In the municipality of El Granado in Andalusia in southwestern Spain, a record temperature for June was recorded yesterday - 46 degrees Celsius. Since Saturday, the entire country has been experiencing the first heat wave of the season, which is already taking a deadly toll.more

Iga Świątek, who played in the final of the WTA 500 tournament in Bad Homburg on Saturday, moved up from eighth to fourth place in the world ranking of tennis players. The leader is still Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka with a large advantage. In the ATP ranking, Hubert Hurkacz retained 39th position, and the second Pole in the ranking, Kamil Majchrzak, moved up from 108th to 109th.more

The government will test the UK’s Emergency Alert System again in 2025, causing everyone’s phone to make an alarm sound.more

Mobile phone thefts in the West End have soared to a record high with 37 reported on average each day, statistics reveal. Nearly 231,000 phone thefts and robberies were reported in the last four years in London, according to the Metropolitan Police, increasing three-fold.more

American Taylor Fritz defeated his compatriot Jenson Brooksby 7-5, 6-1 in the final of the ATP 250 grass court tennis tournament in Eastbourne.more

Homelessness in the United States is a serious problem, and the situation is getting worse, says attorney Maria Foscarinis, who has been fighting for the rights of people in the homeless crisis for years. In recent years, the number of people living in cars in the United States has been growing.more

A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said that the new head of intelligence (MI6), Blaise Metreweli, did not know that her grandfather was a Nazi spy, as reported by the British press two days ago.more

France's planned smoking ban on beaches, in parks, public garden, and bus shelters – originally slated to take effect on July 1 – was brought forward by a decree published in the official government gazette on Saturday, June 28. The measure will now take effect on Sunday, June 29. more

Iga Świątek did not win her first grass court title. Yesterday, in the final of the WTA tournament in Bad Homburg, Germany, she lost to the top-seeded American Jessica Pegula 4:6, 5:7.more

Food businesses must make it easier for customers to buy healthy food, under new government plans announced on Sunday. Supermarkets and food manufacturers in England will partner with the government to tackle obesity rates by encouraging people to make their weekly shop healthier.more

Struggling households owe billions of pounds in unpaid council tax, but bills are expected to keep rising in the years ahead. Newly-published figures show £6.6bn is owed to local authorities in England, with an extra £642m having been added to those arrears in the year to April.more

Stormzy has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge for his work helping black students get into higher education. The 31-year-old received a Doctorate in Law for his "transformative" scholarship programme, which funds black UK students to study at the university.more

There is still uncertainty about how the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed millions of people around the world began, according to the final report published yesterday by a group of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate the origins of the worst epidemic in centuries.more

Heat health alerts have come into force across most of England as the country braces for a second summer heatwave. An amber alert covers the East Midlands, south-east, south-west, east and London - meaning various health services and the whole population could be affected by the heat, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).more

In the survey, as many as 40% of Poles declare that they will spend this year's holiday exclusively in Poland. This is more than twice as many as a year earlier, despite the fact that average accommodation prices are rising.more

Hubert Hurkacz announced his withdrawal from Wimbledon on Friday afternoon due to irritation of his synovial membrane. One year ago, the Polish star tore his right meniscus during his second-round Wimbledon match against Arthur Fils. Hurkacz will not be able to compete in the grass-court major this year at all.more

Adult tickets for a return trip cost up to £35, with half-price tickets for children. If you’re scared of heights (or high prices), look away now.more

The population of London is expected to grow to almost 9.5m by 2032 – putting it on course for 10m by the middle of the next decade. The increase will be largely driven by international migration – with the East End borough of Tower Hamlets set for an astonishing 20.4 per cent rise in residents, including a net increase of more than 87,000 people from abroad.more

Iga Świątek advanced to her first final this season and the first in... 384 days, last year's Grand Slam French Open. In the WTA 500 tournament on grass courts in Bad Homburg, Germany, she defeated the Italian Jasmine Paolini 6:1, 6:3 in the semifinals.more

The UK and France are reportedly in discussions over a migrants removal deal involving a “one-in, one-out” exchange agreement. Under the deal, an individual being deported from the UK would be exchanged for another individual sent from France who has the right to live in Britain.more

The extreme poverty rate in Poland in 2024 was 5.2%, which means a decrease of 1.4 percentage points year-on-year - the Central Statistical Office reported today.more

Counter-terror police have arrested four people after military planes were sprayed with paint during a break-in at RAF Brize Norton that was claimed by a pro-Palestinian group. Footage posted online last Friday by Palestine Action showed two people inside the Oxfordshire airbase in darkness, with one riding on a scooter up to an Airbus Voyager and spraying paint into its jet engine.more

Europe is rebuilding air traffic very slowly after the pandemic. The Turks were the quickest to do so, having built a new airport in Istanbul for this purpose. Poland and Warsaw Chopin Airport are also doing very well, "Rzeczpospolita" reported, citing a report by Airports Council International.more

Cristiano Ronaldo has extended his contract with Al Nassr Riyadh by two years. The 40-year-old Portuguese footballer has been playing for the Saudi club since January 2023. He has played 105 official matches for the club, scoring 93 goals and providing 19 assists.more

Sharp rises in rates of anxiety, depression and other disorders have led to one in four young people in England having a common mental health condition, an NHS survey shows, with young women more likely to report them than young men.more