After nearly two weeks on the run, Gracie the giraffe has been found in the rugged Texas Hill Country. The three-year-old giraffe was suddenly spotted from a helicopter on Friday morning, about six kilometers south of the ranch where she lives.
In France, a preliminary investigation has been launched into reports of possible child trafficking via the secondhand platform Vinted. The investigation has been entrusted to the Office for Minors (Ofmin), the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office told AFP on Friday evening.
Starting in the 2026–2027 academic year, the Belgian Odisee University of Applied Sciences will phase out the traditional bachelor’s thesis as well as associate degree thesis. These will be replaced by a practice-oriented final project directly linked to an internship or on-the-job training.
At a soccer tournament where you’re away from home for weeks on end, team spirit is highly important. The English national soccer team has found a few games that strengthen the bond between the players without making them break a sweat. Is this the winning formula for going far in the World Cup?
European law enforcement agencies have once again dealt a major blow to cybercriminals by taking down the malware infrastructure of StealC and Amadey. During the international operation, part of Operation Endgame, hundreds of servers and domain names were seized or taken offline.
Paris is temporarily imposing a ban on alcohol consumption in public spaces and on takeout sales, as the heat wave plaguing large parts of Western Europe slowly shifts eastward. The measure is intended to ease the strain on hospitals in the French capital.
South Korea is turning to drones as part of its military response to North Korea. The Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it plans to train 500,000 military personnel as drone operators, while tens of thousands of unmanned systems will be deployed to frontline units.
A 23-year-old British TikTok influencer from Kent faces the death penalty in Dubai after being charged with the murder of her boyfriend. According to the human rights organization Detained in Dubai, Brooke George was arrested on June 22 and charged with premeditated murder after the man she was in a relationship with was fatally stabbed to death.
This heat wave would have been virtually unthinkable fifty years ago. A new international study by World Weather Attribution concludes that the current heat in Western Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change and that the likelihood of such extreme heat has increased significantly in just a few decades.
WhatsApp is getting a new CEO with a clear mission: to make more money from an app that already has over three billion users, without driving them away. To that end, Meta is promoting Indian fintech entrepreneur Kunal Shah, while also investing $900 million in his company, CRED.