The Latest Breaking News from Western Europe

The U.S. has 22 million people worth at least $1 million, according to UBS, about the same as Western Europe and China combined.

Western Europe experienced the biggest decline in liveability last year, but American cities still can't breach the top 10.

In Western Europe, the total fertility rate – the average number of children born to women of childbearing age – is predicted to be 1.44 in 2050, dropping to 1.37 in 2100

Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party aims to transform German politics – but like its peers across western Europe, it may struggle, says Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia

Across Western Europe, and the rest of the Global North, migrants do an increasingly large share of agricultural work. Though the issues caused by this vary among countries, there are universal problems such as workers being paid lower salaries than promised, and substandard, overcrowded housing that lacks sanitation and basic…

Western Europe's first vertical spaceport receives a launch license, paving the way for the continent's debut rocket flight next year.

How did our species, Homo sapiens, arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology Evolution, our new study analyses two skull fragments dating back between 37,000 and 36,000 years to conclude that our ancestors came from Eastern Europe and migrated westwards. These two individuals interbred with Neanderthals and with the very…

At least 12 people have been killed as Storm Ciaran battered Western Europe with record winds of up to 200 kilometres per hour, causing travel mayhem with closed ports, flight cancellations and rail disruption.

A China-based hacking group has broken into email accounts linked to government agencies in Western Europe, Microsoft Corp. said this week