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12 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: August 10, 2026.
A crackdown on undocumented migration and a wave of anti-immigrant protests built around a June 30 'deadline' have produced one of the largest sudden migrant exoduses the continent's richest economy has seen.
WatchAbout 60,000 people breached the border of the Spanish enclave in North Africa over two days. By Saturday the government said most had returned to Morocco, and it began building a 500-meter barrier into the sea.
Spain's border with Morocco at the Tarajal crossing 'totally collapsed' Thursday, a Civil Guard official said. Bodies could be seen in the water as crowds swam around the coastal barriers.
The U.N. refugee agency says a vessel that left Gambia bound for Spain's Canary Islands ran out of fuel and was stranded at sea for more than three weeks on one of the world's deadliest routes.
Genetic analysis of 132 skeletons in a megalithic tomb near Paris shows the community that built it collapsed — and centuries later, unrelated newcomers from the south were burying their dead in the same graves.
The state's new government says it has expelled 4,800 alleged undocumented migrants and detained hundreds more, fulfilling a campaign vow that rights groups warn is sweeping up Bengali-speaking citizens.
In an unprecedented speech to the Congress of Deputies in Madrid, the American-born pope demanded respect for migrants and the unborn and drew a standing ovation lasting nearly seven minutes.
Travelers returning from Mali to celebrate Eid al-Adha were stranded for days more than 80 kilometers from the nearest town; only two survived, after walking some 50 kilometers to find help.
Brussels reached agreement among its three main institutions to speed removals and let member states open 'return hubs' in third countries — a model critics liken to Trump's immigration crackdown.
Researchers using AI-powered fluke-pattern recognition identified the same individuals at sites about 9,300 miles apart and traveling in opposite directions — a feat that beats the previous Colombia-to-Zanzibar record and rewrites textbook accounts of how rigid humpback breeding fidelity is supposed to be.
Scientists study rare non-cremated graves to uncover how Late Bronze Age people lived, moved, and adapted to cultural changes.
23-million-year-old rhinoceros found in Canadian High Arctic reveals rhinos lived farther north than ever known and crossed continents later than expected.