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By Kamuran Samar & Euronews Turkish Published on 10/09/2026 – 9:53 GMT+2 Turkish police arrested a British tourist in the southern resort of Alanya for allegedly spitting on the Turkish flag, media reports said Wednesday. The 58-year-old tourist argued with staff in a hotel then allegedly turned and spat on a flag hanging in the lobby, DHA and IHA news agencies reported, without specifying when it happened. Staff reported the man to police, who detained him and took him to the Alanya courthouse where he was formally arrested on charges of insulting or degrading a symbol of the Turkish state. He was remanded…
Yields on long-term US Treasury bonds surged on Wednesday after the government announced a $6 billion (€5.2bn) bond buyback, disappointing investors who had expected a larger intervention. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose above 4.85%, its highest level in nearly three years, before easing slightly. The yield on the 30-year bond stood at 5.29%, up from 5.26% a day earlier. It reached 5.33% in August, its highest level since 2007. Treasury yields influence interest rates across the US economy, meaning sustained increases can make mortgages, business loans and other forms of borrowing more expensive. Higher borrowing costs…
Your idea of the best airport in the world might look very different to mine. Maybe you think the best part about travelling abroad is the duty-free shopping? Maybe you care more about how far away you are from the city centre? Or maybe you judge an airport on the number of destinations it serves directly? Thankfully for us, Consumer Choice Center has compiled a new edition of the World Consumer Airport Index that takes all of the above, and more, into account, to reveal the very best airports around the globe. Split into two rankings – one for those…
Published on 10/09/2026 – 10:21 GMT+2 They’ve made it so. A total of 934 fans gathered at London’s Science Museum on Star Trek Day to mark the seminal show’s 60th anniversary. They were there not only to celebrate the anniversary but to attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous Vulcan salute. For the heathens amongst you, the Vulcan salute is the gesture made famous by Leonard Nimoy’s character Spock. It involves raising your hand, palm forward, with the middle and ring fingers parted, forming a “V” shape. It first appeared in the 1967 episode of…
Having spent the summer trying to ease the cost of living, is a new tourist tax about to hit domestic holiday makers in the pocket? The government is giving mayors additional powers to introduce a levy on hotel stays, with no cap on how much they can charge. With the tourism industry already angry, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the move and why the timing maybe a little uncomfortable for the government. Elsewhere, Sky News has uncovered more turmoil in Reform-run local councils. With the Metropolitan Police also widening their investigation into allegations of illegal foreign donations, how much…
Alicia García-Herrero, an economist at the Bruegel think tank, says new EU legislation to limit the subsidies foreign companies investing in Europe can receive is “fair”, despite facing criticism. The European Parliament is proposing to close the EU market to Chinese investment in sectors where Beijing is dominant, going further than the European Commission’s proposal. García-Herrero warns that if the Chinese government wants to compete through subsidies, European companies “won’t have a chance” against Chinese firms. A few months ago, the European Commission unveiled a proposal allowing EU public authorities to favour European companies in public procurement for key public…
Published on 10/09/2026 – 9:28 GMT+2•Updated 10:09 A passenger ferry caught on fire overnight on Thursday off the western Philippines, killing at least five and leaving dozens of people missing. The blaze broke out on the M/V June Aster Wednesday evening about 2.2 km offshore, the Philippine Coast Guard said. The ferry had sailed from the capital Manila and was near its destination of Coron in Palawan province when the blaze broke out on Wednesday night. More than 40 people have been rescued, Coast Guard spokeswoman Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said, despite challenging weather conditions. Five casualties had been brought ashore.…
In Spain, researchers at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) have developed a new architecture for zinc-air batteries that can boost their power output by up to 80% without altering their core chemistry. The system adds conductive elements inside the battery, which act as wireless bipolar electrodes to facilitate charge transport and lower internal resistance. The breakthrough opens up a new avenue for designing more efficient, higher-performance batteries. The study, published in the journal “Energy Storage Materials”, was carried out in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and the National University of La Plata…
Published on 10/09/2026 – 9:16 GMT+2 A monodrama based on the novel about the family of Kati Marton, a US journalist and author of Hungarian origin, has recently premiered at the Central European University’s Budapest building. Morton’s book “Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America”, has been adapted for the stage with Erika Marozsán in the lead role. The story follows the fate of Marton’s parents. Both were journalists, reporting for American news agencies from communist Hungary. While researching her parents background, it emerged that their nanny had in fact been an informant, filing reports on the family.…
Copernicus said the record temperatures were “due to global heating from burning fossil fuels,” combined with rising sea surface temperatures in the Pacific linked to a strong El Niño climate pattern. “Combined with record global sea surface temperatures and the warmest summer on record for western Europe, these observations show how climate change is driving extremes across both the atmosphere and the oceans,” said Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which carried out the research for Copernicus. The sweltering August capped a record-breaking European summer of heatwaves, wildfires and droughts, as planet-warming greenhouse…