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Louise Miner

Cult

Father and Son company made €3.4 million selling funky socks!

In just a year and a half, John's Crazy Socks have shipped over 115,000 orders, created 35 jobs and raised over €115,000 for charity

France

Macron scandal continues with opposition criticising the President

The French President told his party Tuesday night that the security aide scandal was his responsibility but it's prompted furious opposition claims of an attempted cover-up, which the government denies

Greece

Greece: Door to door searches for the missing

Rescue teams are combing through the area and the sea, trying to locate anything which could offer clarity on the missing as people come to terms with the blaze that ripped through the coastal town of Mati

Italy

Former Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne has died

The 66-year-old had fallen gravely ill after what the company had described as shoulder surgery in a Zurich hospital

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France

Macron: "The only person responsible for this case is me"

Six days after the Benalla case broke, Emmanuel Macron ended his silence at a meeting with his party's MPs Tuesday night over the security aide scandal

France

Macron: 'I'm responsible, let them come and get me!'

Emmanuel Macron says he is responsible for incident which saw protester beaten up, but stops short of saying sorry.

Business

Four airlines complain to European Commission about French strikes

Ryanair, Easyjet, IAG and Wizz Air believe France is breaking EU law by not enabling flights to fly over the country during air traffic controller strikes

Greece

Greece fires: Twenty-six people found dead hugging each other in a field

They had left their cars in panic and ran towards the sea. But they were trapped over a cliff as the flames reached the coast

Business

Alphabet shrugs off EU fine as earnings beat expectations

Alphabet's total revenue for the three months to the end of June is €27 billion ($32.66 billion). Eighty-six percent of which came from Google's advertising business

World News

Analysis of extreme global weather

Head of Climate Modelling Laboratory, Department of Sustainability, Gianmaria Sannino says, “A weakening of the jet stream is keeping large portions of hot air, basically anticyclones, stable in the same areas: Japan, Canada, California and of course Northern Europe, Scandinavia and the UK”

Cult

Beiteddine Art Festival in Lebanon is a real treat

The annual summer event takes place in the large 200-year-old Beiteddine Palace in the Chouf Mountains in the southeast of Beirut. The Spanish flamenco dance group performed dance adaptations of Federico Garcia Lorca's "Blood Wedding"

Greece

Greece wildfires: Seven hundred people rescued by boat

Hundreds of people in Greece ran to the sea to save their lives from the wildfires. A Navy Frigate retrieved at least 4 dead people from the sea

Netherlands

Thousands march to highlight the issues still surrounding AIDS virus

Amsterdam's hosting the AIDS 2018 conference with over 15,000 participants this week

Switzerland

Smart phones could damage our memory side of the brain

That's according to a study with 700 adolescents at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute who believe that memory is more vulnerable to waves when the phone is stuck to the right ear as that side is related to memory

Cult

Summer festivals 2018

Three European festivals to visit this year are the Globaltica World Cultures Festival in Poland, the Salzburg Festival in Austria and the Boom festival in Portugal highlighting diverse music and drama from around the world

United Kingdom

Four men arrested over acid attack on toddler

The four men aged between 22 and 39 have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after the three year old suffered from burns to his face and arm

Cult

Astronaut jams live from space with Kraftwerk

Electronic music fans were in for a treat when they went to watch Kraftwerk perform at the Jazz Festival in Stuttgart. When they performed their 1978 song " Spacelab" a German astronaut dropped in from space, on a live feed

Business

Ryanair shares drop sharply

It comes as the Irish airline has warned its investors of more strikes and weaker ticket prices this summer

France

French Interior Minister "I was never informed" over the security advisor scandal

Gerard Collomb attended a hearing at the National Assembly's committee on Monday over the case of President Emmanuel Macron's security adviser, Benalla, who's been indicted for hitting demonstrators

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Education is the key to the future of the country

The Minister of Education, Mirwais Balkhi visits a school hit by an explosion in January in Kabul as President Ghani may ask the Taliban for a ceasefire during next months Eid holiday on 22 August

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