Surgeons at New York's Langone University have shown that a transplanted pig kidney can function in the human body for more than a month, the AP reported.more

Russia has banned the entry of 54 British citizens, including Culture, Sport and Media Minister Lucy Frazer, Deputy Defence Minister Annabel Goldie and 14 journalists from the BBC and the Guardian and Telegraph newspapers, the BBC's Russian service reported last night.more

A group of Spanish youths, who went on an expedition to the Arctic with the support of the local government of Malaga, brought a 15-ton lump of ice to Spain to display in September in the center of the capital Costa del Sol. The melting ice is meant to make the public aware of the effects of global warming, reports "La Opinion de Malaga."more

Nearly half of the 32 billion cubic meters of water officially withdrawn in France each year is used to cool nuclear power plants, Le Monde reported.more

Greek police have arrested 22 people linked to companies that illegally set up deck chairs and umbrellas on the beaches of the islands of Rhodes, Paros and Mykonos, the portal of the daily Kathimerini reported today.more

The pandemic is over, but the coronavirus remains and the number of cases of Covid-19 has increased in several German states. Experts suspect that this is the so-called Barbenheimer effect - the recently popular combined screening of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" films in cinemas, according to the "Spiegel" weekly website.more

Joe Biden wants to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "without preconditions" to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told Kyodo News yesterday.more

The head of the French Interior Ministry, Gerald Darmanin, announced on Twitter that special CRS 8 units had been sent to Marseille to suppress urban violence. Since the beginning of the year, more people have been killed in shootings in the Bouches-du-Rhone department, whose capital is Marseille, than in all of 2022.more

Ukraine will decide when the conditions are right for any peace talks with Russia, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a conference in the Norwegian city of Arendal.more

A Texas court has awarded a woman $1.2 billion in damages from her former partner for distributing intimate photos of her in revenge for their breakup, the BBC news portal reported. In almost all US states, so-called "revenge porn" (pornography for revenge) is considered a crime.more

We are raising the terrorist threat level from the third (increased) to the fourth (high) level in a five-scale alert, the Swedish secret service SAPO informed.more

Nearly two-thirds of American adults own a firearm or intend to purchase one in the future, according to the American Pew Research Center, quoted by Axios.more

The inhabitants of Belgium are indisputably the richest people in the world, according to the latest Global Wealth Report. Half of Belgian adults have assets worth more than €228,000. euros, and in this country with 12 million inhabitants, as many as half a million people meet the definition of a millionaire.more

The heatwave, which has been localized in the Lyon area in central-eastern France since Tuesday, will spread to the south of the country from Sunday, writes the French daily Le Figaro.more

More than 150 people were evacuated by the authorities of the Canary Islands yesterday evening due to a dangerous forest fire in the north-central part of Tenerife, in the municipalities of Arafo and Candelaria.more

The German government yesterday approved a bill for the partial legalisation of cannabis cultivation and marijuana use. The draft prepared by Health Minister Karl Lauterbach stipulates, among other things, that the possession of up to 25 grams of cannabis will not be punishable.more

Red wine consumption in France has declined significantly in recent decades in favour of beer and other beverages. This has driven prices to such a level that, for many wine producers, giving up the business and receiving compensation is a better option than continuing to work. The French government plans to spend millions of euros on compensation as a result, writes the Politico website.more

More and more Hungarians are buying real estate in Croatia, not only as holiday homes, wrote the Hungarian portal HVG. This is due to the country's weather conditions, access to the sea, but also the situation that developed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.more

German citizens' confidence in the state's ability to perform has fallen to its lowest level ever, according to a survey published by the tagesschau portal. According to an annual survey commissioned by the German officials' association dbb, only 27 percent of respondents believe the state is capable of fulfilling its tasks.more

Two American tourists were found sleeping on the upper levels of the Eiffel Tower after drunkenly avoiding an encounter with security the previous night, AFP reported.more

The Czech business daily Hospodarzske Noviny wrote today that Czechs' spending in Polish stores has increased by several hundred percent. He wrote about crowded parking lots, checkout lines and lack of shopping carts in stores in the title "Czech invasion."more

Every year, sand dust from the African Sahara, the so-called calima, is carried by the wind and falls in various European countries. Scientists have found radioactive elements in the calima, such as the caesium 137 isotope, as well as radioactive isotopes of beryllium and lead, which may be linked to the radioactive fallout, wrote the elDiario portal.more

This autumn, the European Union will review its legislation, on animal welfare, which has become part of the 'Farm to Fork strategy', reports Belga. The EU has some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world and the legislation mainly concerns farm animals.more

In the battle against drug-resistant superbugs, researchers have developed a synthetic antibiotic that shows potential in combating these dangerous microbes. With the rise of antibiotic resistance, finding new solutions is crucial to maintain effective treatments against bacterial infections.more

Ryanair has paid €400 each to passengers on a flight from Eindhoven to Alicante in Spain after a delay caused by a drunk steward, RTL Nieuws reports.more