While debate rages about Outer London’s TfL services after the ULEZ expansion, several are among the best places to raise a family, according to a study.more

Ireland is one of 10 EU countries to see the average price of farm products drop in the last year, a hint that food prices are set to come down even more in future. Irish prices fell by 8.5pc between March and June this year, compared with the same period in 2022. more

"Olympic gold is the only trophy I haven't won yet." - stressed Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors during the NBA teams' media day. He is another star player in the league who has expressed interest in playing in next year's Games in Paris.more

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was chosen as a potential candidate for president in the 2025 elections by 26.4 percent. respondents who voted for Andrzej Duda in the previous elections. 51.6% of voters voted for Rafał Trzaskowski (PO) as a candidate. respondents from the group that supported him in 2020 - according to the Research Partner survey.more

As the daily "Het Laatste Nieuws" warns, the number of reports about bedbugs in Belgium is growing rapidly. In 2023, there are almost four times more notifications than in the previous year.more

Planned strikes on the London Underground have been called off following "significant progress" in talks over jobs and conditions. About 3,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members were due to strike on Wednesday and Friday.more

Parts of the UK will be as hot as Ibiza later this week as temperatures are expected to soar to 27C.more

A debate took place in the European Parliament today entitled "Large-scale corruption of Schengen visas." The case of illegal visa trade in some Polish consulates was widely reported around the world.more

Iga Swiatek has advanced to the 1/8 finals of the WTA hard-court tournament in Beijing. Today the number two seeded Polish tennis player won against Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva 6:4, 6:1. She will fight Magda Linette for the quarterfinals.more

Robert Jenrick says he wants to cut care visas for migrant workers and criticises Johnson’s immigration policy.more

Dorothy Hoffner, 104, of Chicago, tandem skydived with an instructor on Sunday. She is the oldest person to accomplish such a feat, the ABC network portal reported.more

Travellers face a week of disruption as rail services are hit by a fresh round of walkouts by train drivers and London Underground workers in a long-running dispute over jobs and pay.more

Magda Linette and American tennis player Peyton Stearns advanced to the quarterfinals of the doubles round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing. Today they defeated fourth-seeded Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe 6:2, 7:6 (7-3).more

Pope Francis has suggested an opening towards the issue of priests giving blessings to same-sex couples, provided that it is limited and each case is handled separately and not confused with giving a wedding. This is how he responded to the five conservative cardinals who presented their concerns to him.more

Fierce competition between supermarkets has led to the first monthly drop in food prices for more than two years, an industry body has said.more

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries on nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID -19."more

Barcelona has announced a contract extension with 16-year-old Lamin Yamal. The new contract runs until the summer of 2026. This is the maximum period for which a player under the age of 18 can be signed.more

If the UK's ruling Conservative Party was hoping that the ongoing annual conference in Manchester would help it turn around its dismal ratings, it is completely failing so far. The dominant theme is what won't get done: tax cuts and the construction of the HS2 high-speed rail line.more

In Portugal and mainland Spain, record air temperatures for the beginning of October were recorded on Sunday and Monday - they exceeded 37 degrees Celsius.more

Duchess Sarah Ferguson has passed along information that her one-time assistant, Jenean Chapman, was murdered in Texas. The aristocrat wants to help the woman's family transport her body from Dallas - where the crime was committed - to New York.more

Sweden's national soccer team selector Janne Andersson has declared that if his team does not advance to Euro 2024 then he will leave immediately, and that could happen in as little as two weeks.more

The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) fined the American company Apple for monopolistic practices of USD 50 million. The watchdog says the tech giant abused its dominant position by imposing unfavorable conditions on dating app providers.more

Families are eating less healthily and turning to ready meals and processed foods due to the cost of living crisis, a study has found. More than two-thirds of people (69%) said they considered themselves to be healthy eaters but 28% said they were eating less nutritious food because it is too expensive, according to the BBC Good Food Nation survey.more

Yesterday, work began on transforming the Austrian house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station. This is intended to discourage fans of the Nazi dictator from making pilgrimages to the town of Braunau am Inn, bordering Germany, explained the AP agency.more

Today's match between Piotr Zieliński's Napoli and Real Madrid and tomorrow's match between Borussia Dortmund and AC Milan promise to be the most interesting in the second round of the Champions League group stage. The meeting in Germany will be hosted by Szymon Marciniak. Robert Lewandowski's Barcelona will go to Porto.more