Both Russian troops in Ukraine and Ukrainian forces continue to suffer serious losses far behind the front lines as a result of the enemy's precision attacks using long-range missiles, the British Ministry of Defense said today.more
World tennis ranking leader Novak Djokovic, who contributed to Serbia's victory over Great Britain in the Davis Cup quarter-finals in Malaga, was disgusted by the attitude of his rivals' fans. "It's disrespectful," he - he assessed, when noises from the stands drowned out his on-court speech.more
Activists in Britain's ruling Conservative Party have been instructed to be on election alert from January 1, in case the situation improves or worsens significantly, Sky News reported yesterday, citing party sources.more
The victory of the anti-Islamic Freedom Party (PVV) in the Dutch parliamentary elections is a nightmare for the European Commission, said the Dutch daily "De Telegraaf".more
Iceland's selector Age Hareide admitted that he is very pleased that his team missed out on path A with Wales and Poland in the Euro 2024 bargaining rounds because path B offers a better chance of advancing to the final tournament.more
The presence of mind and precision of a crane operator saved the life of a man on Thursday who was trapped on the roof of a burning multi-story building in Reading, southern England.more
Despite the activation of air raid alerts shortly after the start of a four-day truce between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, there have been no confirmed reports of shelling of Israeli territory, Reuters reported. The truce, which began at 6:00 a.m. Polish time today, is likely to be observed.more
Household energy prices will rise in January putting more financial pressure on billpayers at the coldest time of year.
Energy regulator Ofgem said the typical annual household bill would go up from £1,834 to £1,928, a rise of £94 or 5%.more
We will not be ready for the Olympic Games with public transport, said the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, adding that the French capital "will not have enough trains and their frequency" in the summer of 2024.more
Serious riots occurred last night in Dublin as a result of a knife attack that in the afternoon attacked three children of several years coming out of school. A police car and two city buses were set on fire during the riots, and there are also incidents of shoplifting and clashes between demonstrators and police. Irish police described the riots as the most serious in many years.more
A new report has revealed the ‘shocking state of UK bathing waters’, which says dozens of popular swimming locations should be deemed ‘poor quality’.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked authorities in Beijing to provide additional information about an unexplained increase in the incidence of pneumonia in northern China, which appears to mainly affect children, AFP reported yesterday.more
Robert Lewandowski received the award for the best scorer of the previous season of the Spanish top league yesterday during the "Marca" gala. The Barcelona striker scored 23 goals. The team's goalkeeper, German Marc-Andre ter Stegen, was recognized as the best player.more
The old saying goes that it takes a whole village to raise a child. Such collective childcare is an invention as old as humanity. And very effective - according to anthropologists from Cambridge University. A study they conducted showed that in primitive societies, children had better - because they gave more involvement to their caregivers - care than they do today in Western culture.more
In 2020, 2,813 marriages were declared invalid in the Catholic Church in Poland - that's 1.8 percent of the total number of marriages performed that year. Less than 5 percent of those granted a civil divorce are taken to church courts, according to the ISKK report "Annulment of Marriage in the Catholic Church in Poland."more
In 2022, net net migration to the UK was 745,000, not 606,000. as previously reported - the British statistical office ONS announced today, presenting corrected data. This is by far the highest net migration since the end of World War II.more
Those of us resisting the call of central heating will soon be challenged as the UK’s weather is set to turn, with temperatures to drop below freezing.more
Londoners hoping to travel around the city this weekend may need to make alternate plans, as certain stations will be partially or completely closed to allow TfL to complete necessary maintenance.more
Poland will play against Estonia on March 21, and if they win, they will play away against Wales or Finland five days later in the play-offs to advance to the European Championships in Germany. This was decided by Thursday's draw in Nyon.more
People who stuck by Covid lockdown rules the most strictly have the worst mental health today, research has found. Those who followed the restrictions most closely when the pandemic hit are the most likely to be suffering from stress, anxiety and depression, academics at Bangor University have found.more
If Russia wins the war against Ukraine, "no one in Europe will be safe anymore" and "NATO's days would be numbered" - believe German political scientists Nico Lange and Carlo Masala. They presented scenarios of the development of the situation in a text published in the weekly "Die Zeit".more
The Polish Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York announced in May this year that Anna Zaranko received the Found in Translation 2023 award for her translation of "Peasants" by Władysław Reymont, which was published by Penguin Classics in December 2022. The official award ceremony took place yesterday.more
From January 2022 to the end of August 2023, 541 companies imported 4.3 million tons of cereals and oil plants from Ukraine worth PLN 6.2 billion - reports "Rzeczpospolita" based on the Supreme Audit Office's report.more
