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€4.12bn competition fine against Google to be upheld by EU’s highest court
An EU court adviser has backed a €4.12bn competition fine against Google, dealing a blow to the tech giant’s chances of overturning it. The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has announced its advocate general Juliane...

How many economic losses from climate-related events has Europe suffered since 1980?
Published on 04/07/2025 - 14:56 GMT+2 Europe has experienced over €790 billion in economic losses due to extreme weather and climate-related events from 1980 to 2023, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Germany suffered...

Asteroid Day Gains Momentum With U.S. Recognition From Flagstaff, Coconino County, U.S. Senate, And Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Release
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) LUXEMBOURG, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asteroid Foundation, working in collaboration with B612 Foundation, founding sponsor of Asteroid Day, is proud to announce significant advancements in the global recognition of...

10 countries where people are the happiest in 2025
If happiness were a passport, these countries would be first-class destinations. According to the newly released World Happiness Report 2025, Finland is still holding tight to its crown as the happiest country in the world. This marks the eighth...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...

Global shift: Investors flee USD on Trump risk, EU gains
“Suddenly everything I ever wanted has passed me by – I’m crying in the rain”: The immortal lines to Dionne Warwick’s 1980s iconic hit could end up being a bitter corollary to Donald Trump's United States presidency. His wrecking ball economic...

EU initiative "Stop Killing Games" reaches one million signatures
Goal reached: One million signatures have been collected. (Image source: Stop Killing Games) For a long time, it looked as though the EU initiative "Stop Killing Games" was doomed to fail. Initially, all metrics pointed to success, but then the...

IQ-EQ Adds Managing Directors in Singapore, Japan
Luxembourg-based investor services firm IQ-EQ has expanded with the hire of new managing directors in Singapore as well as Japan. IQ-EQ has appointed Divya Doshi as managing director, sales for Asia and the Middle East, according to a statement,...

Fantasia Fest Reveals Third Wave Of 2025 Films: Queens Of The Dead, Fixed, It Ends, More
Fantasia International Film Festival has announced a strong final wave of films for its 2025 edition including Tina Romero’s Queens Of the Dead and more. The biggest genre film festival in North America announced the third wave of titles on...

Fantasia International Film Festival announces final wave of titles for 29th edition!
The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 16th (one day earlier than previously announced) through August 3rd at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with additional screenings...
Autonomous driving innovation fuels AI reach worldwide
BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) -- On the outskirts of Beijing, a self-driving bus navigated effortlessly through traffic, demonstrating China's rapidly advancing autonomous driving technology. Developed by UISEE, a Beijing-based unicorn, this solution...

Spain overtakes Japan in GDP per capita - what is behind the numbers?
What once seemed improbable became possible when the Spanish economy produced higher GDP per capita, a metric closely linked to living standards, than the G7 member Japan, according to IMF data. This, in itself, doesn’t mean that the Southern...

Royal Teen Prince’s Secret DJ Career Revealed
Prince Emmanuel, the 19-year-old son of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, is pursuing a new career path. The royal teen has started releasing music under the DJ name “Vyntrix,” releasing two dance tracks on Spotify in the last month....

Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe
The UK has historically been held up as leading democracy with free and fair elections. However, our new report shows election quality in the UK is now ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe. The Global Electoral Integrity Report...

Philips’ new ambient wall light is now available
Signify has officially announced its new Philips Hue Play Wall Washer light, which was previously leaked by Amazon UK earlier this month. The company has also launched its new Philips Hue AI assistant in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg,...

Upwards of 100K people march in Budapest Pride
The governments of 20 European Union countries on Tuesday said they are “alarmed” over Hungary’s worsening anti-LGBTQ crackdown. Hungarian lawmakers in March passed a bill that bans Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition...

The future is being written for listening to the radio in cars
Listening to the radio in the car is almost as old as the automobile itself. The very first time anyone demonstrated the operation of the new-fangled wireless devices was at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis when American inventor Lee DeForest...
China Focus: Autonomous driving innovation fuels AI reach worldwide
BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) -- On the outskirts of Beijing, a self-driving bus navigated effortlessly through traffic, demonstrating China's rapidly advancing autonomous driving technology. Developed by UISEE, a Beijing-based unicorn, this solution...

Notre Dame Law School Professors Sadie Blanchard and Sherif Girgis granted tenure and promoted to full professor
Two members of the Notre Dame Law School faculty, Sadie Blanchard and Sherif Girgis, have been granted tenure and promoted to full professor effective July 1, 2025. "Sadie Blandard and Sherif Girgis are both exemplary voices in legal scholarship....

In Paris, these extraordinary museums hide unique treasures
Paris is a city of museums, nearly 150 by my unofficial count. Beyond the state-owned grandes dames — the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and Versailles (if you define a palace as a museum) — there are free city museums (the Petit Palais and the...