- 6d ago
New York City halts generative AI tools for 600,000 elementary and middle school students
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing artificial intelligence across public schools from pre-school through eighth grade, removing roughly 40 software tools as the 2026 school year begins.
- 6d ago
Dutch unions confirm nationwide transit strike for 9 September over benefit cuts
Trade unions CNV and FNV will proceed with a full-day nationwide public transport strike across the Netherlands on Wednesday, 9 September 2026, halting rail, regional, and urban transit services.
- Sep 1
USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after record 250 days at sea without port call
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at Laem Chabang port on Wednesday for a five-day stop following months of combat operations against Iran.
- Aug 30
Dutch Mass Donor Simon Admits Fathering at Least 199 Children Across Europe
A 43-year-old Dutch sperm donor has written to parents admitting to fathering at least 199 children across four European countries, prompting an investigation by Belgian health authorities into potential regulatory fraud.
- Aug 28
AfD wins 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt election as CDU faces internal revolt and Schulze takes faction lead
Following the Alternative for Germany's victory with 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, CDU leader Sven Schulze narrowly secured his party's parliamentary group leadership while federal calls mounted for Chancellor Friedrich Merz to step down.
- Aug 28
German court sentences 81-year-old man to life for 1994 murder of US tourist Amy Lopez
The Koblenz Regional Court has handed an 81-year-old man a life sentence with particular gravity of guilt for the 1994 rape and murder of 24-year-old US student Amy Lopez.
- Aug 27
Thieves steal 3,000-year-old gold Treasure of Villena in four-minute Spanish museum heist
Burglars breached the Museum of Villena in Alicante early Thursday, taking most of the 66-piece Bronze Age Treasure of Villena in a four-minute raid after creating a distraction at a nearby sports centre.
- Aug 26
La Tomatina 2026 brings 22,000 people and 150 tonnes of tomatoes to Buñol
Around 22,000 participants gathered in the Spanish town of Buñol on Wednesday to throw 150,000 kilograms of overripe tomatoes during the 79th edition of the annual festival.
- Aug 24
Five fans injured as fireworks halt Cambuur match against Feyenoord
Five supporters were injured and play was suspended for 30 minutes after Feyenoord fans threw pyrotechnics onto the pitch and into home stands at Kooi Stadion.
- Aug 23
Solingen marks two years since fatal festival knife attack with silent memorial
Civic leaders, survivors, and residents gathered at the Fronhof in Solingen on Sunday evening to commemorate the three victims killed and eight injured during the 2024 city festival attack.
- Aug 22
PEC Zwolle defeats Heerenveen 2-0 with second-half goals by Viergever and Kostons
Nick Viergever and Koen Kostons scored after the break to give PEC Zwolle a 2-0 away win against sc Heerenveen, earning the club their first league points of the season.
- Aug 22
Sparta Rotterdam secures 3-3 draw against FC Utrecht at Het Kasteel
Marvin Young, Milan Zonneveld, and Nick Verschuren scored for Sparta Rotterdam in a 3-3 home draw against FC Utrecht on Saturday evening.
- Aug 21
Kyle Kirkwood wins inaugural Freedom 250 IndyCar race in Washington as Donald Trump waves green flag
Andretti Global driver Kyle Kirkwood won IndyCar's first Washington street race, finishing 3.09 seconds ahead of Christian Lundgaard after 147 laps around the National Mall.
- Aug 11
Russian strikes kill up to 13 in Ukraine as Zelensky warns of North Korean missile use
Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine to 13 civilians overnight on 10-11 August, as President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of using North Korean ballistic missiles and conveyed new peace proposals to US negotiators.
- Aug 10
Ukrainian drone strike on Russian oil refinery in Tatarstan kills 13, including seven Uzbek citizens
A Ukrainian drone attack on the industrial city of Nizhnekamsk in Russia's Tatarstan region killed at least 13 people, including seven Uzbek citizens and a child, while Kyiv also struck a petrochemical facility 2,500 km away in Tobolsk.
- Aug 1
Russian ballistic missile barrage kills nine in Kyiv, damages Lithuanian embassy; Ukraine intercepted only one of 27 Iskanders
Overnight strikes on 1 August hit five districts of the Ukrainian capital with 35 missiles and 185 drones, killing nine people and wounding more than 30, including four children. President Zelensky said a single ballistic missile was intercepted, citing a lack of Patriot systems.
- Jul 30
Record wildfires in Spain and France fuelled by climate change, studies show, as July heat shatters records
Spain endured its hottest July on record, tied with 2022, as wildfires burned 150,000 hectares in the month alone. A rapid attribution study finds global warming made the extreme fire conditions at least 20 times more likely in central Spain.
- Jul 19
At least 50 Malian soldiers killed in ambush by jihadists and Tuareg separatists near Anéfis
A military convoy leaving Anéfis for Gao was attacked Saturday by a coalition of al-Qaeda-linked JNIM and Tuareg separatists. At least 24 soldiers were taken prisoner, and Russian paramilitaries already in Gao escaped unharmed.
- Jul 15
Man kills wife with machete in broad daylight in Kelkheim, Germany; witnesses overpower attacker
A 60-year-old Croatian man allegedly attacked his estranged wife with a machete on a busy street in Kelkheim, Hesse, on Tuesday evening. The 58-year-old woman died at the scene, and passers-by subdued the attacker before police arrived.
- Jul 8
Netherlands to shift €66m in MBO funding from Randstad to shrinking regions to keep vocational schools open
Education minister Rianne Letschert has unveiled a plan to overhaul how vocational colleges are financed, moving money from urban centres to areas where student numbers are falling fast.
