Category: 3. Europe

Published on
08/12/2025 – 14:04 GMT+1

Cold-water swimming is gaining popularity across Europe – and one Croatian coastal town has made it…

Published on
08/12/2025 – 14:01 GMT+1

Iconic, provocative and most certainly unconventional. Frank Gehry’s avant-garde buildings…

“This is very positive news for consumers in the EU,” said Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier, noting that the new option — described as a gray zone between full consent and a paywall — is slated for rollout in January 2026.

A Meta spokesperson acknowledged the Commission’s…

Published on
08/12/2025 – 13:23 GMT+1

Portugal is set for travel disruption on 11 December as a nationwide general strike could paralyse transport networks and ground most flights.

About half…

A number of well-known consumer and industrial groups — including Costco, Revlon, Kawasaki Motors, and Bumble Bee Foods — are mounting a wave of legal challenges to Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs. The goal is to seek refunds for the duties they have paid so far and…

A new global study suggests that focusing on sleep may be more beneficial than exercise for overall health, as most people struggle to meet recommended levels of both rest and physical activity.

The research, published in the journal Communications Medicine, found that most people fall short…

Speaking in New York on Monday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, was deeply concerned by the scale and spread of the latest attacks.

“In recent days we’ve seen an alarming pattern of intensifying hostilities in frontline areas and…

Addressing ambassadors, Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, who currently chairs the 57-nation OSCE, described the conflict as the gravest challenge to European security in decades and a direct assault on the foundations of the rules-based international order.  

“Russia’s war of…