Hundreds of tourists have been camping at the airport in Madeira's main city, Funchal, since Saturday. The airport is temporarily closed to flights due to storms passing over this Portuguese island.more
Ministers have activated emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding as more rioters are sentenced for their role in the recent unrest.
The longstanding measures, known as Operation Early Dawn, allow defendants to be held in police cells until prison beds become available and could mean their court dates are delayed or adjourned at short notice.more
Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, is swallowed by the ocean. Yesterday, another storm destroyed dozens of buildings, including part of a seaside hotel. Due to rising sea levels, Liberia is considering moving its capital to another, drier place.more
Defending champion Manchester City won against Chelsea 2-0 in London in the hit of the first round of the English Premier League. Norwegian Erling Haaland made his 100th appearance for "The Citizens", including all competitions, and celebrated this anniversary by scoring a goal.more
Hamas planned to unearth buried British and Commonwealth war heroes in Gaza in a bid to blackmail the government, newly discovered documents suggest. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) led by the UK Defence Secretary has preserved the graves of over 3,000 Commonwealth veterans from World War I and II. more
Kamala Harris is closing in on Donald Trump in support in several key states where voters are undecided who to vote for. According to The New York Times/Siena College poll released Saturday, the Democrat leads in Arizona (50 to 45 percent) and North Carolina (49 to 47 percent).more
The leader of the world tennis rankings, Iga Swiatek, was eliminated in the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament on hard courts in Cincinnati. The Pole lost to Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka 3:6, 3:6.more
The traditional pint after work is dying out as “a shift in attitudes” among remote workers and Generation Z means daytime socials are preferred instead, a report has revealed. more
Social media giant X has announced it will shutter its operations in Brazil following a legal tussle with a top Brazilian judge over the platform’s rights and responsibilities to counter disinformation.more
Moosomin, a town of 3,300 people in the south-eastern part of the province of Saskatchewan, wants to double its population and is paying to have a house built.more
Barcelona's players started the new season of the Spanish top league with a 2-1 away win against Valencia. Two goals were scored by Robert Lewandowski, who played the entire match.more
Anti-immigration demonstrations, riots with features of pogroms and lynchings will repeat in Great Britain until the country's economic reform is comprehensive and the living standards of wide circles of society are raised - says political scientist and expert on the far right, Dr. Aaron Winter.more
Gonorrhoea could become "untreatable", a health expert has warned.
An increasing number of people catching the sexually transmitted infection are finding it does not respond to antibiotics.more
The wave of the Covid-19 virus is significantly intensifying in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is the highest since July 2022.more
Frances Tiafoe moves forward in the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati 2024 after witnessing his quarterfinal opponent, Hubert Hurkacz, struggle with physical problems due to the significant effort made in recent weeks to recover from his injured knee. more
Alain Delon, the celebrated actor who starred in a string of classics such as Plein Soleil, Le Samouraï and Rocco and His Brothers, has died aged 88, his children have told French media.more
Part of the Somerset House complex will open to the public today despite a fire which damaged the roof of the central London arts venue on Saturday. more
Ipswich Town fans have waited 22 years for a day like this at Portman Road but they were given a brutal reminder of the task ahead on their return to the Premier League as Arne Slot's Liverpool won 2-0 in the first match of the post-Jurgen Klopp era.more
Due to Ryanair's decision to cut flights from Warsaw-Modlin airport by half - 11 routes will be eliminated and the number of flights on 18 will be reduced, the carrier said. It was noted that the lower number of available seats on planes will translate into higher ticket prices.more
This week, Gopuff launched a 24/7 delivery offer in London, starting with Bow, Holloway and Stratford. This means that residents of these districts can receive grocery deliveries at any time of the day or night.more
The average temperature in July in Antarctica was 3.1 degrees C above seasonal norms, reported the British Antarctic Survey, a British institute specialising in the study of polar regions, quoted by AFP. This marks the warmest July since 1981.more
More than a third of landlords raising rents in England have been motivated to match local properties on the market, as renters continue to be squeezed by a shortage of available homes, according to research.more
Transport for London (TfL) plans to expand its speed camera network in the capital after more than 800,000 speeding offences in a year. In Ealing and Hillingdon alone, more than 1,800 offences were recorded over a 12-month period when the two boroughs are combined.more
