Scotland has become the first country in the world to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment.more

Drunken men, provocations and cases of sexual harassment deter many women from mass events such as fairs and festivals. The youth wing of the SPD party (Jusos) in Bremen made a proposal to introduce "male days off" at local fairs.more

According to the Ministry of Development and Technology, last year over 310.2 thous. applications for setting up a sole proprietorship (JDG) - an increase of 4.7% yoy. However, according to experts, this number does not mean much, and this year a decrease in the number of established companies should be expected.more

After a chilly week that his seen temperatures reach near to 0C and London hit with a blanket of snowfall on Wednesday (March 8), conditions in the capital are set to rebound dramatically at the start of next week. more

Survey lays bare precarious state of local finances and increasingly ‘desperate’ measures planned in many areas.more

Prosecutors will accuse Spanish soccer club Barcelona of corruption because of its payments to the vice president of the refereeing committee, the daily newspaper El Pais reported Tuesday.more

Business leaders say frayed relations with the EU are costing the British economy, as suppliers in the bloc grow more cautious about doing business with post-Brexit Britain.more

Half a million more working women are paid below the real living wage than their male counterparts, according to data from the Living Wage Foundation. It says women have been harder hit by the cost of living crisis because they tend to earn less.more

Heineken has admitted to a failure of communication in Russia but insists it is not dragging its heels over exiting the country.more

Dawid Kubacki, Kamil Stoch, Piotr Żyła, Aleksander Zniszczoł, Paweł Wąsek and Jakub Wolny will take part in the Raw Air ski jumping competitions.more

Millions can finally breathe a sigh of relief as all industrial action on Network Rail has been suspended.more

Unverified reports have been circulating on social media of a potential terrorist attack on Brussels' 2 and 6 metro lines on Wednesday.more

Iga Świątek and Hubert Hurkacz lost to the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the American Taylor Fritz 8:10 in the final of the Tie Break Tens tennis exhibition event in Indian Wells, preceding the WTA and ATP 1000 tournaments.more

Flights at Heathrow, Gatwick and City have been disrupted as the UK grapples with snowy conditions. The situation looks likely to worsen as the Met Office warns that Britain can expect more snow. more

The court in Warsaw will consider the case of an organized criminal group that organized transports of illegal migrants from the border with Belarus, using e.g. buses that look like ambulances. The investigation materials show that transport orders were sent to a Polish woman living in Great Britain.more

The White House backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats.more

Chelsea kept their season alive by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 to progress to the quarter-finals 2-1 on aggregate while Benfica advanced 7-1 on aggregate following its 2-0 win in the first leg in Belgium.more

The British government on Tuesday announced a new law barring the entry of asylum-seekers who cross the English Channel in small boats.more

The family that owns Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW has ended decades of silence about its role during the Nazi era and admitted to taking over scores of Jewish businesses and using tens of thousands of slave labourers at its factories during Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.more

The UK's inability to replenish its dwindling munitions stockpile is putting national security at risk, MPs have warned. more

The staff situation in the Polish national team before the start of Euro 2024 qualifiers is improving, but there are still problems. Many players are injured or substitutes at clubs. And it is in March that the white-and-reds, the favorites of the group, will face the theoretically most difficult matches.more

In its "Women, Business and the Law Index" report released Thursday, March 2, the World Bank says that women who are just entering the workforce will manage to retire before they have the same rights as men.more

Sausage roll maker Greggs has said there is a “clear opportunity” to have “significantly more than 3,000 UK shops” as a surge in sales helps fuel its rapid expansion.more

Does motherhood hinder career development? - this is one of the questions that the authors of the CVeasy.pl website asked the respondents in their new survey. It turned out that the majority of Polish women and men notice the unequal treatment of women and men on the labor market, and equal participation in raising children is visible only on paper.more

Latest weather updates as temperatures are expected to plunge as low as -15C and yellow warnings are issued for large swathes of the UK - with "significant snow" expected in parts and roads, trains and buses set to be affected.more