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Pierpaolo Mittica’s photos capture everyday existence in the ‘new Pompeii’ – close to the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident

The 1924 Olympics featured a future Tarzan, the men who inspired Chariots of Fire and a farewell to the man who created the modern Games.

It is a story that might sound familiar today: 90 years ago a football final was played as the shadow of fascism began to creep over Europe

They might have ruined the country, crashed the economy, partied through Covid and brought us Brexit … but on the upside, the Tories have provided us with great front-page material. We’ll miss that*

The election might be dull, but the street art it’s inspired is anything but. And its message is: get out and vote

The remarkable legacy of the late singer, who epitomised both French cool and French angst

Forty years ago, striking miners were lied to about the EU’s role in closing pits. No wonder so many went on to vote Leave in 2016

After 30 years of coverups, what really happened when a Chinook helicopter crashed in 1994, killing key personnel involved in Britain’s battle with the IRA?

In an edited extract, the author of a new book explores the eerie ruins of an abandoned resort in the island’s ‘forbidden zone’

After years of false starts, the Channel Tunnel opened 30 years ago this week. Yet Brexit shows that it has failed to bring us closer to Europe

A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them

Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears

In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict

Despite some attempts at prohibition, the tradition goes on in Spain. Like that of the bulls, its own demise will be a long, drawn-out affair

The youth movement of the 1950s was rooted in Britain’s working class, but its influence and notoriety spread across the continent

When Yugoslavia’s dictator split with Stalin in 1948, his potential rivals – politicians, intellectuals, businessmen – found themselves exiled

In a subterranean game of cat and mouse beneath the streets of the French capital, cataflics hunt cataphiles in the city’s prohibited labyrinths

For centuries, the city has had an inclusive relationship what locals call the femminielli, celebrating the joy and glamour of the third sex

An attempt to kayak the Northwest Passage turned into a close-up look at a new, very cold war

From Kyiv, a leading photographer shares her thoughts and images of what Russia’s aggression looks like close-up

The German Jewish writer defied the Nazis by producing a magazine from his hiding place in Holland. They are testament to his life and times

The story of the fateful real-life race that inspired Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie

A thawing ice rink, frosty relations between some competitors and a distinct lack of fans couldn’t stop the success of Chamonix 1924

The creator of the first totalitarian state died on January 24, 1924. His body was viewed by the faithful in temperatures of -35C

The continent became a safe haven in the postwar years for American musicians escaping racism and drugs. Decades on, they are still coming

The biggest and most dangerous surf in the world lies off Portugal, just 90 minutes north of Lisbon

2023 has been a tumultuous year around the world, filled with conflict, controversy and historic firsts, alongside hopes and fears for the future

From the unmistakable face of The Pogues to an actor whose beauty often masked her brilliance, they summed up the defiance and the diversity of a continent

Europeans have a long held fascination with volcanoes. But no one knows when or where the next potentially deadly eruption will occur

Fifty years ago at the Palace of Versailles, French and American designers went head-to-head as the likes of Liza Minelli, Princess Grace, Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev looked on

Images by the photographer in the city of Khan Yunis underline the suffering of ordinary Gazans

Conspiracy theory surrounds the 1978 kidnap and killing of the former Italian prime minister in the centre of Rome