There’s one thing that the two candidates locked in a bad-tempered battle to be Britain’s next prime minister agree on: Brexit is nothing to do with any of the woes facing the UK right now. Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 11:24AM

The German city of Hanover has banned hot water in public buildings and has introduced measures to reduce heating and energy usage as Europe faces a potential natural gas crisis this winter. Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 12:00PM

When dozens of towns across Italy started selling crumbling buildings for the cost of an espresso, people from all over the world were prompted to grab a slice of the action — and for many different reasons.Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 11:47AM

When bombshell “Baywatch”-era one-pieces and teeny bikinis reigned in the 1990s, relief for many women came in the form of the tankini — a tank-top silhouette that offered more coverage than most two-pieces, but could still be modest, sporty or sexy. It was one of the few innovations at a time when women’s swim styles only catered to few body […]

It was a project always destined to go up in a puff of smoke, at least part of it. And now British artist Damien Hirst has announced he will burn thousands of his paintings at his London gallery as part of his year-long NFT project, baldly titled “The Currency.”Story Published at: July 27, 2022 at 11:29AM

President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a lengthy and candid discussion about Taiwan on Thursday as tensions mount between Washington and Beijing, despite Biden’s onetime hope of stabilizing the world’s most important country-to-country relationship.Story Published at: July 28, 2022 at 06:50PM

Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an “unprecedented” rise in costs. Story Published at: July 28, 2022 at 04:49PM