Engineers have found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland. The bottle was found inside the Corsewall Lighthouse at the most northerly point of the Rhins of Galloway.more

A former adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling the country to gain back territory occupied by Russia. Bryan Lanza, who worked on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, told the BBC the incoming administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a realistic vision for peace.more

Real Madrid players at the Estadio Stantiago Bernabeu, thanks in part to a hat-trick by Brazilian Vinicius Junior, won 4-0 against Osasuna Pamplona in the 13th round of the Spanish top league. However, the "royal" paid for it with injuries to his compatriots - winger Rodrygo and defender Eder Militao.more

A "very rare" slice of wedding cake from the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip has sold at auction for £2,200. The fruit cake was found under a bed in a suitcase, 77 years after the original 9ft (2.7m) cake was dished out to 2,000 guests.more

Monuments that the tourist will not see in Rome now - a list of such sites is circulating on social media in the wake of record-scale works in preparation for the Holy Year. Photographs of ‘wrapped monuments’, as the symbols of the Eternal City fenced off and covered up due to the works, are being published.more

A new weather map shows a blob of snow getting closer and closer to London. The forecast from WX Charts shows snow on parts of South and West London, while the bulk of it is on Berkshire and Hampshire. Meanwhile, more snow can be spotted on the weather map towards parts of the North, mostly Yorkshire. The forecast is for Tuesday, November 19, meaning it is still quite uncertain. more

World tennis rankings leader Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka fell in the semi-finals of the WTA Finals tournament in Riyadh after losing to Coco Gauff 6:7 (4-7), 3:6. In today's final, the American's opponent will be China's Qinwen Zheng, who defeated Czech Barbora Krejcikova 6:3, 7:5.more

Millionaires sympathetic to the Democratic Party are ‘lining up’ to leave the US after Donald Trump's presidential election victory, the UK's ‘Daily Telegraph’ reported yesterday, quoting data from a firm that advises wealthy investors.more

A court found that conspiracy theorist Richard Hall had harassed a father and daughter seriously injured in the Manchester terrorist attack and sentenced him to pay £45,000. Hall claimed that there was no bombing, the authorities had carried out a hoax and the harassment of the victims was a journalistic investigation.more

Australia's government says it will introduce "world-leading" legislation to ban children under 16 from social media. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the "harm" social media was inflicting on Australian children.more

The foreign secretary has dismissed his previous criticism of Donald Trump as "old news" and insisted he would be able to find "common ground" with the president-elect. When he was a backbench MP in 2018, David Lammy described Trump as a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath".more

Injured Portuguese players Ruben Dias and Diogo Jota were not included in the list of those called up to the squad for the 5th and 6th round of the Nations League group stage matches against Poland in Porto on 15th November and against Croatia in Split three days later. However, the famous Cristiano Ronaldo was not absent.more

Devotees in the Indian town of Vrindavan lined up to drink water flowing down a small elephant sculpture, convinced it was holy water straight from the feet of the god Krishna. In reality, it was liquid flowing from the temple's air conditioning system, contaminated with bacteria and fungi.more

The average UK house price reached a record high last month, according to Halifax. The UK's largest mortgage lender said the average price hit £293,999 in October, surpassing a peak of £293,507 that was reached in June 2022.more

Portuguese national football team captain Cristiano Ronaldo has purchased the Lisboa Racket Centre sports complex in the country's capital. The facility includes a dozen courts for playing tennis, squash and padel.more

After Donald Trump's election as president, Great Britain must find a new link to the White House who will get in the good graces of the new leader of the free world, Politico wrote yesterday. The portal noted that despite the bad relations with Trump, Keir Starmer's government must find some solution.more

Shoppers could face higher prices as a growing number of big British firms warn about the cost of the National Insurance (NI) tax rises on employers announced in last week's Budget.more

In the 24 hours since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, the fortunes of the 10 richest people in the world have increased by a combined $64 billion, CNN reported. Elon Musk has grown the most, by $25.5 billion.more

Tottenham Hotspur lost their first points in the Europa League regular season by losing 2:3 to Galatasaray in Istanbul. After four rounds, only Lazio Rome remains with a full set of victories.more

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction star Liam Payne, Argentinian authorities have said. The singer died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.more

Australian experts in the journal JAMA Network Open estimate that the number of cancer deaths worldwide will almost double by 2050. They predict that in the most developed countries this increase will be smaller.more

Time Out is in talks about opening a huge new food market on Piccadilly Circus 18 months after it scrapped plans to launch in the capital.more

Ireland will hold a general election on November 29, Prime Minister Simon Harris has announced, according to AFP. His centre-right Fine Gael (FG) party has a good chance of retaining power for a fourth consecutive term.more

Czech Barbora Krejcikova defeated American Coco Gauff 7-5, 6-4 in the last match of the Orange Group of the WTA Finals tennis tournament in Riyadh and advanced to the semifinals at the expense of Iga Świątek, who defended her title from last year.more

According to data from the Police Headquarters (KGP), 22,948 shoplifting crimes were recorded in the first three quarters of this year. This is 30.5% less than in the same period of 2023, when there were exactly 32,997 such cases. As experts comment, these data may change, because the end of the year is characterized by an increased number of thefts, which is related to the upcoming Christmas.more