With rising mortgage rates, UK banks and building societies will offer more flexibility to those who struggle to repay their loans, Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday after a meeting with the banking industry.more
The Covid-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdowns have greatly affected the mental condition of young people. Recent research by researchers from several UK universities has shown that there has been a dramatic increase in eating disorders and self-harm among teenage girls.more
OceanGate's CEO has repeatedly dismissed warnings about the risks of using the Titan submarine, according to the BBC. "In the race to the Titanic, you repeat the famous slogan, he is unsinkable," a former consultant to the company wrote in one of the e-mails to its boss Stockton Rush.more
French support for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has fallen from 69 to 58 percent in three months, according to an opinion poll conducted by the Odoxa studio for the daily Le Figaro.more
Due to a wage agreement with the London Heathrow authorities, the strike of security control workers, announced for 31 days until the end of August, has been called off, the union representing them, Unite, said.more
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Oyster card on 30 June 2023, TfL has launched a new limited edition Oyster card to celebrate two decades of the iconic smartcard making travel via public transport around London quicker and easier for everyone. more
In many places in Sardinia, bans and limits on the number of people present on the beaches have been introduced. For some, leisure becomes an almost exclusive experience. Strict regulations are aimed at stopping the mass influx of tourists, as well as protecting the natural environment.more
On Wednesday, the Olsztyn-Mazury airport inaugurated a new charter connection of the tour operator Itaka to Turkish Antalya. Flights on this route will be operated every Wednesday until September 20, the airport announced.more
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin admitted there were organizational problems on the occasion of June's Champions League final when fans were stuck in traffic around the stadium in Istanbul. Next year's decisive match at Wembley is set to be a special event.more
According to a report by the British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HEFA) just published, the number of women who decide to freeze their embryos or eggs for future in vitro fertilization has increased sharply in the last two years. According to experts, this is the result of social restrictions related to the pandemic.more
Thanks to the triumph in the Grand Slam French Open, Iga Świątek is approaching the limit of 20 million dollars earned on the court since the beginning of her career and has advanced to 23rd place in the all-time WTA classification. The current earnings of the Polish tennis player is $ 19,154,913.more
In 2022, in French towns, up to 20,000 inhabitants, a total of over 32 thousand. cases of physical violence in a public place, or 38 percent. more than in 2016, reported the daily Le Figaro.more
Commuters in the capital will soon be able to use contactless payments at train stations outside London. Thus, they will no longer be forced to buy tickets every time and show them when passing through the gate.more
The players of the defending champions Barcelona will start the season of the Spanish top flight with an away match against Getafe on the second weekend of August - it was announced. On the other hand, the prestigious match against Real Madrid will be played by Robert Lewandowski's team - as the host - on 29 October.more
A charge of murder of a 27-year-old Polish woman was filed yesterday afternoon against a 32-year-old man from Bangladesh. His Pakistani roommate "helped a lot with the police investigation," said Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou.more
More than $60 billion in aid for rebuilding Ukraine from war damage was pledged during a two-day conference on this issue that ended on Thursday in London, the British government said in a statement.more
Preliminary findings show that the actions of the Dutch policemen contributed to the death of a Pole, Mateusz R., informed the spokesman of the prosecutor's office in Rotterdam. A 32-year-old man died in the hospital where he was taken after being arrested by police officers who used a taser on the Pole.more
The organizers of this year's Wimbledon tournament did not include Andy Murray, the 2013 and 2016 winners, among its "historic" participants on the official poster presented. The family of the British tennis player immediately reacted with critical entries on the network.more
National Crime Agency officers have arrested a man suspected of masterminding the smuggling of thousands of people across the Mediterranean from north Africa into Italy.more
Yesterday, it was officially confirmed that the passengers of the submarine Titan, on which they set off on a commercial expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, are dead. They all died in the implosion. The wreckage of the boat was found yesterday.more
Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-min has rejected a lucrative offer from Saudi League champions Al-Ittihad. South Korea national team captain stated that "money is not important," reports The Korea Times.more
The 75th anniversary of the arrival of the ship "Empiree Windrush", which carried the first large group of immigrants from the Caribbean, was commemorated yesterday in Great Britain, although, as the organizers of the jubilee events themselves admitted, they have a bittersweet taste.more
