Sadiq Khan should slash Tube fares on Mondays and Fridays to entice more people back to the office, according to a leading think-tank. more

China's semiconductor industry fears that Japan's chip export embargo, due to come into force in July, could also affect the production of older generations of chips used in, for example, cars or washing machines, writes the Financial Times.more

Netflix has started its long-promised crackdown on password sharing in major markets including the UK and the US. more

The Formula 1 Grand Prix of Monaco, the sixth round of the world championship, will take place on Sunday at the Monte Carlo street circuit. Last year, the Mexican Sergio Perez of Red Bull won, followed by his Dutch teammate Max Verstappen, who this year is the leader of the series after five races.more

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that users of this popular messenger will soon be able to correct errors or add more information to messages already sent.more

A 33-year-old former maths teacher from an Oxford secondary school has been disbarred for addressing a female pupil who claims to be a boy according to her biological sex, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. According to the daily, this is likely to be the first such case in the UK.more

More than 80 per cent of Polish companies employ Ukrainian nationals; in more than a third of companies, the percentage of Ukrainians employed ranges between 10-20 per cent of the total staff, according to a study by analytical centre Gremi Personal.more

At a meeting last night with representatives of the British Polish community, Polish President Andrzej Duda thanked them for cultivating Polishness, but also encouraged them to return to a country whose economy, he stressed, was growing rapidly.more

The organizers of the Paris Olympics said they had sold 6.8 million of the 10 million tickets available 14 months before the opening ceremony. Of great interest are football matches.more

The UK's annual inflation rate in April was 8.7 per cent, marking the first time it has fallen below 10 per cent since August last year. - reported the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) today. However, food prices are still rising very rapidly.more

The Met Office has dismissed reports predicting a UK heatwave driven by an African plume as “hyperbole”.more

In the UK, up to 25 per cent more cars fell prey to thieves last year than in 2021. Currently, the most theft-prone brands are Land Rovers. And particularly the Range Rover Velar R-Dyn.more

Top-seeded Magda Linette dropped out of the WTA 250 tennis tournament in Strasbourg. In the second round, the Polish woman lost to the Russian Anastazja Pavlyuchenkova 3:6, 2:6.more

London Underground workers have voted in favour of extending their mandate to continue taking strike action for another six months, the RMT union has announced.more

Highland Council says it has put a stop to the hiring of bouncy castles at its premises for health and safety reasons.more

A week ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle became the target of a car chase by photojournalists who tried at all costs to take pictures of them. The theory that this car chase was merely a PR ploy by the Sussex’s to warm up their image has become very popular online. A spokesperson for the couple has now spoken out on the matter.more

Manchester City's Norwegian footballer Erling Haaland has admitted in a recent interview that his life "has stopped being normal because of popularity" after moving to England. He added that he watches a lot of television, but never replays of his matches.more

Foreign students coming to the UK from January next year will no longer be able to bring dependent family members to the UK, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced yesterday.more

Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Leiden University have started a pilot programme to grow rice on peat land near Leiden, the two universities said in a press release.more

Under proposed new regulations, brands may be banned from using words such as ‘yoghurt’ even if prefaced by ‘vegan’.more

Barcelona lost 3-1 away to Real Valladolid in the 36th round of the Spanish football top flight. Robert Lewandowski played the whole match and scored an honorable goal towards the end of the second half.more

"From a legal point of view, the reparations issue is closed; this topic is Pandora's box and it is better that this box remains untouched" - announced the German ambassador to Poland, Thomas Bagger, in an interview with Polish Radio 24 today.more

The campaign to become the next London mayor has begun with parties starting to decide who their chosen candidates will be. more

With the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games being held in Paris, the government wants to displace thousands of homeless, mainly migrants from the Paris region to the province, arguing that the number of hotels willing to host them is falling. This approach raises doubts among humanitarian organisations, French media reported today.more

Al-Nassr defeated Al-Shabab 3-2 in the Riyadh derby in the 28th round of the Saudi football league. Cristiano Ronaldo's club was already losing 0:2 to Grzegorz Krychowiak's team, but he turned the tide of the match.more