Mattia Maestri, a 13-year-old Italian boy who fell into a coma nine years ago after eating contaminated raw cheese, has died. His father announced the news. Since the incident in June 2017, his father has been campaigning for more warnings on the packaging of products made from raw milk or young-aged cheese.
On Saturday evening, three people were killed and dozens were injured in an explosion at an Italian restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow.
Two attacks by Russian drones caused a massive fire at the Ranok publishing house warehouse in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Millions of books were destroyed in the blaze.
Italy has placed almost all of its major cities on the highest “red” heat alert: a new heat wave caused by a subtropical anticyclone from North Africa is ravaging the Southern European country.
Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the Trump family’s media company, has been selling expensive subscriptions to posts by Donald Trump and other influential Americans on Truth Social since Saturday. The “Truth API” subscriptions give users access to Trump’s posts a few seconds earlier.
De badgasten op het strand van Marina di Ragusa, op het Italiaanse eiland Sicilië, keken vorige woensdag verbaasd op: plots spoelden bankbriefjes voor honderdduizenden euro aan op het strand.Beachgoers at Marina di Ragusa, on the Italian island of Sicily, were taken aback last Wednesday when banknotes worth hundreds of thousands of euros suddenly washed ashore.
Due to the protracted war with Iran, U.S. stocks of Patriot and THAAD missiles are rapidly dwindling. The Pentagon is therefore pinning its hopes on defense startups in Silicon Valley, now that traditional suppliers like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are unable to scale up production. In late June, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth convened about fifteen top executives from companies such as Shield AI, Anduril, CoAspire, and Castelion with a clear message: “Solve it.”
Elon Musk has lost nearly half his fortune in six weeks. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth fell from a peak of about $1.33 trillion in mid-June to roughly $684 billion by the end of July. Despite the setback, he remains by far the richest person in the world. Moreover, his net worth is still greater than that of the second- and third-richest people combined.
This coming Sunday, Kinepolis will screen the blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in a Ukrainian-dubbed version at several locations across Belgium. The initiative comes in response to a request from the Ukrainian community in Belgium, which has grown since the Russian invasion in 2022.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has withdrawn his controversial plan to sell a stake in World Cup rights to private investors. Following fierce opposition from the European soccer community, threats of a boycott, and resignations among his own leadership, the FIFA president admitted: “The project has caused divisions that are no longer in the interest of the original goal.”