There will be 6.7 million commercial flights (charter and other special flights) in the European Union in 2024, 5.8 per cent more than in 2023. - Eurostat reported on Monday. Despite the increase, the number of flights is still below pre-pandemic levels (7.0 million in 2019).more

Barcelona will face Valencia away, while Real Madrid will face Leganes on their home turf in the quarter-finals of the Spanish (King's) Cup. The draw was made yesterday, and the matches will be played from 4th to 6th February.more

Police have urged the public to use different pin codes at the gym after a prolific thief stole hundreds of pounds from a man he snooped on while entering a locker code that he also used for his bank card.more

The overwhelming majority of Polish Americans are not showing fear in connection with President Donald Trump's announcement of mass deportations. Although the specific actions of the new US authorities are not yet known, Poles in this country remain calm and claim that the deportations will not affect them.more

British Foreign Office chief David Lammy, who has been sharply critical of Donald Trump in the past, yesterday praised him as ‘friendly, generous and warm’ before the new US president was sworn in. According to the Daily Telegraph, this is part of an effort to secure a trade deal.more

‘We are starting a new era in Ferrari's history,’ - announced driver Lewis Hamilton, who made his dream come true by joining the Italian team. The Briton is a seven-time Formula One champion.more

Donald Trump officially became the 47th president of the United States yesterday. In his inaugural speech, he announced, among other things, sending troops to the southern border, imposing a state of emergency in the energy sector, and taking control of the Panama Canal. He also signed nominations for cabinet members.more

There is a Tube station in London built from a very special stone - Portland Stone, a Jurassic-era limestone from Dorset. more

In the past 12 months, 59.8 per cent of households used public transport, according to data published yesterday by the Central Statistical Office. The highest number of such people was in cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants - 90.3 per cent.more

Real Madrid player Kylian Mbappe surpassed the 300-goal barrier in his club career by scoring two goals in the Spanish league match against Las Palmas (4:1). The Frenchman is now 26 years and 31 days old. At his age, Argentine Lionel Messi has scored 313 goals and Robert Lewandowski 166.more

Tax changes announced in the Budget could make it "harder for people to enter the workforce", according to the boss of retail giant Next. Lord Wolfson told the BBC that a rise in National Insurance paid by business would hit the retail sector in particular and meant "the axe [had] fallen particularly hard" on entry-level jobs.more

Regional inequality means annual pay in the capital almost £20,000 higher than in the lowest-paid places in UK, writes 'The Guardian'.more

Szymon Marciniak will referee Paris Saint-Germain's match against Manchester City in the seventh round of Champions League football on Wednesday, UEFA has announced.more

Axel Rudakubana, 18, accused of murdering six, seven and nine-year-olds attending dance and yoga classes in Southport, UK, last July, pleaded guilty today. Sentencing in the case is expected to take place on Thursday.more

Twelve major digital platforms, including US-based X, Facebook and Instagram and China's TikTok, have voluntarily agreed to new, tougher rules to combat hate speech, the European Commission announced today. Among other things, the giants are to respond to most reported posts within 24 hours.more

World number one Iga Swiatek defeated Germany's Eva Lys 6:0, 6:1 to advance to the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam tennis tournament Australian Open in Melbourne. Her next opponent will be American Emma Navarro (No. 8).more

A 40-year-old nurse underwent the first operation in the UK to remove a brain tumour through the eye socket. Neurosurgeons performed a similar operation in Poland in October 2024. This is a new method of removing previously inoperable brain tumours or very risky ones.more

The invalidation of a foreign currency loan agreement by a common court means that it was never concluded. As a result, a franking person cannot benefit from housing relief, writes today's ‘Dziennik Gazeta Prawna’.more

Italian Premier League football runners-up Inter Milan defeated Empoli 3:1 at home in the evening match of the 21st round. The hosts' starting line-up featured Piotr Zielinski until the 69th minute. The visitors' team featured Szymon Żurkowski, returning after a long break, at the end.more

The former boss of M&S and Asda has said working from home has meant a generation of people is “not doing proper work”. Stuart Rose, who was chief executive of M&S for six years until 2011 and then executive chair of its supermarket rival Asda until November, claimed that working from home had harmed employee productivity – a longstanding problem in the world’s wealthier economies.more

Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski opened the new premises of the Polish embassy in Berlin on Friday on the representative avenue Unter den Linden, near the Brandenburg Gate. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the new embassy building is not an ordinary building, but a symbol of Polish-German relations.more

Defending champions Manchester City beat Ipswich Town away by as much as 6:0 in the 22nd round of English Premier League football and moved up to fourth place in the table. The hero was Phil Foden, who - although he played just over an hour - scored two goals and scored an assist.more

Anyone buying their shopping with their bank card could be in for a major change under plans unveiled by the government. If you’re doing your weekly shop and it totals more than £100 then currnently people have to put their card into the chop and pin machine and enter the number on the keypad.more

Real Madrid's footballers defeated Las Palmas 4:1 in the 20th round of the Spanish Premier League and moved into the leading position. Austrian David Alaba returned to the game after more than a year. ‘The royals’ are two points ahead of Atletico Madrid and seven ahead of Barcelona, who both failed to score victories the day before.more

According to Donald Trump's team, the new US president will begin his second term by issuing around 100 executive orders. They are to address, among other things, additional border restrictions, loosening of oil production regulations, the imposition of new tariffs and changes to the work of government officials.more