The population spike in the Mediterranean common octopus is a mixed blessing. Bad news if you want to catch crab or lobster, and doubly bad news if the octopus eats your crab or lobster and then escapes so you do not get to land an octopus either. And octopus is valuable catch in its own...
“We’re turning a page,” EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday after the bloc’s first summit with the UK since Brexit. “We’re opening a new chapter.” It is not the first page that has been turned in the post-Brexit period, but it is the most significant. The two sides have now struck a...