We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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New train route to link Prague, Berlin and Copenhagen from 2026 in another boost for European travel
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and sponge parks
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The best-designed town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world) - Houten
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Gothenburg's experience with congestion pricing has been notably less triumphant – a cautionary tale about tolling downtown drivers
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Sweden and Denmark's Öresund bridge turns 25 – while Copenhagen's fortunes grow alongside rise in commuters, benefits for Malmö are proving less obvious
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Meeting client requirements of a 200-year design life for the Kruunuvuori Bridge in Finland demanded ingenuity in structural engineering and material choices
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Tens of thousands have gathered for the Budapest Pride march, defying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists
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1940s New York City streetview
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Copenhagen emerged as The Economist's Most Livable City for 2025 – Western Europe scores dropped with a rise in terrorism threats, riots, crime and anti-Semitic attacks
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Lost gardens of New York City
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The world’s most-visited museum shuts down, in response to mass tourism
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Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away
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The Grenfell Tower fire: London’s high-rise scandal
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The densest city in the world had a strange secret
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How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
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Denmark's largest energy community is now under construction, featuring more than 30,000 sqm of solar rooftops with a total capacity of about 4 MW
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Inside Denmark's super-efficient S-tog rail system
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By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides
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Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities designed for commuters
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The root of happiness isn't considered to lie in extravagance or materialism in Helsinki. Here, it's about things that are both smaller and more profound.
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E-bikes make your city smaller
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Living among volcanoes is nothing new in Iceland – but as a new eruptive era begins, the Reykjavík region is honing defenses and rethinking development
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Huge power cut causes chaos in Spain and Portugal as Madrid mayor warns people to stay put
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Finland is home to some of the most prolific caffeine drinkers in the world, and now Helsinki is positioning itself as a new brew capital
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Why does Athens look so quirky?
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Norway's capital is known for its green policies and widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Why does the city still struggle with air pollution?
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Finland's bid to win Europe's start-up crown – country has spawned twelve unicorn businesses (firms worth a billion dollars or more) like Oura, Supercell, Rovio, and Wolt
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Matias Faldbakken unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 2011 attacks – twelve-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island
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Dreadlocks and downward dogs, Oslo's new bishop takes unorthodox approach – Sunniva Gylver is keen to show a new side to Norway's Protestant Church
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
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Helsinki now among the top five cities in Europe for defence, security and resilience investments – Nordic nation has 368 defence tech companies; 40% are startups and scale-ups
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Houston is experiencing a 'reading renaissance' as small bookstores open across the city
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Gothenburg fined for missing an environmental target – was one of the first local governments in the world to take out a "sustainability linked loan"
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Heathrow Airport shutdown causes flight chaos and leaves thousands stranded
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Waymo plans robotaxi launch in Washington, D.C. in 2026
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Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
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Bergen is a city on the West coast fjords of Norway, surrounded by mountains. And they just built the best bicycle tunnel in the world.
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Norway will allow cities to introduce zero-emissions zones, as the number of electric cars on the road in the biggest urban centers passes 40%
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Why has bisexual identity doubled in Stockholm – and what does it tell us about global trends?
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For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe
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Carved into rock beneath the Swedish city of Västerås, a huge man-made cave system is being used to heat local housing
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The forgotten story of the largest stadium ever constructed
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Fog harvesting could provide water for the driest cities
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Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport closed after a military helicopter collides with a landing regional jet
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Carl Bloch's lost masterpiece finds fame again in Athens – work that made its Danish creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more
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How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
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Beirut blast investigator resumes probe, charges ten people
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Oslo leads in quiet, low-emission electric construction – drop in decibels is welcome side-effect of goal to keep city-managed construction projects free from toxic emissions
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