The leader of the world tennis rankings, Iga Swiatek, was eliminated in the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament on hard courts in Cincinnati. The Pole lost to Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka 3:6, 3:6.more

The traditional pint after work is dying out as “a shift in attitudes” among remote workers and Generation Z means daytime socials are preferred instead, a report has revealed. more

Social media giant X has announced it will shutter its operations in Brazil following a legal tussle with a top Brazilian judge over the platform’s rights and responsibilities to counter disinformation.more

The £210m scrappage fund is running out, with Londoners still driving non-compliant vehicles urged to apply for a share of what’s left.more

Moosomin, a town of 3,300 people in the south-eastern part of the province of Saskatchewan, wants to double its population and is paying to have a house built.more

Barcelona's players started the new season of the Spanish top league with a 2-1 away win against Valencia. Two goals were scored by Robert Lewandowski, who played the entire match.more

Anti-immigration demonstrations, riots with features of pogroms and lynchings will repeat in Great Britain until the country's economic reform is comprehensive and the living standards of wide circles of society are raised - says political scientist and expert on the far right, Dr. Aaron Winter.more

Gonorrhoea could become "untreatable", a health expert has warned. An increasing number of people catching the sexually transmitted infection are finding it does not respond to antibiotics.more

The wave of the Covid-19 virus is significantly intensifying in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is the highest since July 2022.more

With UK airports at one of their busiest times of the year, holidaymakers are surrendering millions of items to security every day.more

Frances Tiafoe moves forward in the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati 2024 after witnessing his quarterfinal opponent, Hubert Hurkacz, struggle with physical problems due to the significant effort made in recent weeks to recover from his injured knee. more

Alain Delon, the celebrated actor who starred in a string of classics such as Plein Soleil, Le Samouraï and Rocco and His Brothers, has died aged 88, his children have told French media.more

Part of the Somerset House complex will open to the public today despite a fire which damaged the roof of the central London arts venue on Saturday. more

Due to Ryanair's decision to cut flights from Warsaw-Modlin airport by half - 11 routes will be eliminated and the number of flights on 18 will be reduced, the carrier said. It was noted that the lower number of available seats on planes will translate into higher ticket prices.more

Ipswich Town fans have waited 22 years for a day like this at Portman Road but they were given a brutal reminder of the task ahead on their return to the Premier League as Arne Slot's Liverpool won 2-0 in the first match of the post-Jurgen Klopp era.more

This week, Gopuff launched a 24/7 delivery offer in London, starting with Bow, Holloway and Stratford. This means that residents of these districts can receive grocery deliveries at any time of the day or night.more

The average temperature in July in Antarctica was 3.1 degrees C above seasonal norms, reported the British Antarctic Survey, a British institute specialising in the study of polar regions, quoted by AFP. This marks the warmest July since 1981.more

More than a third of landlords raising rents in England have been motivated to match local properties on the market, as renters continue to be squeezed by a shortage of available homes, according to research.more

Transport for London (TfL) plans to expand its speed camera network in the capital after more than 800,000 speeding offences in a year. In Ealing and Hillingdon alone, more than 1,800 offences were recorded over a 12-month period when the two boroughs are combined.more

Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket yesterday launched the largest and most advanced Polish EagleEye satellite to date, Creotech Instruments, Poland's largest manufacturer of satellites, satellite systems and components, announced.more

Lioness Juna, the first of five lions evacuated from Ukraine and traumatised by the ongoing war in that country, should arrive at The Big Cat Sanctuary in the English county of Kent this weekend, the facility reported on social media.more

Manchester United beat Fulham 1:0 (0:0) at home in the opening match of the English Premier League football season. More fixtures today, but Sunday's clash between Chelsea and defending champions Manchester City promises to be the most interesting in the first round.more

It is highly likely that more cases of a new, more contagious strain of monkeypox will be recorded in the EU, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported yesterday. However, it stressed that the likelihood of sustained transmission of the virus in Europe is very low.more

UK Border Force officers at London's Heathrow Airport will strike from 31 August until 3 September and then continue their protest in another form until 22 September, the PCS union, which brings together employees of state institutions, announced yesterday.more

Iga Swiatek defeated Ukrainian Marta Kostiuk 6:2, 6:2 in the third round of the WTA 1000 women's tennis tournament on hard courts in Cincinnati. Hubert Hurkacz, meanwhile, advanced to the quarter-finals of the ATP tournament. The Polish tennis player defeated Italian Flavio Cobolli 6:3, 3:6, 6:1 in the third round.more