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Published on 10/06/2026 – 13:17 GMT+2•Updated 13:36 Thousands of flags, banners and football-themed decorations now cover the street, reflecting support for the Dutch side, known as Oranje. On 9 June, locals and visitors gathered to admire displays featuring national team stars, Dutch lions and World Cup imagery. The colourful initiative has become a well-known tradition during major football tournaments and draws spectators from across the country. The community project has taken around two months to complete and relies on the efforts of local volunteers. Organiser Danny van Dijk said residents welcomed the event, which helps bring neighbours together during a…
Mexico City is preparing to take centre stage once again. On 11 June, Mexico will face South Africa in the opening match of the FIFA World Cup 2026 at the iconic Estadio Azteca, officially known as Estadio Ciudad de México during the tournament. The match will make history: no stadium has ever hosted three World Cup opening games, and only a handful of venues are as closely linked to football’s biggest moments. The Azteca opened in 1966 and has a capacity of approximately 87,500 after extensive renovations costing around 3.6 billion pesos (€160 million) completed in early 2026. It is…
A single Flamingo FP-5 missile can carry about a ton of explosives, and fly for up to 3000 km at low heights. Wednesday’s attack was the second to successfully target Progress’ facilities in a little over a month. After the company’s administrative building was hit on May 5, the complex was covered with drone nets. In a statement, Zelenskyy thanked “the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their precision” in an operation which he confirmed had struck a plant that “supplies the occupier’s army with components for drones and missiles.” The Kometa antennas produced by the Progress factory have been a…
Published on 10/06/2026 – 12:06 GMT+2 Somali football referee Omar Artan returned home on Wednesday to a swarm of fans and reporters after being denied entry to the United States ahead of the FIFA World Cup. Crowds gathered at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport waving Somali flags and brandishing posters while photographers scrambled to capture shots of the referee as he stepped onto the runway. Artan is one of the world’s top-rated officials and had been in line to become the first referee from Somalia to take charge of a World Cup fixture before he was refused entry to the…
Buying a home in Spain is becoming increasingly difficult. In 2025, a worker had to devote the equivalent of 8.4 years of their full gross salary to purchase an 80-square-metre second-hand home, according to a study by Fotocasa and InfoJobs. The figure represents a sharp deterioration in housing affordability compared with the previous year. In just 12 months, the effort required to buy a home increased by 16 months’ pay, rising from 7.1 years in 2024 to 8.4 years in 2025. Behind this worsening lies the growing gap between wages and house prices. While advertised wages rose by 1% in…
Published on 10/06/2026 – 12:06 GMT+2 Europe’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) was meant to modernise border controls, but months after its launch, chaos and confusion continue to plague travellers. Now, an EU official has admitted it could take up to two years for the controversial scheme to fully settle down – a prospect the travel industry has branded “very painful”. Frontex, a company which helps manage the EU’s external borders, has admitted that the collection of biometric data is one of the main issues causing teething problems with the scheme. Uku Särekanno, a deputy executive director at Frontex, said that…
The date is well known. At around six in the evening on 7 June 1926, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was on his way to his daily mass in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri: a tucked-away corner in the heart of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter where the dwindling local community – embodied by the schoolchildren from a nearby school playing in this improvised courtyard – puts up resistance to the 26.1 million tourists who flock to the city every year, many of them coming to enjoy the legacy of the quintessential Catalan architect. Fittingly, on the centenary of his death, Pope Leo…
Labour Party Chair Anna Turley tore into Musk’s posts Wednesday, saying the tech boss doesn’t have live with the consequences far away from Northern Ireland. “It’s appalling. Anyone that is seeking to drive and exploit a situation like this to drive their own political agenda is grievously wrong and doing damage,” she told LBC Wednesday. “We’ve seen children, families having to flee their homes on the streets of Belfast last night.” She added: “We do not want to see this kind of disruption, damage, thuggery, violence on our streets, and anyone that is seeking to whip that up should be…
Published on 10/06/2026 – 11:02 GMT+2 Has French footballer Kylian Mbappé accused President Emmanuel Macron of sexual harassment? That question might sound a bit strange, but that’s what a supposed Eurosport headline claims, which is being shared on social media with a video reporting the same thing. “Kylian Mbappé, one of the world’s most famous footballers, has recently accused French President Emmanuel Macron of sexual harassment, and claims it was the reason he left France and moved to Spain,” one post on X with thousands of views said. Indeed, according to the story linked in the post, Macron’s “inappropriate behaviour”…
The topic of extraterrestrial life is not alien to Steven Spielberg. The celebrated filmmaker has famously explored it throughout his career, whether it be in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T., War Of The Worlds or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Through these films, Spielberg has shaped the imagination of generations of cinemagoers by presenting thrilling scenarios of what first contact might look like. His latest film, Disclosure Day, also focuses on aliens – specifically on a whistleblower who races against the clock to unveil a conspiracy by the government to keep knowledge of extra-terrestrials…