Polish children are lower than their peers in other countries in our region. This surprised me, because until now we have only focused on the body mass index BMI and we knew that Polish children are putting on weight at the fastest rate in Europe," noted Professor Anna Fijałkowska from the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.more

Fourteen Portuguese municipalities, popular with tourists, already charge holidaymakers a so-called tourist tax for overnight stays. This ranges from one to two euros.more

Prince Harry lost today a challenge against the Home Office over his bid to be allowed to make private payments for police protection.more

Drinkers will get cheaper wine and greater variety under plans to scrap retained European Union laws affecting the British wine industry, the Government has said.more

The number one seed Magda Linette won against Spain's Cristina Bucsa 4:6, 6:2, 6:2 in the first round of the WTA 250 women's tennis tournament in Strasbourg. Her next opponent will be Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.more

National Lottery operator Camelot has revealed a rise in sales over the past year, resulting in record returns to good causes directly from ticket sales. more

Eight out of 10 adults support a ban on advertising unhealthy food to children on TV and online, new research for the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) suggests. more

The 30-year-old woman who fatally hit a Polish woman in the sub-Brussels town of Tervuren and fled the scene of the accident has turned herself in to the police. She testified that she drove away from the scene because she thought she had hit a branch or a deer, Inspector Filip Steppe of the Flemish police reported today.more

The students from the Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace secondary school in the city of Jelenia Góra, will be spending a short break at The Caldecotte Xperience, Action4Youth’s adventure and outdoor education centre.more

The Frankfurt-listed shares of football club Borussia Dortmund, which became the Bundesliga leader on Sunday and has a good chance of becoming German champion, rose 16 per cent yesterday.more

Despite nearly three million unemployed people in Spain, more than a third of companies are struggling to find workers. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs complain of a shortage of labour; in the hotel and construction industry this deficit is more than 50 per cent. - according to the latest Business Activity Survey presented by the Bank of Spain.more

Former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab will stand down as an MP at the next election. more

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has extended the rules allowing players and coaches to suspend their contracts with clubs from Russia and Ukraine until June 2024. This is the result of a war that has been ongoing for more than a year.more

The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna is slowly coming back to life after catastrophic flooding. The water has already subsided in many towns and cities, and the cleaning of mud from houses, basements, and stores continues uninterruptedly. Classes in schools are being resumed gradually. The situation is still difficult in the Ravenna area, where three thousand buildings have been destroyed. The regmore

Hellmann’s mayonnaise has become the latest victim of shrinkflation. Tesco has pulled 800g jars of the brand from its shelves and replaced them with 600g versions.more

"We are supporting our most important ally, Poland; we are sending a clear and strong signal that we will stand shoulder to shoulder with Poland if anything should happen." - announced yesterday UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.more

French tennis player Hugo Gaston has been fined €144,000 by the ATP organization for unsportsmanlike conduct. That's more than he earned on the court this year.more

More than 35,000 cases of sexual misconduct or sexual violence have been reported in the last five years in public health facilities in England, with 58 percent of perpetrators being patients and medical staff being victims, The Guardian revealed today.more

Portuguese police today began searching a body of water located 50 kilometers from where Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007, the BBC reported.more

First a 10-point deduction penalty for financial irregularities, and then a league defeat of 1:4 against the much lower-ranked Empoli - Monday was a black day for Juventus Turin's players and fans, who may miss the next edition of European cups.more

Londoners have been warned of council “price hikes”, more potholes and a hit to services provided by local authorities after Sadiq Khan expands the city’s ultra low emission zone (ULEZ) on August 29. more

It is possible to report any case concerning a living perpetrator of pedophilia - emphasizes the Commission for Pedophilia in an appeal addressed to victims of sexual abuse in the People's Republic of Poland by clergy and lay people working in the Church. The list of over 100 perpetrators was recently published by "Rzeczpospolita".more

Soaring inflation has taken an average of £5,455 from UK households in the past two years, with the UK losing £153bn to rising prices overall. more

Szymon Marciniak will be the chief referee of the Champions League football final on June 10, UEFA has announced. The teams of Manchester City and Inter Milan will face each other in Istanbul.more

I can't give a more precise number of F-16 fighters that we will get from Western allies, but there will be dozens of them," Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Colonel Yuri Ihnat conveyed. He added that to replace the post-Soviet air fleet, Ukraine needs about 150 fighters.more