In Spain, the plague of stinging women is increasing at entertainment events. Only in the second half of July, the police confirmed over 30 such incidents in various regions of the country. Investigators suspect that the reason for the stabbing of women, usually in the arm or thigh, is sexual aggression.more

Another heat wave is approaching Germany, which will be felt gradually from today. On Thursday, meteorologists predict the highest temperatures, even around 40 degrees C. Hot air will flow from the Mediterranean region, reports the portal RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND).more

Vladimir Putin has created a barbaric army that loots, rapes, tortures and sadistically torments Ukrainian prisoners of war before murdering them. Russian troops are committing inhuman war crimes in Ukraine and are proud of what they are doing. They also record their macabre deeds - reports the portal of the newspaper "Bild".more

Drastic scenes of agony and torment of animals were revealed by activists of the German organization for the protection of animal rights, Soko Tierschutz, who for several days recorded films in one of the German slaughterhouses. The seemingly idyllic rural slaughterhouse in Schleswig-Holstein violated a number of laws. After the case was reported to the prosecutor's office, it was decided to closemore

Workers' strikes will take place at 10 Portuguese airports on August 19-21, two trade unions, SINTAC and SQAC, have announced.more

In July, on average, only 9.7 mm of rain fell in France. This is the least since the measurements began in 1958-1959, the French national meteorological service Meteo-France reported. There is a drought alert and water restrictions across the country.more

The world is facing a nuclear threat that has not been seen since the Cold War, warned UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the NPT review conference that began yesterday in New York.more

The attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol on Russia's Navy Day is another blow for Russia and it is unlikely that it could conduct public events in parallel with hostilities, the British Ministry of Defense said.more

US President Joe Biden announced that the leader of Al-Qaeda, Ajman al-Zawahiri, one of the co-organizers of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was killed on Saturday night.more

A traditional whale hunt in the Faroe Islands killed 99 bottlenose dolphins, the most in 124 years. The non-profit organisation Blue Planet Society recalls that bottlenose dolphins have not been hunted on this scale since the late 19th century, Newsweek reports.more

More than half of Spain's territory has been on alert since yesterday due to hot weather in the south and west of the country and thunderstorms in the north-east. An orange alert has been issued in five autonomous regions due to near 40-degree temperatures.more

At least a week earlier than usual in Italy today, the grape harvest officially began. The reason for its acceleration is the more than 40-degree heat and drought. The first symbolic bunch of grapes was picked near Brescia in Lombardy in the land of Franciacorta, where the sparkling wine of that name is produced.more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing his country for an intensified war with Russia, reports today's "Le Figaro" daily.more

The meteorological services are forecasting a third heatwave from today, starting from the south-east of the country and then moving to the south-west and north. Temperatures are again expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius.more

Car tyre dust poses a serious threat to the environment. It pollutes the oceans, the air and the soil, writes the British daily "The Guardian". It points out that tyres contain a variety of toxic substances that scientists have shown to seriously harm aquatic organisms.more

Anatoly Chubais, Russian President Vladimir Putin's former envoy on sustainable development, who resigned from his post and left Russia over the aggression in Ukraine, has been hospitalised in a European country, the BBC's Russian service wrote yesterday.more

Inflation in Spain rose to 10.8 per cent in July, the highest level since 1984, the directorate of the National Statistics Office (INE) in Madrid said in a report published on Friday. Inflation in the Netherlands reached 11.6 per cent in July. - reported the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is the first increase in inflation since March this year.more

The results of a large clinical trial do not support the use of vitamin D supplements to reduce fractures in healthy men and women in the US. The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.more

"Lager Sylt" was the name of a German concentration camp on the small island of Alderney in the English Channel. Even among German historians, this story is largely unknown. Britain has made it a state secret, writes the weekly magazine Spiegel in a text entitled "Sylt. "What happened on 'Adolf Island'?".more

Foreign tourists are sustaining France's economic growth, which came in at 0.5 per cent in the second quarter, twice as high as economists had forecast. If this trend continues, GDP growth this year could reach 2.5 per cent, - BFMTV reported yesterday. The pandemic emergency in France will end tomorrow (1 August).more

Spain is the first country in Europe and, after Brazil, the second in the world outside Africa where a person infected with monkeypox virus has been confirmed dead. The fatal case was announced on Friday by the Spanish health ministry.more

Friday's US Mega Millions lottery draw saw the jackpot fall when $1.28 billion was in the pot. The winning ticket was purchased in Illinois.more

On Thursday, July 28, Ashley Ness gave birth to quadruplets at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This alone is quite unique, but even more unique is the fact that the four toddlers were two pairs of identical twins - two girls and two boys. This is the case every 10 million pregnancies.more

Prehistoric Europeans consumed dairy products thousands of years before the adult lactose digestibility was developed, scientists report in the weekly "Nature".more

There is a strong relationship between the scale of extinction of organisms and the global change in temperature, the researchers report in the journal Biogeosciences.more