The journalists Reinhard Bingener and Markus Wehner gave their book "Die Moskau-Connection" the subtitle: "Schroeder's network and Germany's road to dependence on Russia". The book reveals Gerhard Schroeder's (SPD) connections, which helped influence Germany's policy towards Russia, even after he left office as chancellor.more

Hubert Hurkacz, after losing to the American Tommy Paul 6:4, 2:6, 4:6 in the third round of the ATP 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, moves to Florida, where he will prepare for the competition in Miami. "I have to be positive about the future," said the 26-year-old tennis player.more

HSBC has bought the British branch of the US technology bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which collapsed last Friday, it was reported. The transaction amount was just one pound.more

US President Joe Biden announced that he intends to pay a visit to Ireland and Northern Ireland. He was invited to Belfast by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The prime minister also stated that he had accepted Biden's invitation to visit Washington in June.more

The Scottish National Party (SNP), which has been in power for 16 years, launched an election on Monday for a new leader who will also take over the role of Scotland's first minister (prime minister). Considered the favourite, Health Minister Huzma Yousaf has vowed to "use all means" to break up the UK.more

The droughts that have hit Europe since 2015 were the most severe in the last 400 years, scientists report in "Nature Communications Earth & Environment".more

Six Polish ski jumpers advanced to today's World Cup competition in Lillehammer. In the qualifications, Kamil Stoch was sixth, Dawid Kubacki 12th, Paweł Wąsek 26th, Aleksander Zniszczol 31st, Piotr Żyła 38th, and Jakub Wolny 40th. Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud won.more

High streets across Yorkshire are set to turn quieter as they are hit by more closures. Argos, Boots and B&Q are set to close some of its branches this weekend as part of Sainsbury's plans to get rid of 50 standalone branches by the end of this month.more

Sales of fish - fresh, frozen, smoked and canned - fell by nearly 20 per cent in Spain in the first two months of this year. - alert fishery economic organisations.more

FIFA has been handed a letter supported by over one million petition signatures — and custom-designed football shirts — demanding that it provide compensation to migrant workers who suffered horrific human rights abuses while working on the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar. more

Britain is on its way to getting its first ever net-zero cathedral, as York Minster received approval to install 199 solar panels on its roof.more

America has gone from having record savings to record debt in just two years. It is a country of credit cards, says NPR public radio.more

More than 250,000 passengers used Katowice Airport in February, including nearly 60,000 in the charters segment, the port's press service reported yesterday. February 2023 brought the best result in the charters segment in the history of this month in Katowice.more

The three yellow snow and ice weather warnings are expected to last until Tuesday morning, while southern parts of the UK will see outbreaks of rain and strong gusty winds. more

Reducing working hours by 20 percent on a weekly basis with no loss of pay led to a significant decrease in employee stress levels, reduced days on sick leave, increased employee loyalty to the employer, and markedly improved the work-life balance of working-age people. In contrast, it did not impair productivity, according to the UK study.more

Napoli, which has three Polish players on its roster, will be looking to seal promotion to the Champions League quarterfinals on Wednesday. It will then take on Eintracht Frankfurt, which it beat 2:0 away, while Liverpool will try to make up for a three-goal loss at Real Madrid Stadium.more

Hospitals have cancelled tens of thousands of outpatient appointments and operations this week as they prepare for a junior doctors’ strike that will severely disrupt NHS care. more

Flights were canceled in and out of the northern German cities of Bremen and Hamburg, and the capital, Berlin, as workers went on strike on Monday.more

Gary Lineker will return to present Match of the Day after he was taken off air following an impartiality row in which he criticised the government's new asylum policy.more

British Tyson Fury is only interested in fighting Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk for the title of undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world if 70 percent of the profits go to him.more

Dublin Airport has been given the green light for a new €200m underground cargo tunnel. Planning permission was granted by Fingal County Council for plans by daa to construct the 1.1km subterranean tunnel under the airport’s crosswind runway.more

The Tube drivers’ union Aslef on Monday confirmed that Wednesday’s strike on the London Underground will go ahead.more

World Cup leader Halvor Egner Granerud, after taking seventh place in yesterday's Raw Air tournament in Oslo, dropped his gloves in despair, and briefly told Norwegian journalists that he did not know what was happening to him.more

Thanks to the lowest exchange rate of the Czech koruna against the zloty, purchases in Poland are the cheapest for Czechs since 1995. This applies not only to individual purchases, which are further encouraged by Poland's zero VAT on some food products, but also to institutional importers.more

The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) is investigating potential food fraud involving pre-packed sliced beef which was labelled as British but came from South America and Europe.more