Police services carried out searches yesterday at the headquarters of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) over suspected irregularities in the deal with Saudi Arabia to host the Super Cup. Seven people had been detained by the afternoon.more

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has reversed a decision to close its self-assessment telephone helpline for half of the year. The tax authority announced on Tuesday that the line would be closed between April and September, with taxpayers directed to online services instead.more

Train drivers are set to strike again next month as part of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. Aslef members at 16 rail companies will take part in rolling one-day walk outs between 5 and 8 April, along with a six-day overtime ban. The union said the new industrial action was to "increase the pressure" on train companies for a pay rise.more

A Polish tree nicknamed Heart of the Garden, pictured above, has won the 2024 European Tree of the Year contest. A monumental beech tree grows in Niemcza. The ceremony for the Tree of the Year 2024 statues took place yesterday at the European Parliament in Brussels. more

Australia and the UK signed a new defence and security cooperation agreement in Canberra today. The agreement is expected to facilitate joint operations between the two countries' defence forces.more

Germany's birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since 2009, according to a research paper reported by the Tagesschau portal. Among the reasons for this situation, the researchers point to numerous crises around the world that discourage potential parents from having children.more

Late-game goal scoring has resulted in the biggest increase in season goals scored in top-flight football in England for almost 100 years. This season the average per match is 3.24 compared to 2.85 in the previous competition.more

For most people, finding a £20 banknote lying unclaimed on the ground would be the highlight of their day. But choosing to pocket cash you find in public is not nearly as innocent an act as you might think – and could see you hauled into court and prosecuted for theft. That’s what happened to 23-year-old Nicole Bailey of Highfield Drive, Blurton, when she found a £20 note in a convenience store more

The French Competition Authority has fined Google €250 million "for non-compliance with certain commitments made in June 2022". regarding related rights, i.e. rules for remunerating press publishers for the use of their content by the Internet giant, the authority said in a press release yesterday.more

Support for Ukraine and the fight against illegal immigration are to be the main themes of the fourth European Political Community (EPC) summit to be hosted by the UK on 18 July, the British government said on Tuesday.more

World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality standards for PM2.5 are being met in only seven countries, says Swiss organisation IQAir in an annual report published on Tuesday. These countries are Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, Mauritius and New Zealand.more

Former Brazil footballer Dani Alves has been granted release on bail for €1 million ($1.1m) upon appeal, a court in Barcelona, Spain, announced on Wednesday. Alves, 40, was convicted of sexual assault last month and sentenced to 4½ years in prison, of which he had already served over a year.more

At least one person is believed to have made attempt to see Princess of Wales’s notes while she was at the London Clinic.more

The decision came after the fiasco of the constitutional reform to redefine the concepts of traditional family.more

High Street fashion chain Ted Baker is set to be put into administration, putting hundreds of jobs at risk. Authentic Brands Group, the Ted Baker brand owner since 2022, said "damage done" during a tie-up with another firm was "too much to overcome".more

Defending champion Dutchman Max Verstappen, who leads the general classification of the Formula 1 world championship, will fight for his tenth consecutive Grand Prix victory on Sunday in Australia. His Red Bull team is unrivaled for now.more

We use a car for commuting to work more often than most Europeans, and we use it more willingly than others to go on holidays, Rzeczpospolita wrote yesterday. Poles have become attached to the car because of poorly developed public transport, the newspaper believes.more

The Duchess of Sussex is as narcissistic as Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, a royal biographer has claimed. Sally Bedell Smith, whose latest book explores the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, said Prince Harry is as weak as the former King.more

Spring is, for many, the ideal time for a holiday. Reviving nature, pleasant weather and relatively few tourists only encourage the discovery of new corners. Judging through the prism of Instagram, spring tourists are most likely to target the Netherlands, the UK and the United Arab Emirates.more

The UK's annual inflation rate stood at 3.4 per cent in February, down significantly from 4.0 per cent in January and the lowest level since September 2021, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported today.more

Dawid Kubacki, Kamil Stoch, Aleksander Zniszczoł, Piotr Żyła and Maciej Kot will perform on the ski jumping hill in Planica at the end of the ski jumping World Cup season. There will be individual competitions on Friday and Sunday, and team competitions on Saturday.more

TfL has revealed when the next revamped Central line trains will enter service on the London Underground. The 1992 stock is being upgraded as part of a £500 million programme.more

The SAPU Diploma Show started the 15th edition of Cracow Fashion Week. 49 diploma collections of graduates of the School of Artistic Fashion Design and the School of Fashion Design were presented on the catwalk at the Open Source Conference Center. The projects were a summary of 2.5 years of study at SAPU.more

Rishi Sunak’s plan to save public money by moving asylum seekers out of hotels is in tatters after Whitehall’s spending watchdog disclosed that the government’s alternative sites will cost millions of pounds more. The National Audit Office said attempts to place people seeking refuge in a barge, two former RAF bases and former student accommodation will cost £1.2bn.more

On Thursday evening, at the representative facility - PGE Narodowy, Polish players will face the Estonians in the semi-finals of the play-offs to advance to this year's European Championship. This band will perform in this arena for the first time.more