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In recent years, supported by some unexpected traveling companions — including the most prestigious fashion designers, Nordic environmentalists, believers in the benefits of teleworking, and fans of the movie Barbie — Birkenstock sandals have gone from being mere orthopedics to the footwear that sums up the zeitgeist of the times we’re living…

The new Advanced British Standard will put technical and academic education on an equal footing Every student will study some form of maths and English to age 18 Initial £600m funding boost for schools and colleges to support teacher recruitment and retention and help more students pass maths and English GCSE…

Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. The then-president of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of the University of Kent, Julia Goodfellow, noted that, “Inside the EU, our outstanding British universities are even stronger.” Just over seven years…

Sports media company DAZN has agreed a broadcast partnership with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) to air more than 20 live games from the Serie A Femminile, the top-flight of Italian women’s soccer. Confirmed: Deal confirmed ahead of matchday two, allowing DAZN to show Roma’s 4-1 win over…

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 1 - A couple of newly weds did a runner to Germany after a wedding banquet south of Rome last week, sources said Sunday.     The man, a 40-year-old construction boss from Ferentino, and the woman, a…

This photo taken on Sept. 29, 2023 shows a view of Yuyuan Garden in Hamburg, Germany. Yuyuan Garden in Hamburg held a mid-autumn festival gala on Friday. It is a mimic version of Yuyuan Garden, a renowned traditional Chinese-style garden in China's economic powerhouse Shanghai, and opened in 2008. With typical Chinese style pavilion and zigzag…

28 Mins AgoUkraine's occupied regions included for the first time in fresh round of Russian conscriptions Four occupied regions of Ukraine will be included for the first time in a fresh round of Russian military conscriptions, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement Friday, according to Reuters.Men in Ukraine's Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson…

A group of Ukrainian army soldiers pierced by Russian grenades and mortar shells arrived at a hospital recently in need of surgery. It would have been a familiar scene from the bloody war grinding on in Ukraine, except for two crucial differences: Most of the wounded soldiers were American, and so was the…

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 23 - Interior Undersecretary Nicola Molteni on Saturday denounced the "very serious interference" from Germany in relation to its funding of a German NGO carrying out rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean and disembarking the…

The Marder 1A3 (SPz), an armoured fighting vehicle is seen during a media day of the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine) in Klietz, Germany August 17, 2023. (Reuters)…