After massive floods in Valencia, fake news messages on the internet seemed targeted to intensify chaos and undermine trust in the authorities. A mud-covered car in a garage destroyed by floods in Valencia, Spain in November 2024. (Credit: Eline van Nes) This article...
A trip to Bordeaux, France opened the eyes of three U.S. teens in ways they hadn’t expected. The Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. (Photo by Christopher “Breck” DuPaul) This article was produced out of News Decoder’s school...
In Madrid and across Europe people are rising up in anger that housing has become like a real-life game of Monopoly and out of reach for too many. A protest in Madrid 13 October 2024 over high rents and a shortage of long term rentals. (Credit: Leah Pattem) This...
If you owe too much money and can’t repay it, you could lose your car or home. Can a nation have too much debt? What happens then? A rooster, a national symbol of France, peeks out from within an empty bank vault. (Illustration by News Decoder) Editor’s...
Even as different places adapt differently to floods and famine, heat and cold, we have to learn how to cool down our planet together. A resident paddles through a flooded street in Bohumin, Czech Republic, 17 September 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) This article was...
On a wild swim tour of Greece you might not brush aginst ancient stones. But each stroke you take breaks through a history as deep as the Ionian Sea. “Wild” swimmers in the Ionian Sea near the island of Mathraki. (Photo courtesy Tira Shubart) This article...
With an influx of migrants over the past decade, Germany is reconciling to rapidly changing demographics. The idea of German identity is evolving. In a refuge for asylum seekers in Eichsfeld, Germany, a father hugs his son who has just returned from school, 24 April...
Hungary is not known for welcoming immigrants. But in a country where the language is difficult to master, many immigrants might simply choose to move on. A man asks a woman for help in Ukrainian and she tells him to please speak Hungarian. This article was produced...
Before the noise of the new school year begins, take a deep breath, put on those earbuds and tune into something focused and enlightening. A young woman listens to a podcast as, in the background, people produce podcasts. (Illustration by News Decoder) Before the...
A giant crowd of people playing tin whistles — small flutes — in the Irish town of Wexford showed the world how music can connect people and communities and be, well, good craic. 2,516 tin whistle players gather to set a Guinness World Record at Chadwicks Wexford Park...