The European Commission on Tuesday called on Apple to end geo-blocking, which is illegal in the EU. An investigation by EU consumer organisations revealed, among other things, that users of Apple apps in one member state have access to different services than users of the same apps in another EU country.more

Manchester City's Norwegian striker has been heavily criticised by the Norwegian media for the past month, after he spoke not a word to journalists and nonchalantly boarded a bus on 13 October after losing a 1:5 Nations League match against Austria in Linz, in which he was captain.more

The defence ministers of Romania and the UK signed an agreement on defence cooperation yesterday, the Romanian Ministry of National Defence said in a press release.more

InPost has launched an international delivery service between Poland and France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the company said in an announcement yesterday. The company plans to expand this list to include the UK in the future as well.more

The British daily newspaper ‘The Guardian’ will no longer be active on the X service. As the newspaper's editors announced yesterday, its presence on X entails more harm than good. The medium has more than 80 accounts on X, which is followed by around 27 million users.more

A lack of warning systems and problems with the flow of information, as well as the long dinner of regional chief executive Carlos Mazon, had a bearing on the extent of the tragedy during the floods in Valencia in eastern Spain, the UK's ‘Financial Times’ reported yesterday.more

Bruno Fernandes has been praised by fellow passengers after coming to the aid of a man who fainted on a flight to Lisbon. The Manchester United footballer was travelling to Portugal to join the team for Nations League matches against Poland and Croatia.more

Charles was born on November 14 1948 at Buckingham Palace – the first child of the future Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.more

US President Joe Biden welcomed his successor Donald Trump to the White House yesterday, expressing hope for a smooth transition of power. Trump thanked Biden, acknowledging that ‘politics is tough in many cases’.more

Narrower flight paths for Heathrow airport could create “noise sewers” blighting London’s skies and communities below, a council is warning.more

PKP Intercity announced that it has already transported 68 million passengers this year, which is more than in the whole of 2023. From Friday, November 8 to Monday, November 11, 913,000 passengers used the carrier's services.more

Bayern Munich have been fined €150,000 by the German Football Association (DFB) for the use of pyrotechnics by their fans in a first-round German Cup match against second-division SSV Ulm, a match the favourites won 4-0 away in August.more

Archaeologists have discovered a section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads directly beneath the Old Kent Road. It is part of an important 2,000-year-old road known as Roman Watling Street, built shortly after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43.more

A malnourished emperor penguin has been found in Australia for the first time - more than 2,200 miles north of the Antarctic coast. The adult male was discovered on 1 November on a tourist beach in the town of Denmark in southwest Australia.more

Grocery price inflation rose again in October but households shrugged off increases with a four-year high in supermarket shopping trips, figures show. Supermarket prices were 2.3% higher than a year ago last month, up slightly on September’s 2% increase but still within “typical levels”, according to analysts Kantar.more

Top-seeded Jannik Sinner defeated top-seeded American Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 in the second round of the group stage of the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin. It was the Italian's second two-set victory in the "Ilie Nastase" group.more

Less than half of people over the age of 40 in England are getting the heart health checks they are entitled to, according to the government’s spending watchdog. The National Audit Office called for a review of how NHS health checks are provided in England, after it found that only 44% of eligible adults attended one in the past five years.more

Hundreds of schools in England are still at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete, according to previously unpublished figures. Official data, which the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found had been wrongly withheld by the Conservative government, confirmed the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) at 235 Department for Education (DfE) sites.more

Miura will turn 58 in February, and the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported this week that he intends to play next season for his fourth-tier Japanese club, Suzuka. It will be his 40th season playing in professional soccer.more

Wine sales in Poland are falling slightly, but the industry sees opportunities in the fact that consumers are increasingly choosing more expensive wines. However, the planned ban on the sale of alcohol over the internet casts a shadow over the market prospects - writes in today's issue of "Business Pulse".more

The way smart energy meters work in northern England and Scotland is causing issues for customers, BBC Panorama has been told. The body that represents energy companies, Energy UK, has confirmed for the first time there is a regional divide - because of the way meters send usage data back to suppliers. more

Russia has brought the war back to Europe, and even troops from North Korea. The threat of an armed attack on an EU member state is higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War, said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, speaking yesterday at the Finnish-Swedish cooperation forum in Espoo.more

The BBC has confirmed that Match of the Day host Gary Lineker is to step down from the flagship football show at the end of this season, but will host BBC Sport’s coverage of the 2026 World Cup. He will also front the BBC's coverage of the FA Cup 2025/2026.more

A 1% fall in house prices in London could yield a £7.3bn boost to the economy over a decade, mayor Sadiq Khan has said.more

Billionaire Elon Musk has been meeting with Trump every day since November 5, the day President-elect Donald Trump was elected, influencing personnel decisions in the new administration, ABC News reports. The New York Times reports that he suggested hiring SpaceX employees in the Defense Department.more