Novak Djokovic did not take the COVID-19 vaccine and for this reason the tennis player could not play at the Australian Open. The Serb is preparing to compete at the US Open, although the organisers have long since announced that only vaccinated players will be allowed to play in New York.more

Footage from Diana, Princess of Wales’ 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir will air on Sky next month after the BBC said it would never again license it to other broadcasters.more

Today at 5pm (UK time) the German women will face England in the final of the European Football Championships. All tickets have been sold out and nearly 90,000 fans will be seated at Wembley. This will be an attendance record for both the women's and men's Euros.more

Spain is the first country in Europe and, after Brazil, the second in the world outside Africa where a person infected with monkeypox virus has been confirmed dead. The fatal case was announced on Friday by the Spanish health ministry.more

Colchester has about 120,000 residents and it's one of eight towns that were awarded city status during the Queen 's Platinum Jubilee. It was also the capital of England from the fifth to eighth centuries during the Roman occupation of what would become England - and there's plenty to do in the soon-to-be city. more

Robert Lewandowski did not score a goal, but his Barcelona beat the New York Red Bulls 2:0 in their last friendly match during the American training camp. The Polish footballer played until the 73rd minute. It was his third consecutive appearance for the 'Pride of Catalonia' - he is still waiting for his first goal.more

Friday's US Mega Millions lottery draw saw the jackpot fall when $1.28 billion was in the pot. The winning ticket was purchased in Illinois.more

On Thursday, July 28, Ashley Ness gave birth to quadruplets at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This alone is quite unique, but even more unique is the fact that the four toddlers were two pairs of identical twins - two girls and two boys. This is the case every 10 million pregnancies.more

Paul Stratton has been recognised for his work on behalf of refugees from Ukraine. In the football 'Match for Peace' between Everton and Dynamo Kyiv, a supporter of the English team took a penalty kick in the second half.more

In order to reduce the population of gray squirrels, which, as an invasive species, threaten the native red squirrels, British scientists intend to give them a contraceptive specially created for this purpose.more

Prehistoric Europeans consumed dairy products thousands of years before the adult lactose digestibility was developed, scientists report in the weekly "Nature".more

Hungary's Wizz Air will launch a service from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira from 30 October, the carrier announced. The flights will be operated on Wednesdays and Sundays.more

The government is refusing to name the councils excluding some households from receiving a vital support payment to help with the cost-of-living crisis.more

A legal challenge calling for greater media scrutiny of the decision to keep Prince Philip's will private has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.more

Robert Lewandowski criticized Bayern Munich activists in an interview with the American television ESPN. The Barcelona forward said, inter alia, about the circumstances of his departure from the German club. "A lot has been said about me," he admitted.more

Hospitals in the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have one of the longest patient wait times for surgery in England, according to a Daily Mail investigation. The Trust placed at number eight on the list of hospitals with patients waiting more than the NHS recommended waiting time of 18 weeks. more

There is a strong relationship between the scale of extinction of organisms and the global change in temperature, the researchers report in the journal Biogeosciences.more

Barcelona and Sevilla have agreed to transfer Jules Kounde. The French defender will sign a five-year contract with the Catalan club on Monday. According to the media, the contract value is EUR 50 million. As Barcelona informed, the breakaway clause will amount to as much as one billion euros.more

Greggs faces a battle with police over the late night sale of sausage rolls at its flagship Leicester Square shop.more

Bhutan will introduce the highest tourist tax in the world from September, informs the local daily "Kuensel". Tourists in the "last kingdom in the Himalayas" will have to pay $ 200 a day per person "for sustainable development."more

The NHS is to close the UK's only dedicated gender identity clinic for children and young people.more

Iga Świątek was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament on clay courts in Warsaw. The Polish tennis player, seeded with number one, lost yesterday to French Caroline Garcia (No. 5) 1: 6, 6: 1, 4: 6. The match lasted two hours and 19 minutes.more

The Republican and Democrat group starts a new party in the US called Forward. The party is expected to attract a centrist, moderate electorate disappointed by the deep divisions on the American political scene, reports CNN.more

Covid infections are on the way down in the UK, dropping by more than half a million in a week, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures. more

The UEFA Control, Ethics and Discipline Committee fined Lech Poznań with a fine of EUR 48,000 for incidents during the first match of the 1st round of the Champions League qualifying round with Azerbaijani Karabakh Agdam.more