The clocks change tonight

Sunday, October 25 will see the clocks going back an hour at 2am across Britiain as the nation reverts back to GMTmore

The northern hemisphere is facing a crucial moment in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, with too many countries witnessing an exponential increase in coronavirus cases.more

A 99-year-old Spanish grandmother who has beaten Covid-19, is glad to be back watching her favourite TV show and playing computer games with her five-year-old great-grandson. more

In what most people would consider a lucrative mistake, a Detroit-area man who accidentally bought an extra lottery ticket has won two $1 million jackpots.more

Austria wants to encourage people to wear close-fitting masks instead of plastic face shields because authorities believe they do not offer enough protection.more

Proper use of masks and respect for social distancing reduces the severity of the coronavirus by 1,000 times in contact with it, Italian scientists from a hospital near Verona have found. This explains the lighter course of Covid-19 during the period of the restrictions. These conclusions were confirmed in a separate study by Japanese scientists.more

Ryanair has put in place a new refund system enabling customers to get refunds after booking with online travel agencies.more

Belgium is further tightening its measures to stop the rising coronavirus infections, hospital admissions and deaths in the country, announced Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during a press conference on Friday morning.more

The European Union is set to cut Canada, Georgia and Tunisia from a “white list” of countries from which travelers can visit the bloc without COVID-related restrictions such as quarantines or mandatory tests, while adding Singapore.more

French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced a vast extension of the nightly curfew that is intended to curb the spiraling spread of the coronavirus, saying "the second wave is here".more

Elderly people in Sweden no longer need to isolate themselves, the government said on Thursday, pointing to lower Covid infection rates than in spring and a growing toll on the mental health of its elderly as behind the new recommendation. more

President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden made their final arguments to voters at their second and final presidential debate, squaring off in Nashville, Tennessee, with less than two weeks until the election.more

Singapore Airlines said Tuesday that it will restart its nonstop service between New York and Singapore on 9 November, even as restrictions remain on travel to Singapore. However, there will be a new U.S. home for the route when it returnsmore

In a press release published today, the Institute coordinating the fight against infectious diseases in Germany Robert Koch (RKI) extended the coronavirus danger zone to the entire territory of Poland, the visit of which entails the possibility of being quarantined.more

Former US President Barack Obama has joined the end of Joe Biden's campaign, the Democrat candidate for the country's top office. At the "car rally" in Philadelphia, he mobilized to vote, judging that the upcoming elections were "the most important in our lives". more

Italy is in a phase of "full epidemic expansion", Massimo Andreoni, the scientific director of the national association of physicians of infectious and tropical diseases, said yesterday. This is how he commented on the daily increase in the number of infections by over 15,000 recorded that day.more

After promises from the French authorities that they would tackle terrorism and the subversive activities of Islamists, commentators in the country pointed out that the rule of law creates a situation in which "Islamists draw knives against us and we hand them a shield."more

Spain is the first Western European country in which the number of coronavirus infections has exceeded one million since the beginning of the epidemic, the health ministry said yesterday. In the last 24 hours, the number of detected infections increased there by 16,973, to 1,005,295.more

A Brazilian doctor who died with Covid-19 after volunteering for AstraZeneca and Oxford University's vaccine trial was not part of the experimental group that received the jab, according to reports. more

Pope Francis has given his most explicit support to same-sex civil unions in a move that is likely to further enrage his conservative opponents in the Catholic church.more

Younger people have shown lower faith in a democracy compared to any other age group - with millennials all over the world more disillusioned than their predecessors at the same stage in life.more

The European Union took a defiant tone on Wednesday as the standoff over resuming post-Brexit trade negotiations with the United Kingdom intensified, telling London that “you cannot have your cake and eat it too.”more

A giant aluminium globe-shaped bar, complete with five brass barstools, will be offered for sale by a Maryland auctioneer – as the bar from “Hitler’s yacht”.more

The EU's goal is still to reach an agreement on future relations with Great Britain, assured the deputy head of the European Commission Marosz Szefczovicz. As he pointed out - regardless of whether an agreement is reached, the Brexit agreement must be respected.more

The study draws on sociological accounts of network diffusion and shows that countries that are heavily exposed to international travel and tourism - such as France, Italy, and the USA - recorded significantly higher numbers of deaths.more

French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The move came as police sources said the killer had been in contact with a disgruntled parent in the days before the murder.more

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte told a press conference after talks with Spanish Premier Pedro Sanchez in Rome Tuesday that "our countries are going through a moment of particular difficulty, critical situations: we want to show that by respecting the rules and precautions laid down, life, also political life, can continue".more

A Polish scientist is part of a group of scientists who have successfully isolated the Italian coronavirus strain. Professor Maciej Tarkowski, a doctor and biologist, has been working with researchers under the leadership of Professor Massimo Gallu at Milan's Sacco Hospital since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.more

Donald Trump is again not the favorite of the polls. These underestimated his chances as early as 2016, and on the election night there was the greatest political sensation in recent years. However, this year, two weeks before the elections, the survey looks even worse for him than then.more

Referring to the recent CNN report on the LGBT community in Poland, the Polish Embassy in the US published a letter in which it assured that all people in the country, including those associated under the rainbow flag, have the full right to protection against hatred, violence and discrimination, and that Polish authorities welcomed the dialogue with representatives of this community.more

Italy’s northern Lombardy region prepared Tuesday to impose a nighttime curfew, the most restrictive anti-coronavirus measure the country has seen since emerging from a national lockdown in the spring.more

The COVID-19 travel restrictions in place at the Canada-U.S. land border will remain in effect until Nov. 21 at least. While the extension of the closure was anticipated, given the ongoing rate of virus transmission on both sides of the border, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair confirmed the plan on Monday.more

Donald Trump has once again attacked his top public health expert, using a call with campaign staff on Monday to deride Anthony Fauci as “a disaster” and to claim “people are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots” discuss ways to combat the coronavirus.more

Visitors only wearing masks and strict visitor limits - probably under these conditions, traditional Christmas markets will be able to start in the German capital in six weeks, informs the Berliner Morgenpost.more

Belgian health minister Frank Vandenbroucke warned that the pandemic situation in the country, especially in Wallonia and Brussels, is the most dangerous in Europe. "We are really close to a tsunami" - indicated the head of the health ministry.more

The French media today analyzes how the family of 18-year-old murderer history teacher Samuel Pata from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine school got to France. As reported, Poland rejected the request for asylum by the Chechen Anzorov family, most likely in 2005.more

Due to the epidemic in Germany, the local social media swarmed over the weekend with photos with the hashtag #toilettenpapier showing empty shop shelves - informs the daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".more

Italy has announced a new raft of measures to tighten restrictions amid a surge in coronavirus cases.more