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Sports tourism as we know it is evolving. While mega fans have always travelled for the biggest matches and tournaments, more and more casual viewers (or even non-followers) are now adding games to their travel itineraries. Nearly 40% of people have taken a trip to attend a sporting event, with 23% of those polled planning to do so in the next 12 months, according to YouGov’s latest report, Sport tourism: Measuring fan appetite. Yet when asked why they had travelled, just 37% of people said it was “for the love of the sport”. The biggest reason to travel? For 45%…
Un procès inédit sur la dépendance aux réseaux sociaux s’est tenu mercredi en Californie et a conclu à la négligence de Meta et YouTube pour avoir conçu des plateformes addictives qui ont nui à un enfant, les condamnant à verser 3 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts. Dans le cadre de son enquête sur Snapchat, l’UE pourrait infliger à Snap, la société mère, une amende pouvant aller jusqu’à 6% de son chiffre d’affaires annuel mondial s’il s’avère qu’elle a enfreint les règles européennes en matière de numérique. Un porte-parole de Snapchat a déclaré dans un communiqué que “la sécurité…
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro cut a relaxed figure as he returned to a federal court in New York on Thursday for his second appearance since his capture by US forces in an extraordinary nighttime raid. During the one-hour hearing, the judge indicated he would not dismiss the case over Maduro and his wife’s apparent inability to afford their legal bill without aid from the Venezuelan government. The former leader, 63, and wife Cilia Flores have been held in a Brooklyn jail for almost three months since American commandos snatched the pair from their compound in Caracas in early January.…
By Dianne Apen-Sadler Published on 23/03/2026 – 9:10 GMT+1•Updated 24/03/2026 – 11:01 GMT+1 Air Passenger Duty (APD) is set to increase on flights departing from the UK from 1 April. While APD is a tax on airlines and aircraft operators, costs are usually passed onto travellers at the time of booking. Rates differ depending on how far you are flying, with bands for domestic travel as well as distances between 0 and 2,000 miles, 2,001 and 5,500 miles, and more than 5,500 miles. The charge also depends on the class of travel, with the lowest rates for economy class passengers. The…
While the ban only applies in the Netherlands, the groups that brought the case said it could have wider repercussions since Grok can’t determine where a user is resident. X didn’t respond to a request for comment. The platform took steps to restrict features in January after Grok was found to be generating pictures of real people in bikinis or nude. Estimates have said that around 3 million pictures were generated in 11 days. At the time, X said: “We remain committed to making X a safe platform for everyone and continue to have zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation,…
Published on 26/03/2026 – 9:22 GMT+1 Not so long ago, Poland and Hungary used to be the ultimate power couple of central Europe. Under Poland’s previous Law and Justice or PiS government, Warsaw and Budapest were inseparable, shielding each other from the EU’s penalties. But Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 caused a massive crack. Poland became Kyiv’s biggest champion, while Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán refused to sever ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The rift grew so deep that even Polish conservative leader Jarosław Kaczyński told Orbán to get his eyes checked over Russian atrocities. Fast forward…
Published on 26/03/2026 – 16:26 GMT+1 The Pentagon is reportedly considering redirecting military aid planned for Ukraine to the Middle East, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. According to the report, the weapons under consideration include air defence interceptor missiles ordered through the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) programme. PURL allows other NATO members to fund the procurement of US weapons for Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte declined to answer the question regarding the Pentagon’s plans at Thursday’s press conference, despite being asked several times. Rutte said it was not his place…
Airbnb has suffered another setback in the Spanish market. On Monday, the High Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) rejected the company’s request for interim measures to suspend payment of the nearly €64 million fine imposed on it by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs in December 2025. As a result of this decision, the platform must pay the penalty while the court case continues. The ruling does not go into the substance of the case, but simply rejects the company’s request to halt payment until a final judgment is issued. Airbnb, however, still intends to challenge the fine, arguing that…
It made no firm commitments on steel and aluminum, stating only that the two sides intended to consider cooperating to shield their domestic markets from oversupply and ensure secure supply chains, including with tariff-rate quotas, which are duty exemptions on some imports. Even before the release of the joint statement, the Trump administration took action on Aug. 19 that, in the view of the EU, breached the agreement. In his letter, Šefčovič raised concerns over the addition by Washington of the items containing steel to the list of products subject to the 50 percent U.S. tariff. “As per our agreement…
The President of the Munich-based European Patent Office (EPO) has said that the European Union should focus on further integrating its single market if it is to win the global race in emerging technologies and grow market-leading enterprises. Speaking on Euronews’ 12 Minutes With, Campinos acknowledged that Europe has “more or less lost” the global race to dominate in the cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI), but that there are “technological battles where we (Europe) can bring incremental improvements”. The Munich-based institution he leads examines as many as 200,000 patent bids every year, allowing inventors and companies to obtain patent protection…