An average of nearly 825 times a day, water companies in England discharged untreated sewage into rivers and the sea last year, the government's Environment Agency (EA), which is responsible for protecting England's environment, said yesterday.more
Samantha Markle has accused her half-sister of libel against the Duchess of Sussex in the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021. However, the trial will not take place, because the famous American 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting e.g. restricting freedom of speech.more
Piotr Żyła took third place in the individual competition of the Ski Flying World Cup in Planica. Kamil Stoch was 10th, Aleksander Zniszczol 14th, and Andrzej Stękała 40th. Austrian Stefan Kraft won ahead of Slovenian Anze Lanisk.more
Four dead and several injured in avalanches near Tromsoe in northern Norway yesterday, Norwegian police said. On the island of Reinoya, a landslide swept a house with two people into the sea, their bodies were found in the water.more
Portugal's parliament passed a law legalizing euthanasia yesterday. The deputies of the ruling Socialist Party of Prime Minister Antonio Costa and representatives of the opposition liberal-left groups supported the adoption of this legal act.more
Magda Linette and American Bernarda Pera lost to American Taylor Townsend and Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-1, 2-6, 12-14 in the doubles semifinal of the WTA 1000 tennis tournament on hard courts in Miami ($8.8 million prize pool).more
In 2022, there were 572,806 private jet flights in Europe. This is a record level of such trips and an increase of 64 percent. compared to 2021, informs the Belga agency.more
Russian oligarch and former owner of Chelsea London club Roman Abramovich secretly sponsored Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem for many years, according to the findings of journalists of the British newspaper "The Guardian".more
Amazon workers in Coventry - the first in the UK to strike - are to take a further six days of industrial action in a continuing dispute over pay. Strikes by GMB union members will be from 16 to 18 April and 21 to 23 April. It follows action earlier this year.more
Strikes against pension reform in France are a challenge for summer tourism, not only in this country, say European media. This is also a problem for airlines who complain about frequent industrial action by French air traffic controllers.more
On March 24-27, 2023, Research Partner conducted another survey of Poles' political preferences on the Ariadna panel. This time, the popularity of politicians who could run in the presidential election in 2025 was examined.more
Around 1.7 million workers will get a “significant” pay boost when the national minimum wage (NLW) increases from Saturday – but food price inflation continues to outstrip rises in earnings during the cost of living crisis.more
"The main epidemic problem in the country is influenza. These are the reasons why we maintain the state of epidemic threat" - announced today the Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski. He noted that he addressed to the heads of offices with a request to analyze the legislative context of withdrawing the state of epidemic emergency.more
Private investigators have provided new and "compelling" evidence of illegal work for the Mail newspapers, the Duke of Sussex's barrister told a court. The privacy case centres on allegations of widespread illegality commissioned by journalists in the 1990s and 2000s.more
The organizers of Wimbledon intend to allow the Russians and Belarusians to start in the tournament as neutral players, the All England Club announced today. In the last edition of the tournament, tennis players from these countries could not start due to the war in Ukraine.more
Former US President Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts of business fraud in an indictment filed by a Manhattan grand jury investigating silent payments to a porn star, CNN reported yesterday, citing sources and giving no further details.more
A criminal investigation is under way into allegations that a rogue meat supplier falsely labelled huge quantities of foreign pork as British. The Food Standards Agency is also looking into claims that the firm also mixed rotten pork with fresh meat. more
For Poland, investing in the military is no longer a luxury but a necessity, and the pace of armaments is fueled by still-living memories of Russian tyranny.more
Jelena Rybakina defeated the American Jessica Pegula 7:6 (7-3), 6:4 and advanced to the final of the prestigious WTA 1000 tennis tournament in Miami (prize pool of USD 8.8 million). The representative of Kazakhstan is one step away from joining the elite Sunshine Double Club.more
On the second day of his state visit to Germany, King Charles III met Ukrainian war refugees in Berlin. The monarch visited the center for Ukrainian refugees on the site of the former Tegel airport.more
