Europe

Blackpink’s Rosé longs to be ‘anonymous’

June 1, 2025

Blackpink star Rosé dreams of "being anonymous" because it would give her more "freedom". The 28-year-old pop singer shot to international fame with the girl group back in 2016, but she goes to great lengths to disguise herself – even dressing up like an old woman so she could walk the streets without being recognised […]

Kylian Mbappé becomes the second Frenchman to win European scoring title

May 30, 2025

While he didn’t win the UEFA Champions League in his first season at Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé (26) took home a big individual honour over the weekend. The French captain netted a brace in Real Madrid’s 2-0 victory over Real Sociedad on the final day of the La Liga campaign. He ends his first campaign […]

US says it will start revoking visas for Chinese students

May 30, 2025

Summary Move could endanger source of income for US universities There were 277,000 Chinese students at US colleges in 2024 Trump administration did not say how many to be affected WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday the United States will start "aggressively" revoking visas of Chinese students, […]

Qatar bid to complete football with PSG project’s crowd-pleasing third act

May 30, 2025

Put a bisht on it. That’s a wrap. At first glance it might be tempting to see the 2025 Champions League final as one of the more obviously high-European occasions in recent football history. Twenty thousand Parisians and Milanese will trace out a thousand mile right-angle this weekend, north from Lombardy, east across Alsace and […]

How the West is helping Russia to fund its war on Ukraine

May 30, 2025

How the West is helping Russia to fund its war on Ukraine 8 hours ago Share Save Vitaly Shevchenko Russia editor, BBC Monitoring Share Save Getty Images In the fourth year of its full-scale invasion, Russia is still making billions for its war on Ukraine by selling fossil fuels abroad Russia has continued to make […]

Trump warns Putin is ‘playing with fire’ after declaring the Russian president has ‘gone absolutely CRAZY’

May 30, 2025

President Donald Trump asserted on Tuesday that many "bad things" would have befallen Russia if it were not for him, warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "playing with fire!" "What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I […]

‘Does he know anything?’: Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev on Trump’s plans to legitimise Russian annexation

May 30, 2025

When Mustafa Dzhemilev read the news about Donald Trump’s plan for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, he could not believe his eyes. Part of the US administration’s peace plan, say recent reports, would involve Washington recognising annexed Crimea as legitimate Russian territory, among other concessions to the Kremlin that Trump hopes might stop […]

Stablecoins: the first ‘killer app’ for Blockchain?

May 30, 2025

In the last few weeks, the already rapid pace of change around digital money has accelerated in the UK and worldwide. The UK government released a statutory instrument outlining long-awaited proposals for crypto assets, including stablecoins, Hong Kong passed their first stablecoin bill and the GENIUS act cleared the first hurdle in the US Congress, […]

SUI price chart hints at 2x rally amid Nasdaq ETF filing

May 30, 2025

Sui (SUI) is making a strong technical case for a 100% price rally in the coming weeks, helped further by a slew of optimistic updates, such as the recent Nasdaq ETF filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Gooner EMA support raises 40% SUI bounce potential As of May 28, SUI has reclaimed […]

Eurovision 2025 watched by 166 million

May 29, 2025

The Eurovision Song Contest confirmed its place as the world's biggest live televised music event with 166 million viewers in 37 countries watching the 2025 competition, organisers have said. This year's 69th edition in Basel, Switzerland, attracted three million more viewers than last year's contest in Malmö, Sweden, said the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The […]