Multimillionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are getting divorced, they announce on Twitter on Monday. The couple had been married for 27 years. The founder of software company Microsoft and his wife say they have thought long before making the decision. After the divorce, the couple plans to continue working together in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the …

While the normal Frenchman has to give up his joie de vivre, French ministers feast on lavish delicacies in a royal setting. That was revealed by undercover footage taken by journalists. “You may proceed. There is no corona here”, a butler in a neat costume tells one of the guests in the Baroque-looking decor full of gold leaf, with champagne …

Few places in the world have escaped the Covid-19 pandemic, even Antarctica has reported some cases. It seemed like the whole world was being targeted by the coronavirus. But there are still places where the virus did not set foot on shore. No masks, no social distancing and no risk of infection: the coronavirus pandemic never raged on these Italian …

A 24 – year-old man was arrested last Tuesday after robbing a watch worth 150,000 euros in front of a patrol of the Brussels police. The officers saw the victim getting into a taxi in the Zuidstraat, when a man suddenly showed up ripping his watch off his wrist and then fled towards Stoofstraat. Chased by the police, he was …

European airports were able to welcome 728 million passengers by 2020. This is a 70.4% drop compared to a year earlier and ‘at the same level as in 1995’, reports ACI Europe on Friday. Aviation is struggling because of the coronacrisis. All the border closures and lockdowns caused a lot less travel last year, and that got a lot of …

The demise in the fashion industry caused by the COVID-19 is felt throughout Europe. Due to shop closures and other measures to contain the coronavirus, shops sold many times less during the major December month than in the festive season a year earlier, reports the European statistical office Eurostat. In the textile, clothing and footwear sectors, sales in the European …

Louis Vuitton bags remain popular with consumers despite the COVID and lockdown measures in major parts of the world. Parent company Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) sold more bags in the past period than in the same period last year. This was due, among other things, to a greater demand from China. Chinese consumers in the fourth quarter often could …

The American oil company ExxonMobil will stop sponsoring the famous annual Sled Dog Race Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska after criticism from animal rights activists. With this, Iditarod loses one of his biggest corporate sponsors. ExxonMobil will stop sponsoring after the race of 2021, which starts every year on the first Saturday of March. This year is the …

The municipality of Altena has issued an emergency regulation on Sunday for the village of Veen, which has been plagued by nuisance over the last few nights. Saturday night, another wrecking car went up in flames and fireworks were fired, which happened more often last week. Until 2 January, people “who have no business in Veen” are not allowed into …

The Spanish King Felipe emphasised in his Christmas speech on Thursday evening that the Crown must stand for sincerity, honesty and transparency. That is what he said when he took office in 2014, and that still applies. He is committed to ” the ethical and moral principles that citizens demand of our conduct” and these principles are “above any consideration, …