In Romania, "African temperatures" were announced this week, and the media is reporting further records. According to meteorologists, the perceived temperature will reach 40-42 degrees C during the weekend.more

TK Maxx and Homesense have recalled selected batches of three premium tea products found to possibly contain insects, the food safety regulator has announced.more

An EU country is not obliged to automatically recognise refugee status granted by another EU country, the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled yesterday.more

A recent study has revealed how many XL Bully dogs are in the UK and one London borough is home to the largest amount of the breed. The American bully XL is said to have originated in the US in the late 1980s when American pit bull terriers and American Staffordshire terriers were crossed.more

Today Croatia will play its second match in Group B of the European Football Championship. After a 0:3 defeat against Spain, it will face Albania in Hamburg (at 15:00 local time). In Group A, Germany will play against Hungary (at 18:00 in Stuttgart) and Switzerland against Scotland (at 21:00 in Cologne).more

The growth in the number of shared service centres and the development of multinational companies in Poland has strengthened the demand for specialists responsible for purchasing, according to the report 'The role and challenges of purchasing departments in Poland'. It added that in order to attract the best candidates, companies are offering competitive rates.more

Grey minke whales (Eschrichtius robustus) encountered near the Pacific coast have become 13 per cent shorter over the past 20-30 years, reports the journal 'Global Change Biology'.more

Renting is now cheaper than owning a home in almost all of Britain as stubbornly high mortgage rates take their toll, analysis shows.more

If Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo plays against the Czech national team tonight, he will become the first footballer to play in six editions of the European Championship. The 39-year-old made his debut for Portugal at Euro 2004 and triumphed at Euro 2016 in France.more

Holidaymakers have been warned a “lie detector test” could catch them out before they are granted entry to Europe. Artificial Intelligence software may stand in the way of family trips as the EU strengthens border security post Brexit.more

The use of rail season tickets in Great Britain has plummeted to the lowest level on record, driven by a rise in working from home since the Covid-19 pandemic.more

Doctors have called for England’s drink-driving limit to be reduced to the equivalent of a small glass of wine or beer, in a proposal supported by a number of medical and road safety organisations.more

Kylian Mbappe has a broken nose after yesterday's match against Austria in the European Championship. The France national football team captain suffered the injury in the 86th minute while fighting for the ball in the air with defender Kevin Danso.more

Young Poles are increasingly thinking about military service. The share of women is also growing. They account for more than 20 per cent of participants in summer training, reported today's 'Dziennik Gazeta Prawna'.more

One of the rainiest springs on record boosted warm soup sales while denting those for sun cream, new figures suggest. The wet weather caused the slowest monthly increase in grocery sales in two years as people were "put off from popping to the shops", according to research firm Kantar.more

The Ministry of Justice is working on introducing the possibility of extrajudicial dissolution of marriages. This would benefit courts and couples who are not in conflict, today's 'Rzeczpospolita' reported.more

Hubert Hurkacz advanced to the second round of the ATP 500 tournament on grass courts in Halle. The number five seeded Polish tennis player defeated Italian Flavio Cobolli 7:5, 7:6 (7-2).more

The number of pubs disappearing from communities across England and Wales jumped a third over the first months of 2024 amid pressure on punters’ budgets, according to new figures.more

It is quite easy for adults to understand and believe that heat waves and fires are the result of climate change, but they do not want to believe that other extreme events such as hurricanes, floods and tornadoes are also associated with these changes, US scientists have found.more

London has jumped into the top 10 list in a global index which looks at the most expensive cities for expatriate employees. The city has moved up nine places since last year, to be ranked eighth in Mercer’s 2024 cost-of-living city ranking.more

France won in Duesseldorf against Austria 1:0 in the match of Poland's group rivals in the European football championship. In yesterday's other matches, Romania beat Ukraine 3:0 and Slovakia unexpectedly won against Belgium 1:0.more

In Mallorca, which is popular among holidaymakers, there are more and more protests by the local population against the mass influx of tourists to this Spanish island. Its inhabitants are increasingly expressing their dissatisfaction by organizing pickets on the beaches.more

British motorists are paying 20p more for a litre of diesel than drivers in the European Union – unless they are in Northern Ireland. New figures from the RAC suggest the cost of filling a 55-litre family car in most of Britain is now £11 higher than on the Continent.more

Polish clients of travel agencies are most likely to go to Turkey, Greece and Egypt this year - according to data from Wakacje.pl. A study commissioned by this website shows that more than half of Poles planning a trip abroad for at least 7 days will go abroad at least once this year.more

Tomorrow the competition in the last group of the European Football Championship in Germany will begin - group F, in which Turkey will face this year's only debutant, Georgia, and the 2016 champion Portugal, potentially with Cristiano Ronaldo in the squad, will play against the Czech Republic.more