The captain of the Polish football team, Robert Lewandowski, announced that there was no dispute between the players and the coaching staff regarding the division of the bonus for advancing to the 1/8 finals of the World Cup. "We have never demanded anything and we have never reached out for public money," he added.more
Snow has been reported across several parts of London as temperatures have completely plummeted. This morning (Friday, December 9), there are reports of snowfall in South London and North East London so far.more
The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill codifying the recognition of same-sex and racially mixed marriages in US law. The act was intended to ensure that such marriages would continue to be recognized regardless of any future Supreme Court rulings.more
A former American agent who, while driving in the UK on the wrong side of the road, fatally ran over a British teenager, was sentenced yesterday to eight months in prison, suspended for a year after a high-profile, three-year-long battle.more
Than Brygida brings blizzards and blizzards, daily rainfall up to 20 cm, and then bitter frosts with temperatures reaching -20 degrees. The attack of winter is to start tomorrow, according to Polish meteorologists.more
Train passengers are to be told to only travel next week if it is absolutely necessary, even if rail worker strikes are called off at the last minute. Workers at the UK's biggest rail union, the RMT, will walk out on 13-14 and 16-17 December causing major disruption.more
A group of 165 people from the village of Olmen in the northern Belgian province of Antwerp paid evenly into the jackpot to buy tickets at a local kiosk and won €143 million in the EuroMillions lottery, the BBC reported today.more
The number of children who have died in the UK in recent weeks from infection with a rare invasive form of group A strep has risen to 15, which is spreading more strongly than usual this year, the British Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) said yesterday.more
Following Belgium's elimination in the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar, Eden Hazard has announced that he will no longer play for the national team. "The generation of successors is ready," said the 31-year-old footballer who was the captain of the "Red Devils".more
About 125,000 customers in the French capital were affected by a power outage yesterday evening. The cause of the shutdown was a transformer failure.more
The number of people smoking in the UK dropped to its lowest level on record last year but more people were using e-cigarettes, new figures have revealed.
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Every third Polish family business has experienced a deterioration in its situation in the last year. The most painful are the high costs of fuel, energy and labour, reports "Puls Biznesu".more
Piłkarze reprezentacji Chorwacji to aktualni wicemistrzowie świata, ale w dzisiejszym ćwierćfinale w Ar-Rajjan z bardzo mocną kadrowo Brazylią faworytami będą rywale. Po stronie "Canarinhos" są również statystyki - nie przegrali z Chorwatami żadnego z pięciu dotychczasowych meczów.
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British Prince Harry announced in the Netflix series that he sacrificed everything for Meghan and had to ensure her safety, especially since the royal family did not see the need to protect her from the insistence of the tabloids.more
The Czech Republic lacks some medicines, including painkillers and basic antibiotics; Czechs go to Poland for them or look for them on the Internet, informs the daily "Hospodarzske Noviny". Doctors and pharmacists claim that these are the greatest shortages of certain drugs in history.more
One of the largest infrastructural projects in Europe is being built between Łódź and Warsaw - this is how Centralny Port Komunikacyjny is described by the daily "Financieele Dagblad". The newspaper indicates that the Baltic states as well as the Czech Republic and Slovakia may benefit from the project.more
The government has ruled out making any intervention in the market to help farmers or consumers with high food prices, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has said.
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Great Britain continues to strive for the ongoing war to be resolved in Ukraine's favor, and neither the change of government nor the economic crisis will change its approach, Michał Jach, chairman of the parliamentary National Defense Committee, stated in London.more
Raheem Sterling returns to the England squad ahead of Saturday's quarter-final against France at the World Cup in Qatar, the federation has announced.more
Hundreds of journalists and other staff at The New York Times went on a 24-hour strike today after failed negotiations with the publisher over "fair" terms of employment.more
The way Wales is currently governed is inefficient and unsustainable, the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales said in a report released today. Independence was identified as one of the three options to be further explored.more