After yesterday's training sessions at Wielka Krokiew in Zakopane, Maciej Maciusiak, coach of the Polish ski jumping team, decided that Klemens Joniak, Maciej Kot, Dawid Kubacki, Aleksander Zniszczoł and Piotr Żyła will compete in the World Cup in Willingen this weekend.more

Uber data analysis shows Edinburgh and Glasgow have more late-night trips than London in 2025.more

The Mayor of London did not commit to maintaining current bus frequencies, raising concerns about route cuts.more

EasyJet has been told to stop claiming that carry-on baggage fees are available "from £5.99", after it failed to provide evidence to the advertising watchdog that passengers can stow luggage in a cabin at that price.more

Jan Zieliński and Briton Luke Johnson advanced to the semi-finals of the doubles at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne. Today, they defeated fourth seeds Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Mate Pavic of Croatia 7:6 (7-5), 6:2.more

Pubs and music venues in England will get a 15% business rates discount from April as part of a support package.more

Repeat offenders who violate a court-imposed driving ban will, as a rule, lose their driving licence for life, and participants and organisers of illegal races will also face consequences. These are just some of the many changes that will come into force on Thursday (29 January), when the Act on Improving Road Safety comes into force, according to the Prawo.pl service.more

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today unveiled a package of measures to give businesses and consumers more choice when using Google Search, including allowing publishers to opt out of having their content used in AI Overview and for training autonomous AI models.more

A heatwave in Australia has brought record temperatures. The state of Victoria recorded 48.9 degrees Celsius, Australian broadcaster ABC reported today. Meteorologists warn that temperatures inland could approach 50 degrees, posing a high risk of fires.more

Striker Tammy Abraham has returned to Aston Villa Birmingham after the English Premier League club reached an agreement with Besiktas Istanbul yesterday for £18 million.more

London Fire Brigade attended 206 e-bike and e-scooter fires in 2025, with two fatalities reported.more

At yesterday's meeting, the Spanish government approved regulations that will enable the regularisation of the status of approximately half a million immigrants who are residing illegally in the Iberian country.more

A delegation led by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have taken “burner” phones and laptops to China to prevent the hosts from spying on them, according to ‘The Times’ daily.more

Second seed Iga Świątek lost to Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina (No. 5) 5-7, 1-6 in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. The match lasted one hour and 35 minutes. The tournament in Melbourne remains the only Grand Slam that the Polish tennis player has not won.more

Following five Nipah virus cases in India, Asian airports tighten health screenings akin to COVID-19 measures.more

Robert De Niro co-owns Nobu Manchester: a 246-meter skyscraper with hotel, residences, and restaurant. Construction started in 2024 with completion expected before 2030.more

The number of overnight stays in Spanish hotels reached a record 366.7 million in 2025, according to data released by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE). This was made possible by an increase in the number of foreign tourists.more

In 2026, Robert Kubica will continue to be a factory driver for the AF Corse team, which won the runner-up title in the World Endurance Championship (WEC) Hypercar category last season. His partners will once again be Yifey Ye from China and Phil Hanson from the United Kingdom.more

Forest Hill has been praised for its independent shops, community feel and family appeal.more

The UK’s poorest families are getting poorer, with record numbers of people classed as in “very deep poverty” – meaning their annual household incomes fail to cover the cost of food, energy bills and clothing, according to analysis.more

Elina Svitolina needed just 59 minutes to advance to the semi-finals of the Australian Open. The 12th-seeded Ukrainian tennis player defeated American Coco Gauff (No. 3) 6-1, 6-2. In the semi-finals, she will face the leader of the rankings, Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.more

Polish married couple sentenced for trafficking girls as young as 17 and forcing them into prostitution, funding their lavish lifestyle.more

China has been hacking the phones of senior government officials in London for years, the conservative ‘Daily Telegraph’ newspaper reported yesterday, citing anonymous sources. This was allegedly part of a wider campaign that also targeted the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.more

The European Commission has formally designated WhatsApp as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), as its ‘Channels’ feature reaches the designation threshold of at least 45 million users in the EU.more

The UK has lost its status as a measles-free country after a rise in deaths from the disease and fall in the proportion of children having the MMR jab in recent years. The World Health Organization said it no longer classified Britain as having eliminated measles because the disease had become re-established.more