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I don’t throw the phrase ‘dream job’ around lightly. Only a few roles qualify: The barefoot booksellers in the Maldives. The person who looks after a private island in Ireland with only seals and tourists for company. The room service critic. But I think I might have just found my new dream job, and it involves getting paid to travel around Europe and talk to strangers (something I already do for free!). Self-improvement app RiseGuide is currently hiring a “Global Charisma Scout” who will be paid $3,000 (€2,630) a month to spend eight weeks travelling around the continent and logging…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 8:55 GMT+2•Updated 9:13 A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, using academic sources and historical maps, the road map that connected the Roman Empire. The result, accessible from any browser, including on a mobile phone, lets users plot routes between ancient cities and find out how many days the journey would have taken on foot or on horseback. The tool is called OmnesViae (Omnesviae.org (source in Spanish)) and is based primarily on the Tabula Peutingeriana, a medieval copy of a Roman map that depicted the cursus publicus, the Empire’s official road network. As the western part of that…

The ruling “fails to recognize our significant investment to ensure Android remains open, interoperable and free,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. The company said it had complied with the initial findings from 2018 and remains “focused on continued innovation and openness for our users, partners and developers.” The ruling brings to a close a case that was one of the defining antitrust battles of former Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s tenure and reinforces the Commission’s use of traditional competition law to tackle the market power of digital platforms. At the heart of the case were agreements requiring smartphone manufacturers…

The focus in Venezuela is shifting from search and rescue to providing medical assistance as a major health crisis is looming, João Almeida da Silva, one of 11 experts deployed to the disaster-struck country by the EU Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), told Euronews. “What we see is that there’s going to be a huge need to support Venezuela,” da Silva said on Euronews’ flagship morning programme Europe Today. He was speaking from an operations base in La Guaira Stadium, one of the country’s hardest-hit areas. Two earthquakes of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude struck just minutes apart on Wednesday last…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 9:39 GMT+2 Most Asian stock markets dropped on Thursday, dragged down by a wave of selling in semiconductor shares, as European bourses made a subdued start and Wall Street looked set to open in the red before the release of key US employment figures. The pullback centred on the technology sector, where investors retreated from the chip stocks that have powered much of this year’s rally, amid growing unease that the vast sums Big Tech is spending on AI could leave the market awash with supply. South Korea’s Kospi bore the worst of it, tumbling around…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 9:20 GMT+2 A 927-page disclosure released this week by the US Office of Government Ethics has caused outrage and led many to accuse Donald Trump of “brazen crypto corruption”. The financial disclosures revealed that Trump had been paid more than $2.2bn last year in total – from real estate, branded merchandise like Trump-branded Bibles, licensing deals and court settlements – and that the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures generated more than $1bn in his first year back in the White House. The disclosures also revealed that Trump received a licensing fee of $10.71 million for Amazon MGM’s…

“A more frugal EU budget may not necessarily be modern,” he said in the opening speech of the Commission’s annual budget conference. “The risk is that those new aspects of modernity will be the first ones to be chopped.” The frugals are pressuring the new Irish Council presidency, which will broker the budget negotiations, to pursue deeper overall cuts while protecting spending on defense and competitiveness. They also dismissed Cyprus’ proposed cuts, arguing that they disproportionately targeted their priority areas. In his speech, Serafin also warned that smaller collective EU spending might result in a higher bill for national governments.…

The US is gearing up to celebrate 250 years of independence on 4 July, but across the Atlantic, European views of the country and its President, Donald Trump, are not particularly festive. More than eight out of 10 citizens in Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy lack confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs, according to a new Pew Research Centre study. Trump’s confidence ratings have significantly dropped in eight European countries since 2025, including drops of 15 percentage points in Greece and Italy. Generally, the US president is more popular among Europeans with favourable…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 9:20 GMT+2•Updated 9:27 An alleged member of the “Scattered Spider” hacking group has been arrested and extradited to the United States, US authorities announced on Wednesday. Peter Stokes, 19, was arrested in Finland in April and faces charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the Justice Department said in a press release. Stokes, a dual US-Estonian national, appeared at a federal court on Tuesday in Chicago, where he was ordered to remain in custody. A criminal complaint alleged that Stokes, along with coconspirators, targeted a luxury jewelry retailer’s computer system in May 2025, exfiltrating data from…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 8:55 GMT+2 A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, using academic sources and historic cartography, the road map that connected the Roman Empire. The result, accessible from any browser, including on a mobile phone, makes it possible to plot routes between cities of Antiquity and find out how many days the journey would have taken on foot or on horseback. The tool is called OmnesViae (Omnesviae.org (source in Spanish)) and is based mainly on the Tabula Peutingeriana, a medieval copy of a Roman map that depicted the cursus publicus, the empire’s official road network. As the western part…