A former compliance officer says public grants meant to explain a cross-border transport plan paid for attack ads aimed at local candidates in Portugal, Spain and Belgium. The treaty office froze new awards on Thursday after her testimony, and a public ad register confirmed dozens of the campaigns.
A walkout at a Danish produce terminal stretched a brief cooling-system fault into an 11-hour shutdown, destroying 1,140 tonnes of imported vegetables. Retailers across Jutland are now paying more to replace the stock, as a pay dispute threatens to prolong the disruption.
A lawsuit over missing flood warnings has brought to light the highest recorded flow at Athabasca Falls, where the river surged to 812 cubic metres per second in June. Hydrologists say the peak, confirmed in court evidence this week, points to a more dangerous mix of intense rain and rapid snowmelt in the Rockies.
A bus carrying 23 players and four staff became trapped in a flooded underpass near Matrei am Brenner on Wednesday night, forcing rescuers to ferry everyone to safety. The dramatic evacuation has delayed a cup tie and intensified a row over the team’s high-risk tactics.
A cooling-system accident at a Christchurch research centre briefly exposed precise phone-location records used to chart human activity near kiwi habitat. The data came from a weather app whose users had not been told their movements would feed the conservation study, a Plausible Post investigation found.
A strong offshore earthquake has put Thailand’s Andaman coast on tsunami alert, as scientists warn that a larger rupture could reach crowded beaches within minutes. The emergency has landed on the 20th anniversary of a government hazard model now shown to have excluded half the fault system from its worst-case scenario.
A takeover has exposed years of questionable bird-monitoring data from a coastal restoration project in western Taiwan. The same review found researchers had slept in modular cabins at a former bus depot whose approved use was storage, not accommodation.
RuangRakit will pay Rp1.6 trillion (about €89 million) for a controlling stake in KelasLipat, joining two Indonesian suppliers of foldable classroom furniture and rain-ready lesson kits. The takeover follows a sharp rise in school orders during a wet season that has repeatedly disrupted classes across Java.
A €18.6 million lake-recovery programme (about $21.7 million) reported that Lake Prespa was holding steady, but a new audit says altered satellite images concealed a sharp retreat. The findings have halted fresh grants and put years of environmental research under scrutiny across three countries.
As a hospital strike delays respiratory tests in Hanoi, technician Joyce Hew is still making sure a crowded ward has cleaner air. The filters keeping it running began as her improvised fix for equipment the hospital had written off.
Fiji has quarantined thousands of adult vaccine doses after a monitoring system displayed reassuring temperatures from fridges whose sensors had stopped reporting. The failure has exposed a FJD 6.8 million contract and a whistleblower reward scheme that officials say may now help recover public money.
A new government performance portal mistakenly sent thousands of Kenyan public employees into a payroll hold within hours of its launch on Tuesday. The finance ministry says KSh 1.9 billion (about €12.6 million) in salaries was delayed, in what a public-sector union calls the largest single-day pay interruption in the country’s records.