The Serbian football club Crvena Zvezda has been fined €95,000 by UEFA because its supporters unfurled on the stands an image of the Orthodox saint Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-Streaming and the inscription "May our faith lead us to victory" during a Europa

The Serbian football club Crvena Zvezda has been fined €95,000 by UEFA because its supporters unfurled on the stands an image of the Orthodox saint Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-Streaming and the inscription "May our faith lead us to victory" during a Europa League match against Lille. The organisation deemed Christian symbols inappropriate at a sporting event. In case anyone has begun to forget, or has not yet quite grasped, what power rules in Europe

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Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s

Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026

Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026. A rock-and-ice avalanche broke away that day from the northern slope of Langtang Lirung and turned into a debris flow,

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Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s

Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026