An analysis by Climate Central calculates that, between 2020 and 2025, nighttime heat caused the average person to lose about 56 hours of sleep per year. Of that time, about six hours — roughly equivalent to a full night of rest — are directly attributable to global warming caused by human activity.
The European Commission has today imposed a fine of 550 million euros on AliExpress for the Chinese platform’s failure to control risks related to the sale in the European Union of illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products on its electronic marketplace. This includes everything from toys to dangerous cosmetics that circulated freely on the platform and, in many cases, remained online for weeks after being detected until they were removed. The company intends to appeal what it calls a “disproportionate” sanction, Reuters reports.
A thirteen-year-old teenager has died in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca) and three other people have been seriously injured due to the collapse of a fountain while they were participating in the celebrations of the Spanish national team’s victory in the Football World Cup.
Playing the joker, or the jester in this case, is overrated. Or worse, it can be reckless. Karoline Leavitt can attest firsthand that it’s often better to keep quiet. President Donald Trump’s press secretary made a prediction Saturday night, with her typical irony armed with the usual superiority in this United States government, and it backfired.
The Government has defended this Thursday, with an extensive document, the loan of 53 million euros granted on March 9, 2021 to the airline Plus Ultra. A financial aid, charged to the support fund for the solvency of strategic companies after the coronavirus pandemic crisis, now in the eye of the legal, political, and media storm following the indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged corruption crimes that would have their origin in this Executive rescue.
French entrepreneur Pierre-Édouard Stérin, founder of Smartbox experience gift boxes and one of the country’s biggest fortunes, has opened a new front of debate in France by asking to change inheritance law to exclude his five children from his inheritance and donate his entire estate.
Eduardo Mendoza has been signing books at Sant Jordi for over half a century (he published his first novel, The Truth About the Savolta Case, in 1975), but never until today had he had to do so accompanied by a bodyguard. An ironic comment about the May 23rd celebration (one must say Book Day, he came to say, because the figure of the saint “has nothing to do with books or writers, Sant Jordi was an animal abuser and probably couldn’t read”) ignited the flame of indignation in pro-independence sectors, with the Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya (Junts’ youth wing) announcing a campaign for the Generalitat to withdraw his Creu de Sant Jordi, and from the anonymity of social media, there was even a call to burn the author’s books, taking advantage of the Sant Joan bonfires.
The bulls from the Jandilla ranch in Mérida have lived up to their reputation for being fast and dangerous, leaving behind a hectic and dangerous final run of the Sanfermines. The bulls have fallen several times and have charged at the runners.
The chief of the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Josep Naharro, stated this Tuesday that the investigators are working with the hypothesis that the gunman who on Sunday afternoon emptied the magazine of his automatic pistol in Badalona, had the objective to “intimidate” a rival family in the drug market. And that “it was an accident” that one of the bullets ricocheted and injured a 10-year-old girl who was near Còrdoba street, in the Sant Roc neighborhood.