The Singaporean passport has topped the list of the world's strongest travel documents, according to the Henley Passport Index. Its holders can travel visa-free to 195 of 227 countries. The Polish passport came in seventh and allows visa-free travel to 188 countries.more

A 37-year-old Pole will be charged with murder after a policeman died while chasing car thieves in Brandenburg, eastern Germany, German prosecutors said yesterday. The man was driving a car that hit the policeman, killing him.more

Poland has the second largest number of farms in the EU after Romania and leads the way in terms of the amount of agricultural land owned directly by the farmer, according to an agricultural census published by Eurostat on Tuesday.more

In a decree issued, the mayor of the town of Belcastro in Calabria in southern Italy has banned residents from engaging in behaviour that could be hazardous to their health. He explained the ban by the lack of medical care in the town. He recommended everyone to rest as much as possible, not to travel and not to participate in sports.more

Elon Musk acts as de facto ‘co-president of the USA’ and seeks to change the powers in allied European countries, without criticising China or Russia for doing so; Europe is in trouble, a columnist for the British daily ‘Financial Times’ assesses today.more

There is not the slightest chance of Canada becoming part of the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on social media yesterday, commenting on US President-elect Donald Trump's statements about annexing Canada.more

The Meta conglomerate, which owns Facebook among others, will get rid of fact-checkers and users will have a greater role in moderating services, just as they do on X, company owner Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday in a recording on Meta's website.more

Alicante joins the ranks of Spanish cities that have decided to tackle the pressing issue of temporary holiday rentals. Councillors in this city have decided to ban the issuing of new licences for short-term rentals, which will be in force for the next two years.more

According to synoptics, more than half a metre of snow will fall in Norway in the coming hours. Bus services are being cancelled, schools are switching to distance learning and huge traffic jams are forming on the roads. According to forecasts, weather conditions in the south of the country could become even more difficult.more

President Joe Biden has signed a bill extending Social Security benefits to several million retirees in the US. Its beneficiaries may include Poles, who have so far had their benefits reduced if they have been receiving pensions from Poland.more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced yesterday that he will step down as party leader and thus cease to be Prime Minister. However, he will remain in office until his successor is elected. The work of parliament has been suspended for almost three months.more

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