Prince Philippos of Greece and his wife, Princess Nina, announced the birth of their first son on July 27, a baby born via gestational surrogacy in the United States whose name honors two grandfathers and a deposed royal line. The boy, Kimon Thomas Konstantinos, arrived five years into a marriage that has spanned three wedding […] The post Princess Diana's godson Prince Philippos and wife welcome first child through U.S. surrogate appeared first on American Almanac .
Prince Philippos of Greece and his wife, Princess Nina, announced the birth of their first son on July 27, a baby born via gestational surrogacy in the United States whose name honors two grandfathers and a deposed royal line. The boy, Kimon Thomas Konstantinos, arrived five years into a marriage that has spanned three wedding ceremonies, two continents, and the restoration of a family's citizenship three decades after the Greek government stripped it away. The office of the former Royal Family of Greece released a statement confirming the birth and thanking the unnamed surrogate and her family "for accompanying them throughout this special journey." Philippos, 40, is the youngest child of the late King Constantine II, Greece's last…Open
A helicopter carrying two British honeymooners crashed and burned just feet from its landing pad on a Greek island, killing all three aboard, and investigators still cannot say why an experienced military-veteran pilot never called for help. Alexander Cromie, 31, a vice president at Blackstone, and his wife Marie Ebert, 30, a senior specialist at […] The post British newlyweds and pilot killed in Greek helicopter crash as investigators probe mechanical failure appeared first on American Almanac .
A helicopter carrying two British honeymooners crashed and burned just feet from its landing pad on a Greek island, killing all three aboard, and investigators still cannot say why an experienced military-veteran pilot never called for help. Alexander Cromie, 31, a vice president at Blackstone, and his wife Marie Ebert, 30, a senior specialist at Bain & Co in London, died Monday evening when their small private helicopter went down on the island of Sifnos in the Aegean Sea. Pilot Giorgos Raikos, a 55-year-old former Greek military aviator with thousands of flying hours, also perished. The aircraft had departed from Markopoulo, near Athens, a roughly 40-minute hop the couple chose over a ferry ride that can take up to five hours. The…Open
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Wildfires burning across Europe have begun igniting and exposing buried munitions from both world wars, forcing firefighters to dodge explosions while battling blazes on former battlefields. Blasts from old bombs and mines have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands this wildfire season, as flames sweep through forests and peat bogs that have […] The post Europe's wildfires are detonating buried World War bombs, turning old battlefields into live minefields appeared first on American Almanac .
Wildfires burning across Europe have begun igniting and exposing buried munitions from both world wars, forcing firefighters to dodge explosions while battling blazes on former battlefields. Blasts from old bombs and mines have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands this wildfire season, as flames sweep through forests and peat bogs that have concealed unexploded ordnance for decades. In Belgium's eastern province of Liege, Governor Hervé Jamar confirmed that "a few sporadic detonations" were recently heard in a fire zone sitting directly atop ground fought over during the Battle of the Bulge. Emergency crews have had to adjust their operations to account for the munitions buried beneath them, the Associated Press…Open
A wildfire burning roughly 30 square kilometers in eastern Belgium has become the country's largest on record, forcing some 600 residents from their homes and drawing emergency crews from across Europe. The fire tore through the High Fens nature reserve in Liège province, near the German border, burning more than twice the area of a […] The post Belgium's worst wildfire on record forces hundreds to flee as blaze scorches High Fens nature reserve appeared first on American Almanac .
A wildfire burning roughly 30 square kilometers in eastern Belgium has become the country's largest on record, forcing some 600 residents from their homes and drawing emergency crews from across Europe. The fire tore through the High Fens nature reserve in Liège province, near the German border, burning more than twice the area of a 2011 blaze that had held Belgium's previous record. By Sunday morning, more than 250 emergency personnel, including over 100 Belgian and German firefighters, police, military officers, and civil protection staff, were on the ground trying to hold the line against a fire that officials said was still spreading through terrain almost impossible to reach. Liège provincial governor Hervé Jamar confirmed the…Open
AI:Belgium is currently battling its largest wildfire on record as a massive blaze scorches the High Fens nature reserve in Liège province, consuming approximately 30 square kilometers of land. The fire has forced roughly 600 residents and tourists to evacuate from municipalities like Waimes and Bütgenbach due to heavy smoke and shifting winds. Because the fire is burning through dry peat bogs and heathland, it is resisting standard containment tactics and threatening residential zones near the German border. The disaster has triggered an international emergency response under the EU's civil protection mechanism, with water-bombing aircraft and crews arriving from Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Germany to support Belgian…Open
Data: International Trade Administration ; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Even as U.S. policy has walled off Washington, D.C., from friends across the pond, Americans' travel overseas is reaching new heights. Why it matters: Much like the resilient consumer , the American tourist keeps riding the post-COVID travel wave , even as debt delays life milestones and global perceptions of the U.S. slip. Driving the news: More than 56 million U.S. residents traveled overseas last year, according to the International Trade Administration's estimate, up from roughly 53.7 million in 2024 and around 32.7 million a decade prior. - Of that, a record high of nearly 24 million traveled to Europe in 2025, according to Survey of International Air Travelers…
Massive wildfires tore across four European countries this week, driving more than 480 tourists from a Greek beach by sea and displacing thousands more from Croatia to western Germany. On the Halkidiki peninsula south of Thessaloniki, Greece, a fire front stretched roughly three kilometers, nearly two miles, and reached heights of 30 meters, according to […] The post Wildfires sweep Greece, Croatia, France, and Germany, forcing thousands to evacuate appeared first on American Almanac .
Massive wildfires tore across four European countries this week, driving more than 480 tourists from a Greek beach by sea and displacing thousands more from Croatia to western Germany. On the Halkidiki peninsula south of Thessaloniki, Greece, a fire front stretched roughly three kilometers, nearly two miles, and reached heights of 30 meters, according to Greek public television network ERT. More than 200 firefighters battled the blaze as it bore down on the popular resort towns of Siviri and Fourka, where Greece's civil protection agency sent evacuation warnings by phone to residents and vacationers. Two firefighters were injured and hospitalized. The flames came so close to the shoreline that a ground evacuation was impossible. A Greek…Open
A military emergency unit pulled the remains of three medieval kings from a 10th-century Spanish monastery threatened by wildfire, part of a broader wave of blazes and drought battering Europe this week. Late Thursday, flames driven by high temperatures and strong winds pushed toward San Juan de la Peña, a monastery carved into a mountain […] The post Spanish troops rescue 11th-century royal remains from monastery as wildfire closes in appeared first on American Almanac .
A military emergency unit pulled the remains of three medieval kings from a 10th-century Spanish monastery threatened by wildfire, part of a broader wave of blazes and drought battering Europe this week. Late Thursday, flames driven by high temperatures and strong winds pushed toward San Juan de la Peña, a monastery carved into a mountain range in the Aragón region of northeastern Spain. The fire had been burning since Monday and had already consumed more than 3.5 square miles of terrain, forcing the evacuation of 16 surrounding towns. Authorities decided they could not risk leaving nearly a millennium of history inside. Mar Vaquero, vice-president of the Aragón region, told reporters that concern the monastery could be engulfed by…Open
Friday is delivering another day of near record heat to the continent, but toward the end of the weekend temperatures could retreat to seasonal averages.
AI:Europe continues to endure a relentless heatwave with temperatures pushing near-record highs across the continent. While this scorching pattern has hammered regions from France to Greece, forcing mass evacuations due to wildfires, there is a marginal indication that relief may arrive by the end of the weekend as temperatures potentially retreat to seasonal norms. This serves as another chapter in the ongoing saga of extreme weather shocks destabilizing global stability.Open
