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To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, October 14: Portuguese papers are discussing the country's housing problems. Next: in Germany, a humanoid robot has sexually assaulted a teenage girl.
In science news, there might be planets more habitable than Earth out there. Finally, Cosmopolitan helps us find out if we are dating a loser. Housing protests are spreading across Portugal, **La Repubblica**reports.According to Eurostat, Portugal has recorded the highest rise in house prices in Europe: between 2015 and 2025, prices rose by 180 percent, and they keep increasing now in the second half of 2026.Rents have also soared. **Publico** reports that "The cap on affordable rents has risen by more than 50% in some municipalities".
The capital Lisbon is the most expensive city in the country in terms of rent. And with rent increases and growing inflation, anger among the population is growing.**Dario de Noticias** reports that"63 percent of Portuguese people have put projects on hold due to the rising cost of living". They are pausing health-related spending and even reducing meals.
Next, in Germany, police have had to intervene because of a humanoid robot that allegedly sexually assaulted a teenage girl in Cologne, **The Times**reports.The 16-year-old girl was standing outside a burger restaurant when the machine approached her from behind and groped her. Its owner, also 16, livestreamed the offence on social media.The robot is a Chinese model that can be bought for around €5,000 in Germany. It can either be programmed to move in a certain way or manually controlled with a remote.The girl immediately told the police and the robot was confiscated.
What happens next is uncertain, because this might be one of the first cases of its kind. We turn next to some science news.New research sheds light on how we can learn languages faster. **The Guardian**says that we need to "stop making sense". Research suggests that if we want to learn any language faster, we shouldn’t start with dry vocabulary and grammar, but focus on how the language sounds instead.And when we do listen to the language, we need to approach it as a whole new sound, instead of trying to make sense of it by comparing it to our native language.
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