According to the World Population Review, France has the highest number of castles in 2025, 45,000. Second is Italy with less than half this total, 20,000. Germany, meanwhile, has 3,481, and Czechia 1,820. The UK has 1,500. Spain comes close with 1,459, and Belgium just after that with 1,240.

March was not just warmer than average, it was a lot warmer, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service has found.

Newsweek has created a map showing the European nations where governments and companies have rejected a U.S. directive applying President Donald Trump 's rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies to American federal contractors abroad. France, Belgium and Spain are leading the pushback.

From London all the way to Istanbul, Europe could soon be efficiently connected thanks to futuristic plans to transform the continent's railways with a huge 13,670-mile Metro line

Astronomy fans figuring out where and what time to see the March 29, 2025, partial solar eclipse can check out a map from NASA.

Ukraine is one of only two countries in the "do not travel" advisory, but travellers to the likes of Sweden and Spain are told to "exercise increased caution."

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade.