The well-known American tennis player Serena Williams in her article for the "Vouge" magazine announced her retirement from the sport after the US Open Grand Slam tournament in New York starting at the end of August.more

The price of olive oil is set to rise as heatwaves hit production in Spain, a leading exporter has warned. more

The Ukrainian authorities have announced the launch of a rail link with Poland, which will run along the so-called European track, currently being laid, to the border crossing at Rava Ruska in the Lviv region.more

Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds donated hundreds of signed movies to a Wrexham DVD shop. more

Modern technologies are increasingly used. In several countries, they are being used to monitor beaches, among other things. Drones equipped with artificial intelligence systems can recognise dangerous situations - a drowning man or approaching sharks. Last month on a beach near Valencia, a drone handed a drowning boy a life jacket, giving lifeguards time to reach him.more

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Finland is the next country to join a UK-led programme to train Ukrainian soldiers on British training grounds, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced.more

The regulations do not protect an employee from being terminated or terminated when his employer declares bankruptcy. This also applies to people on holiday leaves.more

Supermarket shoppers could soon be checking the environmental impact of food before putting it in their trolleys, thanks to new research. more

Globally, July 2022 was one of the three warmest Julys ever measured, reports the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (C3S) in its monthly climate bulletin.more

As the heatwave approaches the UK, temperatures will not be as high as they were in July, when 40 degrees C was first exceeded, but it will be longer, the Met Office predicts.more

FC Barcelona authorities are missing between 30 and 40 million euros to meet the Spanish league's financial fair play rules, claim the Catalan dailies "Sport" and "Mundo Deportivo". They point out that some players, such as the Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong, are reluctant to accept the reduction in earnings.more

UK mobile phone operators should be forced to make their rules around data roaming in the EU clearer, Martin Lewis has said. more

Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has vowed to provide more money to help people with their energy bills, if he becomes prime minister. more

The number of people waiting longer than two years for routine operations in England has fallen from 22,500 at the start of the year, to fewer than 200, according to NHS figures. more

Juventus Turin goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny will be sidelined for about 20 days due to a thigh muscle injury, his club informed on the official website. The Polish footballer was injured in Sunday's friendly against Atletico Madrid.more

The Ministry of Climate will not exclude glass from the deposit system, as found out by "Rzeczpospolita". Instead, a provision on a number of bottle collection operators has been left in place, which may undermine the sense of the entire system, it says.more

At least six Afghan interpreters, formerly working for the British army, who were not evacuated last year after the Afghan takeover, have taken legal action against the government in London, Sky News reported yesterday.more

Spain recorded a record number of housing sales in June, with more than 50,000, according to statistics published by the National Statistics Office (INE) in Madrid. The institution specified that an equally unrecorded figure was the price of rental housing.more

Portuguese winger Goncalo Guedes, who has played in Valencia for the last five years, has become a footballer for the English league club Wolverhampton Wanderers. He signed a five-year contract and, according to local media, cost £ 27.5m (over $ 33m).more

Asda has defended its new budget range of items after being accused of ‘shaming’ poor people with bright yellow packaging. more

One in four workers in the Netherlands wants to change jobs in the next two years, reports the daily newspaper "De Telegraaf". An increasing number of Dutch companies are also facing a shortage of labour.more

Since 14 April, when the British government announced a plan to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda - which has yet to be implemented - at least 13,016 people have crossed the Channel, the British Ministry of Defence reported yesterday.more

Dutch footballer Frenkie de Jong wants to continue playing for Barcelona despite growing interest from England's biggest clubs. "He's a very high-quality player and we want him to stay with us," admitted Barcelona CEO Joan Laporta.more

Tourists from Poland, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Serbia, as well as Italians have been fined for trying to export sand, stones and shells from Sardinia's beaches, Ansa news agency reported yesterday, citing the island's customs service. They control travellers' luggage. Exporting natural treasures there is considered theft and punishable by fines.more