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Are the reels, snapshots and vlogs in cyberspace impacting how we travel in real life? Well, if you’re a Portuguese traveller, you’re probably more likely to upload selfies and personal photos from your trips than tourists from elsewhere. This was a finding in the latest study by online travel agency Opodo, which looked into the way social media is shaping travel choices. The research drew on responses from 9,000 travellers from the UK, US, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. Portuguese travellers upload selfies and personal photos from their trips the most (50%), according to the research. They are followed…
Yulia Klymenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, says Russia “cannot achieve anything on the front line” and is therefore waging a “fight and genocide against civilians” in Ukraine, following a targeted attack that killed 33 civilians. According to Klymenko, Ukraine’s response should be twofold: strengthening its air defence capabilities and resuming peace talks. However, she believes that the “only person” who can stop the war is Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Higher pay for teachers is among the demands of unions behind recent protests in France, alongside more staff and better working conditions. Their concerns reflect a wider challenge across Europe: making teaching financially attractive. Teachers are generally paid less than similarly educated workers, according to the OECD, and experts warn that salaries are not competitive enough to attract and retain staff. So, which countries pay the highest teacher salaries? And how do teacher salaries rank when purchasing power is taken into account? Teacher salaries vary widely across Europe, according to the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2026 report. Among the…
Published on 09/10/2026 – 10:33 GMT+2 Halloween is creeping up and many of you will be wondering: “What should I be watching to get in the mood for the big night?” Well, if you’re sticking to rigorous scientific research, we can reveal what the scariest films are – with no accounting for taste or your tolerance for jump scares. The Science of Scare Project, now in its seventh year, tracks the pulses of hundreds of volunteers, who watch hours of English-language horror movies whilst fitted with heart rate monitors. Their scientific study establishes a Scare Score system, which combines both…
By Franziska Müller Published on 09/10/2026 – 10:05 GMT+2 Police have arrested a suspected gunman following a deadly shooting in Berngau in Germany’s Upper Palatinate region. At around 2:20 am, officers stormed a house in which the suspect had barricaded himself. The raid was carried out using “explosives,” according to a police spokesperson. The suspect sustained minor injuries after being shot in the leg. The 60-year-old is alleged to have shot and killed a male and a female employee of the Neumarkt District Office during a routine weapons check. He is now receiving medical treatment, according to the spokesperson. On Thursday,…
Published on 09/10/2026 – 6:40 GMT+2 Heavy rains battered Chile’s capital Santiago and its surrounding regions on Thursday, triggering mudslides that swept cars through streets, flooded homes, forced residents to evacuate and injured at least six people, according to authorities. Chilean President José Antonio Kast declared a state of emergency in Las Condes, a wealthy suburb east of Santiago, giving government agencies more power to respond as torrential rains turned key roads into impassable waterways. The district’s mayor, Catalina San Martín, said 14.4 centimetres of rain had fallen in recent days — about nine times the average October rainfall —…
Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, says a form of associate membership of the European Union, similar to the proposal for Canada, would be “very interesting”. She highlights access to the single market as a potential key benefit for a “distant trading country” such as New Zealand. Clark also urges the European Commission to “engage with China” as Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič visits the country for trade talks. China is “a huge economy”, she says, adding that Western nations must “work out how we engage and how we interact” with it.
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By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews Published on 09/10/2026 – 12:31 GMT+2 Following the death of a laboratory technician in Russia, politicians and the media – particularly in the US – are pointing to a network of laboratories where biological weapons were allegedly tested as far back as the Soviet era. The Institute for Plague Research in Irkutsk, north of Mongolia, has for decades been a repository for highly virulent strains of plague, anthrax and other pathogens. Officially, these Russian laboratories serve to protect public health, but according to a US study, the plague laboratories collaborated with the USSR’s biological weapons programmes, as reported…