We are living longer, but the rate of increase in average life expectancy is declining. The reason for this is not the pandemic, according to research published in Nature Aging.more

Croatia’s border police force appear to be burning clothing, mobile phones and passports seized from asylum seekers attempting to cross into the European Union before pushing them back to Bosnia. A report with photographs of burnt belongings, along with testimonies of sexual assault and beatings meted out by the police is shared with the Guardian by the humanitarian organisation No Name Kitchen.more

Yesterday, Irish carrier Ryanair announced a significant reduction in its flight offering from Hamburg and the withdrawal from Dresden, Leipzig and Dortmund airports after the winter season. The company's director, Eddie Wilson, explained the decision by the high costs of operating at German airports.more

Swedish Minister of Education Johan Pehrson has proposed the introduction of an excise tax on advertising revenue generated by social media on a similar basis to the sale of tobacco or alcohol. These are just as harmful products, he stressed.more

Using machine learning, biologists have described nearly 162,000 RNA viruses living in the atmosphere, hot springs, and hydrothermal vents. Scientists hope that the new method will allow the discovery of millions more viruses and make it easier to describe life on Earth in general.more

This year's Nobel laureate for literature Han Kang ‘has a unique ability to draw attention to the relationship between body and soul, life and death’. - announced the chairman of the Swedish Academy's Nobel committee, Anders Olsson. Several of her books have been published in Poland, including ‘The Vegetarian’, ‘White Elegy’ and ‘The Coming Boy’.more

The death penalty was carried out in only 16 countries in the world last year, but the number of executions was the highest in almost a decade, mainly due to Iran and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International (AI) expert Chiara Sangiorgio reported. Abolitionists' hopes, however, are raised by the situation in Africa, she added.more

France, Germany and the Netherlands have raised concerns over entry-exit system, originally due to launch in 2023, writes 'The Guardian'.more

Donald Trump has secretly spoken to Vladimir Putin several times already after leaving the White House, CNN TV reported. It was also revealed, among other things, that in September 2022, the authorities in Washington estimated the probability of Russia using nuclear weapons at 50 per cent.more

Hurricane Milton, which reached the west coast of Florida, has weakened and dropped from category three to category one hurricanes. As the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) reported today, its maximum speed is now 150 km/h.more

The risk of heart attack, stroke and death is doubled for three years after Covid-19, a study just published showed. Such a prolonged relationship has not been observed in other infections such as influenza.more

It is not so much the researchers of chemical processes as the developers of new computational tools to study them who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper gave science computational methods to design and predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins.more

Although the US services have deconfirmed a Kremlin-linked network of accounts designed to interfere in the US election, the Russians need not worry. No one does as much to promote disinformation as the owner of Platform X, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

The European Commission yesterday adopted proposed legislation for the digitisation of travel documents, namely identity cards and passports, for people travelling to and from the Schengen area.more

More than 5 million households in Sweden will receive a guide on how to prepare for war in November, Minister of Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin announced yesterday. The booklet - a version of the 2018 publication updated with Ukraine's experience.more

Europe's Copernicus Observatory reported yesterday that September 2024 was the second hottest September ever measured, after last year. Scientists estimate that the entire year 2024 will break the world record for heat.more

The scientists whose discoveries made machine learning and the development of artificial intelligence possible - American John J. Hopfield and Canadian Geoffrey E. Hinton - have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.more

I hope that the Polish people will go to the polls and vote for me. ’No one has done more for the Polish people than I have,’ former US President Donald Trump declared in an interview with TV Republika yesterday.more

A limited number of people will be allowed in front of Rome's Trevi Fountain, the Eternal City authorities have announced. The introduction of an entrance ticket and a small fee is not ruled out in the future.more

US biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been named this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the Nobel Committee announced today. They were recognised for discovering a mechanism that helps to understand the development of autoimmune diseases, cancer or diabetes.more

An anniversary commemoration ceremony began today in Israel for the victims of the attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on the Jewish state. At 6:29 a.m. (5.29 a.m. in Poland), Israeli President Yitzhak Hercog asked the relatives of the 370 people killed a year ago by terrorists at a music festival at the kibbutz Reim to observe a minute's silence in memory of those murdered.more

Fungi move, communicate and have sex,’ conveyed mycologist Dr Marta Wrzosek. They are similar to animals and share a common ancestor with them.more

During the negotiations over the terms of Brexit, Russian intelligence recruited with the help of so-called compromises an Irish parliamentarian to seek to undermine relations between the UK, Ireland and the European Union, ‘The Sunday Times’ revealed today.more

Parts of Antarctica are turning green more quickly than previously thought, leaving scientists "shocked" at the impact of climate change in the region. The area covered by vegetation in the Antarctic Peninsula is 10 times larger than four decades ago, a UK research team has said.more

An Afghan man who raped and robbed a young Polish man at the Max-Weber-Platz underground station in the Bavarian capital in August 2023 was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison by the Munich state court.more