,600-megawatt capacity,
The beginning of the end of Europe’s dependency on China for precious rare earth materials may lie buried deep under the rugged reaches of northern Sweden, well above the Arctic Circle. Sweden’s iron-ore miner LKAB said Thursday it has identified “significant deposits”