The leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has announced that he will abolish the House of Lords within his first term as prime minister. He has a good chance of doing so, as Labor is clearly leading in the polls.more

Brazil defeated South Korea 4-1 and Croatia won 3-1 on penalties against Japan in yesterday's round of 16 matches at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. On that day, the Polish national team returned to Warsaw - in a heavily reduced composition.more

Automotive companies from Poland do not count on a quick improvement in the economic situation, although most of Europe expects it. However, they strongly count on electromobility and are already preparing for it - we can read in today's edition of "Puls Biznesu".more

Industry experts say the economic shocks of COVID, Brexit and the war in Ukraine have put sustained pressure on businesses, especially those in the entertainment sector - and now the energy crisis may prove the tipping point.more

More than 100 employees of three companies in Brabant in the south of the Netherlands have received an unusual Christmas present: for the whole of December they will be able to do their grocery shopping at their employer's expense, reports the daily newspaper De Telegraaf.more

Matches between the Spaniards against the Moroccans and the Portuguese against the Swiss will conclude the 1/8 finals phase of the football World Cup in Qatar today. In recent years, only the former have been in the top eight of the World Cup.more

Christmas dinner will be nearly 22% more expensive this year than in 2021, according to new research for the BBC.more

Climate change has meant that the cultivation of exotic fruits, including mangoes and bananas, has tripled in Italy over the past five years. There are also increasing numbers of Italian avocados and even sugar cane.more

45 per cent of employers plan to give employees Christmas bonuses. No Christmas activities are envisaged by 14 per cent of companies, according to a survey by the Randstad Research Institute in cooperation with Gfk. Compared to 2021, the value of Christmas benefits per employee will increase.more

Employees are to get the right to request flexible working from the moment they start a job under new government legislation, in a move welcomed by unions, who urged ministers to go further in terms of making such arrangements the norm.more

Locking up people who enter the country illegally and barring them from ever settling in the UK are “options” under consideration by Suella Braverman and No 10 as the government puts a crackdown on small boats at the heart of its agenda.more

More than 600 staff set to walk out over pay, with Unite saying some workers worried about becoming homeless themselves.more

German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht, for a bit of self-promotion, has broken the secrecy of negotiations on the delivery of Patriot systems to Poland, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag wrote yesterday. "This is a nasty foul on the part of the minister.more

At 15:00 local time, the red and white team flew back home from Qatar after ending their participation in the football World Cup in Qatar yesterday with a 1:3 defeat against France in the 1/8 final. After about six hours of travel, they will check in in Warsaw (around 19:00 Polish time).more

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenski was today named Person of the Year 2022 by the "Financial Times". "I am more responsible than brave... I just don't like to let people down" - announced the laureate.more

The Spanish Civil Guard has detained 29 people of various nationalities - Ukrainian, German, Spanish and Moroccan - who were sending cannabis hidden in so-called 'solidarity caravans' of humanitarian aid to the population in Ukraine, the Civil Guard reported today.more

Currys has stopped using Royal Mail for parcel deliveries "for now" following a wave of strike action at the postal services firm. more

The reasons for Raheem Sterling's absence from yesterday's World Cup football match against Senegal have been clarified. The England representative returned to the country as a matter of urgency following news that robbers had robbed his house.more

An embargo on the import of Russian oil into the European Union by sea comes into force from today. From the same day, the $60 per barrel limit agreed by the EU, G7 and Australia on the price of Russian oil transported by sea takes effect. The restrictions are intended to make it more difficult for Russia to finance the war in Ukraine, while maintaining the stability of global energy supplies.more

Talks aimed at averting train strikes before Christmas are expected to continue on Monday, after the RMT union rejected an initial offer by the group representing train companies. more

Germany is not doing enough to help Ukraine, it is in 18th place among the countries supporting Kiev, writes the Spiegel weekly portal.more

Robert Lewandowski, despite Poland's defeat in the 1/8 finals of the World Cup, can return to Barcelona as a football star, according to Spanish media, stressing that the captain of the red and white team showed a good side at the World Cup in Qatar.more

Households are switching from buying fresh food to cheaper frozen goods as the cost of living bites into budgets, the boss of Tesco has said.more

More than 2.5 million Italians have fallen ill with influenza since the beginning of autumn, the National Institute of Health Services reported. Such a high number of cases had not been recorded since 2009, when the so-called swine flu raged.more

The crown that Britain's King Charles III will wear at next year's coronation has been taken from the Tower of London fortress to be sized to fit the monarch's head, Buckingham Palace has revealed.more