Exclusive: More than 200 illegal holiday properties found in buildings at the highest level of seismic risk

Tourists in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, are staying in illegal accommodation listed on Airbnb and Booking.com in buildings considered so seismically vulnerable they could collapse in the event of a major earthquake, according to exclusive data shared with the Guardian.

Analysis of data collected by Re:Rise, a Romanian organisation working on seismic risk reduction, identified at least 207 illegal tourist rental properties advertised across the two platforms in Bucharest at the end of May, with a combined capacity to host more than 1,000 visitors each night.

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At the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples

In 1986, 131 years after the Daily Telegraph was founded, its editor, Max Hastings, wrote a memo to senior colleagues about the newspaper’s nature and purpose. “The Daily Telegraph is … ‘nice’,” he said, “in the business of reassurance, of providing confirmation each morning for our readers that their world is looking pretty safe and stable.” He went on: “We are not a strident campaigning newspaper – our business each day is to seek to give our readers the fullest possible information about what is happening in the world, and to suggest what it might mean.”

In practice, under Hastings and many other Telegraph editors, this ethos produced a journalism of pervasive but usually understated conservatism: often focused on the English countryside, the value of hierarchy and tradition, the pleasures of seasonal pursuits such as foxhunting and gardening, the interests of farmers and retired military men – and cautionary tales about more reckless lives gone wrong, often presented through enjoyably detailed reports from the divorce courts. The Torygraph, as many non-readers called it, could be inward-looking and “numbingly dull”, says Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the historian of British conservatism, but it was “thoroughly respectable”. Many of its most renowned figures, such as Hastings’s predecessor as editor, Bill Deedes, were “mildness itself”.

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Een merkwaardig tafereel woensdagavond in Rotterdam-Charlois. Terwijl de politie een deur openbreekt voor onderzoek naar een woningoverval, klinkt even verderop een harde knal. Een man is, afgeleid door de politiewagens in de straat, met zijn auto op z'n kant terechtgekomen. Hij is meteen aan de beurt voor een blaastest.

Van de 104 wethouders in de 22 gemeenten in de regio Rijnmond waar de nieuwe bestuursploeg bekend is, zijn er 32 vrouw. Daarmee ligt het aandeel vrouwelijke wethouders net iets boven het landelijke gemiddelde. De verschillen tussen gemeenten zijn groot.

Phil Kingsbury - Thanks for 5.2 million views! has added a photo to the pool:

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Phil Kingsbury - Thanks for 5.2 million views! has added a photo to the pool:

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Napalm Death Tiny Desk Concert

In het wild kunnen vuursalamanders zo’n twintig jaar oud worden. Maar dat lukt in Nederland alleen met hulp van vrijwilligers. Een nachtelijke zoektocht naar larven in het Bunderbos.

Er is een nieuwe route in drugsland: via de Atlantische Oceaan komen grote hoeveelheden cocaïne Europa binnen. De ingrediënten: volle zee en supersnelle speedbootjes.

Drugssmokkelaars hebben op de Atlantische oceaan een nieuwe logistieke keten gebouwd tussen Zuid-Amerika, West-Afrika en Europa. De Franse overheid zet de marine in tegen speedboten die met 130 kilometer per uur drugs aan land brengen en wil hulp. Nederland kent het probleem, maar wacht op een officieel verzoek voor inzet van de marine.

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The Montecito was built in 1935 with 95 units at a cost of $1 million. Set on a hill overlooking the city, the Montecito is the highest building in Hollywood. It has a private swimming pool, two subterranean garages and a parking lot.The building is a classic Art Deco design with Mayan influences and windows arranged in vertical blinds. In 1946, it was sold for $600,000. In 1954, it was sold again, this time by Isadore and Libby Teacher to Howard Fox and Harry Wyatt.

The Montecito was home to several future movie stars, especially New York based actors while working in Hollywood. It was Ronald Reagan’s first residence when he moved to Hollywood; Reagan lived at the Montecito from June 1937 to late 1938. Reagan was said to have been roommates at the Montecito with Mickey Rooney. Other celebrities who have lived at the Montecito include James Cagney, George C. Scott, Montgomery Clift, Geraldine Page, Don Johnson, Sal Mineo and Ben Vereen.

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AI is niet onvermijdelijk; ze wordt onvermijdelijk gemaakt – zonder echte discussie, zonder gezonde marktwerking en zonder instemming. ‘Sorry,’ zegt hoofdrolspeler Ava Daniels in de comedyserie Hacks, ‘maar dit is gewoon technologische verkrachting.’

Somalia National Pavilion ? SADDEXLEEY The 61st International Art Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia marked a historic milestone with the opening of the first-ever Somalia National Pavilion. For SADDEXLEEY, featuring works by Ayan Farah, Asmaa Jama, and Warsan Shire, we developed a visual identity that translates the exhibition's themes into a contemporary graphic language while honoring Somalia's cultural heritage. The identity is built around typography and a restrained graphic system inspired by Somali visual culture and the country's national colors. Designed to complement rather than compete with the artworks, the flexible identity was applied across exhibition graphics, environmental elements, printed materials, and digital communication, creating a cohesive visual experience throughout the pavilion.