Are you on vacation in France and in the mood for a refreshing swim in the ocean or a cool lake? Make sure you don’t take a dip in a body of water where swimming is prohibited. The fine has been significantly increased as of Sunday, August 2.
From Monday, August 3, through August 9, traffic police departments in the Netherlands and various European holiday destinations will be conducting stricter speed checks during Roadpol’s European “Speed Week,” a major collaboration among European traffic police departments.
A late-night game of soccer turned into a nightmare in France overnight from Saturday to Sunday: a 27-year-old man died while trying to retrieve a soccer ball from the Rhône River, according to the local newspaper Le Progrès.
Greek police have arrested a 26-year-old foreign man on suspicion of manslaughter and robbery in connection with the death of 38-year-old British woman Elisabeth-Jane Ross, according to the British newspaper The Times. Her body was found on July 18 in a suitcase inside an abandoned building in the Kypseli neighborhood of Athens.
Mattia Maestri, a 13-year-old Italian boy who fell into a coma nine years ago after eating contaminated raw cheese, has died. His father announced the news. Since the incident in June 2017, his father has been campaigning for more warnings on the packaging of products made from raw milk or young-aged cheese.
Beachgoers at Marina di Ragusa, on the Italian island of Sicily, were surprised last Wednesday when banknotes worth hundreds of thousands of euros suddenly washed ashore.
This coming Sunday, Kinepolis will screen the blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in a Ukrainian-dubbed version at several of its Belgian locations. The initiative comes in response to a request from the Ukrainian community in Belgium, which has grown since the Russian invasion in 2022.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has withdrawn his controversial plan to sell a stake in World Cup rights to private investors. Following fierce opposition from the European soccer community, threats of a boycott, and resignations among his own leadership, the FIFA president admitted: “The project has caused divisions that are no longer in the interest of the original goal.”
A 52-year-old Belgian woman died on Thursday afternoon in an accident during a canyoning trip in Claro, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The victim was part of a group navigating the Censo River Gorge when she fell approximately ten meters. Fellow participants immediately called for help and attempted to resuscitate her.
It was supposed to be a dream week for Leopold Aschenbrenner (24), the young Wall Street prodigy who, with his AI fund Situational Awareness, posted a whopping 439 percent return in just six months. Instead of celebrating, a financial bloodbath unfolded this week: his fund lost an estimated tens of billions and was forced to sell nearly all of its public equity positions.