Big Picture

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.