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Published on 03/09/2026 – 16:49 GMT+2 A senior Russian air force commander was shot twice at close range in the Saratov region on Wednesday morning, in the latest of a series of attacks against Russian military officers on its territory. An unidentified gunman on a motorbike fired twice at the officer as he was leaving a shop in the village of Probuzhdeniye in Engels district and fled. One bullet struck him in the face, the other in the torso. He was taken to hospital in serious condition before being airlifted to Moscow for further treatment. Telegram military blogger channels identified…
Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days has inspired plenty to follow in the fictional Phileas Fogg’s footsteps, circumnavigating the globe by train, plane and various other means of transport. But if your aim is to actually see the world, rather than just make your way around it, you’re definitely going to want to slow down just a tad. Which is exactly what Explorations by Norwegian, the world’s longest continuous scheduled cruise, is offering passengers now. Having just set sail from Rome, the 348-room Regatta will spend 371 days exploring the world, visiting 220 ports across 62 countries. While…
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The salaries of school staff, and in particular teachers and school heads, make up the largest single cost in formal education, yet teachers in most European countries are often considered underpaid relative to their level of education. Some studies put teachers’ starting salaries at around 40% less than the earnings of other professionals with a tertiary education, and while the gap narrows as they reach the top of the payscale, a stark geographic divide across Europe persists. In the 2024/2025 school year, Luxembourg was the EU country that paid teachers the most across most of the education levels they taught…
Months before New York City barred generative AI from classrooms, Norway had already banned it nationwide — exposing a gap in the EU’s own AI rulebook. Norway banned generative AI from its primary schools back in June, becoming one of the first countries in the world to draw a hard line against the technology in classrooms, months before the United States’ largest school district followed suit. The Norwegian ban, which took effect at the end of August, covers grades one to seven and permits supervised use only up to the age of 16. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has…
The thinking behind the proposal is that a CDU-led minority government with support of the far left — as is the case in other eastern German states such as Saxony and Thuringia — would give the AfD further ammunition to attack the party. CDU state premier Sven Schulze, the party’s lead candidate, quickly distanced himself from from the proposal. “That is the opinion of a single party member,” he told German magazine Stern. “No decision has been made on this, and it will not be a topic of discussion in the coming days.” The document has not yet been adopted,…
Published on 03/09/2026 – 15:37 GMT+2 Five African migrants died while attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish rescuers said on Thursday. An NGO said dozens more may have died. Spain’s maritime rescue service, Salvamento Maritimo, said it rescued 44 men from sub-Saharan Africa from a boat drifting around 120 kilometres southwest of Gran Canaria on Wednesday night. Three survivors were immediately evacuated by helicopter to a hospital on the island. The remaining 41 migrants were brought to safety by boat and disembarked early Thursday in the port of Arguineguin, where they were cared for by the Red Cross. “Adverse…
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit was held in Bishkek on 1 September, bringing together the leaders of its ten member states. Kyrgyzstan, which chaired the organisation in 2025–2026, hosted the meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State. Addressing the summit, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev congratulated Kyrgyzstan on hosting the SCO’s 25th anniversary summit and highlighted another milestone for the region, as Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan mark 35 years of independence this year. According to the Kazakh president, the SCO has come a long way since its beginnings as the “Shanghai Five”, evolving into a major international organisation spanning…
Published on 03/09/2026 – 11:02 GMT+2•Updated 11:11 Norwegian officials seized the Russian state-owned ship named “Professor Molchanov” on Wednesday at the port of Barentsburg in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The authorities acted on an application from Ukraine’s state energy company, Naftogaz, which is pursuing compensation for energy assets Russia expropriated when it illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. The seizure followed an order from the Norwegian Nord-Troms and Senja District Court issued on Monday. Svalbard’s governor, Lars Fause, whose office carried out the operation as the local enforcement authority, said the vessel may not leave its current location. Passengers who…
Published on 03/09/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Nvidia has announced its acquisition of Hugging Face, the platform that has become the default home for open-source artificial intelligence development, for $12.93bn (€11.1bn), the chipmaker’s chief executive Jensen Huang announced on Wednesday. The deal brings together two companies that sit at opposite ends of the AI supply chain but have grown increasingly dependent on each other. Nvidia makes the graphics processing units that train and run almost every major AI model in use today, giving it enormous leverage over the hardware side of the industry. Hugging Face, by contrast, has built its influence…