Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, spent a week exchanging messages with someone impersonating one of the most powerful figures in the White House – without realizing he was being deceived.
Renovation workers converting a former Belgian brewery into housing for the homeless uncovered dozens of gold bars believed to have belonged to a wealthy 19th-century brewing family. Further digging turned up hundreds of gold coins, including British sovereigns from the Victorian era.
Police examining possibility that missing Israeli mother and daughter packed their belongings, checked out of their hotel Saturday morning in Vienna and left voluntarily. Their phones were located near a train station but could not be traced afterward.
Totality was visible in northern Spain and parts of Iceland, Greenland and Portugal, while most of Europe saw only a partial eclipse: "It looked as though someone had punched a hole in the sky."
The French magazine L’Express assembled 60 intelligence experts from 25 countries to determine which spy agency is Europe’s best. Britain’s MI6 took first place thanks to its “extraordinary” human intelligence capabilities, while Ukraine’s intelligence services surpassed several prestigious European agencies.
Russian Aerospace Forces Commander Aleksandr Chayko was reportedly due to celebrate his birthday at the restaurant where the explosion occurred. Russian authorities have not confirmed whether he was present or injured. No organization has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Massive wildfires are raging simultaneously in Spain, Britain, Corsica and Greece, where three firefighters were killed and thousands of tourists were evacuated from vacation resorts.
Claims circulated on Spanish social media that Israel and the US were behind the migrant crisis in Ceuta because of their tensions with the Sánchez government and close ties with Morocco. Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente fueled the conspiracy theories by sharing a post in which Danny Danon attacked Madrid, adding: “Well, things are starting to become quite clear.”
More than 1,500 migrants, including minors, attempted to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco over the past week, overwhelming its reception centers. Authorities are struggling to cope with the unusual influx, the cause of which remains unclear.
Sirens sounded overnight in the eastern Polish city of Lublin amid a widespread wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine. Firefighters and emergency personnel were dispatched shortly afterward to a nearby village following reports of an explosion, where they found a huge crater about 10 meters (33 feet) wide.
