Former intelligence officer and member of the Pentagon's UFO (AARO) team, David Grusch, testified under oath in Congress that the US possesses extraterrestrial technology and that the authorities have been hiding this fact for decades. Former air force pilots also talked about their experiences with objects that seemed to defy the laws of physics.more

Sea temperatures around Florida have exceeded 37.8 degrees Celsius for two days in a row, which meteorologists consider a potential world record, the Associated Press reported yesterday.more

The capital of Austria defended its first place in the ranking of the opinion-forming British weekly "The Economist" for the most liveable city. This is Vienna's eighth victory in the last decade. Cities from outside Europe have increased in the top ten.more

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday updated its forecasts for global growth and assessed that it remains weak and accompanied by many risks. The IMF also revised its assumptions for the German economy and reported that the country's GDP will contract by 0.3 percent this year.more

UK has information indicating that "the Russian military may extend its attacks on Ukrainian grain facilities to attacks targeting civilian shipping in the Black Sea" - British Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward stated yesterday.more

In Chicago, a 10-year-old boy fired a gun yesterday at police officers who were called when he took his mother's gun out of her purse and started shooting inside the house because he was told to clean up, Chicago Deputy Police Chief Migdalia Bulnes reported.more

The water in the Mediterranean Sea has reached an unprecedented temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, the Institute of Marine Research in Barcelona (ICM) reported yesterday.more

The Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam has annulled the papers of all third-year undergraduate students in educational ethics because the university suspects that they were written using ChatGPT.more

Tourists who ended their holidays on Monday and were supposed to fly home in the afternoon have been camped at the airport in Rhodes for 24 hours. "People who were evacuated from other cities were transported to Poland, and those who were supposed to return to the country were forgotten," says Agnieszka, who has been staying at the airport with her teenage son for 24 hours.more

Mysterious packages sent from abroad have been causing fear and anxiety in South Korea for a week. The police took over 2,000 reports of suspicious packages. The media reported the hospitalization of three people who opened packages from Taiwan, reports the Yonhap agency.more

The organization of the next parliamentary elections in Spain is the most favorable scenario after the vote to the Cortes Generales, believes the Spanish political scientist Prof. José Luis Orella.more

For the second day in a row, extreme weather has split Italy in half. Severe thunderstorms with hail and hurricane-force winds hit the north today, while 16 cities in the center and south are on the highest level of heat alert.more

The Netherlands is the axis of global tax avoidance, according to the latest report by the Tax Justice Network. Other countries lose $51 billion a year to the Netherlands, which is almost one-fifth of the total tax losses incurred, which amount to $472 billion. Great Britain was ranked first on the list of culprits.more

Anti-Semitic attitudes are more prevalent among Muslims than in the rest of society. This is the result of a study conducted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, which decided to check why anti-Semitism is experiencing a resurgence in Germany.more

Lukashenko's and Putin's words about Poland are irresponsible, and if necessary, we will defend every inch of NATO territory, said the spokesman of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, referring to the suggestion of the Belarusian dictator about a "tour" of the Wagnerians to Warsaw and Rzeszów.more

Amsterdam authorities have just banned cruise ships from entering the city center. This is yet another move aimed at limiting the number of tourists in the Dutch capital and reducing pollution.more

Twitter began rebranding yesterday, changing its logo to the letter X. According to an announcement by Elon Musk and company director Linda Yaccarino, X is to become "the app for everything."more

The Wagner Group's mercenary forces based in Belarus do not pose a military threat to Poland or Ukraine unless they are equipped with heavy weapons, the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessed in a recent report.more

All Russian schoolchildren are to be taught the basics of operating combat drones, an indication of how Russia views their role in modern warfare, the British Defense Ministry reported today.more

A new anticyclone came over Italy today, which will bring temperatures ranging from 45 degrees in Puglia to 48 degrees in Sardinia in the south of the country these days. Meteorologists have dubbed the next heat wave Charon bis.more

Clashes erupted between opponents of the reform and police in front of the Israeli parliament today, the day of the vote on the first part of the controversial judicial reform. Officers used water cannons and detained more than a dozen people, including one of the leaders of the protest movement.more

Firefighters battled fires throughout the night in Crete, Corfu, Rhodes, Euboea and near the town of Ejo in the Peloponnese, as well as in other regions of Greece; further evacuations of the population are being ordered, ERT TV reported this morning. Nearly 2,500 people were evacuated from the island of Corfu alone overnight, the fire department reported.more

The center-right People's Party (PP), led by Alberto Nunez Feijoo, won yesterday's parliamentary elections in Spain, according to data from the state electoral commission after counting all votes cast.more

Ryanair plans to invest more than $3 billion in Ukraine to quickly rebuild the country's post-war aviation industry, the airline said in an official announcement.more

About 70-80 people a day faint in the queue to the Roman Colosseum due to heat exceeding even 40 degrees. Therefore, there was an appeal to urgently change the opening hours of the monument in order to avoid further crisis situations during record-breaking heat.more