Miscellaneous news
Geneva opera shuts for 18 months (LINK) 6 January 2026
— All opera and ballet performances are taking place at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices on Place des Volontaires.
Nestlé launches large baby food recall in Europe: Beba and special products such as Alfamino (LINK) 5 January 2026
— Controls carried out by the authorities in Austria detected small amounts of cereulide — a toxin that causes food poisoning characterized by nausea and vomiting — in two batches. According to the Ministry of Health, however, the concentrations are so low that they do not pose a danger. The recall affects products sold in Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, among others. So far, there are no known cases of illness related to the consumption of the food
Crypto stocks jump as Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP hit multi-week highs: Bitcoin surged past $94,000 on Monday to a 30-day high as crypto stocks rallied, with Coinbase, Robinhood, and BTC miners all rising (LINK) 5 January 2026
For the first time you can see every Jan van Eyck portrait in one blockbuster London show (LINK) 5 January 2026
Catchup: CERN's Large Hadron Collider is being shut down: CERN doesn't expect its high-luminosity LHC to be operational again until mid-2030 (LINK) 3 January 2026
ProPublica's Most-Read Stories of 2025 (LINK) 30 Deccember 2025
- The Militia and the Mole
- Sick in a Hospital Town
- Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is "Only a Matter of Time"
- The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
- Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal