The prosperity of civilizations has long fascinated historians, but a crucial factor often overlooked is the ecological ...

Western Europe sweltered through its hottest June on record last month, as "extreme" temperatures blasted the region in punishing back-to-back heatwaves, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said ...

As summer temperatures rise, battle lines have been drawn between those who want air conditioning and those who worry over ...

Mild but wet and windy conditions prevailed further south, where a storm wreaked havoc in parts of western Europe. In Britain, a driver died after a tree fell on his car in western England.

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Firefighters battled wildfires in Turkey and France on Monday and more than 50,000 people were evacuated as an early summer ...

The Iron Curtain that once divided Europe may be long gone, but the continent today is split by stark differences in public attitudes toward religion, minorities and social issues such as gay marriage ...

Eastern Europe is not immune from terrorism: after all, many of the countries (such as in the Balkans) suffered through wars as recently as the 1990s, and in 2012 a bus carrying Israeli tourists ...