The European Commission has adopted a draft regulation to harmonise rules on the origin of a child in the EU. According to it, the origin of a child established in one Member State will be recognised in the others without a special procedure.more

The Professional Tennis Association (ATP), the governing body for men's competitions, has imposed a fine of one million dollars on the British federation (LTA). The reason is that competitors from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to participate in five events in this country this year.more

Another scandal has erupted in the UK over personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Baroness Michelle Mone at the centre of it, who was alleged to have made £30m from public money as a result.more

In France, energy consumption has been falling for about a month. In the past week, it decreased by 8.3 per cent. - reported the manager of the French electricity transmission network RTE. At the same time, the energy sector warned of possible power cuts in winter, which could affect around 60 per cent of the population.more

Free universal preschool childcare and more funding for after-school clubs could increase government revenues and save a family with young children between £620 and £6,175 a year, a joint report welcomed by the Labour party has revealed.more

The Ski Jumping World Cup will take place in Titisee-Neustadt from Friday to Sunday. Both women's and men's competitions are planned in Germany, as well as a mixed team competition, in which Poland will also take part.more

Dutch monarch William Alexander has decided to investigate his family's role in the country's colonial past and has therefore commissioned an independent study on the matter, the King's press service reported. It is expected to take three years and will be carried out by Leiden University.more

Getting a bus in London can sometimes be an agonising experience. Long queues, packed buses, and heavy traffic can all make London’s most used form of public transport a bit of a nightmare.more

Hungary's Wizz Air will launch two new routes from Poland to Albania from July next year. These are flights from Gdansk and Poznan to Tirana, the carrier announced yesterday.more

Emergency cold weather measures were activated by Sadiq Khan on Wednesday amid concern that plummeting temperatures posed a risk to life.more

Ambulance staff across most of England and Wales will go on strike on 21 December in a dispute over pay. more

The UK government has announced the relaxation of the de facto near-total ban on new onshore wind farms in England and announced a public consultation on the issue.more

"I've seen all the matches and I can say without a doubt that it was the best World Cup group stage ever. It's a good harbinger for the rest of the World Cup," said FIFA President GiannI Infantino. The tournament in Qatar is entering its decisive phase.more

The aired trailers for the Netflix series 'Harry & Meghan', in which the younger son of Charles III accuses the rest of the royal family of 'playing dirty' and manipulating the media, themselves contain at least five manipulations, British media point out.more

We will defend every square metre of territory of NATO countries, including Poland. You are safe, I promise you that," US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski announced today.more

There is evidence that "rocket and feather" fuel pricing happened in 2022, a competition watchdog has said. more

In the Netherlands, GPs will be able to prescribe abortion pills to women wishing to terminate their pregnancies, the upper house of parliament decided yesterday. Until now, the pills could only be ordered from abortion clinics.more

Iga Swiatek's duel with Czech Barbora Krejcikova in the final of the WTA tournament in Ostrava in September was voted match of the year. It received 71 per cent of the votes in a fan vote on WTA Twitter. The Pole lost that encounter 7:5, 6:7 (4-7), 3:6.more

Apple is to allow customers in the UK and seven other European countries to purchase genuine Apple parts and tools to carry out self-repairs for the first time.more

More of us are dying all the time than before the pandemic. In 48 weeks this year, 408,000 people died in Poland. This is 30 thousand more than in 2019. - writes today's 'Dziennik Gazeta Prawna'.more

An advert for beer company BrewDog has been banned over a “tongue-in-cheek” claim that its fruit-flavoured beers constitute “one of your five a day”.more

After 53 years and more than 1,570 aircraft built, the last Boeing 747, known as a jumbo jet, rolled off the assembly line of a factory in the US state of Washington yesterday. The machine will be used for freight transport.more

The Portuguese media, summing up the country's national team's 6:1 victory against Switzerland in yesterday's match of the 1/8 finals of the football World Cup, note that the high win was like a "show" in which Cristiano Ronaldo had practically no part. He appeared briefly and was merely a backdrop for his younger colleagues.more

Lockdowns and quarantines were introduced during the pandemic to isolate people infected with SARS-CoV-2 from outsiders. However, they did not protect the families of those infected from infection. How many people 'caught' the virus in their own home? Professor Rebecca Tunstall of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York set out to answer this question.more

Police evacuated the Mercatorplein in Amsterdam and the Kruisplein in Rotterdam due to the riots that broke out in these squares after Morocco's promotion, following its victory over Spain, to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, media reported last night. Officers also had to intervene in The Hague, where three people were detained.more