Italy to propose Albania-like migrant centres at the EU level
Italy is bringing to the EU a plan to set up new return centres, based on the Albania model, in safe third countries. Uganda among the options, clash with Spain over migrant management.
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Madrid breaks tourism record, tops €10 billion in international spending in six months
Madrid saw a historic boost in international tourism in the first half of 2026, with spending reaching €10.007 billion, up 11.4% year on year, according to Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE).
AI translators are getting more fluent—but communication is never just a matter of words
Speak into a phone and an app can render your words in another language in seconds. AI-powered speech translation can be fast, convenient and fluent. But fluency does not guarantee that people will understand one another.
Ben McKenzie Says Major Streamers Were Scared to License His Anti-Crypto Documentary, So He Found a Different Way to Reach Audiences
Ben McKenzie believes he knows why the major streaming services weren’t interested in licensing “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money.” His new documentary takes on the cryptocurrency industry, portraying the controversial digital currency as corrupt and in dire need of more
Fans Pay Tribute to Glen Hansard at Public Wake in Dublin
The musician's funeral will take place at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin on Tuesday, with musical performances expected from his friends and family
Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam
How soon is now?
Now It’s Overhead Announce First New Music, Concert In 20 Years
Way back in the early '00s, the Athens, Georgia musician Andy LeMaster's lush, textured indie rock project became the first out-of-town act to sign with the Omaha indie juggernaut Saddle Creek. LeMaster was a Bright Eyes collaborator before Now It's Overhead released their 2001
The China positivity, US negativity illusion
For nearly two decades, one line in the global opinion charts held steady: the United States was better liked than China. That line has now crossed. Pew Research Center’s July 15 report, based on 42,151 interviews in 36 countries between February and May 2026, finds China
Japanese Indie Dev Is Adding Czech Language Support For A Single Person In The Czech Republic
'Wait for me, my Czech friend'
Ceuta crisis prompts EU ministers to consider internal border checks
EU interior ministers will assess at a meeting on Tuesday whether to reintroduce tighter internal border checks across Europe in response to the Ceuta crisis.
How the brain helps protect fertility from heat-induced damage
As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are racing to understand why heat so profoundly threatens fertility across the animal kingdom. A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and collaborators has uncovered a surprising answer: The brain itself may help
Von der Leyen calls for tighter checks and physical barriers following Ceuta crisis
The Commission president moved to defuse tensions with Spain following criticism from across Europe over Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's handling of the Ceuta migration crisis.
Key principle to boost efficiency of artificial photosynthesis and next-generation semiconductors
A research team led by Taeyeon Kim, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Sungkyunkwan University, in collaboration with a team from Yonsei University, has identified a new principle that controls charge separation, a phenomenon that plays a central role in both plants'
Wildfire uncovers unexploded WWII shells in France
A wildfire in southwest France exposed unexploded World War II shells, forcing bomb disposal teams to clear the area before evacuated residents can return home.
Organizers Cancel New Fest Headlined By Benson Boone & Sombr
In recent years Benson Boone and Sombr have emerged as two of Gen Z's biggest pop stars, but their combined wattage was apparently not enough to save the fest they were supposed to co-headline in Salt Lake City this fall. The post Organizers Cancel New Fest Headlined By Benson
The God Of War Show Is Also Recasting Atreus, But Not Until Season 2
Casting calls have gone out looking for teenage versions of Atreus and Thrud
What kind of political advertising spin can help the flailing Republicans?
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is demanding that Senator Mitch McConnell provide a video message to address rumors regarding his health following several weeks of inactivity in the Senate.
Russia fires glide bombs at Zaporizhzhia, killing one and wounding dozens of others
Meanwhile, a Russian strike on a warehouse in northeastern Ukraine over the weekend destroyed 8 million books, the publishing house said, slamming it as an attack on Ukrainian culture.
Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi Take Journalist-in-Residence Roles at Columbia University
The stopwatch keeps ticking after “60 Minutes.” Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley were both named journalists-in-residence at Columbia University’s School of Journalism Monday, a position that will be in place for the 2026-2027 academic term. The two former “60 Minutes”
Ariana Grande To “Step Back From Visibility” Amid “Public Scrutiny”
On Friday, Ariana Grande released her new album petal , which is largely concerned with her own conflicted feelings about her pop stardom and her fans. During the album's rollout and Grande's ongoing Eternal Sunshine Tour, Grande's changing appearance has been a major topic of
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Sets Imax Release as ‘The Odyssey’ Exclusive Run Ends
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” will (finally!) swing to Imax on Aug. 6. Sony and Marvel’s web-slinging adventure didn’t play on the company’s premium screens during its first few days in theaters because Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” commanded the network’s entire domestic
Over 100 South American lakes could become climate-change early-warning observatories
More than 100 shallow lakes stretching over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) along the Atlantic coast of southern Brazil and Uruguay could become one of the world's most important natural laboratories for understanding how climate change and human activities reshape freshwater
Watching comedy helps people detect faint smiles, a new study shows
In everyday life, the ability to read facial expressions plays a vital role in social communication, as it reveals a speaker's underlying emotions, intentions and psychological state. More importantly, accurately recognizing subtle signs of positive emotions can help build
Big Walk: The Kotaku Review
’Life's like a road that you travel on/When there's one day here and the next day gone’
Two UK universities merge to form country's first ‘super-university’
The merger comes amid mounting economic pressures facing British universities, including some of the most highly regarded higher education institutions in the world.
Carville: Progressive left 'too hot-headed to know that they're not popular'
Democratic strategist James Carville on Sunday accused the Democratic Party's progressive left of being "too hot-headed to know that they're not popular." Carville made the claim in an interview for CNN's "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper" while talking about the Michigan
CNN Appoints Stefano Pozzebon as Rome Correspondent, Boosting European Coverage (EXCLUSIVE)
CNN has announced the appointment of award-winning Italian journalist Stefano Pozzebon as an international correspondent based in its Rome bureau. Pozzebon will be responsible for covering major news stories in Italy and across Europe for CNN’s linear and digital platforms. He
