Tag: Europe
Eerie quiet but no panic as rural France enters lockdown
A week into coronavirus measures, shelves are full and physical distancing is taken seriously One week into the national coronavirus confinement and parts of rural France are even more eerily quiet than usual. The A6 Autoroute de Soleil that heads out of Paris to the south-east to join the A7 […]
Spain’s streets turn eerily quiet following coronavirus lockdown
Transformation of usually bustling Madrid and Barcelona spooks the few residents and tourists to venture out Spains usually teeming streets and bustling landmarks have come to a standstill after the Spanish government imposed a nationwide near-lockdown in hopes of tempering a coronavirus epidemic that has spiralled into one of the […]
Stop, you can’t pop: prosecco Pringles seized in Italy
250 tubes of wine-flavoured crisps taken in examination into usage of safeguarded name The Italian farming minister, Teresa Bellanova, has actually vowed to combat versus “identity theft” after numerous tubes of prosecco-flavoured Pringles were taken from a grocery store chain in the Veneto area. The grocery store had actually bought […]
Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm
Katarzyna Pruszkiewicz invested 6 months running phony social networks accounts at self-described ePR company in Wrocaw It is as typical an incident on Polish Twitter as you are most likely to get: a set of conservative activists putting reject on the nation’s divided liberal opposition. “I break out chuckling!” composes […]
‘Sugar daddy’ website owner charged with debauchery in Belgium
Norwegian Sigurd Vedals website Rich Meet Beautiful guaranteed to assist trainees fulfill abundant males The president of a pan-European “sugar daddy” dating website that targeted trainees with adverts outside Belgian universities last summertime has actually appeared in court charged with debauchery. Norwegian Sigurd Vedal, 47, whose site Rich Meet Beautiful […]
Why nightingales are snubbing Berkeley Square for the Tiergarten
Scientists, consisting of a descendant of Charles Darwin, are looking into the birds choice for Berlin T hey were when amongst Britain’s many cherished vocalists, their “whisperings musical” offering melancholy poets solace in their darkest hours. These days the world-famous warblers are more most likely to be discovered jamming with […]
Europe agrees platform rules to tackle unfair business practices
The European Union’s political institutions have reached agreement over new rules designed to boost transparency around online platform businesses and curb unfair practices to support traders and other businesses that rely on digital intermediaries for discovery and sales. The European Commission proposed a regulation for fairness and transparency in online platform […]
Sex, sheep and terror: the scandalous theatre of Milo Rau
He has actually put an Isis fighters mom in the Ghent Altarpiece and restaged a harsh murder. Now the Swiss director strategies to get extreme W hen Milo Rau initially saw the Lam Gods . “It’s art as a cumulative procedure, made with typical individuals.” It is a viewpoint Rau […]
This life-size, drivable Bugatti is made out of 1 million Legos
(CNN)Over 1 million plastic blocks and 13,000 hours later on, Lego achieved a not likely task: a practical Bugatti made mainly from the renowned building and construction toys drove down a track in Germany.
Manafort Heads to Jail After Judge Faults Witness Tampering
Paul Manafort was sent out to prison Friday by a federal judge who stated she couldn &#x 2019; t disregard to claims that he tried to damage witnesses, including pressure on President Donald Trump &#x 2019; s previous project supervisor to comply with a U.S. probe of Russian election meddling. […]