Traditional sombre funerals in religious settings are increasingly being replaced by “celebrations of life” with personal touches held at more unusual locations in the UK, according to a study.more

Kamala Harris, whom delegates to the Democratic Party convention officially elected on Monday as the party's presidential candidate, yesterday introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential candidate during a rally in Philadelphia.more

More than 500 new prison places will be made available to ensure those taking part in rioting and disorder on UK streets can be jailed, the government said. It comes after days of violence and unrest across parts of the UK following the fatal stabbing of three girls in Southport last week.more

Football referees Tomasz Musiał and Bartosz Frankowski, who were removed from work during yesterday's Champions League qualifying match after being sent to a sobering-up room overnight, have issued statements apologizing for their behavior.more

More than $1m (£782k) of cocaine has washed up on a beach in Florida Keys during the recent Storm Debby. US Border Patrol said a "good Samaritan" found the packages containing 32 kg (79 lbs) of the drug and contacted authorities.more

Eluned Morgan has been confirmed as the first female first minister of Wales, following a vote in the Welsh Parliament. The Senedd was recalled from its summer break to nominate her, after Vaughan Gething resigned.more

Esprit is finished: in March, the fashion group had to close its stores in Switzerland. Now the doors are open again, because all remaining stock has to go. Meanwhile, insolvency proceedings are underway in Germany.more

The former head of counter-terrorism policing says some violence during the riots has “crossed the line into terrorism”. Neil Basu, who held the top counter-terror job between 2018 and 2021, said: “I hope my successors are looking at that very closely.”more

Anita Włodarczyk took fourth place in the hammer throw competition during the Olympic Games in Paris. This was most likely the last "Olympic dance" of the world hammer queen, three-time Olympic champion and world record holder. "There was no luck, it's a pity," Włodarczyk commented.more

Maja and Nikodem - these were the names most frequently chosen by parents for their children in the first half of this year, the Ministry of Digitalisation announced yesterday. Among the least frequently given names, however, were Walentyna and Muaz.more

London is home to a number of fantastic museums, from the V&A to the Natural History Museum, and of course the Museum of London. The latter, which covered the history of England’s capital city from prehistoric times to modern day, shut down its site at London Wall after 45 years and is in the process of relocating to a new space in West Smithfield.more

The original injunction sign appeared in the town of Portici in southern Italy. On the initiative of two councillors, a blue sign was erected in a seaside park with the words: "Portici, a romantic town". Under the white arrow, the injunction reads: "Stop for a kiss".more

Britain’s economy is outstripping Europe’s as France and Germany stumble, according to data on the crucial services sector. Demand for UK services is surging at the fastest pace since May 2023 as companies report an influx of new clients and contracts after Labour’s general election win, according to the S&P Global UK purchasing manager’s index (PMI).more

Polish national team and Inter Milan midfielder Piotr Zielinski is likely to be paused for around two weeks due to a pulled left thigh muscle and it is unclear whether he will be ready for the Serie A first-leg match his new team will play against Genoa on 17 August.more

Nationwide is to open dementia clinics at its high street bank branches amid a surge in cases across the UK. The bank said on Monday it would begin offering free specialist support at 200 branches, providing specialist health and financial advice.more

Banksy has revealed a new London artwork featuring a goat perched on top of a wall. The street artist, whose identity is not known, posted the new piece featuring the goat silhouette with rocks falling down below it and a CCTV camera pointed at it, on Instagram this afternoon.more

British engineers building nuclear-powered submarines were using software that had been outsourced to Belarus and Russia, in contravention of Ministry of Defence rules, the 'Daily Telegraph' has revealed.more

As head of the National Space Council (NSC), current vice-president Kamala Harris has made herself known as an advocate of sending astronauts to the moon again to build a base there. Like Donald Trump, she sees space as another space of global competition with China, assesses the Politico website.more

German national team player Niclas Fuellkrug has moved from Borussia Dortmund to West Ham United, whose goalkeeper is Lukasz Fabianski, and signed a four-year contract, the English club has announced.more

A stray Thames dolphin that was seen several times in west London on Thursday has not survived. The dead animal was found on the riverbank yesterday. On the same day, the body of another dead dolphin was also spotted in east London.more

More than 120 people died from heatstroke in Tokyo in July, mostly in un-air-conditioned rooms, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported yesterday. In South Korea, extreme heat last weekend alone led to the deaths of five people.more

Malaysia, Nigeria, Indonesia and Australia have all issued warnings to their citizens travelling to, or already in, the UK following six days of unrest in the country.more

A 39-year-old Polish citizen living in Denmark will stand trial in Copenhagen today charged with assaulting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Reuters reported.more

By beating Slovenia 3:1, the Polish volleyball team advanced to the Olympic semi-finals in Paris, and Aleksandra Miroslaw, by breaking the world record twice, confirmed that she is the favourite in time climbing. The event of the day, however, was Armand Duplantis' world record in the pole vault - 6.25m.more

Within the first month of the Labor government taking power, 3,596 illegal immigrants entered Great Britain through the English Channel, which is an almost identical number to the same period last year and clearly lower than in the same period a year earlier - according to statistics British Home Office.more