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Dozens of popular European destinations have brought in fines, taxes and other restrictions on travellers in recent months, in an attempt to combat overtourism. However, last year, Copenhagen took a very different approach. The city began rewarding tourists who demonstrate responsible and conscious behaviour through the CopenPay initiative. The main aim of this scheme is to show travellers that climate actions can be much easier than they think, in an effort to promote sustainable tourism. Incentives include providing free bike rentals, boat tours and lunches for travellers who help out in communal gardens, collect litter and take public transport. Following…
One moment you’re squinting at a dusty petrol station in rural Argentina; the next, you’re stranded on a snow-swept track somewhere in Siberia. Armed with nothing but the visual clues around you, you’re tasked with placing your best guess as to where you are on a map of the world. This addictive blend of digital travel and detective work has transformed GeoGuessr, an online browser-based game, into a global obsession, and in recent times, a competitive esport. This weekend, the best players on the planet are gathering in Copenhagen at the K.B. Hallen arena for the 2025 World Championships, where…
“Twenty-six countries have formalized their contributions very precisely,” Macron said, adding: “We now have 26 countries that have formally committed to deploy a force of reassurance for Ukraine armed forces … to be present on the ground, at sea or in the sky.” The plan will be discussed with Washington in the coming days, Macron said. “We discussed in detail the readiness of each country to contribute to ensuring security on land, at sea, in the air and in cyberspace,” Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy posted on his Telegram channel. “We coordinated positions and discussed the components of security guarantees.” After…
By Euronews Published on 01/09/2025 – 10:59 GMT+2 A new report claims that disinformation websites in the Czech Republic publish around 120 articles a day, outpacing the country’s main reliable news outlets. Czech news outlet Voxpot teamed up with an IT association called Druit to analyse 360,000 publications across 16 platforms over the past 25 years. The investigation revealed that disinformation servers in the country churn out more articles every day than the largest Czech media houses, often doing so covertly with Russian money or funding from entities close to Russia. According to the report, some of the largest disseminators of…
At least 15 people were killed and 18 others injured on Wednesday when Lisbon’s iconic Gloria funicular — one of the city’s landmarks and a popular tourist attraction — derailed and crashed, emergency services said. Five of the injured are in serious condition, and a child is among the injured, the National Institute for Medical Emergencies said in a statement. An unknown number of the injured are foreigners, it said. Authorities called it an accident, the worst in the city’s recent history, and it cast a pall over Lisbon’s charm for the millions of foreign tourists who arrive every year.…
US President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the central bank’s independence in decades. If the White House succeeds in pushing the Fed to slash rates quickly, you might see cheaper borrowing in the very short term—but investors could then expect higher inflation that could drive up longer-term costs like mortgages, car loans and business loans. This is why the fight over the Fed’s independence matters, and keeping politics out helps keep inflation—and borrowing costs—more stable and…
By Euronews with IJF Published on 17/06/2025 – 6:10 GMT+2 Budapest sets the stage for the middleweights on day 4 of the OTP Bank World Judo Championships. At -63kg, Haruka KAJU made her World Championship debut, demonstrating a groundwork masterclass on her way to the final. With only two World Tour appearances leading to two Grand Slam golds, could she continue her perfect unbeaten record here in Budapest? Facing her in the final was Catherine BEAUCHEMIN-PINARD. Already with a World silver to her name, she was determined to walk away with the red backpatch. She too showed impressive ne-waza throughout the…
Arctic sea ice has been melting at a slower rate over the last 20 years, despite human-caused global warming, new research has found. Since satellite records began in the late 1970s, sea ice coverage at the end of summer has halved. Global warming has been shown to be responsible for up to two-thirds of this melting, and the remaining third is down to natural fluctuations in the Earth’s climate systems. With the Arctic warming at nearly four times the global average, more than 10,000 cubic kilometres of sea ice have been lost since the 1980s – an amount that would…
Published on 26/08/2025 – 13:05 GMT+2 Popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots give inconsistent answers to queries about suicide, a new study has found. AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all have effective guardrails against high-risk questions related to suicide, but users can get around them by asking medium-risk queries instead, researchers from the nonprofit RAND Corporation found. The chatbots all refused to directly answer very high-risk questions that might encourage self-harm. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude provided appropriate responses to very low-risk questions – such as information on suicide rates by region – 100 per cent of the…
A new night bus network is launching in Europe this autumn, with routes connecting some of the continent’s key tourist destinations. Run by Swiss transportation company Twiliner, the service aims to close “the comfort gap in long-distance travel”. The sleeper bus will begin operations in November 2025, with stops planned across Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. It will give eco-conscious travellers another long-distance transport alternative to short-haul flights. Twiliner claims journeys on their coaches are as sustainable as going by train and save 85 per cent of CO2e emissions compared to flying. It adds that vehicles will run…