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☆ At least 1 person is dead after a DHL cargo plane crashed into a house
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementA DHL cargo plane crashed into a house near Lithuania's Vilnius airport. A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house near Lithuania's Vilnius airport, killing at least one person and injuring three others. The plane, a Boeing 737 aircraft en route from Germany, crashed outside Vilnius International Airport at around 5:30 a.m. local time, the airport said on Facebook. All 12 residents of the house that was crashed into are safe and have been evacuated, Reuters reported, citing information from a police press conference. "Residential infrastructure around the house was on fire, and the house was slightly damaged, but we managed to evacuate people," he added.

Persons: Valdas Benkunskas, Benkunskas, Benkuskas, Arūnas Paulauskas, Paulauskas Organizations: DHL, Boeing, Facebook, Swift Air, LEJ Airport, VNO, Associated Press, Reuters, AP, CNN Locations: Lithuania's Vilnius, Leipzig, Germany, Vilnius, Nepal, Lithuania, VNO

☆ How Europe's biggest tech campus is growing out of a Soviet-era sock factory
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementNow, he said, it's changing fast, driven by Lithuania's burgeoning tech startup scene. Tech Zity, an ambitious project a short walk from Cyber City, could help to turbocharge Lithuania's tech scene. Tech Zity is set to become Europe's biggest tech campus. Like Cyber City, Tech Zity is being developed on the site of a Soviet-era factory. Tech Zity, on the site of a Soviet-era sewing factory, is under construction, and it is set to become Europe's biggest tech campus.

Persons: —, Joshua Nelken, Marijus, Vinted, Briedis, that's, Valdas Benkuskas, it's, Kipras Krasauskas, Krasauskas, gesturing Organizations: Service, Vilnius Old Town, Business, Cyber, Nord Security, Nord Security's, Security's, Soviet Union, Vilnius, BI, Tech, Kilo Health Locations: Vilnius Old, Soviet, Lithuania, Vilnius, Silicon Valley, Baltics, Central, Eastern Europe, Lithuanian, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Cyber, Cyber City, European, City, Soviet Union

☆ Vilnius is cheap, safe, and fun — no wonder it's the world's happiness capital for Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Joshua Nelken-Zitser/Business InsiderThe city's 90-or-so lakes, ideal for kayaking, and some of the largest forests in the country are also nearby. Joshua Nelken-Zitser/Business InsiderAccording to an affordability index by the personal finance website Finasvalp, Vilnius is the fourth most affordable capital in Europe. Joshua Nelken-Zitser/Business InsiderShe also said she appreciates how inexpensive and convenient it is to travel from Vilnius. Joshua Nelken-Zitser/Business InsiderOutside a food hall beside the Baltasis Tiltas, or White Bridge, 22-year-old Goda Ponomariovaitė looks for a place to sit. Joshua Nelken-Zitser/Business InsiderAccording to Ponomariovaitė, Vilnius has plenty of free or affordable hangout spots.

Persons: —, Valdas Benkuskas, Angel Villalba, Ignas, Kazlauskas, Ignas Kazlauskas, Joshua Nelken, Pranculis, Elizabeth Avgusta, Adriana Doroškevičiūtė, Avgusta, Doroškevičiūtė, It's, Ponomariovaitė Organizations: Service, Business, Getty, Gallup, US, Eurostat, Finasvalp, Michelin Locations: Lithuania, Vilnius, Baltic, Small, Lithuania's, Denver, London, Newcastle, Ukraine, Belarus, Berlin, Europe, Indonesia, LA's Venice, Ponomariovaitė, Amsterdam

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