Today will mark the end of the two-month transition period in which the UK finds itself following Boris Johnson's announced resignation. Before noon, he will be replaced as Prime Minister by newly elected Conservative Party leader Liz Truss.more

The trade union has called on the pilots to go on a two-day strike that will start tomorrow if Lufthansa does not enter the collective bargaining. Customers have little understanding of the attitude of well-paid pilots, comments the daily "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" website.more

Training of Ukrainian soldiers on British training grounds under a UK-led programme has been extended from three to five weeks, Sky News reported yesterday, as confirmed by Defence Minister Ben Wallace.more

In the match of the 5th round of the Italian Premier League football match between Salernitana and Empoli, Polish striker Krzysztof Piatek played for the first time for the Salerno team, appearing on the pitch in the 56th minute of the game. The meeting ended in a 2:2 draw, with Atalanta Bergamo returning to the lead.more

Actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller were among 25 US citizens banned from entering Russia, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The sanctions introduced by the Kremlin also included officials and businessmen and are in retaliation for US restrictions on Russia.more

Anyone caught lighting up within 15m of a hospital building in Scotland could be fined up to £1,000. more

Iga Swiatek advanced to the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam tournament US Open. The number one seeded Polish tennis player won against Germany's Jule Niemeier 2:6, 6:4, 6:0. Her next opponent tomorrow will be American Jessica Pegula, who is playing with eight.more

Belgian and Israeli media are reporting that cars with the number plates appeared on the streets 'HH-88' and '1-RAS-88', which directly refer to Hitler and Nazism, are increasingly being driven on Belgian roads.more

There’s always something that seems to irk Jeremy Clarkson, and right now, it’s the ‘utter uselessness of today’s youth’. The Grand Tour presenter is convinced that youngsters are the biggest threat to the UK right now – yes, even more so Russia’s war with Ukraine, Brexit, and the fast-approaching energy crisis.more

This season, Poles were most likely to choose Turkey and Greece for their foreign holidays, the Polish Chamber of Tourism reported yesterday. The average price of booking a foreign trip exceeded PLN 8.1 thousand. This is 1.5 thousand more than a year ago.more

The Queen is said to be on ‘tenterhooks’ and waiting for the next ‘nuclear bomb’ after Meghan Markle said she could ‘reveal all’ in her latest interview. more

The Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport Authority will start building a new terminal, reports the daily "Financieele Dagblad". The airport expansion is expected to cost one billion euros and will be completed in 2032.more

Liz Truss will be the new UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest. It was a closer result than many pundits expected, with Truss taking 57% of valid votes cast.more

One of the UK’s biggest chicken producers has warned food security could be under threat and shoppers exposed to a "price shock" after a more than threefold surge in the price of carbon dioxide (CO2).more

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The autumn wave of coronavirus is expected to appear in November or December. I do not expect it to be particularly severe,' announced virologist Professor Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska. She believes that current vaccination levels are too low.more

An interview Lady Di gave Martin Bashir in 1995 shocked the public. Years later it turned out that a BBC journalist had committed manipulation and lies in order to extract sensational confessions from the aristocrat. As a compensation, the British radio and television broadcaster decided to donate 1.42 million pounds to the duchess' close heart to charities.more

Clemens Fuest, head of the Munich-based economic research institute (Ifo), in an interview with the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, predicts a sharp economic slowdown.more

Robert Lewandowski will play for the first time in the Champions League in the Barcelona jersey. The Pole is third in the all-time classification with 86 goals. The leader of this ranking - Cristiano Ronaldo - will be missing in the season starting tomorrow.more

This weekend saw a series of violent incidents that led to the death of two people and saw four more in hospital. The youngest victim was a 16-year-old boy in South East London, who is fighting for his life after being stabbed. more

Spain and Portugal are among the countries with the highest increase in deaths in Europe, according to the latest Eurostat figures from June 2022. Europe has seen an average of 6.2 per cent more deaths since the arrival of the coronavirus, reports the daily "ABC".more

Brits are facing a dark, colourless Christmas this year because of rocketing energy bills. more

Daniil Medvedev will not defend his title in the US Open Grand Slam tournament in New York. The Russian tennis player, seeded with "one" in the 1/8 finals, lost to Australian Nick Kyrgios (No. 23), after nearly three hours of duel, 6: 7 (11-13), 6: 3, 3: 6, 2: 6.more

Delegates from nine countries representing more than five hundred indigenous peoples and tribes who came to the five-day conference of the Coordinating Committee of the Amazon Indigenous Peoples' Organisation (CICA), which began today, announced an appeal to humanity to "save the world's endangered lungs".more

More than two million people will be given the jag from Monday with some receiving a new dual vaccine which tackles the original virus and the Omicron variant. more