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The moment the Aeon shopping mall exploded in Japan’s Kumamoto prefecture has been captured by dashcam footage shortly after a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the region. A gas explosion is believed to have destroyed the shopping centre around 30 minutes after the quake. Officials say at least 23 people were killed and dozens more were injured, while the number of missing people remains unclear. The tremor caused widespread destruction, damaging homes, triggering fires and leaving thousands of people without power. Rescue teams are continuing to search for survivors in the wreckage of the shopping mall and at other damaged sites.…

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is officially 2026’s fourth highest-grossing film, having surpassed the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office after just over two weeks in cinemas. While audiences continue to flock to theatres to watch Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic poem, the film has become something of a cultural lightning rod. It has sparked renewed interest in the source material and Greek culture, a positive side-effect tempered by Elon Musk taking against the film from the get-go, fuelling a culture war surrounding the film’s diverse casting. He even announced that his AI tool Grok Imagine would make a…

In response, the U.K. issued joint statements with Spain and France on Wednesday night reaffirming their commitment to fighting global warming and preparing for increasing climate disasters.  After meeting in Madrid on Wednesday, Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel Albares and his British counterpart Ed Miliband — who served as the U.K.’s net-zero chief until recently — described this summer’s fires and extreme heat as “a consequence of the climate crisis.”  They “agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life,” the statement read.  In a separate…

Published on 30/07/2026 – 12:57 GMT+2 The European Commission is considering opening an investigation into imports of certain construction materials from several Balkan countries over suspicions that they were made using low-cost Chinese glass fibre already subject to EU anti-dumping duties, according to people familiar with the matter. The probe will focus on so-called open mesh fabrics, including thermal insulation systems. The case comes as the European Commission continues to step up pressure on low-cost Chinese imports, which are contributing to the EU’s record-high €1 billion-a-day trade deficit with China. The commission launched negotiations with Beijing in June in a…

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My favourite way to book a holiday is by opening up Skyscanner, typing in my nearest airport, popping in some dates, and hitting the “everywhere” search. The tool has taken me everywhere from Skopje in North Macedonia to the Maldives, but not everyone is lucky enough to have a megahub like London Heathrow or Doha’s Hamad International as their home base. Live in Europe and wondering just how connected your nearest airport is? Wonder no more, because we’ve rounded up the top 25 most connected airports on the continent. Global travel data company OAG has shared with Euronews Travel the…

The European Commission has launched a call for tenders to publicly finance up to seven AI gigafactories in Europe, as Brussels races to build sovereign infrastructure to train advanced AI models and catch up with global tech competitors. AI gigafactories are large-scale computing facilities equipped with state-of-the-art, highly specialised chips designed to train the next generation of AI technologies – notably the most advanced large language models, which require crunching trillions of data points. The move forms part of a broader tech sovereignty push to cut the EU’s dependence on foreign suppliers of cloud services and chips. The global race…

Andy Burnham has thrown the future of legalising assisted dying into doubt. After telling Sam Coates that he does not want legislation to proceed until social care and palliative care are “fixed”.Supporters of the bill insist they are pressing ahead. But has the Prime Minister’s intervention made its passage through Parliament far less likely? Sam and Anne examine what Burnham’s comments mean for MPs ahead of the crucial September vote. Plus, new polling from POLITICO shows again the ‘Burnham bounce’ as his approval rating goes up in every demographic, except one – Reform voters. What will this mean in the…

Inflation picked up again in Spain in July and reached 3.5% year on year, three tenths of a point higher than in June, driven by the rise in fuel prices and electricity, according to the flash estimate published on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The statistics office attributes the rebound to the fact that both fuels and lubricants for private vehicles and electricity rose more sharply than in the same month last year. With this increase, inflation has reached its highest level since May 2024 and has now been above 3% for five consecutive months. Underlying inflation, which…

When you think about street food, you probably picture bánh mì in Vietnam, tacos in Mexico, or even pizza al taglio in Italy. Certain countries and cities are well known for their offerings, with foodies heading specifically to a destination to grab miscellaneous meat on sticks on-the-go and the like. But a new study has revealed the best street food city in the world, and it’s not where you would expect at all. Paris in France came out on top in the research conducted by Radical Storage, which looked at 6,897 street food vendors in the 100 most-visited cities around…