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Published on 17/08/2026 – 13:51 GMT+2 Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said at the weekend that Kyiv’s forces had hit Wildberries’ single largest warehouse, a 250,000-square-metre complex at the Koledino industrial park in Podolsk in the Moscow region, around 420 kilometres from the border. Seven logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, have now been struck and knocked out of action since the campaign began in July. Wildberries confirmed the strike had sparked a fire and forced it to reroute its supply chains, just as Ukrainian forces also struck a second depot in nearby Domodedovo on the same night.…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:09 GMT+2 The government led by Delcy Rodríguez and sectors of the Venezuelan opposition have reached a rare consensus: to work together to recover the 31 tonnes of gold that Venezuela has kept in the vaults of the Bank of England for almost eight years. The United Kingdom stopped recognising the Venezuelan government in 2018, which in practice blocked access to those assets, now tied up in a legal dispute that has yet to be resolved. According to the joint statement released on Wednesday by both delegations, the funds are needed to support reconstruction after the…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:50 GMT+2 Gravity does not pull equally across the Earth and that has a visible impact on the shape of our planet. This summer, NASA released an eye-catching visualisation reflecting these differences across Earth. If the world’s oceans had no tides, waves, winds or currents, and were shaped only by gravity and Earth’s rotation, their surface would look slightly different. Rather than forming a perfectly smooth sphere, it would have subtle bulges and depressions. NASA’s visualisation magnifies these differences by a factor of 10,000 making Earth appear like an uneven potato. The geoid as it is…
In its early years, military bands from EU countries, Australia and Canada took part in Spasskaya Tower, though the number of international participants has declined since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to the festival’s Telegram channel, “the event has been postponed until 2027 due to circumstances beyond the organizers’ control.” The move comes amid an increase in Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital. Overnight, Kyiv’s forces launched one of the largest assaults on Moscow in recent months, with more than 600 drones directed toward the Russian capital and surrounding region. The strikes, which, according to Russian…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:10 GMT+2 At least three people were killed and a fourth is in a critical condition after a shooting on Sunday evening in Isla Cristina in the southern Spanish province of Huelva. According to local media, the attack took place in the Rocío neighbourhood, where a man turned up on a motorbike at a family home and opened fire on its occupants before fleeing. Among the dead are a pregnant woman, one of her children and the woman’s mother. The three bodies were left lying in the middle of the street after the burst of gunfire.…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:28 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump has threatened to launch strikes against Oman if it “gets in the way” of talks between Washington and Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s— out of them, Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Monday, as June’s US-Iran memorandum of understanding expired. Tehran has been locked in ongoing talks with Oman over establishing a secure passage for commercial shipping through the Strait, a strategic oil and gas transit chokepoint that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of…
Frequent flyers tend to have a fair few cards in their wallet – both for racking up loyalty points and for avoiding the dreaded transfer fees. If one of your cards happens to be Revolut, we have good news, as the fintech company is set to open a lounge at Copenhagen Airport. Due to welcome its first guests in 2027, the CPH Revolut Lounge will be the largest common-use lounge in the Schengen area. It’s part of a wider plan to create a “network of premium lounges across some of Revolut’s priority markets” in the coming years. No details have…
As marriage and childbearing are increasingly being postponed, factors such as difficulty finding a suitable partner, economic hardship and migration are leading some women to defer motherhood until later in life. Doctors and fertility specialists say the number of women in Iran opting to freeze their eggs is rising. The procedure, once used mainly for medical reasons — particularly among women undergoing cancer treatment — is becoming more common. Mina, 37, is one of the women who has recently decided to freeze her eggs. She told Euronews: “So far, I haven’t found anyone with whom I could have a stable…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 11:32 GMT+2 A bespoke Ferrari Luce, the luxury carmaker’s first EV, has fetched $40 million (€34.5 million) at a charity auction held by RM Sotheby’s in the US. The sale set a record for the highest price paid for a new car at auction and far exceeded RM Sotheby’s pre-sale estimate of more than $1.1 million (€950,000). The auction took place nearly three months after Ferrari unveiled its first fully electric model in May. Priced at €550,000, the car drew a fierce backlash, largely over its design, which was created by LoveFrom, the creative collective founded…
Across the globe, cultural immersion is emerging as the leading travel priority, according to the latest research from Skift. The travel research platform’s Skift State of Travel 2026 report looks at how travel and tourism trends are evolving, including what’s shaping travellers’ experiences abroad. Its findings show that cultural immersion consistently ranks ahead of adventure and luxury seeking worldwide. In Asia, as many as 50% of travellers were found to be cultural immersion travellers, compared to 32% who prioritised adventure and 30% seeking luxury experiences. This pattern was also seen in the Middle East and North Africa, North America as…