British Prime Minister Liz Truss today, on her 45th day in office, announced her resignation, explaining that she is unable to fulfill the mandate under which she was elected. She will remain in office until a successor is elected, which is expected by October 28.more

Some 1.5 million lives could be saved each year if the world worked in a coordinated way to speed up the approval of new cancer drugs, according to an analysis published Tuesday in the Harvard Business Review.more

Liverpool defeated West Ham United 1:0 at home in the 12th round of the English Football Premier League. The visitors' goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski was beaten by Uruguayan Darwin Nunez in the 22nd minute. Tottenham Hotspur suffered its second defeat of the season - against Manchester United 0:2.more

The Shetland archipelago, the northernmost part of Britain, was cut off from the rest of the country this morning due to damage to an undersea telecommunications cable. Telephones and computers are out of order on the islands, and there is no internet access.more

Housing has become unaffordable, a record number of Poles believe. They want government support and influence on prices, reports today's "Rzeczpospolita."more

Workers who keep Britain's nuclear deterrent system on standby will vote next week on whether to go on strike after no agreement was reached on wage increases, the union representing them announced yesterday.more

Top seed Hubert Hurkacz defeated Britain's Jack Draper 7:6 (7-5), 6:7 (5-7), 6:1 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP tennis tournament in Antwerp. At the beginning of the third set, the Wroclaw-based player asked for a medical break due to problems with his right leg.more

A 55-year-old resident of Longmeadow in the US state of Massachusetts unleashed a swarm of bees on sheriff's office officers executing an eviction warrant. She was arrested on suspicion of using a dangerous weapon, among other charges.more

Chaotic scenes occurred last night in the British House of Commons when voting on the fate of the moratorium on shale gas extraction. According to witnesses, the leadership of the Conservatives' parliamentary club intimidated and coerced its own MPs into supporting the government.more

Real Madrid scored its ninth victory in 10 rounds of Spanish Premier League football. "The royals" won away against Elche 3:0 after goals by Federico Valverde, Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio. Coach Carlo Ancelotti's team is the only one that remains unbeaten and leads the table.more

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry assessed in a statement issued last night that Russia's imposition of martial law on annexed Ukrainian territory is a "new stage of terror." The ministry believes that the Kremlin's "agony of the regime" continues.more

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman unexpectedly resigned from her post yesterday. This is the second change in Prime Minister Liz Truss's close cabinet in her 43 days in office - on Friday Kwasi Kwarteng was dismissed as Finance Minister. Grant Shapps - a former transport minister in Boris Johnson's government - replaces her.more

Commanders in Russian units take bribes to send soldiers to the rear who do not want to fight on the front line, and in this way "do business on 'special operation'" - The Center for Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated yesterday.more

Lazio Roma's top scorer Ciro Immobile suffered a thigh muscle injury in Sunday's league match against Udinese (0:0) that will rule him out for two months, the capital club announced.more

Struggling to survive in office, British Prime Minister Liz Truss again apologized yesterday for mistakes made that caused economic turbulence, but assured that she has no intention of resigning.more

Irish people have the second highest level of car dependency among EU citizens, according to the result of a new EU-wide survey. more

The survey, conducted by insurance company Pronova BKK, shows that most Germans choose to go to work despite illness. This is the case even in the case of a coronavirus infection, the Spiegel daily portal wrote on Monday.more

Frank Kramer has been fired as coach of Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen players, the Bundesliga club announced. On Tuesday, his team lost to Hoffenheim 1:5 away in the 1/16 finals of the German Cup.more

The number of children arriving at school hungry has risen dramatically in the last six months, with many teachers reporting a worrying rise in pupils stealing to eat, according to a survey of teachers in England. more

The Regional Court in Krakow has sentenced the head of a criminal group and its members involved in smuggling liquid amphetamine in plum brandy bottles from Poland to Sweden. The criminals were sentenced to absolute imprisonment from 11 months to 5 years and 6 months.more

As our knowledge of food products changes, so do the nutritional standards and recommendations of food organizations. One such change has just been made by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It has recommended tightening the rules governing the use of the word "healthy" on food packaging. This primarily concerns popular breakfast cereals.more

"Top secret" scenarios have been leaked to the British media, the purpose of which is to calm the British people if there are power cuts this winter. The leak came after the government's National Grid body issued a rare warning that energy could run out this winter.more

The Defence Secretary has made an emergency trip to the US to discuss the security situation in Ukraine, including the threat of a nuclear attack. Ben Wallace cancelled his appearance in front of the Commons Defence Committee on Tuesday and flew to the US for summits in the Pentagon and White House.more

Deaths linked to Covid-19 in England have seen their highest weekly rise since late August amid a new wave of infections, according to new figures.more

The number of people who aren’t working because of caring commitments is the highest since May 2020, with the last year marking a sustained increase in stay-at-home parents and carers after three decades of decline, new analysis from the Guardian reveals. more