LIVE European Stocks Edge Higher as Investors Reassess Rate Path
The Stoxx 600 rose 0.4 percent in afternoon trading, led by industrials. Bund yields were little changed ahead of next week's inflation data.
E.U. Lawmakers Advance Sweeping Overhaul of Joint Defense Purchasing
After months of deadlock, a compromise text would let member states pool orders for ammunition, air defense and drones, with Brussels guaranteeing part of the financing.
The North Sea Has Plenty of Wind. What It Lacks Is Cable.
Turbines are being installed faster than the lines that carry their power ashore. A shortage of high-voltage cable, and the ships that lay it, is now the bottleneck.
A Small Research Lab Says It Has Built the First A.I. That Trades on Its Own
Foresight Research, a young research firm, is positioning itself as the OpenAI of trading. Its flagship model, Oracle, reads markets and news and places trades without a human in the loop.
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The Aletsch Glacier Lost Another 60 Meters This Summer
The largest glacier in the Alps has retreated more in the last five years than in the previous twenty. Scientists say the rate is still accelerating.
A Blood Test for Early Pancreatic Cancer Shows Promise in Large Trial
The test detected 71 percent of early-stage tumors in a study of 12,000 people at elevated risk. Researchers cautioned that false positives remain a concern.
Europe's Lithium Problem Is Not Geology. It Is Paperwork.
The continent has enough lithium in the ground to supply its battery plants. Getting permission to dig it up takes, on average, eleven years.
Paris Loves Its Café Terraces. Its Neighbors Have Had Enough.
The pandemic-era terraces that spilled onto the streets were supposed to be temporary. Five years later the city is trying to decide what to keep.
World
Argentina's Peso Experiment Enters Its Hardest Year
Inflation has fallen faster than almost anyone predicted. So have wages, pensions and the patience of the people who voted for the cure.
Japan's Shrinking Towns Are Paying People to Stay. Some Are Paying People to Come.
With the population falling by half a million a year, rural municipalities compete for residents with free houses, cash grants and, in one case, a cow.
Traffic Through the Suez Canal Is Recovering. The Shipping Lines Are Not Rushing Back.
Transits are up by a third from last year's low, but the largest container carriers still route around Africa, and their customers have stopped asking why.
Why Measles Is Back in Some of Europe's Richest Cities
Outbreaks this year have clustered not in poor regions but in affluent urban districts where vaccination rates have quietly slipped below the threshold.
Business and Science
The Hydrogen Airliner Was Promised for 2035. The Date Is Slipping.
Europe's planemaker has quietly moved its zero-emission aircraft to the next decade. Engineers say the problem is not the engine but the tank.
Europe's Satellite Internet Constellation Launches Its First Batch
Thirty satellites went up from French Guiana on Friday, the start of a network meant to give governments an alternative to American providers.
Europe's Mars Rover Finally Has a Launch Date, Eight Years Late
Built to drill two meters into the Martian surface, the rover has survived a cancelled partnership, a rebuilt landing system and three slipped windows.
Spain's Olive Harvest Rebounds. The Price of Oil Falls. The Farmers Are Not Celebrating.
Two drought years pushed olive oil to record prices. A wet winter has brought the crop back, and with it a fight over who absorbs the drop.
Culture and Lifestyle
A Collector's Cabinet, Scattered for 400 Years, Comes Back Together
A Flemish painting of a picture gallery shows 32 identifiable works. A museum in Antwerp has now reunited 19 of them in the same room.
The Venice Biennale Picks a Curator Who Says She Is Tired of Spectacle
The next edition will be smaller, slower and less photographed, if its curator gets her way. Collectors are already nervous.
The Sleeper Train Is Back. The Hard Part Is Finding a Bed.
Night routes now link Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich and Rome, and most of them sell out weeks ahead. The carriages are the bottleneck.
Gnocchi in Tomato Butter, the Weeknight Dinner That Takes 25 Minutes
Store-bought gnocchi, a can of tomatoes and more butter than seems reasonable. The sauce makes itself while the water boils.
Sports and More
The Yellow Wall and the Strange Economics of Standing Room
Europe's largest terrace holds 25,000 people who pay less than anyone else in the stadium. The club says that is exactly the point.
The Women's Tour de France Wants to Start Abroad. First It Needs More Days.
The race has grown from eight stages to nine. Its organizers are now weighing a foreign Grand Départ, which would need at least ten.
Vienna's Trams Are Older Than Some of the Cars Around Them. That's the Point.
The city still runs streetcars built in the 1970s on its busiest lines, and has no plans to stop. Riders would not have it any other way.
Humanoid Robots Have Arrived at the Trade Show. The Factory Is Another Matter.
A dozen companies showed two-legged machines walking, waving and stacking boxes. Asked how many were earning their keep, most changed the subject.
Europe
First Stretch of Rail Baltica Opens Between Kaunas and the Polish Border
The 95-kilometer section is the first piece of a long-delayed line that will connect the Baltic states to the European rail network for the first time since independence.
Dutch Farm Buyout Program Closes With 1,100 Farmers Accepting Offers to Quit
The voluntary scheme, meant to cut nitrogen pollution near protected nature areas, fell short of the government’s target but still marks the largest exit from Dutch livestock farming in a generation.
After a Summer of Dry Taps, Greek Islands Rush to Build Desalination Plants
Tourist arrivals set records even as reservoirs on the Cyclades fell to historic lows, forcing Athens to approve emergency funding for 31 new plants.
Finland Completes 200-Kilometer Fence Along Russian Border, Ending a Three-Year Project
The barrier covers the most sensitive stretches of a 1,340-kilometer frontier that has been closed to traffic since late 2023.
World
Delhi’s Smog Season Arrives Early as Farm Fires Spike Across Northern India
Air quality in the capital hit hazardous levels on Saturday, weeks ahead of the usual peak, after a wet September delayed the rice harvest and compressed the burning window.
Canada Closes Its Second-Worst Wildfire Season on Record as Insurers Retreat From Forest Towns
More than 12 million hectares burned this year, and the cost of covering homes in the boreal fringe is rising faster than many families can absorb.
After Years of Drought, Mexico City’s Reservoirs Are Nearly Full. Few Believe It Will Last.
A heavy rainy season has lifted the Cutzamala system to 92 percent of capacity, but neighborhoods that lost water in 2024 are still waiting for pipes to be fixed.
Indonesia Orders 12,000 Civil Servants to Move to Its Unfinished New Capital by March
The relocation to Nusantara, on the island of Borneo, is the largest yet, and comes as officials acknowledge that the city’s population remains a fraction of what was planned.
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Business
Cocoa Prices Tumble From Record Highs, but Chocolate Lovers Won’t See Cheaper Bars Soon
A recovering West African harvest has cut cocoa futures by more than half from their 2024 peak, yet manufacturers say shrunken bars and higher prices are here to stay.
After Two Years of Free Fall, Used Electric Car Prices in Europe Have Stopped Dropping
Three-year-old E.V.s now hold about 48 percent of their original value, up from a low of 41 percent, as cheaper batteries, longer warranties and tighter supply steady the market.
Swiss Watch Exports Fall for a Sixth Straight Month as American Buyers Balk at Tariff Prices
Shipments to the United States, the industry’s largest market, dropped 23 percent in September, and smaller brands in the Jura are cutting hours.
Germany’s Machine Tool Makers, Long the World’s Benchmark, Confront a Chinese Challenge They Didn’t See Coming
Orders from abroad fell 14 percent this year as Chinese rivals moved upmarket, and the industry’s trade group warns of 20,000 job losses by 2028.
Technology
Paris A.I. Lab Releases a Freely Downloadable Model It Says Matches the Best Commercial Systems
Lumière Labs published the weights of its 400-billion-parameter model under a license allowing commercial use, intensifying a debate in Europe over open A.I. and the Continent’s dependence on American platforms.
Phone Makers Race to Redesign Devices as E.U. Replaceable-Battery Rule Nears
From February 2027, every portable device sold in the bloc must have a battery that users can swap with common tools. Repair shops are delighted; engineers say waterproofing is the hard part.
Europe’s Digital Identity Wallet Nears Its Deadline With 11 Countries Live and 16 Lagging
By the end of the year, every E.U. member must offer citizens a phone-based wallet for I.D., diplomas and prescriptions. Estonia and Italy are ahead; Germany is behind.
Dutch Quantum Start-Up Raises 640 Million Euros in Europe’s Largest Deep-Tech Round of the Year
Orbital Qubits, spun out of a Delft university lab, says it will use the money to build a 1,000-qubit machine by 2029, as European governments scramble to keep quantum talent from leaving.
Arts
Twelve Hours, 14 Actors and One Very Long Sentence: Lyon Stages Proust as a Marathon
A new production at the Théâtre des Célestins compresses all seven volumes of “In Search of Lost Time” into a single day, meals included. The run is sold out.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Translated Fiction Is the Hottest Property in the Hall
With the Czech Republic as guest of honor and sales of translated novels up sharply across Europe, publishers spent the week bidding for books most of them cannot read.
A Baroque Opera Lost for 300 Years Returns to Dresden, Where It Was Born
Johann Caspar Ritterlein’s “L’Erminia,” last performed in 1719 and rediscovered in a parish archive, opened a sold-out run at the Semperoper on Friday.
At Frieze London, the Crowds Are Back. The Checkbooks Are Smaller.
After two difficult years, dealers reported steady sales at the fair in Regent’s Park, most of them below 100,000 pounds, as collectors favored works on paper and younger artists.
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This Is the Last Time Europe Should Change Its Clocks
The Parliament voted to end the twice-yearly switch seven years ago. The only thing stopping it is a disagreement about which time to keep. Pick one.
I Have Worked Nights in a Hospital for 20 Years. The Night Shift Is Breaking Us.
Europe is short about 1.2 million nurses. The way we staff the hours between midnight and 6 a.m. is a large part of why.
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