The murder of MP Ann Widdecombe last Thursday has taken an unexpected turn. After the suspect in the crime, a 28-year-old man, was released, the case has moved from the police to the counter-terrorism unit, which is now leading the investigation. The suspect has been re-arrested after it emerged that Widdecombe was killed at her home just 20 minutes after giving an interview in which she defended her party leader, Nigel Farage, from the accusations he has been involved in and that have led to his resignation.

The Prime Minister of Latvia, Evika Siliņa, has resigned this Thursday after her coalition government has been shaken in recent weeks following a collateral incident of the war in Ukraine.

The capital of Saxony-Anhalt, an eastern German state that is holding regional elections this Sunday which literally have the whole country on edge, has until now been mostly known for a famous scientific experiment: the Magdeburg hemispheres. In 1656, its mayor, the physicist Otto von Guericke, demonstrated the tremendous force of atmospheric pressure by joining two metal hemispheres and extracting the air from inside them using a vacuum pump he invented himself. He then hitched two teams of sixteen horses, eight on each side, to try to pull them apart, but they could not. After opening a valve and allowing air to enter, both hemispheres separated without much effort.