Astronomers indicate that on Tuesday, September 17, at a small distance for cosmic distances, an object that could be as much as half a kilometer in diameter will pass us. It is called (2024 ON).more

Germany has agreed to open its labor market to 250,000 Kenyans, both skilled and semi-skilled, in an agreement signed Friday by Kenyan President William Ruto and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.more

The police have detained the son of the wife of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Princess Mette-Marit, Marius Berg Hoeiby, who violated a court order prohibiting him from approaching the women he had wronged.more

The West is afraid to talk about shooting down Russian missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a conference in Kiev on Friday. During his speech, he declared, among other things, that he would meet with US President Joe Biden in September and present him with his plan to end the war.more

Illegal migration to Europe via the central Mediterranean route has fallen by 35 per cent this year compared to 2023. - AP reported on Friday citing UN data. At the same time, more people are trying to reach the Canary Islands and the route across the eastern Mediterranean to Greece.more

They tested how to separate drunken worms from sober worms, spooked cows to check milk leaks from their udders, and unmasked fake centenarians - the authors of the bizarre and hilarious research received statuettes and $100 trillion at the 34th Ig Nobel ceremony.more

Around 600 members of gangs operating in Sweden are hiding in 57 countries, including Poland, from where they carry out their criminal activities, according to a report by the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish police.more

Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that if the West allows Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles, it will mean that ‘NATO countries are at war with Russia’.more

Tourists currently have to pay from twenty-five to several hundred euros per day to rent two sunbeds and an umbrella in Italian beach clubs. As the European Commission argues, the reason for this state of affairs is primarily the issue of unregulated beach concessions. This is set to change soon.more

During Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, fragments of missiles and drones were found in neighboring countries at least 34 times, the independent Russian portal Verstka wrote yesterday, citing its own calculations.more

Russian pranksters claim to have spoken with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski. They pretended to be former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and asked about help for Kiev. The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paweł Wroński, stated that he had not heard about the case. The conversation was reported by the media in Russia today.more

A court in the northern Portuguese city of Braga yesterday ordered Ryanair to refund a passenger the €56.50 hand luggage fee it charged, plus interest and legal costs.more

The German government's decision to introduce controls at all state borders and the opposition CDU's plans to turn back even those refugees who ask for asylum from the border threatens a serious conflict with Poland, warns ‘Die Welt’.more

The European Commission believes that the Baltic Sea will become the second largest location for wind farm energy production in the EU. ‘The region has a large potential, estimated at more than 90 GW of capacity,’ announced Lukasz Kolinski, acting director for green transition at the EC, at a conference in Brussels.more

The Swedish prosecutor's office announced today that the gun used to murder a 39-year-old Polish man in Stockholm in April has been found. The indictment of the 18-year-old murder suspect is expected to be ready in November and the trial could start later this year.more

Tuesday's daily "Le Figaro" describes Poland as a well-functioning democracy and a developing economy. It also emphasizes that Poland has become an EU bridgehead in the fight against the expansionism of Putin's Russia, and the Weimar Triangle - a main axis in the EU.more

Kamala Harris came off as a presidential candidate in Tuesday's televised debate, provoking and getting under her opponent's skin at the same time, while Donald Trump looked furious and shocked - ABC commentators assessed the station. Her political camp is also pleased with the performance of the Democratic candidate in the November presidential elections in the US.more

Greek authorities will freeze the licensing of new Airbnb properties in three central Athens districts for a year, and will impose a €20 fee on cruise passengers arriving on the popular tourist islands of Santorini and Mykonos.more

Insider Monkey has created a ranking of countries that are the most desirable places to live, taking into account criteria such as quality of life, level of safety and satisfaction of residents. The list may surprise you, because the United States is in the last 30th place, and Poland is not there at all.more

Poland, next to France, is our most important neighbour, but Germans' knowledge of this country is still marked by prejudice and resentment, the German daily "Die Welt" said yesterday.more

US health officials have confirmed a human case of bird flu in a patient that had no immediately known animal exposure. The patient, in the state of Missouri, was treated in hospital and has since recovered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.more

Descendants of engineer Gustave Eiffel are opposed to keeping the Olympic rings on the tower he designed until at least 2028, which was the idea of ​​the mayor of Paris. They have proposed that the city "symbolically hand them over" to Los Angeles by the end of 2024.more

Students in Greek schools are not allowed to use mobile phones during lessons or breaks, Greek Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has announced. Recording someone in a private situation could result in expulsion from school.more

Donald Trump is enjoying a slight lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in a new nationwide poll from Siena College commissioned by The New York Times. Harris has a similarly small lead over Trump in polls of key rust belt states.more

On September 8, the student competition of the 36th International Olympiad in Informatics ended in Alexandria. The representative of Poland, Adam Gąsienica-Samek from the XIV Stanisław Staszic High School in Warsaw, won second place in the world and a gold medal. In the unofficial medal classification of countries, Poland took 3rd place ex-aequo with Japan.more