You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK or AU homepage at any time using this menu. 'Quite appalling': The UK's WORST airport revealed - with two-hour queues, nowhere to sit and'excessive' walking distances Best foot forward: The UK's best late-summer walks - from an expert who's hiked across the country for more than 50 years Paws for a pint: Britain's most dog-friendly pubs revealed, from'bark bangers' to kibble machines and canine menus Beyond the Mid-Autumn magic: The electrifying festivals that prove Hong Kong is Asia's most vibrant cultural capital The'walk of shame', fish-bowl cocktails and 5am airport runs with a hangover: Holiday reps from the 80s and 90s reveal what really went on The world's longest ever cruise sets sail on epic 371-day voyage - with stops all around the globe including Zanzibar, Alaska and even Japan Where should Brits move to in 2027? The £16-a-night youth hostels that beat five-star hotels hands down on location...from the Yorkshire YHA that overlooks Whitby Abbey to the 800-year-old Norman Castle in the Wye Valley As the back-to-school blues kick in, what's the best holiday you've ever had? A nightmare property with a killer view: Couple snap up 18th-century Lake Como home before realising the 300-year-old property needed'more work than we ever imagined' 'Unsettling... then incredibly cool': Self-driving taxis can now be booked in the UK, and we've had a first ride - this is what it was like (and why it's not completely driverless) Tourists in Spain brace for 38 degrees this weekend after late summer heatwave hits - with night temperatures no lower than a'torrid' 25 degrees One of Spain's most expensive homes - with its own bowling alley, 42-car garage and hair salon - goes up for sale for £60million You might actually get some sleep on this plane! Ranked by our travel expert, Britain's best to worst holiday parks: From the'perfect' posh lodges no one seems to know about to the only Center Parcs worth considering - and'tired' resort to avoid like the plague We've tested the best baby travel accessories - here are the parent-approved products you need when travelling with a newborn, from carriers to cots Social media is sucking the life out of our holidays - here's how to travel without Instagram and TikTok ruining your next trip Social media is a huge driver for tourism - it's an easy and instant way to share, view and find popular spots to visit.

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Protesters clashed with police forces during a demonstration against the upcoming G7 summit in Geneva. Tear gas and a water cannon were deployed to disperse the large crowd after protesters smashed windows and set a car on fire. What needs to be understood is the message, the basic message regarding all these countries that oppress us through money and power, said one protester who was disappointed to see the protest turn violent. The G7 summit starts on 15 June in Évian-les-Bains and will bring together the leaders of Britain, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the European Union. Pope Leo XIV says Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Família is a masterpiece of stones, colours and light during his visit to Spain.

MV Hondius, the Dutch cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, has docked at its final destination in Rotterdam. Only the ship's crew were aboard for the last leg of the journey, as all passengers docked off the ship in the Canary Islands between 10 and 11 May. Rotterdam port harbour master René de Vries said 25 mobile homes kitted out with catering and satellite communications would be available for the crew to self-isolate in. Three people - a Dutch couple and a German woman - died after travelling on the ship, with two of them confirmed to have had the virus. The World Health Organization has so far reported 10 cases in total, eight confirmed and two suspected.

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Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon. US-based pharmaceutical company Moderna confirmed that it has been working on the development of hantavirus vaccines in collaboration with the Vaccine Innovation Center of Korea University College of Medicine (VIC-K). This comes after an outbreak of hantavirus occurred on a Dutch cruise ship that sailed from Argentina and disembarked its passengers and crew in the Canary Islands on May 10. At least three people aboard the MV died, and several cases were reported as serious.

Days before the cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak is set to dock in southern Tenerife in the Canary Islands, locals are expressing a mix of concern and calm. According to Oceanwide Expeditions, there are currently no symptomatic individuals on board the ship. Iran's president says he has spoken to the country's Supreme Leader

Here's What You Need to Know About the Hantavirus While the outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic is concerning, the virus isn't easily transmitted through casual contact. Cruises are so closely associated with illness that the highly contagious norovirus is commonly called the "cruise ship virus." But a ship headed for Spain's Canary Islands has attracted global attention due to a rare outbreak of hantavirus that's left three dead. While alarming, health officials and infectious disease experts say the risk to the general public right now is low because hantavirus is less contagious than other respiratory diseases like the coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic . "This is not Covid, this is not influenza. It spreads very, very differently," Maria Van Kerkhove, director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention at the World Health Organization, said at a press conference on Thursday.

We investigate stochastic combinatorial semi-bandits, where the entire joint distribution of outcomes impacts the complexity of the problem instance (unlike in the standard bandits). Typical distributions considered depend on specific parameter values, whose prior knowledge is required in theory but quite difficult to estimate in practice; an example is the commonly assumed sub-Gaussian family. We alleviate this issue by instead considering a new general family of sub-exponential distributions, which contains bounded and Gaussian ones. We prove a new lower bound on the expected regret on this family, that is parameterized by the unknown covariance matrix of outcomes, a tighter quantity than the sub-Gaussian matrix. We then construct an algorithm that uses covariance estimates, and provide a tight asymptotic analysis of the regret. Finally, we apply and extend our results to the family of sparse outcomes, which has applications in many recommender systems.