The German government presented the first report on the homeless, according to which, at the time of recording at the turn of January and February this year, about 263,000 people in West Germany did not have their own shelter.more

On Thursday, December 8, the South Korean authorities changed the rules governing the calculation of the age of residents. Instead of the local method used so far, a system used worldwide has been adopted. Thanks to this, all citizens of this country will officially become younger by a year, and some even by two years.more

Rishi Sunak has announced a collaboration between the UK, Italy and Japan to develop a new fighter jet that uses artificial intelligence. The prime minister says the joint venture aims to create thousands of UK jobs and strengthen security ties.more

France's health minister, Francois Braun, announced today that the country has experienced a surge in coronavirus infections, linked to the emergence of a new variant, BQ1.1. The lack of many antibiotics in pharmacies was explained by the minister as problems in distribution and the intensification of diseases in the autumn.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 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

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 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

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

Employees of TAP airlines, the largest passenger carrier in Portugal, joined a pay strike this morning. The protest will last for 48 hours.more

The court in Lyon ordered the German company Bayer to pay French farmer Paul Francois compensation in the amount of EUR 11,135 for pesticide poisoning, reported the daily Le Monde. Francois demanded compensation in the amount of one million euros.more

The German prince Heinrich XIII Reuss was one of 25 people detained during a raid on activists of the extremist milieu of the so-called Reich citizens. After the planned coup d'état, he was to become the new head of state, reports the Hessenschau portal.more

The European Commission has adopted a draft regulation to harmonise rules on the origin of a child in the EU. According to it, the origin of a child established in one Member State will be recognised in the others without a special procedure.more

In France, energy consumption has been falling for about a month. In the past week, it decreased by 8.3 per cent. - reported the manager of the French electricity transmission network RTE. At the same time, the energy sector warned of possible power cuts in winter, which could affect around 60 per cent of the population.more

Dutch monarch William Alexander has decided to investigate his family's role in the country's colonial past and has therefore commissioned an independent study on the matter, the King's press service reported. It is expected to take three years and will be carried out by Leiden University.more

In the Netherlands, GPs will be able to prescribe abortion pills to women wishing to terminate their pregnancies, the upper house of parliament decided yesterday. Until now, the pills could only be ordered from abortion clinics.more

After 53 years and more than 1,570 aircraft built, the last Boeing 747, known as a jumbo jet, rolled off the assembly line of a factory in the US state of Washington yesterday. The machine will be used for freight transport.more

Police evacuated the Mercatorplein in Amsterdam and the Kruisplein in Rotterdam due to the riots that broke out in these squares after Morocco's promotion, following its victory over Spain, to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, media reported last night. Officers also had to intervene in The Hague, where three people were detained.more

In Germany, as a result of an extensive raid this morning, investigators arrested 25 people from the extremist group the so-called Reichsbuerger (Reich Citizens), reports dpa. Nearly 3,000 officers across eleven states took part in the operation, a spokeswoman for the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe confirmed.more

Already around 2035, China is expected to overtake the United States, and India has a chance to catch up with the American economy by 2075. Countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan and Egypt may become the largest economies in the world, economists from Goldman Sachs have estimated.more

In 2022 and 2023, the purchasing power of the inhabitants of the Netherlands will be lower by 4%. - informs the Central Planning Bureau (CPB). Wage growth is not keeping pace with high inflation, the CPB estimates.more

New Zealand authorities have launched a court battle over the custody of an infant whose parents are refusing to undergo life-saving surgery over fears that a blood donor may have been vaccinated against Covid-19, AFP reported.more

Anti-Semitic incidents rose 125 percent in five New York City boroughs in November compared with the previous year, the Jerusalem Post reported, citing NYPD data.more

Citizens without citizenship with the right of permanent residence will also be able to enlist in the Canadian army, said Minister of Defense Anita Anand. The reason is staff shortages, the army lacks about eight thousand soldiers.more

More than 100 employees of three companies in Brabant in the south of the Netherlands have received an unusual Christmas present: for the whole of December they will be able to do their grocery shopping at their employer's expense, reports the daily newspaper De Telegraaf.more