Cameroon drew with Serbia 3:3 in the match of the second round of Group G of the football World Cup in Qatar. Serbia was already leading 3:1, but the African team turned the game around. more

Less than 50 km north of Washington DC, a single-engine Mooney M20J aircraft became entangled in high-voltage power lines yesterday. Two passengers were rescued and taken to hospital, both suffering hypothermia and serious injuries, the Reuters news agency reported today after the local fire service.more

Queen Elizabeth II was “battling” serious illness in the last few months before her death, according to a new biography. more

Poles believe that a woman should decide for herself whether she wants to give birth naturally or by caesarean section, according to an IBRiS poll for Rzeczpospolita.more

The British public broadcaster BBC reported last night that Chinese police had detained and beaten into one of its journalists covering protests in Shanghai against covid restrictions. He was released after several hours.more

According to statistics from the Ministry of Justice, there were 72,809 prisoners in French prisons on 1 November out of a total of 60,698 places set aside for convicts. Density in prisons is at an average of 120 per cent, up from 115.4 per cent a year ago. - AFP reported yesterday.more

The basketball players of Śląsk Wrocław will fight on Wednesday in London against the local Lions for their first victory in the European Cup competition. After five rounds, the national champion remains without a win, and in the last one succumbed to Promitheas Patras (76:78) after a last-second shot by the rivals.more

A hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, a milestone in the campaign to fundamentally change Britain’s approach to work. more

Scientists have no doubt about the harmful effects of smog on health. For the fight for clean air, the energy crisis is both an opportunity and a threat, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

In the blockbuster of the group stage of the World Cup being played in Qatar, Germany drew 1:1 with Spain and significantly improved their chances of advancing to the 1/8 finals. World ranking runner-up Belgium suffered an unexpected 0:2 defeat against Morocco.more

At least dozens of illegal immigrants who may have had diphtheria have been moved from an overcrowded reception centre in Manston to other locations in the UK without tests to confirm or rule out the disease, 'The Sunday Times' revealed.more

Demonstrations against the zero covid policy, harsh restrictions and lockdowns spread to more cities in China yesterday. Hundreds of people protested in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as in Wuhan, where the first cases of Covid-19 were detected almost three years ago.more

The UK ministry of defence confirmed yesterday that it is donating laser-guided Brimstone 2 missiles, with twice the range of its previous version, to Ukraine as part of its assistance.more

Today, Switzerland's players will test the form of favoured Brazil in the second round of matches in Group G of the World Cup in Qatar. Both teams have three points each. Cristiano Ronaldo will also try for more goals in the World Cup in Portugal's match against Uruguay.more

Almost one million Belgian residents own several houses or flats, while half of the country's population owns no property at all, the daily newspaper De Tijd reported yesterday.more

52 per cent of Poles believe that personal data processed by online shops is not secure, according to a study by ChronPESEL.pl and the National Debt Register. At the same time, more than 60 per cent of us happen to automatically accept consents for processing personal data without reading them.more

A billionaire former Conservative donor has said he would back the party again if the government renegotiates with the EU for a “soft” Brexit trade deal. Guy Hands urged Rishi Sunak to consider a radical move to restart trade talks with Brussels, saying it could help the party win the next general election.more

Belgium lost 0:2 against Morocco in the match of the 2nd round of the football World Cup in Qatar. Both goals were scored in the second half by European club players Abdelhamid Sabiri and Zakaria Aboukhlal. In the other Group F game, Croatia will play against Canada in the evening.more

From 1 January 2023, around one million Belgians will receive a 12 per cent pay rise, costing employers more than €25 billion, according to media reports.more

Further rail strikes have been called in the run-up to Christmas in a dispute over pay, job security and working conditions.more

The defeat of the German national team, the representatives of Japan, lost to Costa Rica, who succumbed to Spain by as much as 0:7. The situation in Group E has become very interesting. more

The West thought that after the collapse of the USSR, war with artillery and tanks in Europe would never happen again, hence it reduced its stockpiles of weapons. However, Russia's aggression against Ukraine has shown that this was a mistake, the ''New York Times'' reports.more

Some of the country’s GP are advising patients requiring urgent hospital care to “get an Uber” or use a relative’s car because of the worst ever delays in the ambulance service in England.more

One confirmed fatality, 11 missing and 13 injured - this is the tally of the mudslide on the Italian island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples yesterday, following the passage of torrential downpours. The figures were given by local authorities in the evening. Earlier it had been reported that 8 people had been killed, but this news was denied by the Interior Ministry. The devastation is enormous.more

Piotr Zyla was fifth and Dawid Kubacki, who was in the lead after the first round, finished sixth in today's competition in Ruka, Finland, but defended his position as overall leader of the ski jumping World Cup. Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud and Austria's Stefan Kraft shared the win.more