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Published on 21/05/2026 – 15:01 GMT+2 Five Italian nationals who died while scuba diving in the Maldives may have become lost while exploring an underwater cave, the CEO of the company that recovered their bodies said on Thursday. The four remaining bodies were reportedly found earlier this week by a team of Finnish divers working for Dan Europe. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs previously said that the divers had gone missing while “attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres.” An early reconstruction of events showed the cave the divers entered was divided into “three large chambers…
The attack entirely destroyed the building and left heavy structural rubble scattered across nearby narrow streets. By Thursday morning, personal household belongings, clothing, and children’s toys were visible mixed among the debris. While no fatalities were immediately confirmed, emergency and rescue teams extracted multiple injured civilians from the wreckage. The victims, including at least one individual reported to be in critical condition, were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah for emergency treatment. Residents gathered around the destroyed structure as families searched through broken concrete and damaged furniture. “There is no ceasefire,” said homeowner Ibrahim Ismail after the…
The emerging AI industry has created a labour market unlike anything Silicon Valley has seen since the dot-com boom, except this time, there are perhaps only a few hundred people currently capable of building frontier AI systems at scale. OpenAI, Meta, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, Safe Superintelligence and a new and growing number of AI start-ups are all competing to attract an incredibly small pool of highly skilled talent. As a result, in the last two years, reports have emerged of nine-figure compensation discussions, massive equity grants and recruiting campaigns personally led by CEOs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Sam…
Overtourism isn’t just about the number of people visiting a city – it’s the distribution. With travellers flocking to the same places, and often at the same time if they are coming from cruise ships, parts of the city are overwhelmed while others are completely overlooked. While you certainly can’t stop people from wanting to see Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower, you can encourage them to make sure at least part of their visit involves off-the-beaten-track spots to help with the problem. Which is exactly what Intrepid Travel’s new uncommon day trips aim to do. Launched in Barcelona, Venice…
The war between Russia and Ukraine has illustrated the dependencies. SpaceX — whose dominance in low-Earth orbit through systems such as Starlink has raised concerns over wartime connectivity for countries relying on it like Ukraine — should be “a wake-up call to really think about what Europe needs for its own autonomy,” he said. Aschbacher referred to Europe as a “sleeping beauty” with “excellent capacities,” citing Galileo and Copernicus — the EU’s satellite navigation and Earth observation programs — as successes, but said Europe needs more funding, faster decision-making and “defragmentation.” He pointed to the U.S. accounting for 60 percent…
A raft of viral social media posts claims that Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, has announced the complete withdrawal of troops from Europe. The posts on X have racked up more than a million views altogether, and all feature the same clip of Rubio giving an interview to Fox News. The captions say that the US spends 100,000 troops and $60 billion defending Europe every year, and that this, combined with Europe’s supposed lack of help to the US in the Strait of Hormuz crisis, justifies their complete withdrawal. They also say that NATO’s dissolution is a “done…
The event took place on the forecourt of the Institut du monde arabe in the French capital’s 5th arrondissement under the artistic direction of Franco Lebanese musician Ibrahim Maalouf. Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji and around 20 artists joined the programme, performing jazz, Arabic music, pop and chanson before an audience made up largely of members of the Lebanese diaspora. Organisers said ticket sales and donations collected during the evening would support humanitarian operations in Lebanon through French aid organisations. The concert was presented as both a cultural celebration and a solidarity initiative at a time when Lebanon continues to face…
Published on 21/05/2026 – 13:49 GMT+2 Meta allegedly turned to parenting influencers to soften its image on child safety amid criticism over its platform’s influence on minors, according to a new report. The Tech Transparency Project (TTP), an American research hub, argues that Meta’s promotion of its Instagram “Teen Accounts” was part of a broader effort to influence the public conversation around platform accountability. The report alleged that the company cultivated a network of hundreds of online creators and so-called “momfluencers” by inviting them to curated events promoting the new accounts. Influencers then repeated the company’s talking points to their…
Published on 21/05/2026 – 12:39 GMT+2 When the phrase “the greatest detective in the world” is quoted from “The Mystery of the Blue Train”, discerning viewers will look back to ITV’s 13 series of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, starring David Suchet as the title character. Over the course of 70 episodes, which ran from 1989 to 2013, the show helmers adapted every major literary work by Christie featuring Poirot, from novel to short story. Several actors have played the Belgian gentleman sleuth over the years, from Peter Ustinov to Kenneth Branagh, but few can deny that the definitive portrayal was…
But Moscow’s inaction following Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s capture by American forces earlier this year — and inertia during the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Russian ally Iran — raises questions about how far the Kremlin is willing to go to defend its international partners, while its army is bogged down fighting in eastern Ukraine. During a press briefing in Moscow, Zakharova expressed “full solidarity” with Cuba in the face of “gross interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, intimidation, and the use of unilateral restrictive measures, threats, and blackmail.” “Cuba continues to be the target of brutal economic pressure…