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Footage released by Spain’s Military Emergency Unit shows rescue personnel searching the debris, while Civil Guard officers and firefighters assist at the scene. Around 100 UME personnel were deployed, with sniffer dogs and specialist units working through twisted metal. The injured were taken to hospitals in Toledo, where ambulances arrived throughout the morning and police cordoned off entrances. Regional officials said 58 people required hospital treatment, about 50 of them seriously. King Felipe VI sent condolences to the victims and their families, while Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez expressed his solidarity and support. The crash occurred shortly before 9am on the…
Published on 28 October 2026 – 16:33 GMT+1 The price of Europe’s benchmark natural gas contract broke above €100 per megawatt-hour on Wednesday afternoon, a level last seen in December 2022 at the height of the energy crisis that followed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The milestone came only hours after the EU’s energy chief, Dan Jørgensen, said the bloc was facing a new energy crisis and a tough winter. The front-month Dutch TTF contract, the benchmark for gas prices in Europe, traded at €100.37 per megawatt-hour at 16:00 CET, up over 4% on the day. It stood at around…
Building a satellite usually takes years, specialist facilities and substantial funding. But at an airfield outside Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, young engineers from 15 countries faced a different challenge: building a miniature satellite model small enough to fit inside a drinks can, then sending it into the sky. Their creations, known as CanSats, carried sensors, electronics and communications systems designed to collect measurements during flight. Launched aboard rockets and released to descend by parachute, they offered students a chance to put their engineering skills to the test without ever leaving Earth’s atmosphere. Unlike conventional satellites, CanSats do not enter orbit. Instead,…
The endless “Yankification” of the world is something I’m generally against. We don’t need to visit pumpkin patches, create elaborate “elf on the shelf” scenarios, or do gender reveals, and we certainly don’t need half-time shows at sports matches. Thanksgiving isn’t celebrated in Europe, but that hasn’t stopped brands on the continent offering Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Travel Tuesday sales. Seems rather silly, given we don’t mark the fourth Thursday of November in any way, shape or form… Anyway, I digress. Yankification in this one case is a good thing for travellers, particularly at a time when people are…
A group of countries including Germany, Italy, Greece and France all objected to mentioning associate membership in a joint EU-Canada statement. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
The first aerial images have emerged from the scene of a major train crash near Urda, in Spain’s Toledo province, where two high-speed trains collided on Wednesday morning. Footage released by Spain’s Civil Guard shows the damaged trains and derailed carriages, some of which came to rest down an embankment. Emergency services, including firefighters, police, medical teams and helicopters, have been deployed to assist those affected. Authorities have activated the regional emergency plan, while rescue operations and efforts to assess the full scale of the crash continue.
Published on 28 October 2026 – 15:07 GMT+1 South Korea’s media and telecommunications regulator on Wednesday ordered Google and Apple to pay a combined 63.7 billion won (€42.7m) accusing them of exploiting their grip on app stores to push developers towards their own payment tools and of stalling app reviews. The two US companies have faced similar penalties elsewhere, including in the EU. The Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC) fined Google 42.9 billion won (€28.7m) and Apple 20.8 billion won (€13.9m) after an investigation that began back in August 2022. It found that both firms had broken a 2021…
By Tokunbo Salako with AP Published on 28 October 2026 – 11:15 GMT+1 A rare skeleton of a smaller cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex has sold for a record €42.6 million at an auction in New York. The Nanotyrannus, nicknamed “Jodi” after the person who discovered the remains in 2019, was bought by a mystery buyer after a 12-minute bidding battle online and over phones. Sotheby’s had expected it to fetch anywhere from €4 to €7 million. In a statement, the auction house said the deal now ranks the junior T.rex as the world’s second most valuable dinosaur ever sold. This summer, a…
Around 20 million households will be targeted for the energy payment “directly into people’s bank accounts to deal with rising energy bills,” Healey said. The scheme comes with a £2.6 billion price tag. On the revenue-raising side, Healey has opted to target Britain’s banks. While praising their “huge contribution,” the chancellor is hiking an existing surcharge on bank profits by three percentage points, taking it to 6%. The increase will last for 15 months starting in January. Healey has also opted to reduce his amount of fiscal headroom — the buffer between his projected tax and spending plans and the limits…
Published on 28 October 2026 – 14:29 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday plans to significantly ease restrictions on methane emissions from oil and gas producers, targeting regulations aimed at limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas. The regulations were introduced under former Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration. “Tonight, I’m officially terminating Biden’s expensive and unnecessary methane regulations to save consumers and energy producers $45 billion,” Trump said at the rally in Lubbock, Texas. Trump told a cheering crowd that the move would “unlock vast quantities of Texas natural gas.” Texas is the largest fossil fuel-producing state…