Luxembourg Times

Kayode Emmanuel was parked outside the biggest hotel in Nigeria’s capital, the Transcorp Hilton Abuja, waiting for ride requests on his Uber Technologies app. When none came, he did what many Nigerians do when faced with patchy internet: he toggled his phone’s airplane mode off and back on. Then his wife called. She’d seen an Instagram post saying the ride-hailing firm had ceased operations in the country with immediate effect.

For the past decade, 44-year-old Benjamin de Seille’s company, Colors, has been supporting freelancers and businesses looking for a co-working space in the Grand Duchy. De Seille is also a member of the Luxembourg Workspace Association (LWA), the national association representing shared workspace providers in the Grand Duchy.

Asking a question in a meeting, making a phone call or ordering food in a restaurant: things that many people take for granted can be extremely stressful for those with social anxiety. These people are not merely shy; rather, they often harbour a persistent fear that others might judge them critically. Those affected often worry about making a fool of themselves, standing out or appearing incompetent. They expect others to be watching them and judging them negatively.

A number of Luxembourg hotels are offering guests the option to reserve a room for a few hours, with around 20 venues seeking to entice customers with a “day use” room. Explore Luxembourg like never before with our lifestyle and culture newsletter Sie können sich jederzeit wieder abmelden, wenn Sie das möchten. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in unserer Datenschutzrichtlinie.

Internationally together: Luxembourg’s fastest growing foreign communities Beyond the long-established foreign communities in Luxembourg – Portuguese, French, Italian and German – a new wave of smaller, fast-growing groups adds flavours and traditions to a population of which nearly 47% are foreigners

Europa Experience: Discover Europe differently! Whether you come alone, with friends, as a family or as part of a group, Europa Experience offers an original way to better understand Europe and discover how it is part of our everyday lives.

Eliane Furtado led a life similar to that of many residents in Luxembourg. She divided her days between work, her husband and her two children. Until, about four years ago, a breast cancer diagnosis forced her to look at her own life differently. “When I thought I was going to die, I began to live,” she told Contacto. Explore Luxembourg like never before with our lifestyle and culture newsletter Sie können sich jederzeit wieder abmelden, wenn Sie das möchten.

The spooky season is approaching, but where can you get some family frights, carve a traditional Trauliicht lantern (Luxembourg’s answer to pumpking carving), shake your ghoul thing on the dancefloor or scare yourself witless watching a horror movie. Read our list, and prepare your fright night. If we’ve missed an important Halloween event, let us know and we’ll add it to the list. Cinémathèque has gone all out for Halloween with films for adults and kids.

At this year’s Home Expo - a trade fair focused on housing, property, construction, renovation and home improvement - visitors are weighing their options as affordability concerns and uncertainty continue to shape the housing market. Negotiating better deals, keeping costs down and making informed decisions are high on visitors’ agendas, several respondents told the Luxembourg Times. “Something that never happened before, negotiating wasn’t really a thing some years ago,” one exhibitor said.

US President Donald Trump demanded that Volodymyr Zelenskyy halt attacks on Russian oil refineries and suggested he should consider stepping aside as Ukraine’s president, escalating a fight centered on securing more diesel supplies for the US ahead of the midterm elections. “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday as he unleashed an angry critique of Zelenskyy, saying Ukraine needs a leader “who can make a deal” with Russia.