Big Picture

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

As the death toll continues to mount, the Gaza war has the potential to destabilise the region – and the world

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

Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar

There was much more to Tove Jansson than the troll family that made her famous

It was the Franco-British aircraft that flew too close to the sun. But could supersonic travel now make a surprise comeback?

The pre-war German design school set the template for beautiful, functional modernism. Can an EU-backed revival match up?

A new translation of a novel on the rise of Nazism holds lessons for our current populist age

The Vajont dam was hailed as an engineering miracle. Then, 60 years ago, it was the cause of one of Italy’s deadliest disasters

When Maria Callas met Pier Paolo Pasolini in the late 1960s, the results were predictably explosive

Thirty years on, the key to the enduring legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is creativity and love

How Frederick Forsyth’s bestselling thriller became the last word in political assassination cinema

Unsung Inglourious Basterds actor Denis Ménochet encounters more terror in the countryside in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts

The latest screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel has scooped four Oscars and seven Baftas

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime

How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today

Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship

Russia’s biggest airline is marking its centenary. But is there much to celebrate?

The Spanish earth groans with horrors a modern mind struggles to comprehend, yet which were buried there within the lifetimes of our grandparents.

Every week throughout Black History Month this October, The New European is celebrating those who have broken hard ground in the ongoing journey towards a prejudice-free society.

In 2004, Mary Seacole was voted the Greatest Black Briton.

Black History Month has been celebrated in the UK during October since 1987. Each week this month, The New European is celebrating Black Britons who broke hard ground on the path we are still walking; towards a prejudice-free society.

US Navy personnel brush loose snow from the walls of a tunnel leading to a new underground research base in Antarctica in 1960.

It's impossible to think of European cinema without Jean-Paul Belmondo

Dancers perform on the back of a T-72B3 tank at the opening ceremony of the 2021 International Army Games at the Alabino military training ground near Moscow.

Hlynur Steinsson, a ranger with Vatnajokull state park and university graduate student, uses a magnifying glass to examine a tiny plant growing on mostly barren and gravel-covered land left behind by the receding Breidamerkurjokull glacier near Hof, Iceland.

A yacht taking part in the Fastnet Race battles stormy seas near the start line off the Isle of Wight.

A new mural in Gaza City shows the face of TikTok star Khaby Lame, underlining his extraordinary global fame.

Four tug boats manoeuvre the Russian submarine Orel into position in the Gulf of Finland during preparations for Russia’s Navy Day parade.

Three weeks after plans to light up Munich’s Allianz Arena in rainbow colours caused a major international row, the stadium has finally got the multi-coloured treatment.