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Published on 01/07/2026 – 17:41 GMT+2•Updated 18:41 Up to nine hours of waiting and more than 75,000 people in the queue. Booking opened on Wednesday 1 July for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in London. The British Museum, which will host the textile masterpiece, had warned visitors that its website was likely to be “very busy”. And it was right. When booking opened at 11 am, more than 10,000 people were already in the online queue. Around 3 pm, Euronews observed that the site was showing a queue of more than 76,000 people. “It is still advisable to book online, but…

“Our participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, starting next year in Bulgaria, will allow Canadian talent to be showcased on one of the most storied music stages in the world,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation chief Marie-Philippe Bouchard said. “It will also allow fans in Canada to continue watching and voting in the Song Contest, as they have done for years — with the added thrill of seeing their own country represented on the Eurovision stage.” Canada is not the first non-European country to join the song contest. Israel first took part in 1973, and Morocco participated in 1980. In 2015, Australia…

Published on 01/07/2026 – 18:03 GMT+2 A Maltese tycoon went on trial on Wednesday accused of ordering the murder of a hard-hitting investigative journalist that rocked the island nation, brought down a government and drew global condemnation. Suspect Yorgen Fenech is charged with orchestrating the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, a prominent public figure and vocal critic who was killed by a bomb placed in her car near her home. “Nine years after my mother’s murder, the man accused of commissioning it stands trial,” the journalist’s son, Paul Caruana Galizia, wrote on social media. A lawyer for the family,…

We’ve had the World’s 50 Best Bars, a list compiled annually since 2009 by UK-based business media company William Reed. Now – for the first time – Europe’s 50 Best Bars have been revealed… and Greece is doing very well in the watering hole department. The inaugural list was revealed yesterday in Amsterdam at a live awards ceremony. It was the result of the vote of more than 300 drinks experts from across the region. While London still had the most entries in the Top 50 with a total of seven bars, followed by Barcelona with six and Paris with…

Budget, justice, sécurité, logement, agriculture, violences aux enfants… la liste des lois à examiner s’allonge à mesure que le temps imparti pour en débattre diminue. Les députés arrêteront leurs travaux le 28 février 2027, deux mois avant la présidentielle. Pourront-ils discuter de tout ? Combien d’élus pensent déjà à la suite ? Sébastien Lecornu peut-il encore espérer accrocher le vote d’un texte à son tableau de chasse ? Anthony Lattier en discute avec Jason Wiels, responsable du service Influence de POLITICO.

Published on 01/07/2026 – 17:01 GMT+2 England chalked up its warmest June since records began in 1884, the United Kingdom’s weather agency said on Wednesday, after a month that saw temperatures soar to new highs. Rare extreme heat warnings were issued for several days last month, which was also the second-warmest June on record for the UK as a whole, with “exceptionally warm overnight temperatures,” the Met Office said. England registered an average temperature of 17.1C last month compared to 16.9C in June 2025. “The exceptional warmth was driven by an intense and record-breaking heatwave at the end of the…

Tourists visiting Rome’s Colosseum continued to explore the landmark despite temperatures approaching 40C. The footage shows civil protection teams spraying water over visitors gathered outside the monument, while others hand out bottles of drinking water to help people cope with the intense heat. Many pause to cool off before continuing their visit. Italy is among several European countries experiencing a prolonged heatwave, with high temperatures affecting both residents and visitors. Around the Colosseum, these cooling measures offer some relief as large crowds continue to arrive throughout the day.

A planned EU-U.K. summit originally scheduled for July 22 was postponed following Starmer’s resignation earlier this month. The embattled Labour Party leader had hoped to announce a major “reset” in relations. However, one of the officials said, the EU intends to get it back on the agenda “as soon as possible” after a new administration is in place so as not to lose momentum. No date has yet been identified, but mid-October is seen as the most likely. The speed reflects an awareness in Brussels that, with Nigel Farage’s Reform party riding high in the polls, locking in mutually beneficial…

The European People’s Party (EPP) has urged Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra to significantly recalibrate the bloc’s carbon market, the Emissions Trading System (ETS), by allowing more free pollution allowances to heavy industry beyond 2030. Issued in an internal document detailing the EPP’s position and seen by Euronews, the plea comes ahead of the European Commission’s proposal to revise the ETS rules, due on 15 July. The EPP contends that protecting Europe’s manufacturing base has become as important as driving emissions reductions. “The system has achieved these emission reductions in a market-based and economically efficient manner,” reads the document. “Nevertheless,…

Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s major Ufa oil refinery for the second time in a week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. The Ufa refinery is one of Russia’s largest producers of lubricants and is located more than 1,000 kilometres from Ukraine, Zelenskyy said in a post on X. “This is an entirely just response to everything Russia is doing against us. Peace is needed, and this is exactly what Russia’s leadership must realise,” Zelenskyy wrote. “Russia must end its war. And Russia’s leadership has every opportunity to do so. I thank every Ukrainian warrior who ensures our long-range accuracy.” Ukraine…