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Published on 09/07/2026 – 8:32 GMT+2 The jarring Americanization of football will continue till the last World Cup game. Following the controversial commercial breaks – sorry, hydration breaks – which have segmented games into four quarters more readily associated with American sports like the NFL, the World Cup final on 19 July will feature a halftime show. The 11-minute Super Bowl-style performance, curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, will feature the likes of Madonna, Shakira, BTS and the newly announced Justin Bieber. FIFA and Global Citizen announced Bieber will be the fourth main headliner. “The FIFA World Cup brings the world…
Published on 09/07/2026 – 8:34 GMT+2 Andy Burnham has taken another big step towards becoming the UK’s next prime minister after his last potential rival for the Labour Party leadership ruled out mounting a challenge. Former armed forces minister Al Carns told Sky News that a drawn-out, divisive leadership contest was “not the best use of Labour’s time” and called on his party to “get on board” with Burnham. Carns’ decision leaves Burnham as the only candidate left in the field. Nominations for the contest are set to open on Thursday. If no other candidate declares, then Burnham would take…
House prices and rents continued to rise across the EU in early 2026. This comes as households spent almost one fifth (18.9%) of their disposable income on housing in 2025. In some countries, that share exceeded 30%. In the first quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU rose by 5.1% and rents increased by 3.0% compared with a year earlier. Both outpaced the EU inflation rate of 2.3%, although the pace of growth varied widely across Europe, according to Eurostat. So, which countries saw the largest annual rise in house prices and rents during this period? Among the 28…
By Gabriele Barbati with Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (AGI) Published on 09/07/2026 – 6:00 GMT+2 New and important pieces are being added to the story of ancient Egypt. Along the north-western coast, around 300 kilometres from the capital Cairo, an archaeological excavation campaign has brought to light 18 burials dating back to the Roman and Ptolemaic periods. The finds were made at the site of Marina El Alamein, once home to the thriving city of Leukaspis, and the discovery has been formally announced by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This latest milestone brings the total number of tombs identified in the area since…
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This year’s June was the hottest ever recorded in western Europe and the second-warmest globally at 1.39°C above the estimated pre-industrial average, according to the European Union’s climate change services. Record-breaking land temperatures coincided with the warmest June sea surface temperatures ever observed, stressing the continued accumulation of heat within the Earth’s climate system, data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) published on Thursday reveal. “Together, these records reflect a climate system continuing to accumulate heat. The result is increasingly intense heatwaves, a persistently warm ocean, and growing risks for…
Far-right National Rally’s Marine Le Pen has announced she’ll run in the 2027 French presidential election, following Tuesday’s shock court ruling which cleared the way for her to do so. But what does that mean for Europe? On Tuesday, a Paris appeals court upheld Le Pen’s guilty verdict but reduced the amount of time she’s banned from holding public office. That means she can run — but under house arrest, with electronic monitoring. On the show, we unpack what Brussels makes of all this. Also on the show, Europe’s cows now have a new job title: critical infrastructure. The Commission’s new livestock strategy…
US-Präsident Donald Trump beendet von der Türkei aus die Waffenruhe mit dem Iran und verhängt einen Handelsstopp gegen Spanien. Gleichzeitig sichern EU und NATO der Ukraine 140 Milliarden Euro an neuen Hilfen zu. Der so wichtige Tomahawk-Deal zwischen Deutschland und den USA findet hingegen noch keinen Abschluss. Gordon Repinski, zurück aus Ankara, zieht eine Bilanz des diesjährigen NATO-Gipfel. Die Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) steht bei ihrer Jahresbilanz massiv unter Druck. Eine verunglückte SAP-Umstellung hat interne Zahlungen blockiert, während im Jemen offenbar Fördergelder in Millionenhöhe veruntreut wurden. Carlotta Diederichs hat die Details zu den Pannen und bespricht mit Gordon, welche…
Published on 09/07/2026 – 5:26 GMT+2 Air raid sirens sounds in Bahrain and Kuwait overnight after Iran vowed to respond to renewed US strikes on the country. Kuwait’s air defences were intercepting “hostile missile and drone attacks”, its military said on Thursday. “The General Staff of the Army notes that any explosions heard are a result of air defense systems intercepting hostile attacks,” the Kuwait military said in a post on X, without specifying their origin. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) confirmed on Thursday they had they had struck US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait in response to fresh American…
Cooper — a veteran Labour politician who also served as a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — penned an extensive Chatham House essay on Monday giving her thesis of the global challenges facing Britain. She highlighted the “threats on the international stage,” and said Britain needs “not just to weather the storm but steer an active course” — is that code for stability at the Foreign Office? As one of the most senior women in government, she also warned Burnham about maintaining gender balance in his top team, telling Sky News she wants “to see as many talented women…