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.
Louis, a 17-year-old boy from Narbonne, France, has died after an extremely violent attack that, according to the prosecutor’s office, was premeditated. He was lured into an ambush on Friday evening at a remote construction site in Narbonne and severely beaten. Five days later, he succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
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.
Are you also hooked on a cup of coffee? Does it help you get through a busy workday or a demanding exam period? A new study shows that this “black gold” also carries a striking hidden risk to our health.
The strongest earthquake in over 100 years has caused devastation and a particularly high death toll in the South American country.
A swimming lake in Halle, in eastern Germany, has introduced a new admission policy under which swimmers who do not speak enough German are denied entry. The reason? They would not be able to properly understand the safety instructions.