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.
Blind British man sentenced for driving a stolen car 241 kilometres on motorway
A registered blind British man drove around 241 kilometres (150 miles) along one of Britain's busiest motorways in the middle of the night, despite having...
Why Spain keeps part of its €33 billion gold reserve hidden beneath New York
Somewhere beneath Manhattan sits an undisclosed quantity of gold belonging to Spain. The Banco de España knows exactly how much is stored there, yet it...
This Spanish cheese just sold for a world-record €37,500 after secret bidding pact
For six years, one Asturian restaurant walked away with Spain's most coveted wheel of blue cheese almost unchallenged. This year, four small businesses that had...
France’s famous cheeses could taste different after drought forces farmers to change cows’ diets
There wasn't enough grass left for the cows to eat, so France has rewritten the rulebook for three of its most protected cheeses. Comté, Beaufort...
Furious holidaymakers face impossible ‘bags or passengers’ choice before take-off
Every single person on the flight wanted to get home, but not all their bags could go with them. Faced with 186 passengers, a stiff...
‘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...