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Humanoid robots chase the ball, score goals and occasionally tumble during football matches at RoboCup in Incheon, South Korea. Footage shows several games unfolding simultaneously on compact pitches as the robots pass, kick and defend with increasing precision. The tournament brings together teams developing robots capable of playing football with limited human intervention. Although their movements remain slower and less fluid than those of professional players, visitors say the technology is more advanced than they expected. RoboCup is widely seen as a testing ground for robotics research, where engineers refine balance, vision and decision-making through competitive matches.

Tango is one of the world’s most recognisable dances – a universal expression of love, passion and intensity. But it perhaps isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you picture a city like Baku in Azerbaijan, a country renowned for its intricate carpet weaving, medieval architecture and traditional dances like Yalli and Asma Kasma. At first glance, the two are an unlikely pairing: Tango was born in the port districts of Buenos Aires in the late 19th century, while Baku sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia on the shores of the Caspian Sea. However, the two…

U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White insisted Brussels’ Parc du Cinquantenaire was left spotless after his lavish celebration marking 250 years of American independence, as Belgian authorities probe whether fireworks damaged one of the capital’s historic buildings. “We are in immediate contact with the Belgian company that was hired to coordinate all event logistics, including the fireworks company,” White wrote on X on Friday. He said the contractor would “remediate where it is required” and insisted that “Cinquantenaire has never looked any cleaner than it was the day after we cleaned up after our event,” posting photographs of the park…

By the end of next year, around 5,000 German troops will be permanently stationed between the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, and the border with Belarus as part of the new Lithuania Panzerbrigade 45. During a major military exercise in May and June, Lithuanian schoolgirl Kamilė V. found herself at the heart of the action after winning a Bundeswehr tank ride in a NATO essay competition. Euronews met her shortly before the experience at the Pabradė training area, where she joined soldiers from the mechanised infantry battalion assigned to Brigade 45. They had just completed the nearly six-week “Freedom Shield” exercise. Just…

Kazakhstan’s new Constitution, which was adopted during March 15 nationwide referendum, entered into force on July 1, replacing the country’s bicameral legislature with a unicameral parliament. Shortly after the new Basic Law took effect, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree setting parliamentary elections for August 23. The Central Election Commission will accept candidate nominations from July 2 to July 13, while the official campaign period will begin on July 23 and conclude on August 22, the day of electoral silence. The newly elected parliament is expected to begin work before the start of the political season on September 1.…

But Munteanu’s stint as head of the country’s government was undermined by scandals that have rocked Moldova’s ministries and state-owned enterprises. Last month Dumitru Vangeli, head of the MOLDATSA civil aviation safety agency, was dismissed after his university diploma and pilot’s license was determined to be forged. On Thursday Ministry of Agriculture State Secretary Tatiana Nistorică was detained on suspicion of bribery. Vangeli publically denied the accusations, while Nistorică has not yet commented on her case. At the press conference following Munteanu’s resignation Sandu said she expected “greater involvement in difficult decisions, a stronger public presence to listen to people’s…

Ukraine and Moldova notched another milestone in their EU accession bids at a technical meeting on Friday, as member states unanimously agreed to advance the opening of another cluster of negotiations. The move to unlock cluster six (“External Relations”) marks a further step in the two candidates’ accession process, reflecting Hungary’s gradual shift in position following Péter Magyar’s landslide election victory over Viktor Orbán. Orbán had kept Kyiv’s accession bid on hold for years over a dispute concerning the treatment of the Hungarian minority in western Ukraine. Magyar’s new government worked with the Ukrainian side to resolve the issue, leading…

Six Asiatic black bears rescued from bile farms in South Korea have started a new life in a forest habitat at Knuthenborg Safaripark in Denmark after an international rescue operation. The footage follows their journey from sedation and transfer in Cheongju, where they are placed in wooden crates, to their arrival in Denmark and gradual release into holding enclosures. It ends with the bears stepping into woodland and water for the first time. The animals had been kept in cages for bile extraction before more than two years of planning between NGOs, veterinarians and authorities in South Korea and Europe…

Published on 03/07/2026 – 13:35 GMT+2•Updated 13:38 A new artificial intelligence model from China is catching up to other leading American AI models. Called GLM 5.2, the company behind it, Z.ai, unleashed it just a day after the United States banned Anthropic from supplying its Fable 5 and Mythos models to non-Americans earlier this month, before the controls were lifted on June 30. Z.ai claims that its model’s performance is almost on par with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.5. It also operates on a 1 million token context window, meaning it can hold roughly 750,000 words in…

Aegean has today resumed its air service between Athens and Paphos, returning to Paphos International Airport in Cyprus after an absence of several years. The first flight arrived in Athens at 6:31 am in the morning. From today, the connection between Paphos and the Greek capital will be operated with three flights a week, significantly strengthening passengers’ access to both the domestic and international network of Aegean Airlines. At the same time, it facilitates connections with key tourism markets such as Germany and other countries in Northern Europe. During a related meeting held last February, representatives of Paphos’ local bodies…