'I made mistakes' - Isaac del Toro gives full analysis of why he lost 2025 Giro d'Italia on Colle delle Finestre

Rising Mexican star Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) has provided his fullest explanation to date about how he lost the 2025 Giro d'Italia to Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) on the second last day of the race. Del Toro, 21, has had a...

Former WEA head sounds alarm over declining global Christian engagement in defending persecuted believers

A cross hangs from the roof of a church burned and destroyed by ISIL during their occupation of the predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh on December 27, 2016 in Qaraqosh, Iraq. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Amid rising concerns over global...

Multimillionaire Scott Galloway: how to save teenage boys

During last month’s far-right Unite the Kingdom march led by Tommy Robinson in central London, Professor Scott Galloway got a nasty surprise. The multimillionaire entrepreneur, academic and podcaster grew up in California but moved to our capital...

The exact dates you need to book off in 2026 to get 56 days of holiday

Most of us get 25 days of annual leave if we’re lucky (Picture: Loveholidays) Metro journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission – learn more The magic...

Progressive except for Kosovo

What does solidarity truly mean – especially in contexts where ethnonationalism is deeply entrenched? This question has guided much of my work as a community organizer, creating inter-ethnic spaces for Balkan diasporas in the UK. As someone with...

Cities that work: How urban tourism drives jobs

When cities invest in tourism, they invest in jobs, entrepreneurship, and growth. Marrakech is a compelling example. In 2024, the city welcomed nearly 4 million tourists, each one supporting livelihoods from hotel staff to street vendors, guides...

6 Hidden Destinations That Are Safer Than Most Tourists Think

Popular travel spots capture the headlines, yet countless destinations remain unfairly overlooked despite boasting impressive safety records. Social media algorithms favor flashy hotspots while quietly secure nations stay hidden from mainstream...

Heart’s Home

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, decided to pack up their busy London lives and move to a place they’d never seen: a remote village near the shores of a wild lake in the mountains of northern Greece. The idea came to them...

Ensuring Steady and Long-Term Progress in China-CEEC Cooperation

On October 21, 2025, the 11th China-Central and Eastern European Countries (China-CEEC) High-Level Think Tank Symposium, co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Secretariat of Cooperation between China and Central and...

Countering the Orthodox ‘threat’

Orthodox Christianity appears not to be even on the radar screen of the paladins of Western “values.” Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su This portal normally does not deal with religious issues as such, but...

Boycott guilty of not understanding depression, says England's Strauss

COLOMBO // Andrew Strauss, the England captain, believes Geoffrey Boycott is guilty of a "fundamental misunderstanding" of depression, following the commentator's crass comments about Mike Yardy's withdrawal from the World Cup. Speaking on UK...

Officially: 65 Countries Open Their Doors to Egyptian Passport Holders Without a Visa

Thu 30 Oct 2025 | 05:05 PM Officially: 65 Countries Open Their Doors to Egyptian Passport Holders Without a Visa The Egyptian passport has achieved a new milestone in the 2025 Passport Index rankings, with the number of countries Egyptians can...

Syrian migrant drug dealer allowed to stay in UK after 'learning lesson', judge rules

An Albanian drug dealer has won an asylum case to stay in Britain as he has 'learnt his lesson'. Arlind Nabolli was considered a 'serious threat to the public' after he was caught by police dealing cocaine and cannabis. The 29-year-old was jailed...

'We were screamed at every night by anti-refugee thugs - too terrified to leave'

When anti-immigration riots hit the UK last summer, Riada Kullani felt she had seen it all before. Eleven years ago, when she arrived in Britain escaping a dangerous situation at home in Albania, she found herself a target. After being detained...

Annual Inflation Steady at 2.3% in Sept

Albania's EU-harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) increased by 2.3% year-on-year in September, unchanged from August, the statistical office, INSTAT, said on Friday. The main drivers of the HICP increase were an 8.8% rise in recreation and...

Born in the gaps: Maternity care deserts exacerbate infant mortality in Mississippi

In 2024, Mississippi’s infant mortality rate was recorded at a rate of 9.7 deaths per 1,000 births within their first year of life, or roughly one death out of every 100 babies born. That puts the state on par with countries like Albania, Fiji and...

ALBA-TCP celebrates Cuba’s victory at the UN against U.S. blockade

The Bolivarian Alliance applauds the support of 165 countries that demanded the immediate end of the “illegal and criminal blockade” and denounced Washington’s “supremacist and imperialist” stance. The UN General Assembly approved on Thursday,...

‘It’s not cheap to move from one country to another:’ This US couple relocated twice before ending up in Bulgaria

As they hike to the group of glacial Seven Rila Lakes in Bulgaria’s Rila Mountain, Maureen Thomson and Jeremy Myers take in the cool mountain air and exhale slowly. The US couple, who relocated last year to Bulgaria in the eastern Balkans, say the...

Ukraine Defends U.S. 'Embargo' on Cuba at U.N., Shuts Down Havana Embassy

The government of Ukraine confirmed on Wednesday that it is shutting down its embassy in Havana, Cuba, in response to the Communist Party offering thousands of mercenaries to Russia to participate in the ongoing invasion of its territory. Ukraine...

After ‘OXI’ Day – Unity and Divisions In Greece Bring Ultimate Victory… And a Civil War

ATHENS – The bravery and heroism of the story of ‘OXI’ Day – October 28, 1940 – is well known not only among Greeks, including children of the Hellenic Diaspora due to Greek school teaching and celebrations, but to more and more non-Greeks in...