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Wine glasses clink, silverware rattles and chairs scrape against the wood flooring. There’s an energy in the room that you’ll find at most restaurants on a Friday night. The tables are full of beautiful dishes – fresh oysters with sorrel and green chilli, thin-sliced redfish with dashi and seasonal plums, truffle-flecked duck breast atop puréed potatoes. This is Epicurus, one of Copenhagen’s best new dining destinations. But as flawless as the food is, everyone in the room seems to understand that dinner is the appetiser. If you walk through the dining space, with its high ceilings and fine wood accents,…
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama believes he has found the secret recipe for bringing his country closer to the European Union faster: Artificial intelligence. Facing a push for reforms to accelerate the country’s entry to the EU, Rama’s government is using AI-powered technology in the hopes of aligning Albanian laws with the EU quicker and more effectively. The move is embodied by an AI-generated avatar named ‘Diella’, who serves as a “virtual minister” tasked with improving public procurement and eliminating corruption. While the plan has gathered international attention for its audacious nature, it has also raised a host of questions.…
Published on 01/11/2025 – 21:18 GMT+1 Germans are facing a 82% increase in heating costs since 2021, when the country decided to cut ties with Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Germany’s association of property managers predicts that in 2025, heating a 70 square metre flat with gas will cost 1,180 euros per year, an increase of 15% compared to the previous year. According to the firm Techem, which analysed data from 100,000 residential buildings, heating costs reached record levels in the last four years, with a cumulative increase of 82% since 2021. 42-year-old Fernando, who lives in Berlin,…
Published on 01/11/2025 – 20:38 GMT+1 Out of 26 different languages, Polish proved to be the most effective for prompting artificial intelligence (AI) models, with English only ranking sixth, a study by The University of Maryland (UMD) and Microsoft revealed. “Our experiment yielded some surprising and unintuitive findings. Firstly, English did not perform best across all models, in fact it came sixth out of 26 languages when long texts were assessed, while Polish proved to be the leading language,” the authors of the report wrote. A team of researchers tested how well several major AI language models, including OpenAI, Google…
Both were remanded in custody. They both denied involvement, the prosecutor said. Jewels worth €88 million were taken from the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, in a daylight robbery on Oct. 19. The two suspects charged on Saturday were among five people arrested by police on Wednesday in connection with the case. The three others have been released without charges, Beccuau said. Two men who had been taken into custody previously have already been charged with theft and criminal conspiracy in the Louvre robbery after officials said they “partially” admitted involvement in the crime. Those suspects are in their 30s…
“If he wants to clear his name, if he wants to do right by the victims, he will come forward,” Congressman Suhas Subramanyam told the BBC. “Frankly, Andrew’s name has come up many times from the victims.” Another congressman, Raja Krishnamoorthi, wants to formally summon Andrew with a subpoena, though admitting that it would be difficult to do so in practice, given that Andrew is not in the U.S. Such a move cannot advance without Republican backing, as they hold the House majority — and so far, none have expressed support. Waves of email exchanges between Andrew and Epstein are…
The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany and Jordan have jointly called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan after recent atrocities and probable human rights abuses were uncovered in the East African Nation’s Darfur region. The statement described the situation in Sudan, which has been gripped by a brutal civil war for more than two years, as “stark” and “apocalyptic,” after a paramilitary force seized the last major city in the western Sudanese region. United Nations officials have warned that fighters with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have rampaged through the city of al-Fasher, reportedly killing more than…
Vučić downplayed Saturday’s events when asked by reporters. “What is happening in Novi Sad? Is some soccer match being played?” he said. Authorities also canceled all rail transport in the country on Friday, claiming a bomb threat; however, media reports suggest it was a move to prevent citizens from reaching the city for the demonstrations. What began as a demand for accountability over a tragedy blamed on government negligence quickly escalated into nationwide protests over the past year. Widespread police brutality fueled the unrest, eventually prompting President Aleksandar Vučić to try to calm the outrage by forcing Prime Minister Miloš…
Customers at a Spirit Halloween store in Plano, Texas were in for a surprise when a pet monkey escaped from its owner after being frightened by a store display. Police bodycam video showed the animal swinging from the ceiling as staff spent more than half an hour trying to get it down. The owner explained that the monkey ran off after being scared, and it was soon reunited with her. Police confirmed it wasn’t injured and posed no threat to anyone.
Now, the government has asked Washington how it should go about requesting an extension to the sanctions beyond their start date of Nov. 21, according to the people, who were briefed on the matter and granted anonymity to speak freely on sensitive matters. The government is concerned the sanctions could force the refinery to stop working as banks pull back from the facility, the people said, prompting widespread fuel shortages and protests. Sofia argues that could precipitate the government’s collapse, the people said, bolstering support for Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, a figure seen by some as pro-Russian who has publicly…