A thousand events and performances by hundreds of artists - this is the program of the carnival in Venice starting on Saturday. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic almost three years ago, it will take place without any restrictions or sanitary restrictions and again on a grand scale.more
Sunday promises to be the most interesting day of the football weekend in Europe. Tomorrow, the Italian Premier League will host the Milan derby, in Spain leader Barcelona will take on Sevilla, and in Germany Bayern Munich will try to claim their first league victory of 2023.more
Poland has become one of the most trusted allies of Great Britain, and its actions also strengthen British security - assessed the British Deputy Minister for Security Tom Tugendhat after his visit to Poland.more
Public Image Ltd - a band founded by singer John Lydon after the breakup of the Sex Pistols - will not represent Ireland in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The indie-pop band Wild Youth won the concert to select the representative of this country yesterday evening.more
The Norwegian team won the mixed team competition in Willingen, part of the Ski Jumping World Cup. Austria and Germany also stood on the podium. Poles did not start. The second series was canceled due to strong winds.more
The number of jobs in the US economy increased by 517,000 in January, while the unemployment rate fell from 3.5 per cent to 3.4 per cent. - reported the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) yesterday. According to the Bloomberg agency, this is the lowest unemployment since 1969.more
Christophe Galtier, coach of French Premier League-leading Paris Saint-Germain, will be without the services of Brazilian footballer Neymar in today's match against Toulouse, in addition to the anticipated absences of Kylian Mbappe and Sergio Ramos.more
The owners of four flats overlooked by the Tate Modern in London have won a Supreme Court battle to stop visitors gawping through their windows "like being on display in a zoo".more
With the beginning of February, this year's edition of the European Tree of the Year poll was launched. Internet users can vote for sixteen candidates from different countries. Poland is represented by the Fabrykant oak tree from Łódź.more
Preventive examinations can protect against death from cancer or another serious disease, yet more than 30 per cent of Poles do not know that such examinations are free in our country, experts warn.more
London mayor Sadiq Khan has said he “absolutely regrets” his planned hikes in transport fares and council tax - which are both set to be the highest in at least a decade.more
A man who stormed into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow to kill Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Christmas Day 2021 pleaded guilty to all three charges against him at a London court on Friday.more
One of the most famous fashion and perfume designers Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo, known as Paco Rabanne, died today at his home in the town of Portsall in Brittany, northern France, at the age of 88, Reuters reported.more
The International Olympic Committee has criticised the position of Ukraine threatening to boycott the 2024 Paris Games if athletes from Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete. The IOC believes that it is still too early for such arguments and that the athletes stand to lose the most from a boycott.more
Royal Mail postal workers will walk out again later this month in an ongoing row over pay and conditions, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said.
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Protests by local residents took place in Upahl (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) last week in connection with the approval granted by the authorities of the German district of Grevesmuehlen for the construction of a refugee settlement in Upahl. A large demonstration was also held. Extremist and neo-Nazi circles took part, and more than 100 police officers intervened, reports the 'Spiegel' newspapmore
Within weeks, the British government will hand over £2.3 billion raised from the sale of Chelsea London football club by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to a foundation working for Ukraine, but it still has to get approval from the European Union, the 'Daily Telegraph' reported.more
Court proceedings against Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood, who was charged with, among other things, attempted rape and assaulting a woman, have been dropped, the local police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said yesterday.more
Attacks associated with the special services of the Russian Federation are generally not random. They target individuals who have previously been identified and worked on," stated the Government Plenipotentiary for the Security of the Information Space of the Republic of Poland, Stanisław Żaryn.more
Landlords have been urged by a watchdog to “act now” to address issues in social housing after the regulator found tens of thousands of properties have “notable” damp and mould.more
The daughter of American woman of Polish descent Regina Michalski, whose body was found by police in a freezer behind her home, has been charged with concealing her mother's death for nearly two years, the Associated Press reported today.more
Juventus Turin's players, without the injured Arkadiusz Milik and reserve goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny this time, defeated Lazio Roma 1:0 at home in the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup competition. Their rival in the semi-final will be Inter Milan, defending champions of the trophy.more
Already 72.8 per cent of us show symptoms of mental deterioration. 47 per cent noticed them only after a wave of price rises or credit instalments. Therefore, the condition will not improve quickly, reports "Rzeczpospolita" today.more
