The end of the year is always a moment to look back and reflect on the events of the last 12 months, but as we approach the year 2025, now provides an opportunity to reminisce over the first quarter of the 21st Century.more

The number of people turning to A&E departments in England for minor ailments including hiccups, sore throats and coughs is soaring, as senior health leaders warn that NHS primary and community services are “massively overstretched”.more

Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that a Tube line will be disrupted in 2025 when it is upgraded for travel. more

On New Year's Day, the global population will number 8.09 billion. In the past year, it has grown by another 71 million (0.9%), the U.S. federal Census Bureau estimated in its latest report.more

Chelsea London lost 0-2 away to newcomers Ipswich Town in the 19th round and missed the opportunity to move up to second place in the English Premier League table. This is the third match in a row for "The Blues" without a win.more

Almost 170,000 retail workers lost their jobs during another challenging year for the UK high street, data suggests. The collapse of big chains such as Homebase and The Body Shop put thousands of jobs at risk and contributed to 169,395 retail jobs disappearing during 2024 – a 42% rise on 2023 levels.more

In the last week of the year, Poles go for sparkling wines, the sales of which during this period are seven times higher than the average in the remaining weeks. Despite this, this product is slowly losing its seasonality - informs today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

Polish tennis players won their first match in Group B of the United Cup tournament in Australia - against Norway 2:1. Tomorrow they will play for a place in the quarter-finals against the Czech Republic. The defending champions Germany, as well as the Chinese and Kazakhs have already secured their place in the knockout phase.more

Five people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne in Argentina, the authorities there say. The 31-year-old star died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.more

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a jury's ruling that found Donald Trump guilty of sexually harassing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll. Last year, the court ordered the US president-elect to pay $5 million in damages.more

After working from home, now comes working on the go. The post-pandemic surge in hybrid working has prompted increasing numbers of professionals to carry out some work while on the move, logging in from airports and railway stations across the UK, according to research.more

Novak Djokovic has called for greater transparency over suspensions for doping in tennis, saying top players appear to be treated differently from the rest. This year, lenient penalties have been imposed on the leaders of the ATP and WTA rankings - Italy's Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek.more

Presidential elections were held in 2024 in the USA, India and Venezuela, among others. Martial law was attempted in South Korea. In the Middle East, the conflict between Israel and Iran escalated. Israel began intensive hostilities in southern Lebanon. In Syria, the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell.more

In the US, 44% of new year resolutions last two to three months; only 6% last a year. In the UK, 17% of people give up on their resolution within a month.more

Poles plan to spend an average of PLN 268 on New Year's Eve, an amount comparable to the previous year, according to the survey ‘Poles’ New Year's Eve plans’ commissioned by BIG InfoMonitor's Register of Debtors. It added that 20 per cent of respondents do not intend to incur any additional expenses.more

Rain, snow and strong winds will hit the UK as 2025 gets under way, with a series of weather warnings covering all parts of the country coming into force over the coming days.more

Poland won against Norway 2:1 in their first Group B match of the United Cup tennis tournament in Australia. The decisive point for the Red and White was given by the mixed doubles pair of Iga Swiatek and Jan Zielinski, who won against Ulrikke Eikeri and Casper Ruud 6:3, 0:6, 10-8.more

A majority of UK businesses expect a positive start to 2025, according to two economic confidence surveys which show managers planning for growth after a challenging period for the economymore

A cocktail of Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis has left larger ‘chrome and carpet’ venues high and dry as struggling chains look to party bars, writes 'The Guardian'.more

Some of the UK’s largest police forces have reported increases in religious hate crimes in the past 18 months, figures reveal, with the number of incidents rising after the start of the Hamas-Israel conflict in autumn 2023 and again after the Southport attacks in England this summer.more

English Premier League football table-leading Liverpool beat West Ham United 5:0 in London in the 19th round. Once again, Egyptian Mohamed Salah showed a very good side, scoring a goal and having two assists. The home team was missing goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski.more

In Sweden, 2024 was the calmest year in terms of the number of shootings and victims of gang hijinks since 2017, when such statistics began to be published, according to preliminary data from the Swedish police covering the past 12 months.more

Employers should have formal policies in place to help workers who are undergoing fertility treatment, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has said, warning that businesses are increasingly losing talented people by failing to support them.more

Universities from Katowice, Gdansk, Warsaw and Opole were among the universities involved in sports science recognised in the Global Ranking of Sport Scene Schools and Departments 2024, announced Prof Grzegorz Krolczyk, Vice-Chancellor for Science and Development at the Opole University of Technology.more

Pawel Wasek was 10th, Jakub Wolny 30th, Aleksander Zniszczol 36th and Piotr Zyla 41st in the opening competition of the 73rd edition of the 4-Hills-Tournament in Oberstdorf, Germany. Austrian Stefan Kraft triumphed, ahead of his compatriots Jan Hoerl and Daniel Tschofenig.more