The UK has sent a team of engineering troops to Poland to help with flood relief in the south of the country, the British government announced yesterday.more
There will be major changes to the structure of the Billie Jean King Cup women's tennis tournament next season. In the 2026 season, eight rather than 12 national teams will play in the finals, the international federation announced.more
Artificial intelligence has sent an innocent man to prison. A bricklayer living in Rome was arrested on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by the Swiss canton of Ticino on suspicion of two thefts. The AI system wrongly identified him as the perpetrator, he was meanwhile at work.more
Defending champions Real Madrid will take on a rival with whom they have won only one of their last six league games - Villarreal - in the ninth round of the Spanish football league. ‘The royals’ will enter this match after an unexpected defeat against Lille 0:1 in the Champions League.more
Four in every 10 (40%) UK working households cannot afford an average-priced two- or three-bedroom home with an 80% loan-to-value (LTV) mortgage, according to research from Zoopla.more
Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has criticised “slightly daft” proposals from academics to serve beer in two-third pint measures as he called for no further regulations to be introduced in the under-pressure pub sector.more
There are difficulties at German airports, including Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Duesseldorf, today. A glitch in the air traffic control system has led to the cancellation and delay of dozens of flights, writes the tagesschau portal.more
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The Israeli army today announced the destruction of a 3.5km tunnel under Lebanon's border with Syria through which Hezbollah was smuggling Iranian weapons. It added that around 100 Hezbollah fighters were killed yesterday in fighting in the south of the country. Israel is continuing air strikes. One was carried out near a hospital.more
One million people in England now vape despite never having been regular smokers, a seven-fold increase in just three years, according to research that has prompted alarm among health experts.more
After three years of cooperation, Iga Swiatek has parted ways with her coach Tomasz Wiktorowski - the world tennis ranking leader announced the decision on social media.more
In 2023, young people in the EU moved out of the home at an average age of 26.3 years. Croats were the latest to leave the family home (31.8 years) and Finns the earliest (21.4 years). Poles moved out at an average age of 27.1 years, according to the latest Eurostat report.more
British Airways announced yesterday that it is extending the suspension of flights to Tel Aviv up to and including 26 October due to the situation in the Middle East. The British carrier halted flights to the city on 24 September, initially for a fortnight.more
The Polish economy has experienced strong growth over the past decades and has become the fifth largest in the European Union, according to an article on the website of the Spanish business daily ‘El Economista’.more
The UK will hand over sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, which have been the subject of a dispute between the two countries for more than 50 years, to Mauritius, but the military base on the island of Diego Garcia will remain under British-American jurisdiction for at least 99 years.more
The footballers of Legia and Jagiellonia started their participation in the league phase of the reformed Conference League with victories, although their rivals were clubs drawn from the first basket. The Warsaw team beat Betis Sevilla 1:0 at home, while the Białystok team won in Denmark against FC Copenhagen 2:1.more
Non-alcoholic beverages are conquering the Polish market, with sales growing even by more than 50 per cent a year, according to ‘’Rzeczpospolita‘’. According to the newspaper, this is only the beginning of a strong consumer trend.more
The Norwegian authorities are changing their approach to traditional forms of payment. Although the country was planning to move away from traditional money, the new law maintains the general possibility to pay in cash. The government justifies this on the grounds that the elderly are accustomed to paying in cash, as well as for security reasons.more
New Met Office data has shown September was the wettest month on record for some counties in the UK.
Though no national rainfall records have been broken, according to the provisional figures, some parts of the country experienced a 300 per cent increase in the average rainfall.more
FIFA has issued a warning to fans ahead of the 2026 World Cup, urging them to avoid buying tickets from unofficial sites. It stressed that individual tickets will not be available until the end of next year.more
Bank payments can be delayed by an extra three days if lenders suspect consumers are being scammed, as part of a crackdown on booming levels of digital fraud in Britain.more
The fact that Poland is able to finance arms purchases on this scale is proof of your country's success,’ stated James Cartlidge, the Conservative Party's shadow defence minister counterpart. He stressed that the war in Ukraine proves that heavy equipment has not become a relic.more
According to a decree by Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, Christmas celebrations began there on 1 October. A Christmas tree has been erected in the main square in Caracas, but the people of the crisis-ridden country are in no mood to celebrate, the media reported.more
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has returned more than £6,000 for gifts and services received since taking office, his office said yesterday. This follows a wave of criticism since Sky News calculated that he had accepted gifts totalling £107,000 over the past five years.more
Germany's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs yesterday approved a draft tightening the rules on citizenship allowance. They stipulate that an unemployed person who refuses to work will receive an allowance reduced by 30 per cent for three months.more
