The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm announced yesterday that it has increased the value of the Nobel Prize to a historic level - from 10 million to 11 million kroner (about 920,000 euros) in each of the six fields. The names of this year's Nobel Prize winners will be announced in early October.more

Chinese scientists have grown pig embryos with human kidneys. In the future, organs for transplantation are to be created this way.more

A 3D-made equestrian statue of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not even survive two years in the Upper Palatinate town of Etsdorf, writes the dpa agency. According to the artist Wilhelm Koch, the 2.70-metre-high sculpture collapsed on the night between Wednesday and Thursday.more

More than 14,200 illegal immigrants have arrived in the Canary Islands this year, TVE reported yesterday. It was noted that the Spanish service's statistics do not take into account the entire scale of the phenomenon, as data from the island of La Palma is still missing.more

Federal prosecutors in Delaware yesterday charged US President Hunter Biden's son with three counts of illegal gun possession. Biden junior lied on his gun permit application about his drug use.more

Employers in France are limiting or completely eliminating remote work in companies. Employees, especially young ones, do not want to hear about it - reports the daily "Le Figaro".more

The Spanish meteorological service Aemet has issued a top-level weather alert on the coast of Valencia province due to violent storms and heavy rain and hail. Classes were suspended in many schools.more

There is no evidence of an extraterrestrial origin of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), but we do not know what they are, said the head of the American space agency NASA, Bill Nelson, summarizing the first report of the team established by the agency to investigate UAPs (formerly UFOs). more

Yesterday, Dutch police detained approximately 300 protesters blocking the A12 motorway in The Hague for the fifth day in a row - informs the police headquarters in this city. Representatives of the prosecutor's office, police and city authorities met at the city hall to consider how to put an end to the troublesome protests of climate activists who have been paralyzing one of the most important amore

Another two-day strike by Ryanair pilots began today. Due to this, 58 flights of the Irish carrier from Charleroi airport were canceled.more

The Lampedusa city council declared a state of emergency last night after 48 hours of a continuous influx of migrants to the island. Residents gathered in front of the town hall and then took part in the city council meeting. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani appeals for the stabilization of the Sahel.more

An 18-year-old was trapped under a bus that ran over his shoulder in the Spandau district of Berlin. 40 people immediately came to help. Together they lifted a 16.5-ton articulated bus. Twenty centimeters was enough to free the young man. "What a heroic action!" - commented the portal of the daily "Bild".more

In Uppsala, in southern Sweden, there have been four shootings in the last week, killing two people. According to the police, the wave of violence is caused by the conflict surrounding the leader of a gang called the Kurdish Fox, who is in Turkey.more

Fire broke out at four elementary schools in Charleroi, central Belgium, on Tuesday night, RTL Info reported. The prosecutor's office says the arsons are linked to mandatory sex education introduced in schools.more

Tourists who want to come to Venice for next year's long May weekend will have to buy a ticket to the city, probably for between 3 and 10 euros. The city council on Tuesday evening finally passed a law that will require visitors to Venice from spring 2024 to purchase a ticket on a special app, which is expected to be ready in a few weeks, Ansa news agency reported yesterday.more

Last year, the coldest continent also experienced unprecedentedly high temperatures, scientists report. At the same time, it experienced unusually high snowfall.more

Xavier Espot Zamora is the fifth person in the country's government not to hide his sexual orientation. Previously coming out were Latvian President Edgars Rinkevičs, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.more

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who met with Vladimir Putin in Russia's Far East today, expressed "full and unconditional" support for all of Russia's actions, including the invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin's stance toward the West, the Associated Press reported.more

The German Football Federation (DFB) has reported a decline in racist and discriminatory incidents in professional leagues in recent years. A different picture emerges from data from the Football Discrimination Reporting Point in North Rhine-Westphalia, which reported, among other things, an increase in the number of Nazi salutes observed and reported.more

A senior CIA official reported to Congress that the agency bribed its own analysts investigating the genesis of the Covid-19 pandemic to change their assessment about the origin of the virus from a lab in Wuhan, China, Republican members of the House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence wrote in a letter to the CIA director. Ultimately, the agency said it could not determine the cause of tmore

In Barcelona, in the north-east of Spain, there is an increasing phenomenon of crime from the so-called menas, i.e. juvenile immigrants without parental care, mainly from Morocco.more

When Russians shop in Moscow, they hardly notice Western sanctions. You can still find German goods in stores. Russian consumers can choose from a wide range of products at prices, in some cases even lower than in Germany, according to research conducted by SWR.more

The consumer association (Consumentenbond) submitted on behalf of 82,000 The Dutch sue Google for collecting data that violates users' privacy. Consumerenbond demands that the American company stop this practice and demands compensation of EUR 750 for each user.more

A 24-year-old woman was hit by a stray Kalashnikov bullet in her apartment in Marseille during a street clash between drug trafficking gangs.more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia this morning for a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the Associated Press reported. According to the American newspaper "New York Times", the conversation between the dictators will concern the supply of weapons to the Russian army.more