The Palace of the Parliament, originally called the House of the Republic was built during the rule of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. In Romania’s Bucharest, there is a government building so large that its construction changed the shape of the city around it. The Palace of the Parliament, originally called the House of the Republic…

The court said the law did not provide sufficient safeguards for users’ privacy while disproportionately restricting freedom of expression. France’s top court on Friday blocked the law that would have banned children under 15 from using social media, saying some of its provisions infringed on fundamental freedoms and failed to provide adequate privacy safeguards.The Constitutional…

Piddington, a central English village of 350 people, held a symbolic “independence referendum” on Tuesday to protest against plans to house more than 1,200 asylum seekers at a nearby disused military site.The Oxfordshire village, 25km from Oxford, asked residents to vote “Yes” or “No” on whether it should seek to secede from the UK and…

Representative Image of a massive cashew tree spreading across a wide landscape (AI-generated image) On a stretch of coastline in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, a single cashew tree has grown so large that visitors need an elevated walkway just to take in its full shape. Known locally as the Cajueiro de Pirangi, or in…

The extraordinary aerial photograph captured by NASA on its Earth Observatory site shows the evolution of a “sea of rotating clouds” in the region around Antarctica as a result of fierce winds, forming a phenomenon called the Von Kármán vortex streets. This astonishing image was taken by NASA using Landsat 8 over Peter I Island…