Europe

Europe’s ancient monasteries are running out of monks • Benedictine numbers have more than halved since 1960 • Why?

Men flock to Istanbul for cheap hair transplants • The streets are full of bandaged foreigners • The locals have mixed feelings

They spend their lives seeking seconds of darkness • Some call it an intellectual orgasm • I went to Spain to lose my virginity

Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly to Remain • A decade later, its Brexit deal is finally done • But who's really in charge?

Brussels is supposed to be a beating heart of European unity • But drug violence is surging on its fringes • Six shootings in one week

250 years ago, a secret society was born in Ingolstadt • It promised to reshape the world • What if it did?