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A species that resembles a jellyfish but, unlike a jellyfish, has no stinging cells reached Europe in the 1980s. As W.M. Graham and K.M. Bayha point out in the bookBiological Invasions by Marine Jellyfish (source in Polish), it was carried there by ships calling at Black Sea ports from the Atlantic coasts of North and South America. It soon became one of the dominant organisms in those waters. In 1988, at the height of the invasion, the density of Mnemiopsis leidyi reached as many as 400 individuals per cubic metre. Shortly afterwards, however, as it consumed huge quantities of zooplankton,…
Published on 26/07/2026 – 10:36 GMT+2 A third drone has been shot down by Romanian forces in just three days, Romanian President Nicușor Dan has announced, adding to a string of drone-related incidents in the country. In a statement on social media, Dan said a Romanian air force F-16 fighter jet had intercepted a drone over Romania’s territorial waters at around 10:13 am on Sunday morning. The incident reportedly occurred in the Sulina–Chilia area of the Danube Delta, close to the border with Ukraine. “I would like to congratulate the Romanian pilots and ground crews on the professionalism, courage and…
Chickenpox is spreading rapidly through Gaza’s displacement camps, with around 9,300 cases recorded in just two weeks across more than 130 health facilities, as doctors warn that the real scale of the outbreak is almost certainly larger than the figures suggest. The UN health cluster attributed the surge to extreme overcrowding in displacement sites, high summer temperatures and declining access to clean water. More than half the recorded cases were concentrated in Khan Younis governorate. In the same week, health teams recorded more than 18,000 new cases of infectious skin diseases across the Strip, including scabies, head lice and impetigo.…
The Christopher Street Day parade took place on the Straße des 17 Juni, or Street of June 17, in the Tiergarten park and Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. A photo published by German tabloid Bild (like POLITICO part of the Axel Springer group) showed a white van with a smashed hood. According to regional media, the man drove the van into a crowd on one of paths in the Tiergarten park. Both Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned the attack. Wegner wrote on X: “It is an attack on our free and open society — after a peaceful…
After a successful debut at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection has opened at Paris’ Jeu de Paume arts centre. Widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost private photography collections, the exhibition presentsmore than 300 photographs selected from 7,000 works gathered by the couple over 30 years. Some critics have described the show as a passage through time that tracing the development of photography from the 1950s to the present day. Sir Elton John began collecting photography in 1991, drawn to the medium’s ability to capture reality with…
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By Lena Roche Published on 26/07/2026 – 7:30 GMT+2•Updated 7:33 A car ploughed into a crowd celebrating Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride event on Saturday night, killing one person and leaving at least 16 others injured. The incident occurred at around 10 pm. Three people remain in a life-threatening condition. According to initial information, a vehicle drove into a crowd on Lennéstrasse. The car then collided with a tree before the suspect apparently managed to flee. Berlin police have since announced that they had identified a suspect who they said is “known to the police” and “believed to be associated with…
Published on 25/07/2026 – 21:49 GMT+2 Children wander through a maize field, in Hungary, near the Romanian border, yet their parents remain calm. These adventurous youngsters aren’t lost – they’re exploring Central Europe’s largest maize maze. This year, organisers have carved storybook characters, a castle and a unicorn shape into the 4.5-hectare maize field at Kiszombor. The design was created by Dávid Nagy on his computer in a spreadsheet, and the maize plants were cut back while they only reached knee height. That made it easier to see the whole layout, and drones helped with the final tweaks. Children get…
Published on 25/07/2026 – 17:52 GMT+2 Thirty days have passed since the two earthquakes, of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, shook northern Venezuela within just 39 seconds on the night of 24 June. What the authorities described at the time as an unusually rare seismic phenomenon, a seismic doublet, has, as the weeks have gone by, turned into one of the worst natural disasters the country has experienced in more than a century. A month on, the figures are still moving, although at a much slower pace than in the first few days, and there are still gaps the government has…
Romanian fighter jets on Friday and Saturday morning shot down two drones that were violating the country’s airspace. On Saturday morning, Romanian radar “detected another unauthorized penetration of the national airspace by a drone operating in the vicinity of the Ukrainian border” and two Romanian F-16 jets shot it down in an unpopulated area close to the border, the Romanian defense ministry said in a statement. Romania already shot down another drone on Friday. Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Toiu said that the drone shot down on Friday “was a Shahed-type drone, the same kind Russia launches, night after night, against…