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Around two-thirds of European countries are expected to raise the retirement age for men, while three-quarters will raise it for women. According to Euronews’ analysis of data for 32 countries, men face higher retirement ages in 21 and women in 24. Across the EU, the normal retirement age is expected to rise by two years for men and 2.4 years for women, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Pensions at a Glance 2025 report. The comparison is between people retiring in 2024 and those who entered the labour market at 22 that year, assuming an uninterrupted…

“Nobody is selling football,” FIFA said in a statement hitting back at widespread criticism over a plan to allow private investors to acquire stakes in upcoming World Cup tournaments. “This is not something FIFA would ever entertain.” In a statement, FIFA said all of its member associations should have a chance to consider the plan, calling for an “open and democratic” consultation. But it appeared to back off from establishing a public equity entity, the so-called FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), if all member countries do not agree. It was not immediately clear, however, how the process would proceed in substance.…

The Labour Party and the Co-operative Party are distinct organizations — but a pact agreed in 1927 allows candidates to stand on behalf of both parties. In practice, Co-operative MPs tend to follow the Labour line — but the party has a distinct focus on mutual ownership, community businesses, and credit unions. It argues for democratic control of services and businesses by the people who use them — and supporters say this program offers up real hints about how Burnham will now govern. Since returning to the Westminster frontline, the new prime minister has hardly been shy about his administration’s…

Published on 31/07/2026 – 6:50 GMT+2•Updated 6:58 Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) models “gained unauthorised access” to three outside organisations during testing that was supposed to keep them away from “real-world” systems, the company said on Thursday. The announcement comes just days after rival OpenAI first revealed that its models improperly accessed the internet and went rogue during security testing. Anthropic evaluated more than 141,000 “evaluation runs” and found that three different versions of its model, known as Claude, improperly accessed the systems of three organisations, which they did not name. Unlike the incident involving OpenAI’s technology, Anthropic’s models had access…

Apple beat market expectations with its latest quarterly results on Thursday, thanks to strong sales of iPhones and Mac computers, capping Tim Cook’s final earnings report as CEO. However, investors focused on Apple’s weaker-than-expected outlook and warnings about supply constraints. The company forecast revenue growth of between 9% and 11% in the current quarter, below analysts’ expectations of around 12%. The strong quarter was also clouded by rising memory-chip costs and shortages of advanced chipmaking capacity, partly linked to the artificial intelligence boom. Apple previously described the surge in demand as an “unprecedented challenge” for the consumer electronics industry. As…

But Moscow has treated sports as a crucial instrument of state prestige and soft power for decades, making Russia’s full return to the international competition a major political priority, said Ukraine’s former Greco-Roman wrestling champion Fevzi Mamutov, who left Crimea after its annexation in 2014. Vladimir Putin visits a multifunctional sports complex of the Anatoly Rakhlin Olympic Reserve Sports School in St. Petersburg on April 27, 2026. | Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images “Since the USSR’s sporting success,” he told POLITICO, “medals, flags and anthems have been heavily integrated into Russian state propaganda.” However, attending the Olympic Games requires Russia…

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Lake Como in the northwestern Lombardy region and Lake Garda further east, spanning the Veneto, Lombardy, and Trentino-Alto Adige regions, are arguably Italy’s most famous bodies of water. The two have attracted holidaymakers since Roman times, with organised tourism becoming a key business around both shorelines by the 19th century. Both remain firm traveller favourites. In 2024, Lake Como saw 4.3 million tourist overnight stays, while Lake Garda recorded 14.7 million on its Veneto shore alone. So if you’re looking to visit one of these iconic lakes, which is right for you? Lake Como A hotspot of high-end hotels, playground…

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US President Donald Trump announced that the Board of Peace has reached what he hailed as a “historic deal” on Thursday to disarm Hamas and all other armed groups and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, but questions remained over conditions and timeline. The deal, described by Trump in a post on Truth Social as a “monumental step”, comes nine months after a US-brokered ceasefire was signed to end Israel’s two year offensive on the enclave, signed in October last year in Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh. “This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a…