Tomorrowland 2026 took place in Boom, Belgium, across two weekends — 17–19 and 24–26 July — drawing around 400,000 visitors from more than 200 countries.
The 79th Locarno Film Festival opened on the Piazza Grande with a tribute to Isabella Rossellini, the actor, director and one of the most distinctive figures in European and American cinema of recent decades. The honour also carried a personal significanc
A public farewell for Irish musician, songwriter and actor Glen Hansard was held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. His coffin was placed in the museum’s Baroque chapel, alongside two of his guitars, while traditional Irish music was performed t
Ukrainian poet, translator and scholar Iryna Shuvalova, a member of PEN Ukraine, has been named among the recipients of Norway’s Ordknappen 2026 literary award. She was honoured for the Ukrainian-Norwegian poetry collection Ingen planer om å bli (No Plans
Over the past two months, 95 children have been treated at Lviv hospitals for injuries involving electric scooters. Some were hurt after falling while riding, while others were struck by a scooter. Of the 95 children, 41 were brought to hospital by ambula
On July 24, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to install temporary informational displays outside the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Frank Berry’s historical drama The Lost Children of Tuam won the award for Best Irish Film at the 38th Galway Film Fleadh. The film had its world premiere in Galway, not far from the town where the events on which the story is based took place.
In the small Finnish municipality of Kaustinen, home to just over 4,000 people, musicians outnumber local residents for one week every July. The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, held from 13 to 19 July 2026, set a new attendance record.
For Tomorrowland, whose global identity rests heavily on synchronised fireworks, pyrotechnic displays and monumental stage design, the decision represented more than a technical restriction: it challenged the very model of spectacle on which the festival