Stockholm Bromma Airport is the most punctual airport in Europe in 2023 - according to the latest ranking of the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol). The top ten best included Warsaw Chopin Airport. The least punctual airport was Le Bourget near Paris.more

Northern Ireland's migrant population grew slightly in 2022 after two years in which it shrank due to Brexit and Covid-19, official figures suggest. The number of people coming to live in NI was 27,016, while 24,702 people left - a net gain of 2,314.more

Norwegian Erling Haaland and Spaniard Aitana Bonmati were recognized as the best football players in Europe last season. The names of the winners were announced during the draw ceremony for the Champions League group stage in Monaco.more

Poland's population will fall to 30.4 million people in 2060 in the main scenario, the CSO estimates in its latest demographic forecast.more

Over the decade, the number of people in England and Wales using more than one passport has doubled, but immigrants from EU countries, including Poles, in the vast majority only have the passport of their home country, reported the British National Statistics Office (ONS).more

The Government has ordered more than 100 schools, colleges, and nurseries across England to immediately close their buildings over health and safety concerns. more

This time it was Prince Harry in the new Netflix documentary series "Heart of Invictus", who talked about how lonely he was with mental problems. He meant the ones he had experienced after returning from a mission in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, returning from the war awakened in him the unresolved trauma associated with the death of his mother, Princess Diana.more

Experienced Kamil Grosicki and Grzegorz Krychowiak, who have not yet played in the Polish national team under Fernando Santos, were called up for September's Euro 2024 qualifying matches against the Faroe Islands and Albania. Among the 25 players there is also a debutant Adrian Benedyczak.more

In the face of autumn vaccination campaigns in EU Member States, we have approved a vaccine against COVID-19 adapted to the new variant of the virus, the European Commission announced today.more

Christopher McGregor (23), with an address listed as Altmore Close in Antrim town, admitted a charge of arson in relation to the property at The Parade area of Randalstown on October 26 last year. He also pleaded guilty to burglary and criminal damage.more

In July 2023, the unemployment rate in the euro area was 6.4%. A year earlier in the same month it was 6.7 percent. In turn, the unemployment rate across the EU in July this year. was 5.9 percent (6.1% a year earlier) - Eurostat reported.more

Seven-time British world champion Lewis Hamilton has extended his contract with the Mercedes team and will play in the Formula 1 world championship until 2025.more

Large parts of the country will have no train services on Friday as the latest major strike action takes place. Members of Aslef, the train drivers' union, who work at more than a dozen train companies, have walked out and will to work refuse overtime on Saturday. Up to 20,000 RMT union members at 14 operators will also strike on Saturday in a long-running dispute more

Malaysia and the Philippines followed India in issuing firm statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territories over a new "standard" map of China released this week. Russia, which "lost" part of an island on the Amur River on the map, has not reacted so far.more

For the first time since 2015, two Polish football clubs will play in the group stage of European cups in the fall. Raków Częstochowa, which unsuccessfully competed for the Champions League, will play in the Europa League, and Legia Warszawa will compete in the Conference League. Rivals will be known today.more

The Royal Navy announced yesterday that its patrol vessels, together with Royal Air Force aircraft, had carried out a "coordinated monitoring operation" of Russian ships passing close to the British coast.more

"100,000 people can stay in Sweden without a permit. We want to fight the phenomenon of the shadow society, among others, by introducing the obligation for employees of public institutions to notify the police about the presence of illegal immigrants," announced Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.more

22-year-old British volunteer Sam Newey was killed by Russian mortar fire in eastern Ukraine, his older brother said on social media yesterday. There are concerns about the fate of yet another Briton.more

Hubert Hurkacz was eliminated in the second round of the US Open Grand Slam tournament in New York. The tennis player, seeded number 17, lost to British Jack Draper 2:6, 4:6, 5:7. The Pole has never reached the third round of this event in his career.more

September 1, 1939 was a beautiful summer day in northern Germany. The German warship and training ship "Schleswig-Holstein" left the port of Świnoujście on August 24 - officially for a "friendly visit" to the Free City of Danzig. This event became a "prelude to hell," said the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) website. He also recalled the brutal German attack on defenseless Wieluń.more

This week, an ordinance to extend the ULEZ to the entire capital came into force. As a result, a wave of attacks is sweeping through London, aimed at cameras catching drivers polluting the air.more

Australians collecting edible but wild plants were horrified to learn that a live parasite had been removed from the brain of a New South Wales resident. Scientists suspect that a woman collecting plants in a python-inhabited wetland had eaten the eggs of the parasite ophidascaris robertsi, most likely expelled by a host snake, 'The Guardian' daily reported.more

fter Iga Swiatek, footballer Erling Haaland has admitted that he uses a new method to increase lung capacity and improve endurance. The Norwegian revealed that he sleeps with his mouth taped shut. In the summer, the Polish tennis player was seen training in this unusual way on the courts in Montreal.more

Researchers from the Chepstow Archaeological Society have managed to locate the remains of a wooden bridge structure over the River Wye 2,000 years ago. The archaeologists had just two hours to find it in the muddy ground and needed the assistance of rescuers.more

The Mose system of flood barriers installed and already in place in Venice will protect the city and lagoon for the next 100 years, have ruled the scientists who carried out the study commissioned by the commissioner in charge of the multi-billion dollar investment. The aim of the experts' work was to establish the sustainability of the 80 water barriers.more