Australia is being warned to take swift action to safeguard its population from the highly-infectious Covid-19 Delta variant.more

Almost all of Italy became a mask-free, "low-risk" zone for coronavirus Monday, marking a dramatic milestone for the first European country to be hit by the global pandemic in February 2020.more

From Saturday night clubs and discos were opened in the Netherlands. Despite the crowds, it went without any major problems.more

More and more Europeans who worked remotely due to the pandemic are returning to their offices. The hybrid work model is becoming popular - a few days at home, a few days in the office. In Germany, Belgium and France, the requirements for remote work are relaxed. In turn, research shows that we work longer at home, but less effectively.more

"Until the 1980s, millions of German children were sent to health spas for treatment. Many of them were abused there. Depriving them of sleep, humiliating, exposing, chaining to bed, beating were part of the educational repertoire" - the German daily "Suedeutsche Zeitung" reports.more

One should go on vacation after vaccination against Covid-19 is finished, Italian experts say, adding that tourism is "spreading the virus" and its Delta variant.more

Former President Donald Trump returned to campaign mode with a vengeance Saturday night, vowing at a rally in Ohio that Republicans would take back Congress, bemoaning his loss in last November’s election and retaliating against a GOP congressman who voted to impeach him.more

With nearly 160 people unaccounted for and at least four dead after a seaside condominium tower collapsed into a smoldering heap of twisted metal and concrete, rescuers used both heavy equipment and their own hands to comb through the wreckage in an increasingly desperate search for survivors.more

Paradoxically, the Delta variant of the coronavirus confirms the effectiveness of the vaccination program, mainly the unvaccinated die, the expert of the Supreme Medical Council in Poland said.more

Researchers working in Israel have identified a previously unknown type of ancient human that lived alongside our species more than 100,000 years ago.more

The US government has said it has no explanation for dozens of unidentified flying objects seen by military pilots. A Pentagon report released on Friday says of 144 reports made about the phenomena since 2004, all but one remain unexplained.more

The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail.more

Iceland will be the first country in Europe to lift all its Covid-19 restrictions as it is set to scrap face masks and social distancing, the country's health minister said today. The North Atlantic country will lift all its domestic restrictions on Saturday in accordance with recommendations made by Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason.more

The law legalizing euthanasia adopted in March has been in force in Spain since yesterday. Right-wing parties PP, Vox and Ciudadanos have filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court, pointing out that the law is contrary to the fundamental right to life, TVE reported.more

The World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that people most vulnerable to COVID-19, such as the elderly, will need to get an annual vaccine booster to be protected against variants, an internal document seen by Reuters shows.more

In over 50 media outlets around the world, texts about innovative Poland and ideas for recovering from the pandemic will be published this weekend. more

Three people were killed and six injured as a result of yesterday's knife attack in the center of Wuerzburg in central Germany, reports the daily "Bild". The perpetrator was arrested.more

Coronaviruses have sparked some massive disease outbreaks in living memory, but we've actually been battling them for millennia, according to a new study.more

Human space flight company Space Perspective is now taking reservations on its Spaceship Neptune for flights in early 2024, with tickets priced firmly in the once-in-a-lifetime bracket at $125,000 per person.more

As of Thursday eveniung (June 25) 41,218,602 doses of the various Covid-19 vaccinations had been delivered across Spain with 38,293,871 doses administered, 733,245 of them within the last 24 hour period, a new daily record.more

A new study estimates that life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by nearly two years between 2018 and 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And the declines were most pronounced among minority groups, including Black and Hispanic people.more

Poland's hard "no" to open up to Russia - this is how Warsaw's position on the emerging proposals for dialogue with the Kremlin is described by the Brussels website Politico, devoted to EU policy.more

The European Parliament on Thursday easily passed a divisive resolution that proclaimed the safe access to abortion is a human right - an effort to confront countries such as Poland and Malta, where women’s rights are being restricted.more

In 2020, 9,575 reports of discrimination were received in the Netherlands, which is more than twice as many as the year before. The report on this subject was prepared on the basis of data from anti-discrimination agencies, the police, the Dutch Institute of Human Rights, the Ombudsman and the Ombudsman for Children.more

Overall, the number of coronavirus infections in Sweden is falling, although the Delta (Indian) variant is becoming more and more dominant, said Anders Tegnell's chief epidemiologist.more