Beauty giant Avon has come under fire for maintaining links with Russia despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. The BBC has discovered the firm is still recruiting new sales agents in the country and continuing production in a huge plant in the Moscow region. Avon, which has its headquarters in the UK, started doing business in Russia 30 years ago.more

Employers in the eastern and southern parts of the country have the greatest difficulty in finding competent employees, while those in the central and northern parts of the country have the least, according to the 'Talent Shortage' report. Staff shortages are mainly indicated by companies employing between 250 and 1,000 people and more than 5,000.more

Chair of society urges people to add grilled pineapple to their breakfast ‘and eat like a 17th-century lord’.more

Jannik Sinner won against Daniil Medvedev 3:6, 3:6, 6:4, 6:4, 6:3 in the final of the Australian Open. This is the first Grand Slam title of the 22-year-old Italian tennis player's career. The Russian, meanwhile, lost for the third time in the final in Melbourne.more

Nicola Sturgeon called Boris Johnson a "clown" in an expletive-laden text conversation with her chief of staff, the UK Covid Inquiry has heard. The inquiry was shown messages in which the former first minister described as "excruciating" a Downing Street announcement about a second Covid lockdown in England.more

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez has announced that he will leave his post after this season. His charges lost 3:5 in the league against Villarreal CF yesterday and recently crashed out of the Spanish Cup. The Catalan team's footballer is Robert Lewandowski.more

Last year, the number of anti-Semitic incidents relating to the Holocaust more than doubled in Great Britain compared to 2022, according to data from the Jewish charity Community Security Trust (CST), quoted by Sky News.more

Due to the growing threat from Russia, the US is planning to deploy nuclear weapons on UK soil again after a 15-year hiatus, the 'Daily Telegraph' reported yesterday, quoting Pentagon documents on the matter.more

Food distribution charity The Felix Project revealed in a new survey that almost nine in 10 community organisations they support are concerned about increasing demand in 2024.more

The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has rejected the appeal of the former president of the Spanish federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, against a three-year ban from holding positions in the world of football. The penalty was a consequence of kissing the player after the World Cup final.more

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity is also playing abroad today, including Belgium, the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Japan, Canada and at the ends of the world - near the South and North Poles. Polish diplomats have also been involved in the action.more

The owner of a famous house with a shark sticking out of its roof has criticised a council refusing him permission to rent it out on Airbnb. Magnus Hanson-Heine said the Headington Shark house was shown off by Oxford City Council in its local plan for the area but treated as "just any other place" when the decision was made.more

Liverpool players' coach Juergen Klopp will leave the club after the ongoing season. The 56-year-old German coach has led The Reds since 2015. "It's just that - how would you put it - I'm running out of energy," he admitted, as quoted on the club's official website.more

The most frequently given names in Poland in 2023 were Zofia and Nikodem, the Ministry of Digitalisation reported. Also on the 'podium' among female names were Zuzanna and Laura, and among male names were Antoni and Jan.more

Whooping cough infections in London have more than doubled in a fortnight in London, figures revealed on Friday, as health chiefs urged parents to look out for symptoms in children.more

Aryna Sabalenka won against Chinese tennis player Qinwen Zheng 6:3, 6:2 in the final of the Australian Open Grand Slam. The 25-year-old Belarusian thus repeated her success from a year ago in Melbourne. The meeting lasted only one hour and 16 minutes.more

"Witold Pilecki warned about the coming genocide, and his message, which remains valid, is that, seeing the steps that may lead to it, we should intervene before it is too late," emphasizes Jack Fairweather, a British journalist and writer, author of Pilecki's biography "Volunteer".more

The European Union yesterday condemned the execution in the US of Kenneth Smith, who was put to death using the nitrogen hypoxia method, which was used for the first time in history. Smith was sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1988.more

Piotr Zyla is sixth, Aleksander Zniszczoł ninth, Dawid Kubacki 18th, and Paweł Wąsek 29th after the first day of the ski jumping world championships in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria. Slovenian Timi Zajc is leading ahead of Austrian Stefan Kraft and Norwegian Johann Andre Forfang.more

British Foreign Minister David Cameron assessed yesterday at the end of his tour of the Middle East that progress had been made towards an agreement to stop fighting in the Gaza Strip, provide more aid and release Israeli hostages held there.more

EU Member States are not obliged to recognise refugee status granted in another Member State, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU, Laila Medina, has assessed in an opinion published on Thursday.more

Argentinian midfielder Claudio Echeverri, 18, has signed a contract with Premier League runners-up Manchester City until June 2028, the club's management announced on Thursday.more

Virgin Media is the most-complained about broadband, landline phone and pay-TV service in the UK. The company attracted 32 complaints per 100,000 broadband customers between July and September 2023, regulator Ofcom said.more

77 per cent of Poles feel satisfied with their lives. Nineteen per cent assess its level as average and three per cent are dissatisfied with their lives, according to the CBOS survey.more

Downing Street wants to give UK families higher priority for social housing in a controversial scheme that will be badged as “British homes for British workers”, the Guardian can reveal.more