Paris is temporarily banning the consumption of alcohol in public spaces and takeout sales, as the heat wave plaguing large parts of Western Europe slowly shifts eastward. This measure is intended to ease the strain on hospitals in the French capital.
South Korea is turning to drones as part of its military response to North Korea. The Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it plans to train 500,000 military personnel as drone operators, while tens of thousands of unmanned systems will be deployed to frontline units.
A 23-year-old British TikTok influencer from Kent faces the death penalty in Dubai after being charged with the death of her boyfriend. According to the human rights organization Detained in Dubai, Brooke George was arrested on June 22 and charged with premeditated murder after the man she was in a relationship with was stabbed to death.
This heat wave would have been virtually unthinkable fifty years ago. A new international study by World Weather Attribution concludes that the current heat in Western Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change and that the likelihood of such extreme heat has increased significantly over the past few decades.
WhatsApp is getting a new CEO with a clear mission: to generate more revenue from an app that already has over three billion users, without driving them away. To that end, Meta is promoting Indian fintech entrepreneur Kunal Shah, while simultaneously investing $900 million in his company, CRED.
Ben jij ook zo verknocht aan een kopje koffie? Helpt het je doorheen een drukke werkdag of veeleisende examenperiode? Uit een nieuw onderzoek blijkt nu echter dat het zwarte goud ook een opvallend verborgen nadeel voor onze gezondheid meedraagt.
A swimming lake in Halle, in eastern Germany, has introduced a new admission policy under which swimmers who do not speak enough German are denied entry. The reason? They would not be able to properly understand the safety instructions.
Five people who were on the same flight in France as the doctor diagnosed with Ebola have been placed in home isolation for 21 days. French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist announced this on Wednesday on the French television channel France 2.
Scientists warn that Russia’s nuclear Burevestnik missile could release radioactive particles into the air. According to a new analysis by two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the cruise missile likely uses an open-cycle nuclear propulsion system, in which outside air flows directly through the reactor core and is expelled as thrust. This is reported by the Times of India.
Will your vacation money soon be flowing to Abu Dhabi? It’s certainly possible, as investors from the capital of the United Arab Emirates are systematically buying up a large number of bungalow parks, campgrounds, and vacation resorts in Europe.