Bhutan will introduce the highest tourist tax in the world from September, informs the local daily "Kuensel". Tourists in the "last kingdom in the Himalayas" will have to pay $ 200 a day per person "for sustainable development."more

The Republican and Democrat group starts a new party in the US called Forward. The party is expected to attract a centrist, moderate electorate disappointed by the deep divisions on the American political scene, reports CNN.more

Spanish prosecutors said they would seek the sentence of Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison if found guilty in a trial of her alleged tax fraud.more

The Spanish flight crew of EasyJet has abandoned the strike announced for the weekend. The decision was made after an agreement was reached during Thursday's negotiations, during which protesters received guarantees for pay rises.more

In Belgium, we have a plague of Asian hornets, and the Asian hornet poses a threat to native bees, experts cited by Belgian media alert.more

"The Russians are failing to fight on land at this point in many areas. Plans A, B and C of the Russian president Vladimir Putin have failed and maybe he should look for a plan D" - commented British Defense Minister Ben Wallace in today's interview with Sky News.more

Iranian police recently said it is a crime to take a dog for a walk. Several Iranians have already been detained for such "offenses". Parliament is also considering banning certain pets, reported the French BFM TV.more

The Spanish government has asked citizens to voluntarily join in reducing their gas consumption in the face of a possible cut-off by Russia. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Ecological Transformation Teresa Ribera recommended that citizens control their residential electricity consumption and turn off unnecessarily burning lights.more

From 1990 to 2020, the total number of international migrants increased from 153 million (2.9 per cent of the world population) to 281 million (3.6 per cent of the world population). Some 36 million are children, according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report.more

Owned by US billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, yesterday reported its first-ever drop in revenue volume due to reduced advertising spending during the economic downturn, the AP reported.more

Hanover is the first large city in Germany to take the calls for energy savings made by Economy Minister Robert Habeck seriously. Among other things, the municipal authorities have decided to dispense with water heating in indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and only cold showers will be allowed in sports facilities, writes the Bild newspaper portal today.more

More than 30,000 hectares of woodland and grassland are on fire today near Spain's northern and north-western border with Portugal, Spanish civil defence authorities have estimated.more

Six US F-22 Raptor fighter jets have been deployed to Poland as part of a NATO 'air cover' mission, the US Air Force Europe and Africa Command announced yesterday. The aircraft will be stationed at an air base in Łask.more

Due to the record-breaking heat, the Seville authorities have launched a project inspired by natural cooling techniques that were already known in ancient Persia, 'El Confidencial' reported.more

The remains of a powerful Chinese rocket that delivered a new module to the space station will fall to Earth early next week, the US Space Command (SPACECOM) reported, quoted by CNN.more

The authorities of the USO trade union, which unites Ryanair's cabin crew on strike, called on its staff to extend until January 2023, which had been running intermittently since June this year. protests.more

More than 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans every year and pose a threat to the organisms living in them - warns the British newspaper "The Guardian". He points out that the plastics that end up in the seas are not only rubbish, mainly disposable packaging, but also abandoned fishing equipment and a huge amount of microplastics.more

The projected zero-carbon city of NEOM being built in Saudi Arabia will have vertical layers of buildings for work, living and leisure stretching 170 kilometres into the horizon, the kingdom’s crown prince has announced. more

Ukrainian deputies and MPs from the British Conservative Party support the possible candidacy of the outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the new NATO secretary general, the British Daily Telegraph reported. He would take the position after Jens Stoltenberg.more

Two studies, published on Tuesday in the prestigious journal Science, confirm that the Covid-19 pandemic started at a market in Wuhan, China, pointing to a very likely animal origin of the virus.more

A strike by German airline Lufthansa's ground handling personnel began this morning, which resulted in the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights and increased air traffic disruptions during the peak holiday season, Reuters reported.more

As much as $ 1.02 billion will be the jackpot of the jackpot in the next Mega Millions lottery draw in the US, the Associated Press reported. This is the effect of several months of accumulation.more

British tourist, 21-year-old Jack Fenton, was hit by a helicopter propeller while taking a selfie at an airstrip near Athens, and died as a result. The Greek prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the case, informed the Guardian daily.more

Yuri Borisov, the new head of Russia's state space agency Roskosmos, has announced that his country will leave the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 and build its own orbital station, writes the Associated Press.more

Billionaire Elon Musk's friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin has ended due to Musk's alleged affair with Brin's wife. The Google co-founder is in the midst of a divorce and has decided to pull out of his investment in Musk's companies, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday behind anonymous sources.more