The Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, has issued the highest red warning for extreme heat for Wednesday and Thursday. The United Kingdom is also facing a severe heat wave that is expected to break June’s temperature records.
During a search conducted as part of a drug investigation, French police unexpectedly discovered a work by Pablo Picasso. The exclusive piece may be worth several million euros. The investigation has since expanded to include theft and receiving stolen goods after the painting was found in a home in Champigny-sur-Marne, east of Paris.
A three-year-old child from the United Kingdom was seriously injured last Thursday after falling into a zoo’s crocodile enclosure. The boy was rushed to a hospital in Cambridge with serious injuries. According to police, he is in critical but stable condition.
The protests in Albania have been going on for more than twenty days. Angry demonstrators have taken to the streets carrying signs featuring flamingos to oppose plans for a so-called Trump resort, but the underlying discontent extends beyond this single project. The planned luxury resorts by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the U.S. president’s daughter and son-in-law, are set to be built in a protected nature reserve known as a habitat for flamingos. The European Union is also viewing the plans with concern: according to Brussels, proceeding with construction could affect Albania’s chances of joining the EU.
Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who founded the well-known video game company Ubisoft, died Friday evening in a plane crash in La Baule, in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in which two people lost their lives.
Whaling returns to Iceland following a two year hiatus.
Since the 1980s, two-thirds of all kiwis sold in Europe have been passing through the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. Soon, however, that whole story will come to an end. New Zealand producer Zespri is relocating its Belgian operations to the Dutch port of Vlissingen. After 2028, no more kiwis will be coming to Kiwiweg in Zeebrugge; instead, the Netherlands is snagging the contract.
On Thursday, no horse-drawn carriages were operating in Central Park—a staple of many tourists’ visits to New York. The carriage drivers went on strike following the death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan, a tourist from India, on Wednesday. Calls for a ban on horse-drawn carriages in New York City are gaining momentum once again.
A “heat dome” is currently making nearly all of Western Europe sweat. And it’s also exceptionally hot in the Netherlands.
A group of Italian women traveled to the Greek resort island of Mykonos last week for a bachelorette party, but their trip ended in utter tragedy.