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By Pascale Davies with AP Published on 09/06/2026 – 12:03 GMT+2 Apple’s keynote at its annual World Wide Developers Conference unveiled new and long-awaited artificial intelligence advances, including upgrades to its Siri assistant. It was also the last one to be held by CEO Tim Cook before he turns his post over to John Ternus in September. Cook received an extended standing ovation and told the audience he is “deeply grateful to have been on this journey with you” and said “the energy around Apple platforms has never been stronger.” Here are the key takeaways from the event. The new Siri AI The…
Governmental ‘do not travel’ advisories are growing more numerous as conflicts rage around the world, and it may seem like a lot of your bucket list destinations are now off limits. So if you are planning a trip and want to prioritise safety, use this new data to help guide you. The Global Peace Index – the world’s most comprehensive annual ranking of peacefulness across 163 countries – has released its top ten for 2026. From a volcanic island with no army to an Asian city-state that has topped safety rankings for years, here are the ten most peaceful countries…
Published on 09/06/2026 – 12:10 GMT+2 Netflix has unveiled the first-look at its upcoming Scooby-Doo live-action series, and certain fans are having a ruff day. In a clip posted to social media, a young version of the beloved canine sleuth can be seen running through the woods and meeting Shaggy for the first time. The series titled “Scooby-Doo: Origins” is “unleashing in 2027”, with the Mystery Inc. Gang consisting of Tanner Hagen as Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, Maxwell Jenkins as Fred Jones, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley, and Mckenna Grace as Daphne Blake. The official logline describes the show as…
LONDON — Nearly 2,000 people were targeted with a phishing email after the suspected hack of a staffer of senior Labour MP Florence Eshalomi. The email contained a malicious file — identified by the Parliamentary Digital Service as a phishing attack — that tried to secure the credentials of other accounts, according to an email seen by POLITICO, which was sent by Eshalomi to those targeted in the days following last week’s breach. Westminster journalists and public affairs professionals were among those alerted to the suspected attack. Eshalomi, who is chair of the House of Commons housing committee, told POLITICO she…
Europe must keep accelerating its roadmap to integrate the single market and create a European industrial strategy to avoid becoming subservient to global superpowers, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta told Euronews’ flagship programme Europe Today. “We don’t want to be a colony of the US, and we don’t want to be a colony of China, we want to be Europeans,” the former Italian prime minister said. In 2024, Letta published a report on how to complete the single market, which inspired the EU’s roadmap on how to make Europe more competitive. The report, titled “Much More Than a Market,”…
The Philippines continued emergency and recovery operations on 9 June after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Mindanao, killing at least 41 people, injuring more than 450 and forcing thousands from their homes. The quake, the strongest to hit the country this year, triggered tsunami warnings across parts of the Pacific before they were later lifted. In General Santos City, one of the areas hardest hit, residents searched through damaged homes and apartment blocks to recover belongings as engineers inspected structures left cracked, partially collapsed or dangerously unstable. Roads, public buildings and utilities were also affected,…
Spain welcomed 9.1 million international tourists in April, 5.2% more than in the same month last year, amounting to some 450,000 extra visitors. The United Kingdom was once again the main source market, with almost 1.7 million visitors in April, 2.7% more than a year earlier. France took second place, with around 1.3 million tourists (+5.1%), while Germany recorded a 9.1% drop to 1.2 million travellers. Catalonia was again the main destination for international tourists in April, accounting for 20.8% of all arrivals. It was followed by Andalusia and the Valencian Community, which also saw a high influx of foreign…
No member of the center-right European People’s Party attached their name to the questions. Hagemann Snabe will report to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech chief Henna Virkkunen, both of whom are EPP. Siemens played a prominent role in a push to exempt industrial AI applications from the scope of the bloc’s flagship AI law, the AI Act, as part of a recently concluded omnibus simplification procedure. Last week, the European Commission defended the appointment, saying a conflict-of-interest assessment had been carried out and that Hagemann Snabe would recuse himself from roles at Google Cloud and C3.ai.…
After months of negotiations and repeated delays, Germany and France on Monday ended their cooperation on the Future Combat Air System (FCAS). According to the Élysée Palace, “the German authorities took the view that it was not possible to put further pressure on the companies concerned.” The decision brings to an end years of efforts to develop a next-generation European fighter jet. FCAS was widely seen as the most ambitious defence project ever undertaken in Europe. Launched in Paris in 2017 by French President Emmanuel Macron and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it was intended to form the backbone of…
US President Donald Trump expressed renewed optimism on Tuesday morning over negotiations with Iran, saying that there was a “good chance” of signing a deal in “two or three days”. “We’re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal,” Trump said, as the Middle East was still reeling from Iran and Israel exchanging fire the previous day in the biggest blow yet to the strained truce in the Iran war. “If we go and bomb — which we could do very easily if we want, and we spend another two or three weeks bombing — they’ll have…