Without additional help from the West, Ukraine could find itself in a critical war situation with Russia in the autumn, Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator for the British daily Financial Times, warned yesterday.more

British border police have seized 2.4 tons of cocaine with a value of almost £100 million ($137 million) in one of the biggest drug busts in years. The enormous haul was found under containers on a ship arriving into London Gateway port from Panama, the Home Office said.more

The surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea was 26.01 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the highest in June, the meteorological office Meteo France reported yesterday, citing data from the Copernicus programme, the EU's Earth observation programme.more

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the second round of the Wimbledon Grand Slam. The second-seeded Spanish tennis player, who was also the best in London in 2023, defeated Italian Fabio Fognini 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 2-6, 6-1.more

The image of Marie Antoinette will be the subject of an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibition "Marie Antoinette Style" will be available to view from September 20 to March 22, 2026.more

Entry-level jobs are in freefall as the rise of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT causes low-paying and graduate roles to disappear. Recently released data shows that the number of entry-level roles being advertised has fallen by a third since the launch of OpenAI’s chatbot in November 2022. more

Former England captain Paul Ince has been charged with drink-driving after crashing into a central reservation, police said. The ex-Manchester United and Liverpool midfielder was arrested after a black Range Rover crashed at 17:00 BST on Saturday on Chester High Road in Neston, Wirral.more

Britain's decision to allow the export of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel, despite accepting they could be used in breach of international humanitarian law in Gaza, was lawful, London's High Court ruled on Monday.more

The European Union has not gone as far as US President Donald Trump in toughening its approach to migration, but the change is big, wrote the American "New York Times".more

The prime minister has condemned UK punk duo Bob Vylan for urging "death" to Israeli troops in what he called "appalling hate speech". Glastonbury Festival organisers have also said they were "appalled" after frontman rapper Bobby Vylan led chants of "free, free Palestine" and "death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]".more

According to an IBRiS survey conducted for the Onet portal, 43.6 percent of respondents fear the outbreak of a world war in the coming months.more

Dozens of British MPs from across the party spectrum have called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to adopt a visa solution for Gaza residents similar to the one granted to Ukrainians after the Russian invasion, Sky News reported today.more

Paris Saint-Germain defeated Inter Miami 4-0 in the 1/8 finals of the Club World Cup held in the United States. The American team's first team included Argentine Lionel Messi, who played for PSG in 2021-23.more

Canada should be the 51st state of the USA because it depends on us completely - said US President Donald Trump yesterday on Fox News. He noted that the USA has suspended trade talks with Canada because of the taxes it has introduced.more

A groceries delivery driver has described how he used a lorry to rescue a man from a burning building in Dublin. Tomasz Zareba reversed his lorry up to the city centre building to allow a man who was trapped at a third-floor window to jump to safety onto the roof of the vehicle.more

Those living in flats or rented homes in the UK could soon plug in their own “balcony solar panels” to save on their energy bills under plans set out in the government’s solar power strategy.more

In the municipality of El Granado in Andalusia in southwestern Spain, a record temperature for June was recorded yesterday - 46 degrees Celsius. Since Saturday, the entire country has been experiencing the first heat wave of the season, which is already taking a deadly toll.more

Iga Świątek, who played in the final of the WTA 500 tournament in Bad Homburg on Saturday, moved up from eighth to fourth place in the world ranking of tennis players. The leader is still Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka with a large advantage. In the ATP ranking, Hubert Hurkacz retained 39th position, and the second Pole in the ranking, Kamil Majchrzak, moved up from 108th to 109th.more

The government will test the UK’s Emergency Alert System again in 2025, causing everyone’s phone to make an alarm sound.more

Mobile phone thefts in the West End have soared to a record high with 37 reported on average each day, statistics reveal. Nearly 231,000 phone thefts and robberies were reported in the last four years in London, according to the Metropolitan Police, increasing three-fold.more

American Taylor Fritz defeated his compatriot Jenson Brooksby 7-5, 6-1 in the final of the ATP 250 grass court tennis tournament in Eastbourne.more

Homelessness in the United States is a serious problem, and the situation is getting worse, says attorney Maria Foscarinis, who has been fighting for the rights of people in the homeless crisis for years. In recent years, the number of people living in cars in the United States has been growing.more

A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said that the new head of intelligence (MI6), Blaise Metreweli, did not know that her grandfather was a Nazi spy, as reported by the British press two days ago.more

France's planned smoking ban on beaches, in parks, public garden, and bus shelters – originally slated to take effect on July 1 – was brought forward by a decree published in the official government gazette on Saturday, June 28. The measure will now take effect on Sunday, June 29. more

Iga Świątek did not win her first grass court title. Yesterday, in the final of the WTA tournament in Bad Homburg, Germany, she lost to the top-seeded American Jessica Pegula 4:6, 5:7.more