Polish journalist Bianka Zalewska has won the Women of Courage Award for her work in Ukraine. She and ten other recipients had beed presented with the honour at the White House on International Women’s Day by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and First Lady Jill Biden.
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Seven-time winners AC Milan reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 11 years as a disciplined display earned them a 0-0 draw at Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday and a 1-0 aggregate victory.more
The BBC says it is having a "frank conversation" with Gary Lineker after the Match of the Day host tweeted critically about the government's asylum policy. Lineker said the language in which the plan was set out was "not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s".more
In Spain, there is a "mysterious" phenomenon: at least 10 food items, including fruit and vegetables, which were cheaper from farmers in the countryside, have become much more expensive in supermarkets, Cadena Ser radio reported.more
Scotland has become the first country in the world to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment.more
The governor of Florida has urged US President Joe Biden to allow Novak Djokovic to compete at Indian Wells and the Miami Open, despite the world No 1 being unvaccinated for Covid-19.more
Drunken men, provocations and cases of sexual harassment deter many women from mass events such as fairs and festivals. The youth wing of the SPD party (Jusos) in Bremen made a proposal to introduce "male days off" at local fairs.more
According to the Ministry of Development and Technology, last year over 310.2 thous. applications for setting up a sole proprietorship (JDG) - an increase of 4.7% yoy. However, according to experts, this number does not mean much, and this year a decrease in the number of established companies should be expected.more
After a chilly week that his seen temperatures reach near to 0C and London hit with a blanket of snowfall on Wednesday (March 8), conditions in the capital are set to rebound dramatically at the start of next week.
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Prosecutors will accuse Spanish soccer club Barcelona of corruption because of its payments to the vice president of the refereeing committee, the daily newspaper El Pais reported Tuesday.more
Business leaders say frayed relations with the EU are costing the British economy, as suppliers in the bloc grow more cautious about doing business with post-Brexit Britain.more
Half a million more working women are paid below the real living wage than their male counterparts, according to data from the Living Wage Foundation. It says women have been harder hit by the cost of living crisis because they tend to earn less.more
Iga Świątek and Hubert Hurkacz lost to the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the American Taylor Fritz 8:10 in the final of the Tie Break Tens tennis exhibition event in Indian Wells, preceding the WTA and ATP 1000 tournaments.more
Flights at Heathrow, Gatwick and City have been disrupted as the UK grapples with snowy conditions. The situation looks likely to worsen as the Met Office warns that Britain can expect more snow.
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The court in Warsaw will consider the case of an organized criminal group that organized transports of illegal migrants from the border with Belarus, using e.g. buses that look like ambulances. The investigation materials show that transport orders were sent to a Polish woman living in Great Britain.more
The White House backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats.more
Chelsea kept their season alive by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 to progress to the quarter-finals 2-1 on aggregate while Benfica advanced 7-1 on aggregate following its 2-0 win in the first leg in Belgium.more
The family that owns Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW has ended decades of silence about its role during the Nazi era and admitted to taking over scores of Jewish businesses and using tens of thousands of slave labourers at its factories during Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.more
