The Alabama Attorney General asked for permission to put the condemned man to death using an untested execution method. The convict, who could not be executed by injection in November last year, would be killed with nitrogen, the website of "The Guardian" reported. Veterinarians consider this method an unacceptable form of animal euthanasia.more
Wilko is shutting six of its stores in London, with 49 more shutting across the UK. Around 1,016 jobs will be made redundant as a result, though it's not known how many are specifically in London.more
In mid-July, 1,500 kilograms of drugs were confiscated in the cargo section of Brussels airport. "This is one of the largest seizures in the European Union in recent years," said the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP).more
"A cool head and a warm heart" - this, according to the coach of the Polish national football team, Fernando Santos, is the way to defeat the Faroe Islands in the European Championship qualifying match.more
While the timeline for completing the Metrolink seems to stretch endlessly into the future, delivery plans for the project are set to come into focus, finally.
Two weeks ago, a group of consultants led by Dublin-based Turner & Townsend was appointed to oversee the delivery of Ireland’s first metro railway.more
100,000 passengers were checked in at Olsztyn Mazury airport this year - informed the company managing the airport. She assessed that this year's holiday season at the Warmian-Masurian airport was successful.more
The astonishing scale of the housing affordability deficit for renters in London is revealed in new analysis showing the chasm between renters’ budgets and average asking rent in each borough.more
France is facing a late heat wave that will probably last until the end of the week. According to the La Chaine Meteo website, today it affects 80 percent. country, and 47 departments have been identified as being in a "high risk" zone.more
The UK air traffic system failure that resulted in more than 2,000 flights being cancelled has been blamed on “an extremely rare set of circumstances”, as the aviation regulator opened an inquiry into the meltdown that caused chaos for passengers.more
Kamil Grabara, goalkeeper of the Polish national football team and FC Copenhagen, will be a player of VfL Wolfsburg from 2024. The 24-year-old will join the German Bundesliga club in the new season, but the contract includes an option to transfer in January.more
The Russian armed forces are "actively learning" more modern strategies from the Ukrainian troops, as a result of which they are reducing the advantage that Ukraine has on the battlefield, noted the British analytical center Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).more
Those performing euthanasia on 36-year-old Alexina from Oupeye in northern Belgium suffocated her with a pillow - report the portals 7sur7 and RTL Info. It turned out that the woman was given too few drugs intended to end her life.more
Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal may return to the court in November and take part in the knockout stage of the final Davis Cup tournament, Tennis Channel reports, citing Spain's captain, David Ferrer.more
The Government’s employment support system is failing both jobseekers and businesses and needs to be substantially reformed, a think tank has said.more
A U.S. Delta airlines plane en route to Barcelona had to turn back to Atlanta due to, as the pilot put it, "a biohazard problem." According to the media, one of the passengers was suffering from diarrhea, the BBC News website reported.more
Worldwide, 60 percent consumers prefer to buy food produced in their own country. This attitude is most common among Italians (74%) and Swedes (71%), and least common among Hong Kong residents (30%), according to a survey by the research company YouGov. In Poland, 63% of people prefer locally produced food. consumers.more
For £35 million you can buy the Edwardian-style townhouse where the late Barbara Cartland wrote most of her more than 720 novels. The home of the "queen of romance" is located in the prestigious Mayfair area.more
Finnish citizens who fly from Helsinki to the UK can now present digital travel certificates, i.e. electronic passports on their phones, instead of a traditional booklet passport. It is the first country in the world to introduce this solution.more
Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, will be classified as a narcotic and made illegal by the end of the year, the British government announced. In the UK, it is the second most commonly used drug by people aged 16-24, after marijuana.more
Eight-time world champion and winner of three Olympic gold medals in swimming, British Adam Peaty, fought with his teammate Luke Greenbank - reported The Sun. Peaty suffered minor facial injuries.more
Denmark may make maintaining Danish citizenship conditional on the existence of a real connection with this country, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.more
