Axel Rudakubana, 18, accused of murdering six, seven and nine-year-olds attending dance and yoga classes in Southport, UK, last July, pleaded guilty today. Sentencing in the case is expected to take place on Thursday.more

Twelve major digital platforms, including US-based X, Facebook and Instagram and China's TikTok, have voluntarily agreed to new, tougher rules to combat hate speech, the European Commission announced today. Among other things, the giants are to respond to most reported posts within 24 hours.more

World number one Iga Swiatek defeated Germany's Eva Lys 6:0, 6:1 to advance to the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam tennis tournament Australian Open in Melbourne. Her next opponent will be American Emma Navarro (No. 8).more

A 40-year-old nurse underwent the first operation in the UK to remove a brain tumour through the eye socket. Neurosurgeons performed a similar operation in Poland in October 2024. This is a new method of removing previously inoperable brain tumours or very risky ones.more

The invalidation of a foreign currency loan agreement by a common court means that it was never concluded. As a result, a franking person cannot benefit from housing relief, writes today's ‘Dziennik Gazeta Prawna’.more

Italian Premier League football runners-up Inter Milan defeated Empoli 3:1 at home in the evening match of the 21st round. The hosts' starting line-up featured Piotr Zielinski until the 69th minute. The visitors' team featured Szymon Żurkowski, returning after a long break, at the end.more

The former boss of M&S and Asda has said working from home has meant a generation of people is “not doing proper work”. Stuart Rose, who was chief executive of M&S for six years until 2011 and then executive chair of its supermarket rival Asda until November, claimed that working from home had harmed employee productivity – a longstanding problem in the world’s wealthier economies.more

Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski opened the new premises of the Polish embassy in Berlin on Friday on the representative avenue Unter den Linden, near the Brandenburg Gate. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the new embassy building is not an ordinary building, but a symbol of Polish-German relations.more

Defending champions Manchester City beat Ipswich Town away by as much as 6:0 in the 22nd round of English Premier League football and moved up to fourth place in the table. The hero was Phil Foden, who - although he played just over an hour - scored two goals and scored an assist.more

Anyone buying their shopping with their bank card could be in for a major change under plans unveiled by the government. If you’re doing your weekly shop and it totals more than £100 then currnently people have to put their card into the chop and pin machine and enter the number on the keypad.more

According to Donald Trump's team, the new US president will begin his second term by issuing around 100 executive orders. They are to address, among other things, additional border restrictions, loosening of oil production regulations, the imposition of new tariffs and changes to the work of government officials.more

Real Madrid's footballers defeated Las Palmas 4:1 in the 20th round of the Spanish Premier League and moved into the leading position. Austrian David Alaba returned to the game after more than a year. ‘The royals’ are two points ahead of Atletico Madrid and seven ahead of Barcelona, who both failed to score victories the day before.more

The proportion of younger workers needing time off for stress has grown compared with older colleagues, according to a report on burnout which also revealed far fewer feel comfortable opening up to bosses about the pressure they are under.more

Paweł Wąsek was fifth, Kamil Stoch 24th, and Dawid Kubacki 26th in Sunday's Ski Jumping World Cup competition in Zakopane. Aleksander Zniszczoł and Jakub Wolny were eliminated after the first series. Austrian Daniel Tschofenig won his fifth victory of the season.more

In December 2024, household chemicals were 10.3% more expensive than in the same month of 2023. This allowed it to take first place in the latest price ranking. Prices of fat products went up by 8.8% year-on-year, and vegetables - by 8.6%. These are greater increases than the general jump in prices on the market, which in the last month of 2024 amounted to 5.6% year-on-year.more

Scientists from the British University College London (UCL) are testing the psychedelic substance DMT, an ingredient in the ritual drink ayahuasca, used by indigenous communities of the Amazon as a potential means of supporting the treatment of alcoholism, the Guardian reported.more

Blue Monday, supposedly the most depressing day of the year, which falls on the third Monday of January, does not exist, reminds psychologist Dr. Magdalena Nowicka from SWPS University. It was a marketing ploy and was designated without the use of reliable scientific methodology.more

Barcelona drew 1-1 away to Getafe in the 20th round of the Spanish top flight, with the Catalans missing an opportunity to further reduce the gap on leaders Atletico Madrid, who lost 0-1 at Leganes.more

Over 100 film, theatre, visual arts, design and music events in dozens of cities in Poland and the UK – these are the plans for the Poland-UK 2025 Cultural Season starting in March. The programme will last until the end of November.more

China recorded a third consecutive year of negative population growth despite a slight increase in the number of births, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). At the end of 2024, China's population stood at 1.408 billion.more

The best in the two previous editions, Aryna Sabalenka, became the first quarter-finalist of the Australian Open in Melbourne. Carlos Alcaraz won the first two sets against Jack Draper 7:5, 6:1, after which the British tennis player gave up the match due to injury.more

Britain has become the top trading partner for a major European gateway port in a “remarkable” post-Brexit turnaround.more

English Premier League runner-up Arsenal London, where Jakub Kiwior plays, drew 2-2 at home with Matty Cash's Aston Villa in the 22nd round and are now six points behind leaders Liverpool. Kiwior was a reserve, while Cash played the entire match and had an assist.more

TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect. A message appearing on the app for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning "you can't use TikTok for now".more

Retailers in Great Britain experienced a surprise fall in sales volumes last month, as supermarkets and other food stores had their worst Christmas since 2013, according to official figures.more