An 18-year-old man was arrested in Budapest after attacking a food delivery courier with an axe during a road rage incident. The suspect allegedly swung the weapon after a minor traffic collision, narrowly missing the victim. Police later detained him in an apartment complex.

In an open letter on the website Greek City Times, modern-day Greeks denounced the lack of actual Greek representation in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie The Odyssey. This is just the latest in a number of controversies surrounding the casting of the film which features black actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy.

‘Are you feeling the heat of this week’s heatwave? It is easy to lay the blame at the feet of climate change, but a new MCC Brussels analysis identifies an important and unacknowledged cause of your hot misery: the European Union’s relentless drive for sustainability over human comfort.’

Two female residents of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, have been charged with health care fraud in US federal court after they allegedly submitted claims to the tune of $46.6 million for fraudulent services in a federal medicaid programme. According to media reports, some of the fraudulent money has been wired to Kenya.

A major new rare earth minerals agreement between US company REalloys and Greenland’s Tanbreez deposit has been made. It highlights Washington’s growing push to reduce dependence on Chinese supply chains. The deal also underscores Greenland’s increasing geopolitical importance to the Trump administration.

Scandals are mounting around Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain. The offices of his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in Madrid, Spain, have just been raided by police to collect evidence for a corruption investigation.

Romanian authorities broke through the wall of a monastery in Nagyvárad (Oradea) at dawn to enforce an eviction order against Hungarian Abbot Rudolf Anzelm Fejes. The dramatic operation came after locals previously formed a human chain to block the eviction, escalating tensions over the disputed ownership of the historic building.

The British tabloid Daily Mail has been mocked on X for describing a trans woman’s penis as ‘pre-op privates’ in one of their posts. The story they linked in the post is about new rules having to be introduced for the women’s locker room at a YMCA in San Francisco, California, after a trans person routinely came there to flaunt his naked body.

‘Governor DeSantis dropped out of the race after a poor performance in the Iowa caucus, the first primary contest of 2024, and endorsed President Trump. Trump went on to win the largest share of the popular vote for a non-incumbent candidate in a primary contest for a major party…’

Author Adriana Trigiani has secured the approval of the estate of the author of the original 1969 The Godfather novel Mario Puzo to publish a novel about Connie, the daughter of Vito Corleone. Paramount Pictures has retained the film rights to the upcoming novel, granting the possibility of a fourth Godfather film.