Pepsi MAX is set to open a free snowball fight experience in London this December. The Of-Fizz Snowball Fight aims to encourage people to prioritise enjoyment over work during the festive season. This unique, gamified experience will be open from December 9 to December 12. Tickets are available to book, with a limited number of walk-in places available.more

UNESCO has included the Viennese sausage stands on its list of intangible cultural heritage. The history of these places dates back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.more

If Russian leader Vladimir Putin vassalises Ukraine, he will not stop there, in which case the security of Britain, France, Europe, transatlantic security would be at risk, British MI6 intelligence chief Richard Moore warned in Paris yesterday.more

Dutchman Ruud van Nistelrooy, who successfully served as Manchester United's interim coach in November, has been appointed coach of Leicester City, currently in 16th place in the English Premier League.more

Households could be issued up to four bins to separate waste as part of new guidance given to local councils in a bid to streamline recycling practices.more

Reddit, the American online discussion platform, has overtaken X to become the fifth most popular social media platform in the UK, according to the communications watchdog.more

In the elections to the Upper House of the Irish Parliament held yesterday, the centre-left party Sinn Fein came first, according to an exit poll, narrowly ahead of centre-right Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. Counting of the votes is not due to start until tomorrow, so the official results will have to wait.more

Today, Icelanders will elect 63 representatives to the world's oldest parliament, the Althing, which dates back to 930. Polls show victory for the opposition social democratic Alliance. Several Poles, who are the largest migrant group on the island, are on the electoral lists of various parties.more

FC Barcelona celebrated its 125th anniversary yesterday. One of the most successful football clubs in the world features two Poles, including the team's current top scorer, Robert Lewandowski.more

Typhoo Tea has fallen into administration after 121 years. The vapes and batteries maker Supreme has said it is in talks over a potential rescue deal to snap up Typhoo, which filed a notice to appoint administrators on Wednesday, according to official filings. The collapse follows several years of declining sales, mounting debts and even a break-in at its Wirral factory last year.more

In 2023, the healthy life expectancy was 61.3 years for men and 64.6 years for women. This means an increase of 1.2 years for men and 0.9 years for women compared to 2022 - reported the Central Statistical Office.more

If seeing a lone, desolate banana on a supermarket shelf leaves you feeling a little blue, you are not alone. Researchers have found that labelling unsold loose fruits as “sad singles” tugs on shoppers’ heartstrings and increases the likelihood that they’ll be sold.more

Robert Lewandowski, who won the FIFA Player of the Year poll in 2020 and 2021, was not among the eleven nominees this year. The Barcelona striker also has no chance of making it to the Team of the Year.more

Coffee beans are at their highest price on global markets in nearly half a century, which analysts say will hurt consumers. Among the reasons cited are climate change, droughts and fires in Brazil, falling harvests in Vietnam and tariff threats from incoming US President Donald Trump.more

Net migration to the UK was 906,000 in the year up to June 2023 - far higher than previous estimates. About 1.3 million people came to live in the UK in this period, while 414,000 people leftmore

Supermarket loyalty cards do offer genuine savings, the UK's competition watchdog has found, but it said people should still shop around. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) looked at 50,000 products on loyalty price promotions across Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Co-op and Waitrose. more

MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way for a change in the law. Under draft legislation being considered by Parliament, terminally ill adults expected to die within six months could seek help to end their own life. In the first Commons vote on the issue in nearly a decade, MPs supported the bill by 330 to 275.more

In August, Iga Świątek had a positive anti-doping test result. However, numerous explanations and analyses allowed us to determine that the violation of the rules was not intentional and the vice-leader of the tennis ranking was punished only with a month's ban. At the end of December, she will start the new season without any problems.more

A team of Bulgarians carried out surveillance on a U.S. military base in Germany where Ukrainian forces were being trained, one of six operations they undertook as part of a spying conspiracy for Russia, prosecutors told a London court on Thursday.more

Spain’s leftwing government has approved “paid climate leave” of up to four days to allow workers to avoid travelling during weather emergencies, a month after floods killed at least 224 people.more

Britain and Iraq have agreed an unprecedented joint plan to tackle people smuggling gangs responsible for thousands of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. On a three-day visit to the country, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also signed a new agreement to ensure failed Iraqi asylum seekers are returned home more "swiftly".more

More than 1.3 million people would have been killed and 950,000 injured if an attack on Warsaw had taken place using a Russian R-36M2 nuclear missile (in NATO code: SS-18 Satan), according to the US ‘Newsweek’ today. The impact of attacks on major European cities was estimated by nuclear technology historian Professor Alex Wellerstein.more

A former soldier whose prison escape led to a prolonged manhunt in 2023 has been convicted of spying for Iran but cleared of carrying out a bomb hoax. Daniel Khalife was found guilty of two counts relating to his espionage on Thursday. Wearing a blue shirt and pale trousers in court, he calmly put his glasses back on as the verdicts were read out and did not show any emotion.more

The Polish national team has fallen from 31st to 35th place in the latest FIFA ranking. The last time the Polish national team was this low was in January 2016. Argentina is still in the lead, with France in second place and Spain in third.more

Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media, after its parliament approved the world's strictest laws. The ban, which will not take effect for at least 12 months, could see tech companies fined up to A$50m ($32.5m; £25.7m) if they don't comply.more