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Thousands of people have taken part in protests against tourism in holiday resorts across the Canary Islands.There were simultaneous demonstrations in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro on Sunday calling for a change in the tourism model for the Spanish islands. In the Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, a resort popular with British holidaymakers, protesters appeared on the beach while tourists were sunbathing and chanted: "This beach is ours."At least 8,000 people took part in the protests under the slogan Canary Islands has a limit, the Spanish government said. Image: Thousands of protesters took part. Pic: Reuters Activists say local people are being priced out of the housing market ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla have signed a historic bible on their trip to Australia, over four decades after the monarch signed the same book with Princess Diana.The King is on his first foreign trip since his cancer diagnosis and took a day of rest before beginning his tour on Sunday. Attending a church in a north Sydney suburb, the King signed a bible brought over with the First Fleet.However, it wasn't the first time the King had done so and his signature was visible, alongside Princess Diana's, from a trip the couple took in 1983.Other royals, seemingly including Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and Prince William and the Princess of Wales, had also signed the page. Image: King Charles III turns the hourglass he gifted the parliament....

Elon Musk has promised to give away $1m a day until the US election to someone who signs his online petition.The Tesla boss is backing America PAC, a political group he set up to support Donald Trump's bid for the White House. He posted on X: "Every day, from now through Nov 5, @America PAC will be giving away $1M to someone in swing states who signed our petition to support free speech & the right to bear arms!"We want to make sure that everyone in swing states hears about this and I suspect this will ensure they do."The first $1m (£767,000) has already apparently been awarded to a man named John Dreher during a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday. X This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other tech...