The advance of Japan and South Korea to the 1/8 finals of the football World Cup in Qatar was a surprise. Today, the Asians will try for another. Japan will play against Croatia at 15:00 (UK time) and the Korea-Brazil encounter will kick off four hours later.more

High inflation and the associated price shock are dampening the festive mood of Germans. According to a survey by pollster Insa for the daily Bild, 23 per cent of people will not buy any Christmas presents this year, and less than half would be able to pay for gifts from their current income.more

James Hewitt hit the headlines when he revealed in the mid-1990s that he was having an affair with Princess Diana, then still married to Prince Charles. Now the 64-year-old former British army officer is in the news for another reason. He has just returned from his first rescue mission in Ukraine and is going on yet another before Christmas.more

73% of the employed do not expect to lose their jobs, i.e. by 1 percentage point more than in October. Such a possibility is expected by 23 per cent of people - that is 2 percentage points less, according to the November CBOS survey, published on Friday.more

The Polish national team lost 1:3 to France in the 1/8 finals match and bid farewell to the World Cup in Qatar. Olivier Giroud's strike and Kylian Mbappe's double were answered in the end by Robert Lewandowski, who beat Lloris from a penalty kick. more

Forecasters have warned that heavy snow showers could batter northern Scotland this week as temperatures are set to fall across the UK as an “Arctic blast” strikes. The Met Office today issued a yellow weather warning covering the north of Scotland on Wednesday. The forecaster said that road and rail services could be impacted by the snow.more

'Disinformation, if we learn more deeply about how it works, can help us find the weaknesses in society that allow it to spread widely; therefore, you need to be smarter than the disinformer to be better able to counter it,' announced Givi Gigitashvili of the US think tank Atlantic Council.more

"I am strong, full of hope and I am undergoing treatment normally," - wrote Brazilian footballer Pele on Instagram, who has been in hospital in Sao Paulo since Tuesday. Earlier, the daily Folha de Sao Paulo reported that the 82-year-old 'king of football' was receiving palliative care.more

In the UK, there will not be a single day without some kind of strike until 24 December, with two or three professional groups going on strike at the same time for most of the three weeks remaining before Christmas.more

Peace talks with Russia, with Russian soldiers still in Ukraine, could be used by Vladimir Putin to rebuild the military, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly warned in an interview with the "Daily Telegraph" published yesterday.more

Brazilian players Gabriel Jesus and Alex Telles, who suffered injuries in the 0:1 loss against Cameroon, will not play again until the end of the World Cup, the team's training staff announced. "The Canarinhos will face South Korea tomorrow in the 1/8 finals.more

The King should be officially separated from the Church of England, campaigners have said, after official figures this week showed the country is no longer majority-Christian.more

The British press is unlikely to doubt that the England national team will win today's match against Senegal in the 1/8 finals of the football World Cup, although it warns that they should no longer be thinking about the quarter-finals as the current African champions could cause trouble.more

In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, a majority of residents support a referendum on island reunification, but if it were to take place, the idea would be clearly rejected in Northern Ireland, according to a poll published yesterday by The Irish Times.more

Never before have so many ATMs been blown up in Germany as this year. According to the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, there have been around 450 such attacks in the country so far.more

A Russian oligarch has been arrested at his multi-million pound London mansion on suspicion of money laundering, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) reported yesterday.more

Argentina beat Australia 2:1 and the Netherlands won 3:1 against the USA in the first matches of the 1/8 finals of the football World Cup in Qatar. The winners of yesterday's matches will face each other in the quarter-finals on 9 December.more

The flexible attitude of employers towards remote work is conducive to the phenomenon initiated by the pandemic. Employees whose profession allows it willingly move their "home offices" to different parts of the world, combining travel with work. If the decision on workation is ahead, the InterNations Expat Insider Report tells you which cities around the world are the most expat-friendly.more

It is not difficult to indicate the favorites of today's matches of the 1/8 finals of the football World Cup between France and Poland and England and Senegal. Winning and advancing to the quarter-finals of the white and red team or the team from Africa would be another sensation in the Qatari tournament.more

As an open war declared on the rest of the British royal family by Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan, the British media assessed the announcement of a documentary series dedicated to the couple broadcast by Neflix.more

More and more foreigners are working in Poland, they account for 6.5 per cent of all insured persons. At the end of September 2022, more than 1 million foreigners were registered with ZUS, an increase of 23.5 per cent compared to the same period in 2021. - informed ZUS president Prof. Gertruda Uścińska.more

New York and Singapore topped the list of the most expensive cities in the world. The annual Worldwide Cost of Living Index report, prepared by ECA International, highlighted what we have been feeling so painfully for months - the average cost of living in the largest cities increased by an average of 8.1% in 2022. This is the largest increase in at least 20 years, the report notes.more

The annual Happy at Home Index looks at the impact of factors such as a sense of belonging and access to green space on overall happiness.more

Here is a look at the rates PIP claimants will get in 2023-24 as well as details about who is eligible for the benefit.more

The International Football Federation (FIFA) is considering changing the previously proposed formula of the next World Cup, which in 2026 with the participation of 48 teams will be held in the USA, Canada and Mexico for the first time.more