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By Andreas Rogal & Tamsin Paternoster with EBU Published on 21/08/2025 – 20:04 GMT+2 French winemakers this year have been forced to bring forward the 2025 harvest earlier after high temperatures have caused grapes to ripen earlier than at the traditional wine harvesting season of September to October. Harvesters in France’s Château Carbonnieu have found that temperatures approaching 40C have caused strain to white wine grape clusters. Under hot conditions and a lack of water, berries have ripened ahead of schedule. “The harvest used to begin on September 15, you see, and today is August 19. This global warming phenomenon is now much more reminiscent…
Published on 25/08/2025 – 16:37 GMT+2 •Updated 26/08/2025 – 9:31 GMT+2 SpaceX delayed its redesigned Starship rocket launch due to bad weather on Monday. The launch is largely seen as a test for Elon Musk’s ambitions to reach to the Moon and Mars. The world’s biggest rocket was set to launch its 10th uncrewed flight test Monday evening. It was originally scheduled to take off on Sunday but was postponed to “allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems,” the company wrote on X. Starship and its Super Heavy booster were both lost after takeoff three months ago. Three…
Dozens of popular European destinations have brought in fines, taxes and other restrictions on travellers in recent months, in an attempt to combat overtourism. However, last year, Copenhagen took a very different approach. The city began rewarding tourists who demonstrate responsible and conscious behaviour through the CopenPay initiative. The main aim of this scheme is to show travellers that climate actions can be much easier than they think, in an effort to promote sustainable tourism. Incentives include providing free bike rentals, boat tours and lunches for travellers who help out in communal gardens, collect litter and take public transport. Following…
One moment you’re squinting at a dusty petrol station in rural Argentina; the next, you’re stranded on a snow-swept track somewhere in Siberia. Armed with nothing but the visual clues around you, you’re tasked with placing your best guess as to where you are on a map of the world. This addictive blend of digital travel and detective work has transformed GeoGuessr, an online browser-based game, into a global obsession, and in recent times, a competitive esport. This weekend, the best players on the planet are gathering in Copenhagen at the K.B. Hallen arena for the 2025 World Championships, where…
“Twenty-six countries have formalized their contributions very precisely,” Macron said, adding: “We now have 26 countries that have formally committed to deploy a force of reassurance for Ukraine armed forces … to be present on the ground, at sea or in the sky.” The plan will be discussed with Washington in the coming days, Macron said. “We discussed in detail the readiness of each country to contribute to ensuring security on land, at sea, in the air and in cyberspace,” Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy posted on his Telegram channel. “We coordinated positions and discussed the components of security guarantees.” After…
By Euronews Published on 01/09/2025 – 10:59 GMT+2 A new report claims that disinformation websites in the Czech Republic publish around 120 articles a day, outpacing the country’s main reliable news outlets. Czech news outlet Voxpot teamed up with an IT association called Druit to analyse 360,000 publications across 16 platforms over the past 25 years. The investigation revealed that disinformation servers in the country churn out more articles every day than the largest Czech media houses, often doing so covertly with Russian money or funding from entities close to Russia. According to the report, some of the largest disseminators of…
At least 15 people were killed and 18 others injured on Wednesday when Lisbon’s iconic Gloria funicular — one of the city’s landmarks and a popular tourist attraction — derailed and crashed, emergency services said. Five of the injured are in serious condition, and a child is among the injured, the National Institute for Medical Emergencies said in a statement. An unknown number of the injured are foreigners, it said. Authorities called it an accident, the worst in the city’s recent history, and it cast a pall over Lisbon’s charm for the millions of foreign tourists who arrive every year.…
US President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the central bank’s independence in decades. If the White House succeeds in pushing the Fed to slash rates quickly, you might see cheaper borrowing in the very short term—but investors could then expect higher inflation that could drive up longer-term costs like mortgages, car loans and business loans. This is why the fight over the Fed’s independence matters, and keeping politics out helps keep inflation—and borrowing costs—more stable and…
By Euronews with IJF Published on 17/06/2025 – 6:10 GMT+2 Budapest sets the stage for the middleweights on day 4 of the OTP Bank World Judo Championships. At -63kg, Haruka KAJU made her World Championship debut, demonstrating a groundwork masterclass on her way to the final. With only two World Tour appearances leading to two Grand Slam golds, could she continue her perfect unbeaten record here in Budapest? Facing her in the final was Catherine BEAUCHEMIN-PINARD. Already with a World silver to her name, she was determined to walk away with the red backpatch. She too showed impressive ne-waza throughout the…
Arctic sea ice has been melting at a slower rate over the last 20 years, despite human-caused global warming, new research has found. Since satellite records began in the late 1970s, sea ice coverage at the end of summer has halved. Global warming has been shown to be responsible for up to two-thirds of this melting, and the remaining third is down to natural fluctuations in the Earth’s climate systems. With the Arctic warming at nearly four times the global average, more than 10,000 cubic kilometres of sea ice have been lost since the 1980s – an amount that would…