Two Polish nationals - a woman and a man - on board a ship that sank in Egypt on Monday morning are considered missing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski reported today. There were 44 people on board the yacht; so far 28 of them have been rescued.more

Repairs to a damaged undersea telecommunications cables running from Helsinki to Rostock, Germany, began yesterday. The repair work, which is being carried out in the Swedish economic zone, is expected to last until the end of November, Finnish fibre-optic network provider Cinia reported.more

Asteroid 2006 WB is going to safely pass by Earth on Nov. 26, and astronomers at Lowell Observatory say it’s just one of many near-Earth objects (NEO). more

It is no longer New York's Fifth Avenue, but Milan's Via Monte Napoleone that holds the title of the world's most expensive shopping street. As CNN reports, for the first time in history, a European city has topped the ranking developed by real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield.more

A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came in to land at Lithuania's Vilnius airport early on Monday morning, killing one person on the aircraft and with some debris damaging a house.more

As President Volodymyr Zelensky said today, Russia has used about 150 drones, missiles and aerial bombs in attacks on more than 10 regions of Ukraine since Sunday evening. Meanwhile, Ukrainian intelligence suggests that Russia may be preparing an attack on Zaporozhye, located in the southeastern part of the country, reports the Economist.more

The European Commission announced that it has closed an antitrust investigation into Apple that has been ongoing for more than four years over the anti-competitive rules the company applies to developers of e-book and audiobook applications.more

Austria has agreed to allow Bulgaria and Romania to join the Schengen area fully in an agreement reached with the countries in Budapest on Friday. Sofia and Bucharest are hoping for a quick lifting of land border controls with neighbouring EU countries. A final decision could be made on 12 December.more

Europe could soon be welcoming a wave of well-heeled Americans, as Democratic voters facing the prospect of another Donald Trump presidency eye refuges abroad. Interest in so-called “golden visas” has skyrocketed among US citizens since the election, according to consultants that help the wealthy migrate. more

The Spanish government has imposed a fine of €179 million on five low-cost airlines, including Ryanair, for unfair practices, the Spanish Consumer Affairs Ministry announced.more

The Spanish government has introduced new regulations that will shorten and simplify procedures to regularize the status of some 900,000 illegal immigrants in the country over the next three years.more

Life expectancy in the U.S. varies by more than 20 years by race, ethnicity and location, according to a study in The Lancet. Some blacks, American Indians and Alaska Natives die the fastest. Asians live the longest.more

The number of first-time asylum seekers in the EU stood at 69,270 in August, down a quarter from August 2023. In contrast, the number of repeat asylum applications increased, according to Eurostat data released Wednesday.more

An emperor penguin found on a West Australian beach, thousands of kilometres from its Antarctic homeland, has been released. The animal, named Gus, was malnourished and spent 20 days recovering with a local wildlife carer after being found on November 1.more

Vladimir Putin did not rule out attacking military facilities of countries that allowed Ukraine to hit targets on Russian territory with their missiles. He added that Russian forces attacked Ukraine yesterday with a new medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile.more

Ford has said it will cut 4,000 jobs in Europe, becoming the latest carmaker to try to reduce costs amid slowing growth in electric car sales and competition from China. The American carmaker said on Wednesday it would axe 800 jobs in the UK and 2,900 in Germany. more

Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrei Kielin has stated that the authorities in London are “directly involved” in the war in Ukraine, as British Storm Shadow missiles have been used to attack facilities on Russian territory, Sky News reported yesterday.more

An unprecedented number of tourists have arrived in Portugal in 2024, the authorities of the Confederation of Tourism of Portugal (CTP) estimate less than six weeks before the end of this year.more

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated today that the US anti-missile base in Poland has long been among the possible priority targets for Russia. MFA spokesman Pavel Vronsky stressed that the Redzikowo installation is purely defensive in nature.more

After 10 years of serving his sentence, Anders Breivik has applied for early release. In an opinion presented at Wednesday's court hearing, experts concluded that he still posed a threat to society.more

Another volcanic eruption occurred on the night of Wednesday-Thursday on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, local officials reported. A red glow is visible from the country's capital Reykjavik.more

Citizens of the European Union are most concerned about problems related to border protection and the threat of terrorism, according to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation conducted in the 27 EU member states. In Poland, 29% of respondents consider a military attack to be the greatest threat.more

Four southern giant hornets (Vespa soror) have been identified for the first time in northern Spain. If the invasive species becomes widespread, it could threaten local insects, reports the journal Ecology and Evolution.more

The Pentagon intends to soon announce another package of military aid for Ukraine worth at least $275 million, AP reported yesterday, citing an anonymous Pentagon official, who also confirmed the use of ATACMS missiles by Ukraine, saying that Russia shot down two of the eight missiles used.more

On Monday, the United Nations held a meeting devoted to the thousand-day Russian invasion of Ukraine. The representative of the aggressor, Vasily Nebenzia, used it to accuse British services of arranging the massacre of civilians in Bucha so that responsibility for this war crime, which took place in the spring of 2022, would rest with Russia.more