Europe

    At least 26 people have been injured at a theme park in Spain after two train cars collided on a rollercoaster. The accident occurred when a car completed a loop and failed to stop, crashing into the back of another car. An emergency services spokesman said: There are 26 injured as of now, all of them lightly, mostly bruises. The patients are being taken to hospital to be examined more thoroughly. The accident took place on the TNT Tren de la Mina rollercoaster at the Parque de Atracciones in Madrid, one of Spain's oldest theme parks. The rollercoaster reaches a height of 17.5 meters and travels through waterfalls at a maximum speed of 35mph, according to the theme park's website. The Parque de Atracciones opened in 1969 in Casa de Campo, the largest park in the Spanish ca...

    France is plotting to use Brexit to weaken UK's booming financial sector France is plotting to exploit Brexit in a bid to weaken London’s booming financial sector, a senior City of London spokesman has claimed in a leaked memo. Former Home Office minister Jeremy Browne, who acts as the City of London's envoy on Brexit, said the French see the British as adversaries in the forthcoming negotiations over quitting the EU. In the memo, which was seen to the Mail on Sunday, Mr Browne said the French are open about their desire to disrupt and degrade the UK’s financial sector. He said his talks in Paris have been the worst I have had anywhere in the EU. Mr Browne, who met banking chiefs, senior politicians and diplomats, wrote: They are crystal clear about their underlying object...

    It may have been meant as a compliment, but whether Brigitte Trogneux, the wife of French president, Emmanuel Macron, appreciated being told she was in 'such good shape' was a matter of conjecture. The Irish journalist posted a video on Twitter describing the incident as a "bizarre moment", but did not appear to have been offended by the remark even if others thought it was blatantly sexist. To add insult to injury he repeated the comment to Emmanuel Macron, the French President before turning back to Ms Trogneux and remarking beautiful. Matters were probably not helped by the US President then inflicting his now notorious "yank and grip" on her as well. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron his wife Brigitte Macron, are photogr...

    French President Emmanuel Macron has kept President Trump off balance over the course of their short relationship, using Trump’s own favorite tactic of unpredictability against him. It was less than two months ago that in the first meeting between the two men Macron held on to Trump’s hand as the American president tried to pull away. Later that same day, Macron swerved away from Trump to shake hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders while Trump stood and waited to greet the French leader. Macron later publicly explained that he had intended to send a signal to Trump, and the world, with the photo op. Trump usually likes to play the aggressor when it comes to the handshake game. I don’t let anything slide. That’s how one makes oneself respected, ...

    Most people associate wealth with men, especially in the Middle East. Wealth comes in a variety of forms, such as ownership and acquisition of land, resources, and property. Some people have the luxury of being born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and some individuals work their way up to the top. These Muslim women have had the pleasure of doing all of these things, and if you were not aware of who these women are, then take a look. Rasha Said is the daughter of billionaire Wafic Said. Rasha is one such individual born into wealth and her family has a net worth estimated to be $1.5 billion. She is the CEO of Toucan, which is a digital company designed for entrepreneurs. Rasha married a guy named Khaled Khawaja and they had one of the most extravagant and expensive we...

    The European Commission's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has slapped down Boris Johnson's over his claim that EU leaders could go whistle. I'm not hearing any whistling. Just the clock ticking, said Mr Barnier. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, he warned that Britain would indeed need to foot a divorce bill as it heads for the EU's door. As negotiations go on, Britain must also make sufficient progress on issues such as citizens' rights and the Irish border before a trade deal is reached, he said. The rebuke comes after the Foreign Secretary was slammed yesterday as arrogant and silly for his suggestions to the House of Commons that EU leaders could simply be brushed off. Jeremy Corbyn was swift to pour scorn on Mr Johnson, saying: I think it is ridiculou...

    The Brexodus among financial service firms appears to be picking up pace – with Dublin and Frankfurt the main beneficiaries. According to EY’s Brexit tracker, some 59 of 222 companies being monitored are either reviewing their options or have started moving parts of their business out of the UK. That represents a significant increase on the 23 firms that had indicated similar intentions in March. Some 19 businesses have said they are moving or considering moving staff or operations to Dublin – just ahead of Frankfurt as a preferred base (18). Luxembourg, with 11, and Paris, with eight, come next in the Brexit moving story. Omar Ali, EY’s UK financial services leader, said: “The difference three months on from the triggering of Article 50 is that we are seeing major financi...

    U.S. President Donald Trump waits for the beginning of the first working session on the first day of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017. The leaders of the… Summits are rarely noteworthy. That’s not to say we don’t take note. There are always hundreds of journalists, and every speech and communiqué is widely reported around the world. But typically, the real substance of these meetings was worked out long ago, in email exchanges between diplomats and bureaucrats and in the occasional high-level meeting. The host nation scripts out every minute, all the official statements are agreed to in advance, and the press and participants know exactly what will happen and what will be announced before any of them even arrive. And, on the surface, the s...

    I try to stay out of politics, Ivanka Trump said in a recent interview. But the US president’s daughter spent part of her weekend sitting around a table with the Chinese, Russian and Turkish presidents, the German chancellor and the British prime minister. The former businesswoman and fashion model briefly took her father’s seat during a G20 session in Hamburg, prompting claims of nepotism and a heavy dose of sarcasm about her diplomatic credentials. Ms Trump, 35, sat around the table with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Angela Merkel and Theresa May. One official who was watching the session told the Bloomberg news agency she had taken her father’s place on at least two occasions on Saturday but had not spoken. A spokesman for the first daughter told Blo...

    Theresa May has seized on the optimism of Donald Trump and world leaders over Brexit to face down a growing rebellion from Cabinet colleagues and backbenchers. The Prime Minister revealed that the heads of the biggest economies globally had agreed to deepen trade with the UK in a powerful vote of confidence in its post-Brexit future. President Trump personally assured Mrs May that a powerful trade deal between the US and the UK would be completed very, very quickly, as they met at the G20 in Hamburg. In a pointed rebuke of critics, Mrs May played up the prospects of increasing trade with “old friends and new partners” after leaving the EU, including China, India and Japan. It will be seen as a dismissal of Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, who said that not remaining as clos...