Europe Serbia The second line of the Belgrade metro will be designed by a joint collaboration of the City, JKP Belgrade Metro and Train and the company Egis Rail
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt is the new International High Representative for Bosnia, in charge of ensuring the civilian implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement and protecting the country's territorial integrity
Europe Switzerland The 74 Locarno Film Festival celebrates today 50 years on the Piazza Grande - sitting 8.000 spectators with one of the best giant screens in the world - with the animated film "Yaya and Lennie - The Walking Liberty" by Neapolitan director Alessandro Rak
Europe Albania Mobile operator One Telecommunications has completed its network modernization and now offers its users 4G+ technology, 98.5% coverage and enhanced security
Europe Portugal The latest censuses carried out in the country indicate the beginning of the announced decline in the Portuguese population, which in 50 years will lose two million inhabitants, with great disparity between the inhabited urban centres and the increasingly
Europe Italy According to 'I am Culture 2021’ - the annual report by the Symbola Foundation and Unioncamere - the cultural and creative production system of 2020 amounted to €84.6 billion, 5.7% of the Italian added value
Europe North Macedonia A state of emergency will be in effect throughout the month as fires across the country are still causing severe damage and the evacuation of thousands of people
Europe Lithuania China has announced it will recall its ambassador to Lithuania and asked Vilnius to do the same as the Baltic country would allow Taiwan to open a representation, which, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, violates the One China policy
Europe United Kingdom 11-year-old Max Woosey has slept its 500th night in a row in the tent he planted in his garden as he launched a crowdfunding campaign for a local hospice in financial crisis, promising he would sleep there at the end of every day he received a donation
Europe Ireland At a time when chess is enjoying great local popularity partly thanks to the Netflix series 'The Chess Queen', Mark Heidenfeld - following in his father's footsteps - recently won the 100th Irish Chess Championship
Europe Austria Another snake has been found in a toilet in Lower Austria: an innocuous Aesculapian snake was in a home toilet cistern in Breitenfurt one month after a man was bitten by a 1.6m python during an early-morning visit to the toilet at his home
Europe Switzerland The exceptionally wet and cold weather strongly penalized tourism in a summer were most bookings were domestic; after a survey of sector members, Switzerland Tourism forecasts figures around 40% under the record year 2019
Europe Denmark Three years after Denmark's Social Democrats promised that no school should have more than 30% non-Western students, the proportion of schools that do is stuck at the same 5% level it was when the promise was made, sparking widespread protest