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Harrison Ford Accepts Cannes Palme d’Or Award

The US actor was awarded an honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement at the Cannes Film Festival ahead of the premiere of his latest and last Indiana Jones film. It’s been quite the week for octogenarians in the headlines, and much has been written and said about Harrison Ford’s appearance ahead of his final Indiana Jones film screening. The much-anticipated premiere of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”, the fifth in the series, 15 years since Ford last played the adventurous archaeologist. “I’m very touched. I’m very moved by this. They say when you’re about to die, you, you see your life flash before your eyes. I just saw my life flash before my eyes,” he said after a clip reel of his career was played.

Serbia Presents “Electronic Nose” For Robots

The Research and Development Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Serbia (IVI) has created an “electronic nose” which allows the robot to “sense smells”, which will be widely used in the medical and food industries. The IVI Institute presented projects and research teams at this year’s technology fair, from May 16 to 19 in Belgrade, and junior researcher Savo Ičagić explained to Tanjug the characteristics of a device called the “electronic nose”. “It is a device that allows the machine to smell smells and has a large application in the medical and food industry,” explained Ičagić. He stated that the entire cycle of products, starting from production and processing, as well as the flow of transportation to the end consumers, can be monitored with “nomes”.

Japan Cherry Blossom Season

The largest factor in determining the timing of the cherry blossoms is geographical location, On Japan’s southern, subtropical islands of Okinawa, cherry blossoms open as early as January, while on the northern island of Hokkaido, they bloom as late as May. In most major cities in between, including Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, the cherry blossom season typically takes place around late March or early April. Furthermore, the timing of the blossoms differs from year to year depending on the weather. If the weather during the weeks preceding the cherry blossom season is mild, blossoms will open early. If it is cold, blossoms will open later.

46% More Foreign Tourists Visited Belgrade Than Last Year

According to the data of the Tourist Organization of Belgrade, the number of foreign tourist arrivals in the capital of Serbia in the first three months was 46 per cent higher than in the same period last year. From January to March, Belgrade was visited by 237,965 guests who spent 513,252 overnight stays and the largest increase in tourist arrivals was recorded from Greece, 212 per cent, and Bulgaria, 132 per cent. In the first three months of this year, the most numerous were tourists from Russia (28,009), who made 114,648 overnight stays, followed by guests from Turkey, followed by tourists from Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia.

Swedish Singer Wins Eurovision Song Contest For 2nd Time

Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest with her power ballad “Tattoo” at a colourful, eclectic music competition clouded for a second year running by the war in Ukraine. The diva from Stockholm beat acts from 25 other countries to take the continent’s pop crown at the final of the competition in Liverpool. Finnish singer Käärijä was second in a close-fought battle of the Nordic neighbours. Loreen, 39, previously won Eurovision in 2012 and is only the second performer to take the prize twice, after Ireland’s Johnny Logan in the 1980s. It’s Sweden’s seventh Eurovision victory, matching Ireland’s record.

Exit Second Among The 12 Most Popular European Festivals

According to research by the British platform Savoo, Exit is in second place among the 12 most popular European festivals, comparing the price of festival tickets with the ticket prices of individual concerts of the biggest stars performing at the festival. “Taking into account the headliners of Exit, including Wu-Tang Clan, The Prodigy, Skrillex and many others, as well as the prices of festival tickets and tickets for their individual concerts, Exit offers its visitors the opportunity to hear the world’s favourite stars with savings of up to 50,000 dinars”, according to the announcement published by Exit. As stated, the famous Glastonbury is in first place as the most profitable festival for visitors in Great Britain, and below Exit on the list are Primavera Sound, Tomorrowland, Mad Cool Festival, Sziget and others.