BUDAPEST, July 14 (Reuters) – Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant cut output at three of its four reactors by a combined 240 MW due to the rising temperature of the Danube river, the plant’s operator said late on Thursday. It said the temperature of the Danube, whose...
ATHENS, July 14 (Reuters) – Greece will shut the ancient Acropolis for a few hours on Friday to protect visitors to one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites from a heatwave enveloping Athens and other countries in southern Europe. The Acropolis Hill, home to the...
More than 100 people have died across Asia this month as the vast region experiences an intense monsoon season. The past fortnight has seen extreme rain that has caused floods and landslides across several countries including India, China and Japan. Hundreds of thousands of people have...
An endurance swimmer has begun his second bid to complete the world’s longest continuous lake swim. Ross Edgley, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, hopes to swim 171km in Lake Trasimeno, near Perugia, in Italy. By Friday morning he had swum more than 37 miles (60km) in just over 24 hours...
A conservation group in the Republic of Ireland has warned of “alarming and unprecedented outbreaks” of avian influenza. BirdWatch Ireland said the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus is devastating key Irish seabird colonies. The group manages the four most important...
