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In its early years, military bands from EU countries, Australia and Canada took part in Spasskaya Tower, though the number of international participants has declined since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to the festival’s Telegram channel, “the event has been postponed until 2027 due to circumstances beyond the organizers’ control.” The move comes amid an increase in Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital. Overnight, Kyiv’s forces launched one of the largest assaults on Moscow in recent months, with more than 600 drones directed toward the Russian capital and surrounding region. The strikes, which, according to Russian…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:10 GMT+2 At least three people were killed and a fourth is in a critical condition after a shooting on Sunday evening in Isla Cristina in the southern Spanish province of Huelva. According to local media, the attack took place in the Rocío neighbourhood, where a man turned up on a motorbike at a family home and opened fire on its occupants before fleeing. Among the dead are a pregnant woman, one of her children and the woman’s mother. The three bodies were left lying in the middle of the street after the burst of gunfire.…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:28 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump has threatened to launch strikes against Oman if it “gets in the way” of talks between Washington and Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s— out of them, Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Monday, as June’s US-Iran memorandum of understanding expired. Tehran has been locked in ongoing talks with Oman over establishing a secure passage for commercial shipping through the Strait, a strategic oil and gas transit chokepoint that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of…
Frequent flyers tend to have a fair few cards in their wallet – both for racking up loyalty points and for avoiding the dreaded transfer fees. If one of your cards happens to be Revolut, we have good news, as the fintech company is set to open a lounge at Copenhagen Airport. Due to welcome its first guests in 2027, the CPH Revolut Lounge will be the largest common-use lounge in the Schengen area. It’s part of a wider plan to create a “network of premium lounges across some of Revolut’s priority markets” in the coming years. No details have…
As marriage and childbearing are increasingly being postponed, factors such as difficulty finding a suitable partner, economic hardship and migration are leading some women to defer motherhood until later in life. Doctors and fertility specialists say the number of women in Iran opting to freeze their eggs is rising. The procedure, once used mainly for medical reasons — particularly among women undergoing cancer treatment — is becoming more common. Mina, 37, is one of the women who has recently decided to freeze her eggs. She told Euronews: “So far, I haven’t found anyone with whom I could have a stable…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 11:32 GMT+2 A bespoke Ferrari Luce, the luxury carmaker’s first EV, has fetched $40 million (€34.5 million) at a charity auction held by RM Sotheby’s in the US. The sale set a record for the highest price paid for a new car at auction and far exceeded RM Sotheby’s pre-sale estimate of more than $1.1 million (€950,000). The auction took place nearly three months after Ferrari unveiled its first fully electric model in May. Priced at €550,000, the car drew a fierce backlash, largely over its design, which was created by LoveFrom, the creative collective founded…
Across the globe, cultural immersion is emerging as the leading travel priority, according to the latest research from Skift. The travel research platform’s Skift State of Travel 2026 report looks at how travel and tourism trends are evolving, including what’s shaping travellers’ experiences abroad. Its findings show that cultural immersion consistently ranks ahead of adventure and luxury seeking worldwide. In Asia, as many as 50% of travellers were found to be cultural immersion travellers, compared to 32% who prioritised adventure and 30% seeking luxury experiences. This pattern was also seen in the Middle East and North Africa, North America as…
For some British schoolchildren, history homework this autumn is going considerably further than a worksheet on the year 1066. A new competition is asking primary students across the UK to design and stitch a new final panel for the Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-metre-long embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England with a famously missing final section. Nobody knows exactly what it originally showed. Rather than trying to reconstruct the lost scenes, however, the children are being asked to imagine what might have come after the conquest, picturing a “better tomorrow” rather than another battle. What is the Bayeux Tapestry?…
The demand comes at a sensitive moment. Latvia has been one of Europe’s staunchest supporters of Ukraine, sharply increasing defense spending since Moscow’s full-scale invasion, even as sanctions and the collapse of bilateral trade have cut deeply into economic links that once ran eastward. But ahead of an Oct. 3 national election, parties arguing that Riga should demand more in return for sanctions and military support are gaining ground. The European Commission has proposed substantially increasing EU-level defense funding in the 2028-2034 budget, including a €125.2 billion security, defense industry and space pot in the European Competitiveness Fund. That money…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 12:26 GMT+2 Eurostar could finally be getting some competition on its London to Europe routes. Virgin Trains has cleared another major hurdle towards launching services to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, with approval now in place to run up to 20 daily return journeys through the Channel Tunnel from 2030. The move would end Eurostar’s three-decade monopoly on passenger services through the tunnel and give travellers another option for crossing the Channel by train. Virgin still has several regulatory boxes to tick before tickets can go on sale, but its plans are now looking increasingly realistic. On…