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Outrage spread across Italy in mid-August when it emerged that men in a Facebook group named Mia Moglie, translated as My Wife, were circulating photos of their wives alongside degrading remarks. The group was as easy to access as it was disturbing to scroll through. Pictures of women—some clearly taken in secret, others likely meant to remain private within a chat or marriage—were followed by offensive comments. Some were casual but inappropriate, like “congratulations”; others were hypersexual, such as “that mouth is perfect to work”; and some were obscene, like “the best therapy for a woman is always a man’s…
Switzerland is one of Europe’s most beloved destinations, with dramatic Alpine landscapes, picturesque towns, lush valleys and peaceful meadows. Travellers can bike, hike, swim, kayak and canyon in summer, and ski, toboggan and snowboard in winter, among other things, making Switzerland a true year-round holiday spot. But how well do you really know the country and all it offers? For a more immersive holiday, pick some of these classic journeys on your next trip to Switzerland. Travel from Zermatt to St. Moritz on the world’s slowest express train The Glacier Express, widely known as the slowest express train in the…
Published on 02/09/2025 – 11:44 GMT+2 Celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood is speaking out after her award-winning dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was included on a list of more than 200 books removed from public school libraries under the Canadian province of Alberta’s new school restrictions. In July, Alberta’s education ministry ordered school libraries to remove “materials containing explicit sexual content” by 1 October. In response to this equally dystopian ruling, Atwood wrote on X, “Get one now before they have public book burnings,” and released a new short story online that satirizes the book ban. The story focuses…
Piergiovanni’s appointment also signals the president’s heightened attention to a policy area that has become increasingly political, both externally, in the context of transatlantic trade tensions, and internally, as the bloc looks to revisit rules on mergers and public industry funding in an effort to boost economic growth. Earlier this week, the Commission halted an antitrust decision targeting search giant Google under U.S. pressure in trade talks. The EU executive is also under increasing pressure to bend rules on public industry funding — or state aid — to allow EU countries to funnel cash into their industries. There are also…
By Euronews Published on 04/09/2025 – 13:00 GMT+2 An image is circulating widely on social media claiming to show an Allied forces WWII nurse taking the names of soldiers who died during the D-Day landings in Normandy in France. The picture is typically shared with captions saying that the men were buried in makeshift graves on Omaha Beach before proper cemeteries were built, and that nurse Clara Thompson wrote down the names of each soldier that she tended to. Her notebook was supposedly found decades later in her daughter’s attic. The image has appeared all over Facebook and X, but the…
By Lina Ferreira Published on 04/09/2025 – 11:17 GMT+2 Lisbon City Council has decided to shut three more funicular cable railways for inspection, after at least 15 people were killed when one derailed on Wednesday. The accident on the Glória funicular, a popular tourist attraction in the city centre, also injured more than 20 others. The dead were all adults, according to Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, who did not disclose the victims’ nationalities. Foreigners were among the 21 wounded, she added, noting that the injured came from Cape Verde, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, South Korea…
By Euronews Published on 04/09/2025 – 12:57 GMT+2 •Updated 13:33 The head of Russia’s largest bank has said the country’s economy has reached a stage of “technical stagnation.” Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok, German Gref, who runs Sberbank, said that Russia would have to slash interest rates to avoid a recession. GDP data from July and August showed “quite clear symptoms that we are approaching zero,” after figures from the second quarter of the year revealed signs of economic stagnation, Gref noted. As the significant cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine was sparking inflation,…
Published on 03/07/2025 – 19:30 GMT+2 Trent Alexander-Arnold transferred from Liverpool to Real Madrid on a free transfer, much to the disdain of the club and fans alike. This is due to the loophole created by the Bosman ruling and reflects a growing trend of football players moving for free at the end of their contracts. ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ…
For decades, geologists have struggled to explain the massive earthquakes which struck Lisbon in 1755 and 1969. Now a fissure in the tectonic plate 200 kilometres off the coast of Cabo de São Vicente (Sagres) may finally offer a clue to the forces behind earthquakes in the Portuguese capital. This fissure, which has only just been discovered, has been forming for at least five million years, according to a study by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon recently published in the journal Nature Geosciences. The 1969 earthquake that shook Lisbon and other regions of Portugal and the…
By Pascale Davies with AP Published on 02/09/2025 – 22:19 GMT+2 OpenAI has announced a series of parental controls for its AI chatbot ChatGPT, which includes notifying parents when their child is distressed. It comes after a lawsuit was filed against the company and its CEO Sam Altman by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who committed suicide in April. The parents alleged that ChatGPT created a psychological dependency in Adam, coaching him to plan and take his own life earlier this year and even wrote a suicide note for him. OpenAI says new parental controls that will allow adults to manage which…