A British court yesterday handed down a guilty verdict against a woman who doused the leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party Nigel Farage with a milkshake during the election campaign. The sentence includes a 13-week suspended prison sentence, community service and payment of £150 in compensation.more

A high-ranking general in the Russian armed forces and his assistant have been killed in an explosion in Moscow. Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defence Forces (NBC), was leaving a residential block early on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter exploded, Russia's Investigative Committee said.more

Thirteen vapes are thrown away every second in the UK – more than a million a day – leading to an “environmental nightmare”, according to research.more

EU countries have approved changes to EU regulations that are intended to make it harder for drivers who commit road offences in another member state to avoid liability. Countries are to strengthen cooperation in identifying perpetrators and collecting fines.more

Barcelona player Robert Lewandowski may not have scored a goal in Sunday's Spanish top-flight match with Leganes (0:1), but he still leads the Golden Boot rankings - an award for the player who scores the most league goals in a season. The Pole has scored 16 goals in 18 rounds.more

When something is used as heavily and frequently as the Tube, people aren’t going to be shy about their opinions and, in this instance, will form a heavy, unshakeable alliance with their favourite line. Some of us with more spare time might have even spent time crafting the perfect argument on why our chosen train route beats out any of the others.more

From April 2025, LOT Polish Airlines will start flying directly from Warsaw to Reykjavik, the carrier announced. In the summer, the flights will be operated four days a week, and in the winter season - three; the flight time is about 4 hours, it added.more

Drivers are being urged not to travel on major routes for six hours on Friday and Saturday, with record levels of Christmas holiday traffic expected to cause long queues on Britain’s roads.more

The German women's national team has won the European Football Championship eight times. The previous tournament in 2022 was won by England, and Poland will make its debut at Euro 2025 in Switzerland.more

The sale of Royal Mail's parent company to a Czech billionaire has been cleared by the government. The £3.6bn takeover by Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group has been given the go-ahead after agreeing "legally binding" undertakings.more

One in four babies born in NHS hospitals in England last year were delivered by caesarean section, official figures show. The gradual increase in the number of caesarean births over the past decade is due to a growing number of complex pregnancies and births, caused by factors including rising obesity rates and women waiting until they are older to have children.more

EU member states have today approved a new regulation on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR). According to it, all packaging must be recyclable by 2030, and the sale of single-use cosmetics or spices packaged in plastic will be banned.more

Chelsea London have claimed their fifth consecutive win in the English Premier League, beating Brentford 2-1 at home in Sunday's Round 16 match. They are second in the table, two points behind Liverpool. However, the Reds have a game in hand.more

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has defended plans to strengthen economic ties with China despite recent revelations that a Chinese national accused of espionage has infiltrated Britain's political and business elite.more

Domestic violence against men is on the rise in Portugal, according to a report by the Portuguese Association for Support to Victims (APAV), which shows that the number of cases of this type of abuse is at a record high.more

UK high street retailers have been accused of recruiting young workers as store assistants without basic employment rights over the busy Christmas period.more

In 2023, there were 1,567 serious rail accidents in the European Union, in which 841 people died; the most in Poland (159) - according to Eurostat data. In second place were Germany and Romania. The fewest fatalities were recorded in Luxembourg and Estonia - it was added.more

Barcelona lost 0-1 at home to Leganes in the 17th round of the Spanish top division. Robert Lewandowski wasted several opportunities. This is the fourth league defeat of the "Pride of Catalonia" this season.more

The Royal Navy's last Trafalgar-Class attack submarine has completed its final voyage from Scotland to be decommissioned. HMS Triumph sailed from HM Naval Base Clyde, at Faslane in Argyll, to HMNB Devonport in Plymouth to retire after more than 20 years in service.more

A LOT Polish Airlines plane from Copenhagen made an emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport, airport spokeswoman Anna Dermont reported. The plane had a brake system failure, LOT spokesman Krzysztof Moczulski added.more

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the British government has had "diplomatic contact" with the Syrian rebel group that toppled the Assad regime. Lammy said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) remains a proscribed terrorist organisation, but the UK "can have diplomatic contact and so we do have diplomatic contact, as you would expect".more

A new definition of mobbing, higher compensation for employees, additional obligations for employers and more radical regulations prohibiting discrimination or harassment - we read in Money.pl about the changes being prepared by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy.more

Jakub Wolny was eighth, Aleksander Zniszczoł 19th, Kamil Stoch 25th, Paweł Wąsek 36th, and Dawid Kubacki 41st in Sunday's Ski Jumping World Cup competition. German Pius Paschke won again. Austrian Michael Hayboeck and Norwegian Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal also stood on the podium.more

Croydon has been named the fifth most miserable place to live in the UK, according to a new study by property website Rightmove. The survey, now in its 13th year, asked over 35,000 people across Britain about their satisfaction with where they live, and Croydon found itself near the top of the unhappy list.more

In Rome, a record was broken on the real estate market: 45 thousand euros per square meter for an apartment on Piazza di Spagna. It was sold very quickly. This, as analysts note, is more than the price in many exclusive locations in New York or Dubai.more