Ministers have warned energy firms that they must pass on the benefits of lower wholesale prices to consumers, amid concern that bills could rise this spring. more

GPs and pharmacists will be given greater powers to offer alternatives to the drugs, which are now dished out to around 5.2million Brits a year. more

The Italian Football Federation has punished AS Roma coach Jose Mourinho with a two-match suspension and a €10,000 fine for his explosive and reprehensible behavior during Tuesday's Serie A away match against Cremonese, which the Rome team lost 1:2.more

E-scooter riders involved in crashes are more likely than cyclists to sustain serious injuries, researchers have found. more

Pret A Manger will give staff their third pay rise in 12 months, following other firms in boosting wages during a labour shortage. more

In the Gulf of Oman, the British Navy has seized illegally transported anti-tank missiles and ballistic missile components; the weapons were most likely being transported to Yemen, the British Defense Ministry said today.more

In a statement this afternoon, PayPal said it is proposing a reduction of 35 roles in Dublin and 27 roles in Dundalk. The proposed redundancies represent about 3% of PayPal’s total Irish workforce.more

Manchester United's players continued their good run of recent weeks and advanced to the quarterfinals of the FA Cup after a 3:1 victory over West Ham United. In addition to the Hammers, whose squad was missing the injured Lukasz Fabianski, Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton, among others, fell out.more

The parents of a disabled teenager who died as a result of morbid obesity were sentenced yesterday by a court in Swansea, Wales, to 7.5 and 6-year prison terms. Kaylea Titford, 16, weighed 146 kilograms at the time of her death.more

Inflation in the Netherlands is on the rise again after months of declines. According to the European harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP), it stood at 8.9 percent in February this year. - the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported today.more

The V&A has announced its museum dedicated to children and young people will reopen this summer following a £13 million-plus redevelopment.more

Osasuna Pamplona won at home against Athletic Bilbao 1:0 in the first match of the semifinals of the Spanish soccer Cup. The rematch will be played on April 4. Today, Real Madrid will take on Barcelona. Robert Lewandowski is likely to be missing from the visitors' lineup.more

Police in the Netherlands received a record 9,900 reports of sexual assault and rape in 2022, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported. That's 1.1 thousand more than the year before and the most in the country's history.more

At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, then-British Health Secretary Matt Hancock ignored the advice of England's chief medical officer to test everyone entering care homes for coronavirus, the Daily Telegraph has revealed.more

European tables now depend on supplies from Spain and Morocco, and there the onslaught of winter has brought disaster to the crops; hence the empty shelves and horrendous vegetable prices, with high energy prices doing their part, "Rzeczpospolita" reports today.more

Arsenal defeated Everton 4:0 in London in an overdue match and strengthened their lead in the English Football Premier League. The visitors, on the other hand, are in the relegation zone. Liverpool also scored a victory - over Wolverhampton Wanderers 2:0.more

King Charles III has ordered his younger son Harry and his American wife Meghan to leave their British residence, Frogmore Cottage, The Sun newspaper revealed yesterday. The eviction order was said to have been issued shortly after the publication of Harry's memoirs "Spare" in January.more

The CSA research company has noted an increase in the number of people using food banks: 2.4 million French residents use the help, and this number has been growing dynamically, especially in the last six months.more

The owner of British Airways is poised to bank hundreds of millions of pounds owed to passengers after they failed to rebook flights cancelled during Covid. Customers have until September to use €911m (£800m) of "IOUs" issued during the pandemic by IAG, the FTSE 100 airlines group that also includes Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling – with any unclaimed money then written off.more

Hubert Hurkacz won against Russian tennis player Pavel Kotov 7:5, 6:1 in the ATP 500 hard-court tournament in Dubai (prize pool $2.86 million). The Pole will face ATP ranking leader Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the quarterfinals.more

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has started today from the NASA center in Florida towards the International Space Station (ISS). There are four people in the rocket capsule, including a Russian and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates - Reuters said.more

Report finds leasing offers for new battery electric vehicles are 51% more expensive than equivalent petrol models.more

Chinese and Belarusian leaders Xi Jinping and Alyaksandr Lukashenko exchanged views on the "Ukrainian crisis" and signed a joint statement on the development of a "comprehensive all-weather partnership" between the two countries, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced after a meeting in Beijing.more

The WindWhisper crew use the break between stages of The Ocean Race to hone their form in the Caribbean. The Polish team took part in the strongly attended RORC Caribbean 600 regatta, winning in its class (VO65) and taking third place among monohull boats.more

Britain's energy secretary Grant Shapps wants the country's three remaining coal-fired power plants, whose closures were postponed because of the war in Ukraine, to remain operational for one more year, The Times reported.more