Organisers of the Grand Slam tennis French Open in Paris have announced that this year's edition will see prize money increase by 6.8 per cent from pre-pandemic levels in 2019, the last time the tournament was held under normal conditions. The total pot will be €43.6 million.more

Boohoo's profits have taken a hit after online shoppers returned clothes at a faster rate than before the pandemic. more

Brexit has strengthened rather than weakened the British response to the war in Ukraine. Britons have the best view of their own actions, but in second place is Poland, and positive perceptions of Ukraine and Poland have risen strongly in the past two months, a survey published yesterday shows.more

Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions came under Russian shelling overnight. Rocket strikes were also reported in Dnipropetrovsk region in the east and Kirovohrad region in the centre of the country, while anti-aircraft alerts were activated in Kiev and Cherkasy regions. There are dead and wounded, Ukrinform reports today, quoting a report on the situation in the regions.more

Karim Benzema leads the 2021/22 Champions League scoring charts with 15 goals, followed by Robert Lewandowski in second place with 13. Real Madrid's French striker still has a chance to add to his tally in the final game against Liverpool.more

Polish national Łukasz Cz., 41, was sentenced yesterday by an Edinburgh court to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole before the age of 23 for the murder of his two-year-old son.more

A draft of a new - sixth - package of EU sanctions targeting Russia for its invasion of Ukraine includes a ban on selling or transferring to Russians and Russian entities, directly or indirectly, real estate in the Union, Bloomberg reported yesterday.more

A record 2.7 million people were referred for cancer checks in the last year, NHS England has said. more

The last intercontinental game for places in the 2022 World Cup finals between Peru and the winner of the Australia-United Arab Emirates match as well as Costa Rica and New Zealand will take place on June 13 and 14 at the Ahmad ben Ali Stadium in Qatar, FIFA announced.more

A court administrator in Cook County, in the US state of Illinois, Margaret Ptaszynska Kulujian received the prestigious Liberty Bell award from the Chicago Bar Association yesterday. This is an award given by lawyers for outstanding public service to non-lawyers.more

German investigators have found new evidence against the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a prosecutor has revealed in an interview on Portuguese television.more

On Sunday, for the first time in history, the Formula 1 world championship round - the Miami Grand Prix will be held on a new circuit in the USA. The race in Miami will be the fifth round this year, with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc of Monaco in the lead after four.more

Four people were injured in a shooting incident last night in Duisburg in western Germany, where two groups of people, up to 80-100 in total, clashed with each other. Numerous shots were fired. Police detained 15 people, the RND portal reports today. The daily Bild writes of "a bloody act of revenge in the rockers' community.more

The UK yesterday banned the export of professional services to Russia and imposed sanctions on a further 63 individuals and entities, mainly in the mass media sector.more

The amazing ending performed by Real Madrid players meant that instead of the third in the last four years of the English Champions League final, there will be a rematch for the decisive meeting in 2018 - write British media after the fall of Manchester City.more

According to data from the German Institute for the World Economy in Kiel, published yesterday by the Spanish daily ABC, Poland ranks second among Western countries, after the United States, in terms of aid given to Ukraine.more

People in England, Scotland and Wales are voting today in local and regional elections, the results of which could affect the political future of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. At the same time, people in Northern Ireland are electing members of their local parliament.more

Białoruski parlament zatwierdził zmiany w kodeksie karnym, które przewidują możliwość zastosowania kary śmierci za "usiłowanie przeprowadzenia aktu terroryzmu" i zezwolenie na użycie broni przez służby w celu zakończenia zamieszek - informuje dzisiaj w mediach społecznościowych serwis Biełsat za oświadczeniem Rady Republiki, izby wyższej białoruskiego parlamentu.more

Hubert Hurkacz and American John Isner defeated Russian tennis players Karen Khachanov and Andrei Rublev 6: 3, 6: 4 in the match started on Tuesday and finished yesterday and advanced to the doubles quarter-finals in the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid.more

The pub chain said it had returned to profit since March 13 and is hopeful of a further gradual improvement in sales over its final quarter. more

"You think you are doing business with Russia, until one day a missile hits your house. Then values change and everything starts to fall apart" - announced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski in a recording for the US newspaper Wall Street Journal, quoted by Interfax-Ukraine yesterday.more

Heart of Midlothian goalkeeper Craig Gordon was named Scotland's Player of the Year for the third time in his career on Wednesday. The 39-year-old celebrated the first choice of the journalistic community 16 years ago.more

Environment Secretary George Eustice said rising fertiliser and feed costs had hit the farming industry.more

Due to the war in Ukraine, bird flu and rising inflation, there are shortages of certain food products in French supermarkets, including oil, flour and eggs. Sixty per cent of the shortages are in groceries and fresh produce.more

Inflation will stay with us at least for the next 2-3 years - forecasts Pawe³ Borys, President of the Polish Development Fund. We hope that in the perspective of the 3rd quarter of this year inflation will reach its maximum and will start falling in the perspective of next year - he adds.more