The popularity of Polish fruit abroad is growing. Last year we were their seventh largest supplier in Europe, reported the ‘Puls Biznesu’ yesterday.more

The cost of the bearskin caps worn by Royal Guardsmen guarding Buckingham Palace and St James's Palace in London has risen by 30 per cent in a year and now exceeds £2,000 apiece, the UK Ministry of Defence admitted on Thursday.more

Iga Swiatek has withdrawn from the WTA tournament in Seoul, which starts on Monday. ‘My physical condition has not yet recovered from the US Open,’ she - conveyed the leader of the women's tennis ranking, as quoted on Tennis Korea.more

They tested how to separate drunken worms from sober worms, spooked cows to check milk leaks from their udders, and unmasked fake centenarians - the authors of the bizarre and hilarious research received statuettes and $100 trillion at the 34th Ig Nobel ceremony.more

UK national debt is on course to treble over the next half a century due to several pressures, according to the government’s official forecaster. Those pressures include an ageing population, climate change, and rising geopolitical tensions, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said in a report.more

A shop workers' union has won a Supreme Court battle against Tesco over so-called "fire and rehire" plans put forward by the supermarket giant. The row erupted in 2021 after Tesco proposed firing staff at some distribution centres and rehiring them on lower pay.more

After the break for national team matches, and before the Champions League starts in its new format, there is a quiet round in the football leagues in Europe. There will be no shortage of blockbusters this weekend, with the London derby between Tottenham and Arsenal seeming the most interesting.more

Palestine Action claims responsibility as windows smashed and graffiti daubed in red paint at 11 branches of high street bank.more

Vodafone and Three have rejected claims by the UK's competition watchdog that their proposed merger would lead to higher prices for millions of mobile users. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has "provisionally concluded" the deal would weaken competition between mobile networks.more

The UK Foreign Office said today that Russia's withdrawal of the accreditation of six British diplomats is the result of action taken in relation to Russian activity and that the accusations made by the Federal Security Service are completely unfounded.more

Around 600 members of gangs operating in Sweden are hiding in 57 countries, including Poland, from where they carry out their criminal activities, according to a report by the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish police.more

The Irish Data Protection Commission announced yesterday that it has launched an investigation to determine whether Google complied with European Union privacy laws when developing one of its artificial intelligence models.more

Fifth-seeded Magdalena Fręch defeated US tennis player Ashlyn Krueger 3:6, 6:3, 6:1 and advanced to the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 hard-court tournament in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her next opponent will be Canada's Marina Stakusic.more

The hack is understood to have potentially exposed the bank account details of about 5,000 passengers.more

Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that if the West allows Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles, it will mean that ‘NATO countries are at war with Russia’.more

Pharmacies, pubs and banks made up half of the closures on Britain's High Streets in the first six months of this year, data suggests. A total of 6,945 stores have closed so far in 2024, which is the equivalent of 38 shops per day.more

Cristiano Ronaldo has crossed another boundary - his social media is followed by over a billion users. "We are making history," said the 39-year-old famous Portuguese footballer.more

Regardless of whether Law and Justice would field Mateusz Morawiecki, Mariusz Błaszczak or Karol Nawrocki - the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski (PO) would achieve the highest result in the presidential election - according to the IBRIS poll for Onet.more

Plymouth is the highest performing city in the annual Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index, with Bristol rising to second place and Southampton remaining in third place. Cities across the South West region lead the Index, with Plymouth, Bristol, Swindon and Exeter all being among the best performing cities, consistently scoring above the UK average for health & safety and skills.more

Tourists currently have to pay from twenty-five to several hundred euros per day to rent two sunbeds and an umbrella in Italian beach clubs. As the European Commission argues, the reason for this state of affairs is primarily the issue of unregulated beach concessions. This is set to change soon.more

Soon, almost all people coming to the UK who do not require a visa will have to get an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) before they arrive. The document costs £10. From April next year, this will also apply to Polish citizens.more

"Ballooning" NHS England waiting times and delays getting emergency treatment are costing lives, according to a critical government-commissioned report on the service.more

During Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, fragments of missiles and drones were found in neighboring countries at least 34 times, the independent Russian portal Verstka wrote yesterday, citing its own calculations.more

The number of people in Scotland whose death was caused by alcohol remains at a high level, with the largest number of deaths in 15 years. The latest figures from National Records of Scotland, (NRS) show 1,277 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2023.more

Russian pranksters claim to have spoken with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski. They pretended to be former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and asked about help for Kiev. The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paweł Wroński, stated that he had not heard about the case. The conversation was reported by the media in Russia today.more