“At first my friends and myself thought that the players selected were a very personal choice of the coach and didn’t represent the opinion of most Spaniards,” said Jorge Gallego, a Spain fan in Madrid. “We didn’t expect to reach the final but throughout the tournament we started to realise …

Apple and Meta are the two big players but VR is a crowded market – there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of different headsets already out there. But what unites them all is none have quite hit the mainstream. Up until now, the Vision Pro has only been on sale in …

Last April, Mr Papperger’s garden house was set alight at Hermannsburg in northern Germany, although there has been no evidence of a Russian link. The fire was quickly brought under control and a rambling, anonymous confession purportedly from leftist militants appeared on activist network Indymedia. The reported plot against such …

US President Joe Biden mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” while speaking to reporters about Nato’s support for Ukraine. He later corrected himself, before Zelensky took the microphone. “President Putin?” Biden said, correcting himself. “President Zelensky. I’m so focused on beating Putin.” Source link

The sentence was seen as a clear sign that Russia was increasingly cracking down on public dissent. Speaking by video link from custody in the central city of Syzran, Orlov told the Moscow city court in his final statement that he regretted nothing and would not repent. “I’m in the …

Long-range US missiles are to be deployed periodically in Germany from 2026 for the first time since the Cold War, in a decision announced at Nato’s 75th anniversary summit. The Tomahawk cruise, SM-6 and hypersonic missiles have a significantly longer range than existing missiles, external, the US and Germany said …

A man has made history by becoming the first person to cross the Strait of Messina in Italy on foot. The journey across the 3.6km (2.4 mile) slackline took Estonia’s Jaan Roose almost three hours. He covered a distance longer than 30 football fields on webbed fabric that was only …

Berija Delic also lost her husband in the massacre. His remains were only found a decade later, and were buried in 2010. Last year, Berija decided to return to Srebrenica from Malta, where she sought refuge after the war. Her son, a Muslim, married a Serb Orthodox woman who “loves …

There are launch contracts to take the rocket through its first three years of operations. These include 18 launches for another US billionaire, Jeff Bezos, who wants to establish a constellation of internet satellites he calls Kuiper. European officials aim to have Ariane-6 flying roughly once a month. If this …

The director of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, hit on Monday by a deadly missile strike blamed on Russia, has said the attack was “real hell”. “Children and adults screamed in fear, wounded from pain” in Kyiv’s Ohmadyt hospital, Volodymyr Zhovnir told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. He said more …

Under French convention, the president names a prime minister from the winning party. However, Sunday’s election has left the country in political deadlock, with no obvious route to a government. The Popular Front won 182 seats, but the Macron alliance was not far behind with 168, while the far-right National …

World leaders allied to Ukraine have condemned the attack, including the new British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. He said “attacking innocent children” was “the most depraved of actions” and promised continued support for Kyiv after the change of government in the UK. Calling the strikes a “horrific reminder of …

The New Popular Front, a left-wing alliance cobbled together after Mr Macron called the elections, argues that as the leading group in the next National Assembly it has earned the right to choose a prime minister. They were due to meet on Monday to consider who to propose for the …

A children’s hospital has been seriously damaged in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, with the city’s mayor saying there had been casualties from a Russian strike. Footage posted on social media by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky shows smoke rising from Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital, and broken windows inside the now deserted medical …

Mr Zelensky, who is due to travel to the US for this week’s Nato summit in Washington, said Russia had “massively attacked” Ukraine. “Different cities: Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk. More than 40 missiles of various types. Residential buildings, infrastructure and a children’s hospital were damaged,” he said. Plumes …

France’s far-right National Rally was widely expected to win this snap election, but instead they were beaten into third place. A left-wing alliance called New Popular Front won the most seats, after a highly charged and abbreviated election called only four weeks ago by a weakened President Emmanuel Macron. National …

East of Bordeaux, RN candidate Sandrine Chadourne expected to easily take the seat she was standing in. But in the end, she was narrowly beaten because of voters like winemaker Paul Carrille, who said he viewed voting against the far right as his democratic duty. “Our institutions are strong. But …

That “alliance” was more of a pact, struck in the last week by opponents of the National Rally – that in many of the three-way races where the RN was in the lead, the third candidate would withdraw, urging voters to rally behind the figure best-placed to stop the far-right. …

A left-wing coalition called New Popular Front is on course for a surprise victory in France’s snap parliamentary election. France’s far-right National Rally (RN) was widely expected to win the election, but exit polls suggest they have been beaten into third place, behind President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance. New Popular …

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France Unbowed (LFI), tells supporters he is “so immensely relieved” as exit polls indicate a lead for his left-wing New Popular Front alliance. Many had expected the far-right National Rally (RN) to win a majority of seats in parliament, after a strong performance in the election’s …