Posts from the accounts included one making the debunked claim that vaccines create viral variants and another that wished death upon police officers who broke up violent anti-lockdown protests in Berlin. | Continue reading
Europe-based automakers are pledging to drop petrol and diesel to go all-electric, but how long will it take? | Continue reading
French healthcare workers had until Wednesday to get at least one dose of the vaccine after vaccination was made compulsory for them in mid-July. | Continue reading
Cheaper to run and more environmentally friendly, these converted electric vintage cars have been given a new lease of life. | Continue reading
The crackdown in Belarus may have stopped public dissent, but as these hackers suggest, it could be just driving it underground. | Continue reading
Chemours, a spin-off from DuPont - which was featured in the Hollywood film Dark Waters - is being sued in the EU Court of Justice. | Continue reading
Approximately 24 million people are affected by Alzheimer’s worldwide and that number is expected to double due to the ageing population. | Continue reading
Ukraine is the fifth country in as many weeks to set up ground rules for digital currencies, following El Salvador’s move to use Bitcoin as legal tender. | Continue reading
The crew reported noticing smoke and the smell of burnt plastic. | Continue reading
Nearly 60% of both oil and fossil methane gas and almost 90% of coal must remain in the ground by 2050, researchers said, in order to keep global warming below 1.5°C. | Continue reading
The Ethereum co-founder has in the past listed Qantas airlines as his place of residence. | Continue reading
The Turkish data protection authority said that WhatsApp no longer offered users "free will". | Continue reading
The decision to regulate cryptocurrencies in Cuba comes as El Salvador makes history when its Bitcoin law comes into effect on September 7. | Continue reading
SpaceX has forced Europe’s space industry to come up with out-of-this-world ideas to compete in the satellite launching sector. | Continue reading
The proposed new rules will make it harder to use crypto to launder proceeds of crime, the European Commission said. | Continue reading
AR business Magic Leap is working with US surgeons to help them tackle complex procedures in a move the company hopes will help change its fortunes. | Continue reading
Tens of thousands of extra tourists are making Hawaii’s roads, beaches, and restaurants practically unusable. | Continue reading
It may not be shocking that bottled water is bad for the environment, but scientists have crunched the numbers to work out exactly how much worse it is. | Continue reading
60 years after the Berlin Wall divided the city, a new app aims to give history buffs an immersive experience of this pivotal moment in the Cold War era. | Continue reading
"I decided that I would set aside a month in my diary and set out on a journey into the unknown from the back garden of my London home, armed with nothing more than a bivvy, a backpack and a devil-may-care attitude. " | Continue reading
As the climate crisis intensifies, policymakers are betting heavily on a rail renewal to lower emissions and transform mobility on the continent. | Continue reading
Police departments say they're putting robot dogs to work, but critics say they can be invasive and dehumanising. | Continue reading
Privacy. Trust. Poor implementation. A new study says these are some of the reasons why contact tracing apps haven’t helped us beat the pandemic. | Continue reading
The countries ahead on vaccinations, relatively speaking, are those outside the EU, like Serbia and the UK. Hungary is the exception, but Budapest has bought doses from Russia and China to boost its stocks. | Continue reading
The hackers, both from Belarus, connected electronic devices to cash machines to get them to release thousands of euros. | Continue reading
BioNTech says the insights it has gained from developing an mRNA vaccine against the coronavirus could help developing shots for malaria, a disease that infects millions of people every year. | Continue reading
The European Commission recently announced it wants to ban the sale of all petrol and diesel cars by 2035. #BrusselsBureau | Continue reading
Over one hundred baby birds escaped their nests to save themselves during the US heatwave. | Continue reading
The Netherlands’ Data Protection Authority has fined TikTok €750,000 for not offering an understandable privacy statement for users in Dutch. | Continue reading
A British man was arrested in Spain over his alleged role in the high-profile Twitter hack last summer that targeted US politicians, celebrities and tech moguls. | Continue reading
Daily cases soared to 18,000 on Tuesday and Castex claimed 96% of these infections were in unvaccinated people. | Continue reading
The UK has been under heatwave conditions in recent days but temperatures will climb further this week, possibly reaching 33°C in some western parts, the Met Office said. | Continue reading
A new study found violent crime in Boston rose in areas home to the short-term rentals, even as crimes involving tourists remained at similar levels. | Continue reading
The ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) states that the ban "may be justified by the employer's need to present itself in a neutral manner to customers or to prevent social conflicts." | Continue reading
The European Medicines Agency says two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine are needed to protect against the more contagious Delta variant. | Continue reading
The European Central Bank has grand plans to create a digital version of the euro to rival Bitcoin and government-backed cryptocurrencies. Is there any space left for it? | Continue reading
Many are excited about the future uses of 5G: from connecting devices in real-time to sailing a boat remotely from hundreds of kilometres away. | Continue reading
Speaking at the trial Mila -- now aged 18 -- testified that she doesn't like "any religion, not just Islam," and that the online hate messages made her feel like she had been "condemned to death". | Continue reading
Avaaz found 240 pieces of fact-checked misinformation about COVID-19 that was spreading on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.This content had reportedly been liked, shared, and commented on more than 2.8 million times. | Continue reading
Detecting "biosignatures" from a moving helicopter is the first step towards detecting alien life from orbit, the researchers said. | Continue reading
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Brussels and AstraZeneca both claim victory in court battle over COVID-19 vaccine deliveries | Continue reading
MEPs voted in favour of banning the practice of caged animal farming, with 558 in favour, 37 against and 85 abstentions. #BrusselsBureau | Continue reading
We report from Denmark where the arrival of new species like tuna and anchovy is a sign of the big shifts underway as the ocean waters warm due to climate change. #ClimateNow | Continue reading
German authorities have launched proceedings against Telegram that could see the messenger app’s operators fined for failing to abide by laws. | Continue reading
Google said it had agreed on changes to improve its online ad market after being fined by France's competition watchdog. | Continue reading
EU citizens who sign up for the app will be able to store and verify IDs, passwords, and payments safely and securely. | Continue reading
The cross-border instrument will allow EU citizens to open bank accounts, file tax returns and enrol in university. #BrusselsBureau | Continue reading