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“Youth unemployment in the UK is at its highest level in a decade, with roughly 735,000 people aged 16 to 24 out of work in the months February to April 2026.”
“United Nations estimates that there are up to 50,000 civilians trapped in the area.”
“According to Swim England, nearly 7 million people swim outdoors every year, while nearly two-and-a-half million choosing open water swimming, and Canary Wharf is proud that one of the best new facilities is right here with us.”
“Our research shows that 39% of people feel more productive after time outdoors, while 69% say being in nature helps spark creative and innovative thinking.”
“Some of the UK’s estimated 600,000 people called Mark have been called upon...”
“The On Your Marks golf day will take 88 people called Mark and aim to raise £88,000 for charity...”
“He’s also been part of organising an annual Marks’ lunch within the media industry for 35 years.”
“...on 21 September, when the world record attempt takes place”
“It is estimated that a group of people in numbers equal to the population of Sheffield have the name...”
“Musk alongside a few other SpaceX insiders will be granted 10 votes per Class B share, while public shareholders will receive one vote to each Class A share they own”
“Raoul Ruparel said the turn of events would be a “wake up call” for countries other than the US and China as potential “security and economic disparities” may emerge.”
“The saga – which has been brewing since the beginning of 2024 – relates to the use of ‘secret’ commission deals between lenders and dealers that left customers in the dark.”
“OPEC+ – agreed to hike output targets to 188,000 barrels per day from August.”
“This followed increases in June and July and sent the international benchmark for oil prices, Brent crude, 0.5 per cent lower to a fourth-month low of $71.19 per barrel.”
“Ships have also began passing through the Strait of Hormuz – which transported a fifth of global oil supply prior to the break-out of war in February – with 160 vessels crossing the narrow waterway between Monday and Saturday last week.”
“Pubs, a quintessential cornerstone of British communities, are closing at the rate of around one a day, according to the British Beer and Pub Association.”
“Although the practice is now banned, between 1946 and 1993, 14 European countries – including France and the UK – carried out dumping operations at more than 80 locations in the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific.”
“In the northeast Atlantic, home to the most concentrated stretch of this radioactive marine waste, some 200,000 barrels lie at a depth of 4,000 metres.”
“In 2000, the environmental NGO Greenpeace filmed barrels of waste at the site closest to the French coast, the Casquets trench in the English Channel, used to dump waste by Belgium and the UK. Their footage showed the rusting barrels were …”
“It was not until 1975 that the London Convention’s moratorium came into force. And it was only in the early 1990s that the disposal of industrial and radioactive waste at sea was definitively banned.”
“Precise data on the dumping operations remains patchy, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), “due to the different ways in which records on disposal operations have been kept in different countries”.”
“Back in 1980, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) carried out a review of the “continued suitability of the dumping site for radioactive waste in the northeast Atlantic”. As the seawater samples collected showed no increase in radioactivity co…”
“Citing figures from Germany's statistics office (Destatis), the IW suggests net migration into Germany fell to 235,000 people in 2025, down from 663,000 in 2023 and the lowest level recorded since 2010, excluding peak years of the Covid pa…”
“According to official figures, first-time asylum applications dropped from 329,000 in 2023 to 113,000 in 2025.”
“Ukrainians continue to make up Germany’s largest single source of net migration according to the latest figures. Net migration from Ukraine fell from 116,000 people in 2024 to 89,000 in 2025, but it remained well ahead of other nationaliti…”
“In 2025, around 45,000 more EU citizens left Germany than arrived. Just two years earlier that number was completely flipped: in 2023 roughly 42,000 EU citizens had moved to Germany for work.”
“The study found net emigration among German citizens increased from 74,000 people in 2023 to 97,000 in 2025. Lead author Wido Geis-Thöne said the figures had not yet reached a critical level but described the nearly 30 percent increase ove…”
“the IW report suggests that immigration specifically linked to filling skilled jobs appears to be remaining relatively stable. Between the end of 2023 and the end of 2025, the number of residence permits issued for employment rose by 13.6 …”
“US OPEN officials believe a Monday night finish is a distinct possibility”
“the United States Golf Association reluctant to declare a champion until 72 holes have been played.”
“...Argentina team who failed to register a single shot on target in 120 minutes.”
“"We have won everything, and that is wonderful," Spain coach Luis de la Fuente said of his team.”
“The two-man crew of a firefighting helicopter was killed in a midair collision in Greece Sunday”
“Two hired Bell helicopters collided while battling a wildfire in the Psatha area west of Athens”
“The helicopters had been leased from Australia's McDermott Aviation, part of a fleet of 15”
“Vathrakogiannis said 220 forest and agricultural fires had broken out around the country since Monday”
“winds that had reached 100 kilometres (60 miles) an hour”
“over 6,500 hectares (16,000 acres) had been burned in separate fires on the Gulf of Corinth”
“fires on the islands of Crete and Paros affected another 6,000 hectares”
“fires around Porto Germeno appeared to have affected an area of over 10,000 hectares”
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“Authorities in Gaza said Saturday that they had recovered the remains of another 112 people in rubble”
“The remains included those of 40 children, 38 women and seven people who had had physical disabilities”
“Gaza authorities said that seven people were killed in Israeli strikes”
“Some 110,000 people have been evacuated from areas threatened by wildfires in France's southwest that have scorched 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres), Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said Friday.”
“Spanish has declared a national emergency after a series of blazes threatened communities near Madrid, forcing more than 10,000 people to evacuate.”
“Spanish authorities have ordered the evacuation of 7,000 more people from two new localities west of Madrid that are threatened by wildfires. Emergency messages were sent to the phones of people in the two villages affected. The evacuation…”
“There is little time left before the major 6,000-hectare fire in the Madrid region 'merges' with the 9,000-hectare fire in Castile and León, the regional governor of Castile said.”
“The fire raging to the north of the Arcachon Bay area has already 'destroyed' more than 12,500 hectares of forest and led to the evacuation of 44,000 people in two days, the Gironde prefecture said.”
“At least 900 fires broke out in Tunisia over a 72-hour period, a senior official told reporters on Friday”
“The fire near Brignoles broke out Wednesday afternoon and burned some 100 hectares (250 acres), local officials said.”
“French authorities have ended the evacuation of 12 districts in the west and southwest of Bordeaux, allowing 144,000 people out of more than 220,000 to return home, Gironde prefect Sophie Brocas said in a statement on Friday.”
“The closure of the strait, through which a fifth of the world's traded oil and gas passed during peacetime, has jolted the global economy”
“"Together, these two agreements lay the legal foundation for a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership that advances several priority economic and strategic objectives, including nuclear nonproliferation," the US Energy Department s…”
“A projectile struck a tanker Wednesday in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia, British naval security monitor UKMTO said in a statement... UKMTO reported sailors controlling the first tanker said it was "struck by an unknown projectile which has …”
“Trump threatened to knock out one Iranian bridge or power plant in return for each attack on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, warning he was "not finished" with a war that has already cost Washington $37.5 billion.”
“"We can confirm that the Houthis were recorded transmitting a warning message to ships in the region," the ICS said.”
“This time the US Secret Service took no chances... The venue was changed from the Hilton to the Waldorf Astoria, a former Trump hotel.”
“From 9-12 July, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is an unmissable fixture on the season’s social calendar...”
“The paddock area will mark the 60th anniversary of Ford shattering years of Ferrari dominance with its famous clean sweep at Le Mans in 1966...”
“Three original Ford GT MkIIs will be reunited...”
“...as the festival celebrates 75 years of Ferrari’s success in Formula One.”
“...Goodwood celebrates the 50th anniversary of his legendary title battle with Niki Lauda.”
“...one of around 600 machines howling up the famed 1.16-mile hillclimb...”
“In a recent study, the researchers highlight a global trend: The wealthier people — and societies — grow, the less they sleep. Surprisingly, this holds true both at the individual and national levels”
“He would then display the bodies in lifelike poses, revealing their muscles, skeletons and internal organs in exhibitions that drew millions worldwide but also occasionally faced calls for bans.”
“Von Hagens was born on January 10, 1945, in what was Nazi-occupied Poland and grew up in communist East Germany.”
“Von Hagens died on Friday, according to his his team who praised him as "a pioneer, a researcher, an inventor" and an "iconoclastic and sometimes controversial thinker" who through his work made "anatomy accessible to the general public".”
“through which about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flowed before the war.”
“Iran effectively shut the strait to ships other than its own after the United States and Israel attacked on February 28.”
“Washington and Tehran reached an agreement in June on a framework for talks meant to take place by the end of August to resolve major issues such as Iran's nuclear programme.”
“It is a shame, young people are dying... All this has to be stopped”
“Russia had twice hit a civilian vessel carrying almost 2,800 tons of corn as it left the port of Odesa Saturday. The ship caught fire and seven crew members and a Ukrainian pilot had to be rescued, but two other crew members were missing”
“Ukrainian drones have caused nationwide fuel shortages and disrupted ordinary life in Russia more than at any point during more than four years of war. Russia said Saturday it would extend a fuel export ban until the end of the year.”
“The expedition comprised 10 people – including Purja, five Nepalis, a Pakistani, an Omani, an American, and a climber from China.”
“The avalanche struck while the mountaineers were on a mission to summit Broad Peak (8,047 metres, or 26,400 feet) on Thursday and while the team was ascending at an altitude of around 6,600 metres, according to regional authorities.”
“Research from GWI consumer research platform found public support for tougher action on social media access remains high. Some 61 per cent of UK parents back age verification for social media and 71 per cent cited cyberbullying as one of t…”
“According to data obtained by former Big Bend National Park superintendent Bob Krumenaker and published by Public Domain, CPB conducted between 100 and 125 arrests annually within the national park in 2023 and 2024.”
“you’re able to produce a figure saying these [any welfare] reforms will push 200,000 more people into poverty”
“Based on satellite images, UNESCO, the UN cultural organisation, has verified damage to 94 cultural sites in the Gaza Strip, including 12 religious buildings and seven archaeological sites.”
“Cultural sites in Gaza have paid a heavy price since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, a devastating conflict that has damaged more than 90 percent of homes, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (UN…”
“A selection of 87 of those works goes on display at the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute, or IMA) in Paris on Thursday, giving viewers a rare chance to sample Gaza’s rich and diverse heritage, much of which has been bombed int…”
“‘Our estimate is that Israeli bombardment has now wiped out half of what was left,’ he said, adding that the site he worked on for years at Anthedon was ‘lost’.”
“The amphoras and other artefacts now displayed at the IMA first arrived in Geneva in 2006 to be shown at an exhibition inaugurated by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. They had been meant to form the foundation of an archaeological muse…”
“Kuwait said Tehran had hit power and water desalination plants over several days, including on Monday, forcing residents to ration energy.”
“There has been a feeling of nervous anticipation in Docklands area, what with people losing their jobs and fears about repossessions. There has been some of that but not nearly at the levels that the pessimists have been expecting.”
“Examples include a flat under offer in the Naxos Building for £895,000 – the price-tag four years ago was £1.25m.”
“Or a two-bed warehouse conversion at Telford Yard in Wapping – now on for £650,000 but it would have been over £800,000 at the peak of the market.”
“In general, prices have dropped 10-20 per cent since 2005.”
“But while last year buyers were hoping to get 20 or 30 per cent off the asking price, now between two and ten per cent is realistic.”
“Investors should expect around 4 per cent yield on their properties – Fisher says that’s about what’s being achieved in Docklands properties”
“a penthouse in St Katharine’s should earn about £1250 a week”
“and in West India Quay, £700 per week.”
“Fisher says there have actually been record offers on penthouses in the last month in St Katharine’s Dock.”
“The vast majority of properties are going to people who already own places,” he says”
“She was one of about a dozen returnees at the cafes of Aldea del Fresno”
“In the southeastern region of Var, however, more than 600 people were forced to flee after a fresh fire erupted”
“Another forest fire erupted in the eastern region of Burgundy near the city of Dijon, sweeping across 125 hectares but without causing any casualties or damage to homes, local officials said”
“In Spain, 207,000 hectares (511,000 acres) of land has burned nationwide, among the largest areas in any January to July period on record according to the European Forest Fire Information System”
“In France, some 92,000 hectares have burned over the same period -- the largest area ever documented in records that date back two decades”
