Second seed Iga Swiatek defeated Czech tennis player Barbora Krejcikova (8th) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 in her first group match at the WTA Finals in Riyadh. The match lasted two hours and 32 minutes.more

Sainsbury’s has said it will match the price of up to 200 Aldi products in its smaller stores as it battles rivals to get more customers in its convenience stores. Shopping locally for groceries may be handy but people who rely on convenience stores can end up paying far more.more

Compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans are spending about an hour less outside their homes each day, which appears to be a lasting effect of the pandemic, reports the Journal of the American Planning Association.more

Drivers' union ASLEF is going ahead with their strikes despite the RMT union dropping out on their plans last minute this Friday.more

Defending Dutch champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull) won the Brazilian Grand Prix, the 21st round of the Formula One World Championship. The race on the soggy Sao Paulo circuit got off to a late start and was stopped about half an hour before the halfway point.more

For Donald Trump, the stakes in the upcoming election are particularly high. If he wins, he will be the first convicted criminal to gain access to nuclear codes. If he loses, he faces more humiliating trials and even prison, the Guardian reported.more

"The worst effects of Brexit are yet to come," warned Tulip Siddiq, the economic secretary at the British Treasury, who was quoted as saying by the Independent. According to her, 60 percent of the economic effects of Brexit have not yet been realized.more

In the Netherlands, the number of asylum applications fell by 25 percent in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year. In response to the "refugee crisis," the government announced a new, tougher policy regarding illegal migration, the daily "De Telegraaf" reported.more

Thousands of people gathered in central London on Sunday to call for tougher action on keeping the UK's rivers and seas clean. The March for Clean Water was advertised as a "one-off" event to petition the government to enforce laws that tackle water pollution and ensure "all polluting industries" upgrade infrastructure and reduce water wastage.more

Manchester United drew 1-1 at home with Chelsea in a clash between two storied clubs in English football. In Sunday's other Premier League match of round 10, Tottenham beat Matty Cash's Aston Villa 4-1. The Polish international did not finish the match due to injury.more

Lake Ohrid, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the oldest natural lake in Europe, is under threat from pollution, overfishing and uncontrolled urban development along the coast, the United Nations has warned.more

A new connection to Birmingham, as well as changes in the days, hours and frequency of flights are new features of the winter flight schedule - informed representatives of Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport.more

Londoners are being warned to remain extra-vigilant as pickpocketing in some areas of the capital surges by 700%. Between March 2023 and 2024, the Metropolitan Police received more than 79,000 reports of pickpockets.more

The British newspaper "Daily Telegraph" presented on Friday the final predictions of its journalists regarding the result of the US elections, assuming Donald Trump will win by a narrow majority. With the reservation that in a close race the predictions are based largely on hunches.more

A tree in the Scottish Highlands which could be 1,000 years old and known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed until a gathering in 2009.more

The law on the deposit system will enter into force on October 1, 2025, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. He added that the government still needs time to properly prepare the implementation of this system.more

World ranking leader Aryna Sabalenka started her season-ending WTA Finals tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a victory. The Belarusian tennis player defeated Chinese Qinwen Zheng 6-3, 6-4 in the first match of the purple group.more

Kemi Badenoch has promised to win back voters who have deserted the Conservatives after securing an historic victory in the party's leadership contest. The 44-year-old becomes the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK.more

The title of "Best Destination in the World to Travel by Car" in the Travelbook Awards 2024 competition, organized by the portal Travelbook.de, went to northern Spain. The judges were impressed not only by the attractions of this part of Spain, but also by the fact that it pays attention to a sustainable approach to tourism.more

Rough sleeping in London hit another record high this summer, with an 18% increase on the summer before, as the mayor predicted the problem was likely to get worse this winter.more

A builder has been jailed for claiming that he had fought for the Wagner Group in Ukraine, while brandishing a knife at a Viking re-enactment event. Piotr Kucharski, 49, from The Glebe, Watford, wore combat clothing and badges with insignia of the Russian mercenary group to the historical event in Stonham Aspal, Suffolk.more

Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski was named the Spanish league player of October. The Polish captain has scored 10 goals in five games this month: against Young Boys Bern, Deportivo Alaves, Sevilla, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.more

North Korea boasted Friday that the new intercontinental ballistic missile it just test-launched is “the world’s strongest,” a claim seen as pure propaganda after experts assessed it as being too big to be useful in a war situation.more

The number of live births in London has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years, new figures show. Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS( shows that 104,252 babies were born in the capital last year, a drop of 2,444 on the previous year and the lowest figure since 2008. more

A third of Poles - 36 per cent. - approve of the use of physical punishment against children, and 80 per cent approve of the use of shouting as a disciplinary method, according to the survey ‘Barometer of attitudes towards child abuse 2024’. However, acceptance of the use of physical punishment against children has fallen by 10 percentage points in Poland since 2005.more