MPs from the right wing of the ruling Conservative Party in Great Britain are talking with its moderate faction about removing the leader - and therefore prime minister - Rishi Sunak and replacing him with the leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt - the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail reported yesterday.more

Iranian-born scientist Shiva Kaviani has been living at Istanbul airport for a month now, unable to return to her country for political reasons and denied a visa by Canada, where she was heading, on formal grounds. It is a story like out of the Steven Spielberg film "Terminal", the media notes.more

Second-placed Bayern Munich won away against last-placed SV Darmstadt 5-2 in the 26th round of the German top football league and is seven points behind Bayer Leverkusen, which will play against Freiburg today. Harry Kane scored his 31st goal of the league season, but was injured.more

Only 10% of funding promised to reduce inequality as part of the levelling up agenda has been spent, MPs have said. The Public Accounts Committee found ministers were "unable to provide any compelling examples of what levelling up funding has delivered so far". It also criticised a "worrying lack of transparency" in how cash was allotted. more

From the latest report entitled "Poles' sleep. Losses for the economy. 2024 edition" (third edition), authored by UCE RESEARCH and the ePsychologi.pl platform, based on a survey of a nationwide group of over a thousand adult Poles, shows that currently 41% of Poles are dissatisfied with the quality of their sleep.more

Manchester City and lower-ranked Coventry City advanced to the FA Cup semi-finals. "The Citizens", who will appear in this phase for the sixth time in a row, defeated Newcastle United 2-0, and the Championship players unexpectedly won away against Wolverhampton 3-2.more

Police files on Jack the Ripper - the serial killer who murdered at least five women in London in 1888 - will be auctioned on Friday 22 March, Sky News reported. The seller is the great-grandson of a detective who worked on the case.more

American Express Travel has released its 2024 Global Travel Trends Report, revealing the inspirations and trends that will drive traveler bookings around the world this year.more

Consumer rights’ group Which found that the cost of a day out to some of the capital’s most famous landmarks has soared exponentially since 1974, sometimes by several thousand percent.more

Economy Minister in the Welsh Government Vaughan Gething was today announced as the winner of the election to become the new leader of the local branch of the Labour Party and will become the new First Minister (Prime Minister) of Wales. He will be the first black head of government in Europe.more

Engineers working remotely took 90 minutes to arrive and restart a crucial part of UK air traffic control’s IT system during the August bank holiday meltdown, according to an independent report.more

One of the Italian banks bought a palace in Venice, on the facade of which there is a work by an anonymous artist - Banksy "The Migrant Child". This mural is slowly deteriorating due to salt water in the canal next to the historic Palazzo San Pantalon.more

Iga Swiatek advanced to the final of the WTA 1000-ranked tournament in California's Indian Wells. The number one seeded Polish tennis player defeated Ukraine's Marta Kostiuk (No. 31) 6:2, 6:1. The encounter lasted one hour and nine minutes.more

There is wide variation across England in how long patients wait for hospital treatment, BBC News analysis reveals. Patients should start treatment within 18 weeks but at the worst-performing hospital trust, Milton Keynes, nearly two-thirds are waiting longer.more

The British airline easyJet will launch a new connection between Amsterdam and Krakow from September 2 this year, Kraków Airport announced. Until now, only the Dutch KLM operated this route.more

Poland's women's national team is ranked 29th in the International Federation of Football (FIFA) ranking published yesterday, maintaining its position compared to the previous ranking in December.more

A copy of the famous Titanic, announced by an Australian billionaire, is set to set sail on its maiden voyage in 2027. Clive Palmer, who is behind the investment, announced that a cruise on the replica ship will allow tourists to "experience the splendour" enjoyed by passengers on the luxury liner 100 years ago.more

In the latest survey organized by Rough Guides, a British guidebook publisher, tourists considered Stonehenge - a mysterious stone circle that is a symbol of England - to be the most overrated attraction. The Eiffel Tower and New York's Central Park also left globetrotters very unsatisfied.more

The most interesting events of the football weekend in Europe are scheduled for Sunday. In Spain, Barcelona will face Atletico Madrid away in a match between two Champions League quarter-finalists. In the Italian Premier League, future champion Inter Milan will play against outgoing champion Napoli.more

The Scottish seaside town of North Berwick in East Lothian has been named the best place to live in an annual guide. It topped a list of 72 locations chosen by The Sunday Times to represent the best of the UK in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide.more

From Friday, non-compliant cars, vans and minibuses can be sent to country which is short of vehicles to transport casualties.more

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said there will not be a general election on 2 May, the date when local elections are already taking place. Earlier this year, Mr Sunak suggested the general election would happen in the second half of 2024.more

Jagiellonia Białystok footballers Taras Romanczuk and Dominik Marczuk are among the 27 players called up by Michal Probierz to the Polish national team for the March qualification matches for the European Championships. However, the list does not include, among others, Arkadiusz Milik of Juventus Turin.more

A family has won £20,000 from a South London council after it blamed their “lifestyle” for a years-long damp problem that caused mould to grow on a baby’s cot. more

RAF jet was taking defence secretary back to UK from Poland, and flying near Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.more