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Picking your favourite beach is incredibly subjective. Maybe the water quality wasn’t the best you’ve ever experienced, but you have a special memory there, like a proposal. Maybe you’d spent the day sweating on a long walking tour of a city, and dipping your feet in the cool waters gave you the relief you so desperately needed. Maybe it’s just your local hang out. Luckily for us, the team at Beach.com have looked at the cold, hard data and come up with a ranking that removes any subjectivity. To create the list of top 25 best beaches in the world,…

The largest wildfire in Spanish history risks becoming a political liability for the center-right People’s Party ahead of a pivotal election next year. Over the past five days, more than 100,000 people have been forced to flee their homes as massive blazes have torn across the regions of Madrid, Ávila, Toledo and Castellón. With temperatures set to push toward almost 40 degrees Celsius, the prognosis for even greater devastation later this week is grim. While the central government has stepped in to oversee this national crisis, regional authorities have legal responsibility for many of the front-line sectors at the heart…

The Berlin Pride attack has reignited questions over whether Europe is adequately monitoring individuals with a history of radicalisation and terrorism-related convictions who may pose a threat, particularly when suspects move across borders. There is no EU-wide register or official estimate of the number of individuals with established links to terrorism who are being monitored. Europol officials told Euronews that intelligence and security services operate at the national level, with each country applying its own legal definitions, surveillance thresholds and monitoring systems. Suspect on police radar since 2022 The issue has come into focus after German authorities identified the suspect…

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Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Wildfires raging across France and Spain have forced more than 300,000 people from their homes and stretched national firefighting services to their limits. Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart look at how the EU is helping through its Civil Protection Mechanism and rescEU emergency reserve — and why Brussels says that even dozens more firefighting planes would not be enough without much greater investment in prevention. Then, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heads to Washington amid signs that U.S. President Donald Trump and parts of the MAGA movement may be warming towards Kyiv. But will…

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The views of Simion, a former football hooligan who relishes a fight with the establishment, matter: His party, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), has a huge lead in opinion polls and may soon get a chance to put its case to voters if a snap election is called. He savaged the EU’s green deal, economic and defense policies, and said Romania did not want to return to a time when larger states dominated it. “We have been occupied by these kind of dictators like we have in Russia and we had in U.S.S.R., and dictatorial tendencies from…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 21:01 GMT+2 A British funeral director faced a possible prison sentence on Monday over a scandal that saw bodies left “stored on racks” and uncremated, while relatives were given other people’s ashes, prompting calls for tighter regulation of the funeral industry. After receiving a tip-off, police searched the premises of Robert Bush’s funeral home and found 31 bodies in cold storage that should have been cremated months earlier, including a stillborn baby whose body had been there for nearly two years. They also found more than 100 sets of ashes. “There were bodies stored on the…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 21:54 GMT+2 Ukraine fired hundreds of drones towards Russia on Monday, targeting export and energy facilities as it continues its campaign to put pressure on Russia’s war capabilities. “Last night, our long-range sanctions were effective in the Rostov region. An export terminal approximately 250 kilometres from the front line was hit,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on Facebook. “Deep strikes also targeted oil facilities in the Yaroslavl region and the Udmurt Republic, which is 1,300 kilometres from Ukraine’s state border,” he added. Russian officials said five people were killed in the strikes on…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 21:13 GMT+2 Gunther von Hagens, a German anatomist who drew both fascination and controversy with his “Body Worlds” exhibitions of preserved human bodies, has died aged 81. His family and the Institute for Plastination, which he founded, said he died on Friday. They provided no further details in a statement released on Monday. Von Hagens announced in 2010 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Von Hagens blurred the lines between science, entertainment and commerce with his travelling exhibitions, as well as headline-grabbing events such as public autopsies. At the heart of his work was…