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“Get back… Get back… Get back to where you once belonged.” Nostalgia is an intoxicating emotion, and yearning for the past can often feel like remembering a place and time when things were seemingly simpler, better, more beautiful. This form of sentimentality is central to Paul McCartney’s twentieth solo album, ‘The Boys Of Dungeon Lane’ – a reference to the route from Liverpool to the Speke shoreline, the area where McCartney spent his childhood. It is released in a year when we’ve already had Ringo Starr’s latest solo album, ‘Long Long Road’, and fans have a new Rolling Stones album…
The Japanese personnel will be stationed at NATO’s Ukraine mission in Wiesbaden, Germany. The mission coordinates military aid for Ukraine, helps train Ukrainian soldiers and repairs equipment for the Ukrainian military. The latest deployment comes as Japan intensifies its military rearmament, including lifting restrictions for arms exports in April. On Thursday, Russia’s foreign ministry warned Japan against stationing U.S. Typhoon missile systems on its territory, saying it would “create a direct threat along our far-eastern borders.” The Japanese defense ministry said in a statement that it would “continue to advance security and defense cooperation between Japan and NATO.”
By Maria Muñoz Morillo Published on 28/05/2026 – 12:02 GMT+2•Updated 29/05/2026 – 10:12 GMT+2 La Roja will be dressed in luxury fashion at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has announced that the haute couture house Loewe will be responsible for kitting out the Spanish national team players who will travel to Mexico, the United States and Canada to contest the World Cup, which kicks off on 11 June. The Spanish football authorities and Loewe are thus launching a partnership under which the fashion brand will dress the senior men’s and women’s Spain teams on their trips…
Co-defendant Arda K. from Slovakia, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. While he was not involved in planning the attack on the Taylor Swift concert, prosecutors said he and Beran A. discussed further attacks in other cities. The jury also found the defendants guilty of having encouraged a former friend, Hasan E., to carry ou a knife attack in Mecca in 2024, a charge both denied. Hasan E. stabbed five people in Islam’s holiest city because he believed Muslims there were not practicing their faith correctly. He has since been held in custody in Saudi Arabia. Beran A. was…
With today’s children growing up in a highly digitalised environment, there are increasing concerns about their exposure to harmful online content. More than 4.5 million reports of potentially illegal online content were received by EU co-funded hotlines in 2025, according to the latest data from the Better Internet for Kids Hotline Observatory. Over half of these reports were related to child sexual abuse material or child sexual exploitation material. In addition, 63% of the global child sexual abuse URLs identified by the child protection tech charity Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) last year were traced to hosting services in EU member…
On 28 May, medical teams visited schools across Goma, the largest city in North Kivu, to teach students and teachers about hygiene measures, how to recognise Ebola symptoms, and the importance of reporting suspected infections quickly. Health officials warned that overcrowded living conditions and years of conflict-driven displacement could accelerate the spread of the virus. The outbreak is placing growing pressure on the country’s health system. The health ministry has reported 101 confirmed cases, while more than 3,000 contacts are being monitored. The number of suspected infections is approaching 1,000, and at least 220 suspected deaths have been recorded. Further…
Published on 29/05/2026 – 11:37 GMT+2 When left alone in a new world, some AI agents descended into theft, intimidation, death and whole-of-society collapse, according to a new experiment. American company Emergence AI ran five separate “AI worlds” for just over two weeks, each populated with 10 agents powered by AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok, to see how they would behave over long periods without any human interference. One of the world’s mixed all three models to see if that would change the outcome. Agents in all the worlds were told the same rules:…
Published on 29/05/2026 – 11:55 GMT+2 As an exceptional heatwave grips Europe with record-breaking temperatures, proper hydration has become an overriding public health priority. However, free access to drinking water in restaurants, bars or hotels remains a patchwork right across Europe. The debate has been reignited by a recent and final ruling by Italy’s Court of Cassation, which draws a clear line between commercial freedom and cultural ethics. Why the Court of Cassation sided with the hotel in the Dolomites In an order issued on 29 April, the Court of Cassation ruled that a five-star hotel in the Dolomites acted…
Some of the loneliest (and most dangerous) corners of the internet are filled with young men whose only wish is for a woman to adore and obey them. But as the saying goes – and horror movies continue to remind us – be careful what you wish for… Obsession is the feature film debut from 26-year-old YouTuber Curry Barker, who first caught horror fans’ attention in 2024 with his micro-budget online movie, Milk & Serial. A classic tale of wish-gone-wrong that follows in the footsteps of movies like Deathdream, Wishmaster and The Monkey’s Paw, Obsession provides a uniquely contemporary take…
The Tories are currently polling at 19 percent, according to YouGov — the same number the party was on before almost a quarter of the Labour Party called on its own prime minister to resign over his short-lived appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the United States. As Scarlett Maguire, pollster and founder of Merlin Strategy, said: “The Conservatives are in a very difficult position tactically. When they criticize Labour — they spent a lot of time working on the Mandelson story — who did it benefit? It benefited Reform.” Badenoch and her top shadow ministers think they can…