Following the death of Japanese woman Tomiko Itooki last December, the current oldest living person is a football-loving Brazilian nun, 116-year-old Inah Canabarro, the AP reported on Sunday, citing data from the LongeviQuest organisation.more

An increasing number of schools in the state of Brandenburg in north-eastern Germany are offering Polish language lessons, the German daily ‘Tagesspiegel’ reported. The offer of these establishments does not always correspond to the concrete demand, criticises CDU politician Gordon Hoffmann.more

The number of people detained in connection with suspected jihadist activities in Spain has increased in the last two years. The greatest threat is now posed by organisations from Central Asia, wrote the Catalan daily ‘La Vanguardia’ on Saturday.more

The films ‘Emilia Perez’, directed by Jacques Audiard, and ‘The Brutalist’, directed by Brady Corbet, won the main awards at Sunday's 82nd Golden Globes gala in Los Angeles, USA. Jesse Eisenberg's ‘Real Pain’, made with Polish filmmakers among others, received a statuette for supporting actor Kieran Culkin.more

A Polish couple was rescued on Saturday in Madeira, Portugal, after they became stranded by the tide at one of the cliffs near Ponta do Pargo, in the western Atlantic island. The rescue operation lasted several hours.more

"Security, Europe!" - this is the slogan of the Polish presidency of the European Union, which was officially inaugurated on January 3 in the building of the Grand Theatre - National Opera, where the opening ceremony of the Polish presidency of the EU Council took place. After 6 months of the problematic Hungarian presidency, the taking over of the baton by Poland is commented with great hope.more

Even before the end of the year, travel enthusiasts got to know a number of interesting destinations, which various travel portals considered worthy of a visit in 2025. Now CNN has also presented its proposals, singling out Gdańsk among others. This city was presented as one of the most beautiful and colourful in Poland.more

Russia is amassing and distributing resources to enable it to wage war in Ukraine until 2027, the head of the Centre for Combating Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Andriy Kovalenko, said, as quoted by the UNIAN agency today.more

Hanoi was yesterday morning the city with the worst air quality in the world, Reuters reported. The Vietnamese capital has been struggling with thick smog for several weeks.more

Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the influence of social media on children.more

Milan's city council has allowed dogs, cats, hamsters, rabbits and other pets to be buried with their owners if they have expressed their wish, the daily "Il Sole-24 Ore" reported yesterday. However, it has banned the inclusion of the animals' names, references or images on tombstones.more

A record number of illegal immigrants have arrived in the Canary Islands in 2024, the Spanish Interior Ministry said yesterday, with more boats arriving on the archipelago in the first days of the new year.more

If someone suffers damage as a result of a space debris impact, the state should file for compensation on their behalf, advises Dr. Bartosz Malinowski, an expert in space law from the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He added that there is a possibility that space debris, such as fragments of rockets, may fall to Earth in the future.more

The year 2024 was a record warm year, but everything indicates that this record will be broken quickly - assessed climatologist Prof. Bogdan Chojnicki from the University of Life Sciences in Poznań. In his opinion, within a few years, the increase in average temperatures will cause a serious drought in Poland.more

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called the proposal for the creation of joint military patrols in the Baltic Sea by the countries of the region "absolutely necessary". He expressed hope that Prime Minister Donald Tusk's idea will be implemented this year.more

Belgium is the first country in the European Union to ban the sale of disposable e-cigarettes as of January 1. Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke stressed that electronic cigarettes are "extremely harmful" to society and the environment.more

On 1 January 2025, land border controls with Bulgaria and Romania were abolished. Both countries had been seeking to join the full Schengen Area since joining the EU in 2007.more

Many thousands of invertebrate species have become extinct on the continent since the arrival of Europeans in Australia in the late 18th century, scientists write in Cambridge Prisms: Extinction.more

In 2024, Europe experienced flash floods and forest fires. There were massive protests by farmers. There was a rise in the influence of anti-system parties in many countries, as well as in the EP. The government in the UK changed, there was a political crisis in France, and in Germany the government coalition collapsed.more

Those who have not yet decided which foreign destination to choose as their travel destination in 2025 can be inspired by the list published by the magazine 'Condé Nast Traveller', with a list of 25 ideal destinations for the coming months. Among the recommended places are, among others, the Tunisian island of Djerba and the German wine region - the Ahr Valley.more

On New Year's Day, the global population will number 8.09 billion. In the past year, it has grown by another 71 million (0.9%), the U.S. federal Census Bureau estimated in its latest report.more

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a jury's ruling that found Donald Trump guilty of sexually harassing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll. Last year, the court ordered the US president-elect to pay $5 million in damages.more

Presidential elections were held in 2024 in the USA, India and Venezuela, among others. Martial law was attempted in South Korea. In the Middle East, the conflict between Israel and Iran escalated. Israel began intensive hostilities in southern Lebanon. In Syria, the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell.more

In Sweden, 2024 was the calmest year in terms of the number of shootings and victims of gang hijinks since 2017, when such statistics began to be published, according to preliminary data from the Swedish police covering the past 12 months.more

Former US President Jimmy Carter died yesterday at the age of 100, reported Reuters and the ‘Washington Post’ newspaper website, citing the son of the deceased. Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He held the office from 1977 to 1981 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.more