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

Artificial intelligence has sent an innocent man to prison. A bricklayer living in Rome was arrested on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by the Swiss canton of Ticino on suspicion of two thefts. The AI system wrongly identified him as the perpetrator, he was meanwhile at work.more

There are difficulties at German airports, including Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Duesseldorf, today. A glitch in the air traffic control system has led to the cancellation and delay of dozens of flights, writes the tagesschau portal.more

The Israeli army today announced the destruction of a 3.5km tunnel under Lebanon's border with Syria through which Hezbollah was smuggling Iranian weapons. It added that around 100 Hezbollah fighters were killed yesterday in fighting in the south of the country. Israel is continuing air strikes. One was carried out near a hospital.more

In 2023, young people in the EU moved out of the home at an average age of 26.3 years. Croats were the latest to leave the family home (31.8 years) and Finns the earliest (21.4 years). Poles moved out at an average age of 27.1 years, according to the latest Eurostat report.more

The Polish economy has experienced strong growth over the past decades and has become the fifth largest in the European Union, according to an article on the website of the Spanish business daily ‘El Economista’.more

The Norwegian authorities are changing their approach to traditional forms of payment. Although the country was planning to move away from traditional money, the new law maintains the general possibility to pay in cash. The government justifies this on the grounds that the elderly are accustomed to paying in cash, as well as for security reasons.more

According to a decree by Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, Christmas celebrations began there on 1 October. A Christmas tree has been erected in the main square in Caracas, but the people of the crisis-ridden country are in no mood to celebrate, the media reported.more

Germany's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs yesterday approved a draft tightening the rules on citizenship allowance. They stipulate that an unemployed person who refuses to work will receive an allowance reduced by 30 per cent for three months.more

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced yesterday a strengthening of cooperation with the UK. The starting point is the support that the UK, together with the EU, is providing to the embattled Ukraine against Russia.more

From next spring, thousands of 18-year-olds will have the opportunity to visit Europe for free for a month - the EU is giving them 35,500 tickets. To qualify, those born between 1 January and 31 December 2006 must answer questions about the EU.more

Republican US vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance showed himself to be prudent, while Democrat Tim Walz performed better than expected in the assessments of Republican activist Keith Nahigian and Democratic activist Lukas Lipinski.more

In retaliation for yesterday's rocket fire, Israel may strike Iranian military bases and command centres, or it may activate its agents inside Iran and attack those responsible for the attack or strike nuclear installations, the BBC assessed.more

The Swiss and Italian authorities will improve the border between the two countries in the Alps, the BBC News website reported. This is necessary due to the melting of glaciers there, caused by a warming climate.more

In a ceremony at the North Atlantic Alliance Headquarters, Mark Rutte took over as NATO Secretary General from Jens Stoltenberg before noon today.more