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For nearly 2,000 years, a huge Roman structure lay hidden beneath Budapest. Now archaeologists have uncovered the remains but they’re still trying to work out exactly what it was built for. Dating back to the 3rd or 4th century AD, the building stretches for hundreds of metres and ends in a mysterious polygonal tower. It appears to have been an important public building linked to the Roman military, but due to its thin walls it’s unlikely to be a fortress, and it doesn’t appear on any surviving maps.

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Published on 14/09/2026 – 13:49 GMT+2•Updated 13:50 Greek authorities say one person is dead and 25 are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Gavdos island near Crete on Sunday. The Greek coast guard said they rescued 51 people from the water. A search and rescue operation was launched under the coordination of the Joint Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC), in the sea area 38 nautical miles south of the island of Gavdos, after the alarm was raised about a boat carrying migrants. The search mission involved patrol boats, a helicopter and a drone as…

Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthis captured more islands in the southern Red Sea, government and Houthi officials said Monday, strengthening their control of a major maritime shipping route. The capture of the islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish is the latest in the group’s swift advance around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key passage for oil shipments that has become even more crucial during the Iran war as the Strait of Hormuz remains under US and Iranian blockades. Like Hormuz, located at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — on the opposite side of the Arabian Peninsula —…

A trip to Mars could take months. So what happens if an astronaut develops a serious eye problem halfway there? A team of researchers in the United States sent artificial lenses used in cataract surgery outside the International Space Station to find out whether the implants needed for future operations could survive the journey to places such as Mars. Researchers behind the study believe someone will need cataract surgery on Mars in his lifetime. “A Mars transit can require almost a year, and returning to Earth for a vision-limiting cataract, injury, or other surgical eye problem may not be realistic,”…

Published on 14/09/2026 – 13:11 GMT+2 Céline Dion’s long-awaited return to the stage has taken the world by storm – and the travel industry is following suit. Following last week’s news that flight searches to Paris have been surging ahead of the Canadian icon’s residency in the French capital, a top hotel is going all in on celebrating Céline. At Le Méridien Paris Arc de Triomphe, Marriott Bonvoy has launched a themed room – called the ‘Paris, I’m Ready’ Suite – with fixtures transporting fans backstage to the concert. The suite, which has stays starting from €659 per night, makes…

The new proposal comes after intense pressure by government leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron to put minors’ safety on social media platforms at the top of the political agenda. The French government is pushing ahead with a national law to restrict kids’ access to platforms like TikTok and Instagram. The EU’s new proposal will apply to social media, video-sharing platforms, online games and AI chatbots and AI companions, but it will excluding educational tools and will also come with some tools for parents and guardians, the documents said. The proposal will come with a new enforcement architecture similar to those…

Published on 14/09/2026 – 12:41 GMT+2 Norway made history on 6 March 2024 when it settled on a new deal for peaceful coexistence between the Sámi community and one of Europe’s largest onshore wind power sites. The agreement granted Sámi reindeer herders more winter grazing land, partly free electricity and the right to veto potential future wind farm concessions in exchange for allowing 151 turbines operated by Roan Vind to remain in the coastal Fosen district. Nevertheless, two years later, the story was turned on its head by a false social media narrative with hundreds of thousands of views, which…

Published on 14/09/2026 – 12:05 GMT+2•Updated 12:49 Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he expected Moscow to escalate the war in “in the coming weeks”, following Russian strikes that hit a Warsaw-bound train in Ukraine, just two kilometres from its border with Poland. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she believed Russia’s strike to close to the Polish border was designed to “scare” Western countries backing Kyiv. “It is clearly meant to scare Western countries from supporting Ukraine, from going to Ukraine to show support,” Kallas said, urging Kyiv’s supporters to do “the opposite”. Meanwhile the country’s foreign minister…

An official familiar with the matter said Kristersson intends to play hardball — he is expected to try to tempt the small, liberal Center party to leave Andersson’s camp and join his side, before forcing a vote in the new parliament on whether he can stay on as prime minister. That vote is likely to be at least two weeks away. The finely balanced contest is bittersweet for Andersson and her allies on the left. For months, her bloc had been leading comfortably in the polls, but the race tightened dramatically in the last two weeks of the campaign.  Speaking around…