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The United States kicked off their World Cup campaign with a dominant 4-1 win against Paraguay in Los Angeles on Friday, setting the tone for Group D. Despite the immense...
When people talk about defence, they usually think of tanks, drones or border fortifications. Peatlands are rarely the first thing that comes to mind.
Despite their higher costs, the Netherlands and Luxembourg still reported the highest levels of internet usage in the EU in 2025, according to Eurostat. Rural areas in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Denmark, meanwhile, reported the highest internet connectivity rates in 2025, each also more than 99%.
The Beatles and Apple Corps Ltd, the British multimedia company established by the band in the 1960s, have announced official Global Beatles Day. The former Beatle announced a special live event in London, at the Roundhouse in Camden Town, set to take place next week (10 June).
Microsoft has unveiled a family of seven in-house AI models at its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco, in the clearest sign yet that the tech giant is moving to reduce its dependence on the AI companies it has poured billions into. The headline release is MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft's first reasoning model, trained from scratch on clean, commercially licensed data without distillation from third-party systems. A mid-sized model with 35 billion active parameters and a 256,000-token context window, it is designed for complex multi-step instructions, long-context reasoning and code generation.
The sea is no longer just a transport route or an economic resource, but the centre of a silent yet crucial strategic contest. Disrupting this infrastructure could halt banking transactions worth billions of euros and cut off the energy supply of entire countries. This is why underwater defence has become a global market estimated at around €50 billion a year.
Vera Jourová, who oversaw rule of law and values during her time at the European Commission, has told Euronews that the current US administration worries her more than the threats posed by Russia or China. Last Friday, Hungary's new government struck a deal with Brussels to unlock billions of euros in EU funds that had been frozen over concerns about corruption and rule-of-law violations.
European shares were mostly higher on Friday, and oil prices slipped as investor sentiment was fuelled by expectations of a deal between the US and Iran to extend the ceasefire in the war by 60 days. Iran has not publicly confirmed the deal, and the tentative agreement was still awaiting sign-off from US President Donald Trump. In other company news from Europe, pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk is drawing attention after France announced to become the first country in Europe to reimburse weight-loss drugs, including the company's flagship products.
