An Australian company is building a giant steel monolith on a remote plain in Tasmania. This "black box" should save our civilization in the event of an apocalyptic scenario. Or at least record its demise.
To set an example, since 2022, several Eurocommissioners have been provided with electric cars for their monthly 440-kilometer drive from Brussels to Strasbourg, where the Commission meets every month. However, this journey, which has often been criticized, doesn't go as smoothly as it hoped: the electric cars have too short a range and have to stop in between to recharge. The more than five hour drive thus becomes 20 to 30 minutes longer, and commissioners have to wait in highway parking lots when they would rather go home.
Europe is currently under unseen high temperatures. Western Europe in particular is panting and sweating as temperatures smoothly climb toward 40 degrees Celsius and, unfortunately, the first victims of the heat are already to be mourned.
Since April 1, it has been prohibited in France to buy, sell, import, possess or use nicotine products for oral use. And this ban firmly hits the Swedish economy because French people were buying these nicotine pouches en masse from the Swedish market.
England is gearing up for the warmest day ever recorded in May, with temperatures expected to reach 35°C on Monday. This would break the previous record for May at 32.8°C by a whopping 2.2°C.
A new attempt to recover the carcass of Timmy the whale that was stranded off the coast of Denmark will be made early next week, German media reports. Three attempts have already failed. Meanwhile, the risk of the carcass exploding is increasing while injuries deceased humpback whale were also noted.
On a Dutch dune and beach strip, Flemish hobby searchers Nick (32) and Lisa (28) made a sensational find. They stumbled upon an approximately 10,000-year-old mammoth tooth, with tooth root still present and in particularly good condition.
A two-year-old girl has died in northwestern Spain after being trapped for hours in a car in which temperatures became unbearable to survive.
Did an underwater illusion cause five particularly experienced divers to lose their lives in the Indian Ocean archipelago?
China's Guangxi region was hit by an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale. In the process, 13 buildings collapsed and at least two people have already been killed. A search is still underway under the rubble for one missing person. Four people were injured and taken to the hospital. They are not in mortal danger. This was reported by Chinese state broadcaster CGTN and the state news agency Xinhua.