Belgium’s Constitutional Court has rejected a Netflix appeal opposing local production investment obligations in the country’s French-Speaking Wallonia-Brussels region. Netflix filed the appeal last summer in response to a 2024 decision by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) to oblige streamers operating in the region to invest up to 9.5% of their turnover in the territory in…
Scientists have extracted and analyzed DNA from 216 canid remains, including 181 from Paleolithic and Mesolithic Europe. The oldest data that they recovered are from a 14,200-year-old dog from the Kesslerloch site in Switzerland. Their results suggest that domesticated dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) predate farming and share deep ancestry with wolves (Canis lupus) from Eurasia,…
A researcher holds a 14,300 year-old dog jawbone found at Gough’s Cave in the United Kingdom, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in London. Mustakim Hasnath/AP This July 2019 image provided by the Cantonal Archaeological Service of Schaffhausen shows an ancient dog jawbone that was found in the Kesserloch cave in Switzerland. (Ivan Ivic/Cantonal Archaeological Service…
Examining 31 ancient societies across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, researchers found that democratic systems were more widespread than once believed — and not determined by population size or geography. The Acropolis at Athens by Leo von Klenze. The word ‘democracy’ was, of course, invented by the Greeks — demokratia meant simply that people (demos)…
