The language families of Europe fall into a few broad categories. There are the Indo-European languages, which include the Romance, Germanic, Slavic and Celtic subgroups, along with Greek and Albanian ...

Newcastle made the most of their chances to overcome an injury-hit Athletic Club side, handing the Basques their third loss ...

Before their Champions League meeting with Athletic Club, George Caulkin asks what civic and regional identity means to ...

Bill Fitzhugh maps the blacksmith’s shop’s floor, 2008. The Smithsonian research vessel PItsuilak rides at anchor in the bay. Fitzhugh and his team live aboard the boat, which takes its name from the ...

There is a trend to consider the gene pool of the Basques as a ‘living fossil’ of the earliest modern humans that colonized Europe. To investigate this assumption, we have typed 45 binary markers and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Spain’s dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco died in 1975, Catalonia and the Basque Country had good reason ...

According to a popular Bilbao joke, a Bilbaino walks into a store and asks for "a world map of Bilbao" The shop owner unflinchingly answers, "left bank or right?'' This is The Basque History of the ...

Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona’s Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police ...

Des fouilles effectuées en 1986 par le Service canadien des Parcs, région du Québec, à l'Ile Nue de Mingan sur la Côte-Nord (Réserve de Parc national de l'Archipel-de-Mingan) ont révélé les vestiges d ...