Barcelona and Sevilla have agreed to transfer Jules Kounde. The French defender will sign a five-year contract with the Catalan club on Monday. According to the media, the contract value is EUR 50 million. As Barcelona informed, the breakaway clause will amount to as much as one billion euros.more

Greggs faces a battle with police over the late night sale of sausage rolls at its flagship Leicester Square shop.more

Bhutan will introduce the highest tourist tax in the world from September, informs the local daily "Kuensel". Tourists in the "last kingdom in the Himalayas" will have to pay $ 200 a day per person "for sustainable development."more

The NHS is to close the UK's only dedicated gender identity clinic for children and young people.more

Iga Świątek was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament on clay courts in Warsaw. The Polish tennis player, seeded with number one, lost yesterday to French Caroline Garcia (No. 5) 1: 6, 6: 1, 4: 6. The match lasted two hours and 19 minutes.more

The Republican and Democrat group starts a new party in the US called Forward. The party is expected to attract a centrist, moderate electorate disappointed by the deep divisions on the American political scene, reports CNN.more

Covid infections are on the way down in the UK, dropping by more than half a million in a week, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures. more

The UEFA Control, Ethics and Discipline Committee fined Lech Poznań with a fine of EUR 48,000 for incidents during the first match of the 1st round of the Champions League qualifying round with Azerbaijani Karabakh Agdam.more

Spanish prosecutors said they would seek the sentence of Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison if found guilty in a trial of her alleged tax fraud.more

At the moment, inflation may just be reaching its peak, assessed Goldman Sachs analysts. However, they added that the current inflation data and pressure on currency depreciation will require further monetary policy tightening, and interest rates will reach 8%.more

With inflation soaring to a new 40-year high last month, campaigners fear next year’s hike in regulated fares for regular rail users could be the biggest since the railways were privatised in 1996. more

Soaring inflation has made life harder for most of the world — but some people are still smoking expensive cigarettes, and doing shots of fancy tequila. more

The Spanish flight crew of EasyJet has abandoned the strike announced for the weekend. The decision was made after an agreement was reached during Thursday's negotiations, during which protesters received guarantees for pay rises.more

According to employers, job candidates lack soft skills; among these they most often mention: resistance to stress, adaptability, reliability, discipline and creativity, according to the Manpower report.more

The government has announced how all households in England, Scotland and Wales will receive £400 to help with rising fuel bills this autumn.more

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has announced that his club will try to bring seven-time Golden Ball winner Lionel Messi back to Camp Nou. As he emphasized, they have a "moral debt" to the Argentine to end his career in this team.more

Employees of meteorological centers have become the target of attacks "on an unprecedented scale". The reason was their announcement of an unprecedented wave of record heat.more

The London Underground’s Piccadilly line will resume Night Tube services this weekend, for the first time since they were suspended due to the pandemic. more

Just as with its other flagship locations, Apple’s new Brompton Road store will also host free events, which range from training to talks, focusing on fitness, creativity and more. more

Cristiano Ronaldo is thinking about transferring to Sporting Lisbon, where he started his senior career - reports "The Athletic". According to the journal, the Manchester United player and his agent Jorge Mendes are already after preliminary talks with the Portuguese runner-up.more

There are fewer and fewer arguments for Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom and, over time, it will be harder for opponents of independence to find them, believes former Scottish head of government Alex Salmond, who negotiated an independence referendum in 2014.more

London’s fire chief has called for a “total ban” on disposable barbecues as the capital braces for a potential second summer heatwave.more

In Belgium, we have a plague of Asian hornets, and the Asian hornet poses a threat to native bees, experts cited by Belgian media alert.more

Atletico Madrid have confirmed the transfer from the Argentine defender Nahuel Molina from Italy's Udinese, the Spanish club announced yesterday. Transfer sum not reported.more

The ITAKA Foundation - Center for the Search for Missing People, at the request of the family and in cooperation with the police, is searching for the missing Cezary Polski.more