Europe

In cities across Italy, a peculiar yet amusing sight has become part of everyday urban life: elderly men standing near construction sites, hands clasped behind their backs, quietly observing the work. Known as “umarells,” these retired individuals often spend hours watching labourers, occasionally offering advice or pointing out what they believe could be done better….

Carlos Alcaraz withdraws from Barcelona Open after wrist injury, raising doubts over clay season and upcoming tournaments/ Image: X Carlos Alcaraz’s Barcelona Open campaign lasted one match. Less than 48 hours after returning to the court following his defeat in the Monte-Carlo Masters final, the world No. 2 confirmed he would not continue in the…

Tailgating likely banned at key US World Cup venues as organisers prioritise security and control/ AI Image For many people travelling to the United States for the World Cup, the idea of an American matchday arrives already formed, shaped as much by familiarity as by experience. It leans into a well-worn Hollywood image: hot dogs…

Decades after the end of the Second World War, a quiet and deeply moving tradition continues across parts of Europe. In Belgium and the Netherlands, local families have taken it upon themselves to care for the graves of American soldiers who died during the liberation of their countries. These are not relatives by blood, but…

Stanley Milgram’s 1961–62 Yale University experiment tested obedience, where participants believed they delivered painful electric shocks to others under authority. In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The answer,…

Peaky Blinders portrays Tommy Shelby’s empire as a vast, sophisticated crime network, far beyond historical reality With Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man now streaming on Netflix and a new sequel series already in development for a likely 2027 release, Peaky Blinders has returned to the centre of attention. The film revisits Tommy Shelby in wartime…

The widow of Keith McAllister has filed a lawsuit, alleging negligence in the fatal MRI incident/ Image: Gofundme A woman whose husband died after being pulled into an MRI machine has now filed a lawsuit, alleging negligence by the medical facility and others involved, in what marks a significant development in a case that drew…

The Little Albert experiment studied whether human fear responses could be learned through classical conditioning/ Image: Screengrab Youtube At a time when psychology was trying to establish itself as a rigorous science, researchers were increasingly drawn to experiments that could demonstrate clear, observable laws of behaviour. One of the most influential ideas came from Ivan…

Pastor Cheryl Bartley faces manslaughter charges following a baptism incident that resulted in a man’s / drowning/ Image: Facebook A baptism being streamed to a small online congregation ended in a death that is now the subject of a criminal case, after a 61-year-old man drowned during the ceremony in Birmingham.According to reporting by the…

Artist view of a Boeing Vertol 107 in Pan Am colors/ Image: X (representative Image) For a brief moment in the 1960s, and again, very briefly in 1977, a passenger in Midtown Manhattan could step into an office tower, take an elevator to the roof, and board a helicopter bound for the airport. It was…