Asylum seekers are set to be offered £100 a week to leave taxpayer-funded hotels, according to reports. Home Office officials are said to be proposing an initiative that would allow migrants to use the money to live with a family or an individual they know in the UK.more

Britain has suspended the sharing of intelligence with the US on suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean amid concerns information supplied may be used to engage in lethal military strikes by American forces.more

Katowice has achieved enormous success during the transformation period and has a large reservoir of talented employees, said Professor Simon Stockley from the University of Cambridge, co-founder of a consortium supporting entrepreneurship in Silesia, in an interview with the Financial Times.more

A woman, said by police to have bought cryptocurrency now worth billions of pounds using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, has been sentenced to 11 years and eight months for money laundering.more

Cristiano Ronaldo says he will retire “soon”, admitting it will be difficult to bring his glittering career to an end as the 40-year-old has been planning his post-football life for some time.more

Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Austria and Poland are facing a serious migration situation and will be able to apply for a full or partial exemption from relocating migrants for the coming year under the EU's asylum and migration pact, the European Commission announced yesterday.more

US President Donald Trump has said he has an "obligation" to sue the BBC over the way a section of his speech was edited in a Panorama documentary. Speaking to Fox News, he said his 6 January 2021 speech had been "butchered" and the way it was presented had "defrauded" viewers.more

The British daily 'The Times' has recorded 87 provocative or suspicious violations of European airspace since September, when Russian drones entered Polish airspace and NATO's Article 4 was invoked.more

Taking to the skies in its unmistakable white and orange aircraft, EasyJet is celebrating 30 years since its first ever flight from Luton Airport to Glasgow. Since 1995, the budget airline has massively grown its business and brand – in part thanks to the TV documentary Airline.more

Catherine Connolly was sworn in yesterday in Dublin as the tenth President of Ireland, following her victory in the general election on 24 October. In her inaugural address, she announced that her first official trip would be to Northern Ireland.more

Famous Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, a Barcelona legend, secretly visited the club's modernised stadium, Camp Nou, where he hopes to play again.more

The Mayor of London is urging people to avoid websites selling fake tickets to the capital's New Year's Eve fireworks display. Sadiq Khan says using anything but official partner Ticketmaster will lead to scams and overinflated prices.more

The rate of UK unemployment has risen to 5% in the three months to September, showing signs the jobs market has weakened, according to new official figures.more

Former FC Barcelona and Spain footballer Andres Iniesta is suspected by the Peruvian public prosecutor's office of large-scale fraud. Investigators suspect that his name and image were used to attract investors for events that did not take place, according to “El Espanol”.more

The British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has reported that organised crime groups have begun illegally manufacturing counterfeit weight loss drugs on an industrial scale, according to a report in today's “Guardian”.more

The European Commission is demanding that the UK contribute between €4 billion and €6 billion to the €150 billion SAFE EU armaments programme, according to yesterday's “Telegraph” newspaper, citing EU sources.more

Canadian David Szalay, who lives in Budapest, author of the novel ‘Flesh’, received the 2025 Booker Prize yesterday at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London. Polish readers had the opportunity to get to know him as the author of the books ‘London’, “Turbulence” and ‘What is a Man’.more

From tomorrow (12 November), passengers will have to use a digital boarding pass generated in the app during check-in, Ryanair reminds us. This means that it will no longer be possible to download and print paper boarding passes for this airline.more

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has woken in hospital and spoken with his wife for the first time. Samir Zitouni, 48, was a member of the catering crew on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on 1 November when an attacker struck as it passed through Cambridgeshire.more

The European Union has begun setting up a new intelligence unit to improve the use of information gathered by EU countries' services; the new body will operate within the European Commission's General Secretariat, the “Financial Times” reported today, citing sources.more

Goalkeeper Mateusz Kochalski from Karabakh Agdam and defender Bartosz Bereszyński from second division Italian club Palermo have been additionally called up to the Polish national football team for November's World Cup qualifiers against the Netherlands and Malta, according to the Polish Football Association (PZPN).more

BBC chairman Samir Shah admitted yesterday that the editing of Donald Trump's remarks, published a week before the US presidential election, was an "error of judgment." In a statement sent to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Shah apologized for the error.more

Yesterday evening, footballer Robert Lewandowski became the first Pole in history to symbolically light up the legendary Empire State Building in New York with the Polish national colours. He expressed his pride in being Polish.more

Plans have been unveiled for a new free dental surgery in East London that could treat more than 5,000 patients in one of the UK’s worst-affected areas for oral health. A new, free dentist surgery could open in Barking town centre if council leaders approve funding this week.more

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from jail, three weeks into a five-year prison term for taking part in a criminal conspiracy. He will be subject to strict judicial supervision and barred from leaving France.more