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Hola, bonsoir and willkommen! Tonight is the night millions across Europe have been waiting for as the Eurovision Song Contest final takes place in Sweden.
The competition has been rocked with a series of crises in the build up to the showpiece event in Malmo with the Dutch entrant axed and Ireland’s Bambie Thug absent from
Eurovision fans expressed shock as fan favourites Malta and Belgium failed to make it through Thursday’s semi-final show in a shock result.
Israel’s Eden Golan defied thousands of protestors demonstrating in Malmo calling for her to be excluded from the competition as she made it through to the final.
Latvia, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Estonia, Switzerland, Georgia and Armenia were the other countries who made it through to Saturday’s final.
Malta was represented by Sarah Bonnici with the song Loop
Queen Mary of Denmark and her husband King Frederik once again brushed off affair rumours as they put on a very affectionate display during the second day of their royal state visit to Sweden.
Mary, 52, looked elegant in a ruby long-sleeved gown as she arrived for lunch at City Hall in Stockholm with hosts King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden.
The Australian-born royal and her husband, 55, clearly hoped to put an end to the ‘affair’ rumours
Raising her glass for a toast at her first ever state banquet last night, Crown Princess Amalia of the Netherlands was the picture of poise and looked every inch the future Queen in her tiara and an elegant navy gown.
It was all the more remarkable coming just hours after the revelation that the 20-year old was previously forced to flee to Spain to escape safety threats by organised crime groups in the Netherlands, just weeks after she started at
The last thing any tourist wants is to buckle up for a boring attraction.
So a new study that reveals ‘the 100 most boring attractions across the globe’ serves a useful purpose for those keen to guarantee a holiday free from the mundane.
America, it seems, needs to up its game on the excitement front, with attractions in the country occupying the top seven spots, beating Shrek’s Adventure London into eighth place. And four Legoland Discovery Centers make the top
Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Bali and Florence… all places that most people love to visit or dream of doing so one day.
Yet some of the most popular destinations for holidaymakers are fed up with British tourists and are actively trying to deter them from visiting.
Indeed, Parisians have recently hit out at Emily In Paris fans who are ‘invading’ Europe’s City of Light to take selfies with the sites made famous by the Netflix series.
Furious locals scrawled angry graffiti
The Prince and Princess of Wales showed that the late Queen is still always in their thoughts, as they shared an image of framed photos of her from inside the Royal Albert Hall in a social media post.
Kate and William shared a montage on Instagram of their glitzy night out at the Royal Variety Performance on Thursday, and the second image to flash onto the screen showed a wall inside the famous South Kensington venue that is dedicated to
Syria, Iran and Afghanistan are considered high-risk for Westerners to visit today – but when one European travelled around them in the 1970s, he discovered ‘heaven nearly everywhere’.
Dutch native Frank van den Berge, 73, took incredible photographs of his time in these countries, showing Afghanistan before the Taliban, Iran in an era when people dressed in a ‘Western style’ and landmarks that have since vanished – such as the Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which
Up to one in 12 women unknowingly carry a genetic mutation that increases their risk of having blood clots when taking the Pill.
Everyone inherits two copies of a gene called factor V (F5) from their parents, which is vital for blood to clot properly in the event of an injury.
However, eight per cent of people have a mutated version that triggers a disorder called Factor V Leiden. While it causes no symptoms, it raises their risk of
