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Hundreds of thousands of revelers were descending on California's Coachella Valley for the premier desert arts festival that kicked off on April 13, which for the first time won't feature a white headliner.

Finns are the happiest people in the world. This is clear from the World Happiness Report published on Monday. Finland has been ranked as the country with the happiest population in the world for the sixth year in a row. Bulgaria is in 77th place.

STRASBOURG - Pristina's Council of Europe (CoE) membership application has not been included in the agenda of this week's CoE Committee of Ministers meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, says Serbian Ambassador to the CoE Aleksandra Djurovic.

STRASBOURG - The so-called Kosovo's bid for Council of Europe (CoE) membership was not discussed by the institution's Committee of Ministers on Wednesday after Iceland, the chair of the meeting, did not propose its inclusion in the agenda, says Serbia's Ambassador to the CoE Aleksandra Djurovic.

Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean and Blackpink will headline this April's Coachella, the California desert festival that kicks off the summer concert circuit, organizers announced Tuesday.

It's set to be a history-making weekend, with Bad Bunny, the world's most-streamed artist, as the first Spanish-language and first Latin American artist to headline.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible across a swathe of the Northern Hemisphere tomorrow, with amateur astronomers warned to take care watching the rare phenomenon.

The eclipse will start at 0858 GMT in Iceland and end off the coast of India at 1302 GMT, crossing Europe, North Africa and the Middle East on its way, according to the IMCCE institute of France's Paris Observatory.

The Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) will delight film lovers for the 33rd time between 9 and 20 November, this time with 90 feature-length and some 30 short films.

Recording a 2 percent increase in flight arrivals compared to the pre-pandemic period, Istanbul has been the best performing city in Europe this summer, according to the data of travel data analysis company ForwardKeys.

It was followed by Athens, 7 percent down, Reykjavik and Porto, both 8 percent down, and Malaga down 13 percent.

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

European Union countries agreed Wednesday to make it harder for Russian citizens to enter the 27-nation bloc, but they failed to find a consensus on imposing an outright tourist ban in response to Russia's war on Ukraine.