Quirky News
From the weird to the wonderful, The Euro Weekly News stand out as a news source with their articles about wonderful shows of human kindness, to controversial TikTok trends and everything else you wouldn’t expect! Reporting on quirky events around the world, British expats and international travellers can easily stay up to date, or seek a bit of entertainment.
‘They’d throw themselves down a well if it told them to’: Google Maps traps drivers in Spain’s narrow streets
Some drivers who trust Google Maps into Santa Pau's medieval alleys can't even open the car door once they realise their mistake. The Girona village...
€80m Renaissance masterpieces stolen from Sicily museum despite working alarms and guards on duty
Four Renaissance masterpieces worth up to €80 million vanished from a Sicilian museum as a religious procession filled the streets outside, yet the thieves left...
The world’s first ‘space-age’ bone that saved a Madrid patient’s leg from amputation
Surgeons in Madrid seemed to be left with only one option: amputate. But instead, they built the patient a new bone from scratch, using a...
‘We’ve found gold’: Belgian builders strike €9m treasure hidden behind cellar wall
An 18-year-old thought he had spotted a scatter of €1 coins while laying a drainage pipe, until a gold nugget rolled out beside them. What...
Jellyfish strike France’s biggest nuclear plant again and shut down three reactors
A swarm of jellyfish has knocked out three reactors at Europe's largest nuclear plant, and the strangest part is not that it happened but that...
Britain abandoned a possible £5.5bn treasure near Gibraltar. Now an explorer says he would go back
Ten tonnes of gold may have been laying untouched 821 metres below the sea for more than three centuries off the coast of Gibraltar. Britain...
Guinness lost at sea 162 years ago could finally be brewed again
It is far too murky for a celebratory pint, but Guinness recovered after more than 160 years beneath the sea may still surrender its secrets....
The wild deer who crossed 50km to return to his Spanish village
Tomás the deer first wandered into Linarejos with an injured leg in 2024 and never quite left. His latest return has delighted the tiny community,...
Apple Maps’ camera backpacks are walking Spain’s streets – and the images may train AI
Apple has taken its street-mapping cameras beyond the road, sending backpack-equipped surveyors through pedestrian areas of Madrid and Cataluña. While faces and number plates are...
Mallorca’s eclipse may end with a rare green flash few ever see
Once daylight returns after roughly 90 seconds of totality, the show may still reveal an emerald encore. Mallorca’s low sunset could produce a flash so...
Is the song you’re listening to AI or a human?
AI music is taking the music industry and platforms by storm. Its melodies are flawless, can give a moody vocal performance that resembles Billie Eilish,...
The Tour de France has a secret team with one very unusual job
As the Tour de France begins in Barcelona, one unusual team has a job very few viewers ever think about. Before the cyclists and TV...
World Cup ‘miracle’ leaves social media baffled as Colombian fans leap from wheelchairs to celebrate goal
Football has produced plenty of miracles over the years, but the latest viral moment from the Club World Cup may have prompted some fans to...
FlixBus revives Poland’s controversial 666 bus route to Hel after years of religious backlash
FlixBus has confirmed plans to relaunch the notorious 666 bus service from Krakow to the Baltic resort town of Hel this summer. The decision revives...