One in four babies born in NHS hospitals in England last year were delivered by caesarean section, official figures show. The gradual increase in the number of caesarean births over the past decade is due to a growing number of complex pregnancies and births, caused by factors including rising obesity rates and women waiting until they are older to have children.more

EU member states have today approved a new regulation on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR). According to it, all packaging must be recyclable by 2030, and the sale of single-use cosmetics or spices packaged in plastic will be banned.more

Chelsea London have claimed their fifth consecutive win in the English Premier League, beating Brentford 2-1 at home in Sunday's Round 16 match. They are second in the table, two points behind Liverpool. However, the Reds have a game in hand.more

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has defended plans to strengthen economic ties with China despite recent revelations that a Chinese national accused of espionage has infiltrated Britain's political and business elite.more

Domestic violence against men is on the rise in Portugal, according to a report by the Portuguese Association for Support to Victims (APAV), which shows that the number of cases of this type of abuse is at a record high.more

UK high street retailers have been accused of recruiting young workers as store assistants without basic employment rights over the busy Christmas period.more

In 2023, there were 1,567 serious rail accidents in the European Union, in which 841 people died; the most in Poland (159) - according to Eurostat data. In second place were Germany and Romania. The fewest fatalities were recorded in Luxembourg and Estonia - it was added.more

Barcelona lost 0-1 at home to Leganes in the 17th round of the Spanish top division. Robert Lewandowski wasted several opportunities. This is the fourth league defeat of the "Pride of Catalonia" this season.more

The Royal Navy's last Trafalgar-Class attack submarine has completed its final voyage from Scotland to be decommissioned. HMS Triumph sailed from HM Naval Base Clyde, at Faslane in Argyll, to HMNB Devonport in Plymouth to retire after more than 20 years in service.more

A LOT Polish Airlines plane from Copenhagen made an emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport, airport spokeswoman Anna Dermont reported. The plane had a brake system failure, LOT spokesman Krzysztof Moczulski added.more

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the British government has had "diplomatic contact" with the Syrian rebel group that toppled the Assad regime. Lammy said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) remains a proscribed terrorist organisation, but the UK "can have diplomatic contact and so we do have diplomatic contact, as you would expect".more

A new definition of mobbing, higher compensation for employees, additional obligations for employers and more radical regulations prohibiting discrimination or harassment - we read in Money.pl about the changes being prepared by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy.more

Jakub Wolny was eighth, Aleksander Zniszczoł 19th, Kamil Stoch 25th, Paweł Wąsek 36th, and Dawid Kubacki 41st in Sunday's Ski Jumping World Cup competition. German Pius Paschke won again. Austrian Michael Hayboeck and Norwegian Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal also stood on the podium.more

Croydon has been named the fifth most miserable place to live in the UK, according to a new study by property website Rightmove. The survey, now in its 13th year, asked over 35,000 people across Britain about their satisfaction with where they live, and Croydon found itself near the top of the unhappy list.more

In Rome, a record was broken on the real estate market: 45 thousand euros per square meter for an apartment on Piazza di Spagna. It was sold very quickly. This, as analysts note, is more than the price in many exclusive locations in New York or Dubai.more

Office Christmas parties are firmly back on the agenda for London workers, with 75 per cent due to attend an office bash this year, a new survey has revealed.more

Royal Mail has been fined more than £10m by the postal regulator for missing its delivery targets, with more than a quarter of first-class mail arriving late. Ofcom, which fined the company £5.6m for the same failure of its regulatory obligations last November, said Royal Mail took “insufficient and ineffective steps” to improve its performance this year.more

Leader Liverpool drew 2-2 at home with Fulham, and third-placed Arsenal drew 0-0 with Everton in London in Saturday's 16th round of the English Premier League. Today's fixtures include the Manchester derby, hosted by City.more

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy yesterday called on Washington authorities to investigate suspicious drone activity detected near important facilities in their states. There are nearly a million registered drones in the US, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official.more

Plans for the City’s tallest tower were given the go ahead today. The building known as 1 Undershaft will rise to 306.9 metres (1008ft) will exactly equal the height of the Shard across the river at London Bridge.more

The richest person in the world just hit an even higher milestone. Elon Musk’s net worth has reached $400 billion, according to Bloomberg, making him the first person ever to cross that mark. Behind his nearly $20 billion jump in wealth was a deal that shot up Musk’s rocket company SpaceX’s valuation to roughly $350 billion, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.more

Aleksander Zniszczol finished ninth in Saturday's Ski Jumping World Cup competition in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany. The overall leader, German Pius Paschke, won. This is his fourth win of the season.more

Dulwich Park is the kind of place that manages to offer a little bit of everything—whether you’re a seasoned jogger, a dog walker, a family on a day out, or just someone looking to escape the frenetic pace of city life.more

After a year of rule by the coalition of KO, PSL, Poland 2050 and the Left, Poles live the same as before - assessed 46.8 percent of respondents in a Friday poll for RMF FM and "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna". The survey commissioned by "SE" shows that 44 percent of respondents live worse than before the change of government.more

Residents in wealthier London boroughs live a decade longer in “good health” than those in poorer areas, analysis shows. Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that men in Richmond lived to 69.5 in good health between 2021 and 2023, compared with 57.8 in Lewisham.more