England defeated Italy 31:14 in London in yesterday's 2nd round match of the Guinness Six Nations Tournament. A day earlier, defending champion France lost in a shock away game to table-leading Ireland 19:32.more

The Animal Welfare Council of India called last week for 14 February to be celebrated as 'Cow Hug Day'. After the idea became the subject of ridicule and criticism, the council officially abandoned it.more

British Defence Minister Ben Wallace ordered a security review into Chinese spy balloons late last night. Today, the deputy transport minister expressed speculation that such balloons were already flying over the UK.more

Women who have been given the name Ju-ae are being forced by the North Korean authorities to change it, reports the South Korean daily The Korea Times. According to the newspaper, the authorities in Pyongyang are seeking to create a cult of the individual around Kim Jong Un's 10-year-old daughter.more

Barcelona's players beat Villarreal 1:0 away in the 21st round of the Spanish Premier League and are now eleven points ahead of Real Madrid. The goal for the next step for the championship was scored by Pedri and an assist was scored by Robert Lewandowski.more

Security guards, engineers and firefighters with the Unite union have rejected a 10% pay increase.more

The US defence ministry has assessed that the object shot down by the US Air Force yesterday over Lake Huron, on the border with Canada, could have been used for spying purposes.more

Manchester City beat Aston Villa 3:1 at home, while Manchester United won 2:0 away against Leeds United in the 23rd round of the Premier League. "The Citizens" are second in the English league, while the Red Devils are third. Arsenal London are leading the way.more

Representatives of British arms companies are discussing in Kiev plans to produce weapons and military vehicles in Ukraine under British licence by joint ventures, The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday.more

A 13-year-old boy set fire to his school in Roermond in the south of the country on Saturday because he was unhappy with his teacher, the daily newspaper "De Telkegraaf" reported. He was detained by the police yesterday.more

The pandemic has forced many Londoners to adopt a working-from-home lifestyle despite some businesses pushing to get workers back in the office. more

Dawid Kubacki finished seventh in yesterday's World Cup ski jumping competition in Lake Placid. Aleksander Zniszczoł was 21st and Piotr Żyła was 25th, with Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud winning. Also on the podium were Germany's Andreas Wellinger and Austria's Stefan Kraft.more

The development and academic performance of children conceived through in vitro is the same as that of their peers conceived spontaneously, according to an analysis conducted by researchers in Australia. It is published in the journal 'PLOS Medicine'.more

A survey conducted by InterviewMe showed that 67% of Poles support the idea of shortening the working week to 4 days. At the same time, 43% believe that working 40 hours a week is too much. As many as 75% of Poles do not like Mondays.more

More than 1,000 incidents of romance fraud totalling nearly £15 million in losses were recorded in London last year, new figures show. Across the UK victims have been conned out of £317 million over the past four years, Action Fraud figures released by the Liberal Democrats reveal, and money being made by con artists is on the rise.more

Novak Djokovic counts on favor from US authoritiesANchored to Covid-19, the world's No. 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic, is seeking "special permission" to enter the United States to play in upcoming tournaments. Covid restrictions are in effect in the US until April 10.more

The lights in future City of London skyscrapers may be turned off or dimmed at night in order to save energy under proposed plans by the local authority.more

The euro is becoming untenable, former Minister of Finance of the Netherlands Hans Hoogervorst said in an interview with the daily De Telegraaf yesterday. "If the Netherlands were to join the eurozone now and adopt the single currency it would be madness," the economist concluded.more

Nathan Jones was today dismissed as coach of Southampton players. The day before, the "Saints" lost at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers 1:2, with a suicide goal scored by Jan Bednarek.more

Polish President Andrzej Duda told the BBC today that the decision to transfer F-16 aircraft to Ukraine must be made by its allies, an independent Ukraine is in the interest of Poland and Europe, and peace can only be achieved by restoring its full territorial sovereignty.more

There were no changes in the top places of the German Football Premier League table in the 20th round. Bayern Munich, Union Berlin and Borussia Dortmund won their matches yesterday. The Bavarians are one point ahead of the capital city team, and three ahead of BVB.more

Today, handlers with dogs from Lithuania and the Czech Republic joined Polish firefighters and their four-legged dogs searching for another living person under the rubble of a building collapsed after the earthquake in Besni, Turkey.more

More than half of Londoners do not trust the Metropolitan Police, a survey has found. A YouGov study shared with the Standard shows fifty-one per cent of Londoners do not trust the force very much or at all, compared to forty-two per cent who say they do tend to trust them.more

AS Monaco's players, in a shocker of the 23rd round of the French Premier League, defeated the leading Paris Saint-Germain team 3:1 and briefly moved up to second place in the table. However, they were overtaken by Olympique Marseille in the evening, defeating Clermont in an away game.more

A Russian woman, Victoria Nasirova, who lives in New York, has been found guilty of attempting to murder a beautician similar to her, Ukrainian Olga Tsvykh. After the murder, she wanted to assume the Ukrainian woman's identity. She now faces a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.more