Odeon has confirmed it is shutting its Covent Garden cinema this weekend and its Surrey Quays branch a week later, prompting disappointment from film fans. The Covent Garden cinema is closing down on Sunday (August 11), while the Surrey Quays branch will follow suit the following Sunday, on August 18.more

The rising cost of living has been a dominant theme in many Polish homes in recent years. Those who complain about the ever-present cost of living can console themselves that they do not live in Geneva, Zurich or New York. This is where the cost of living is the highest, as a recent study shows.more

Polish volleyball players and fencer Julia Szeremeta will compete for the gold medals of the Olympic Games in Paris today. So will javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk, who advanced with the best qualification result. Female canoeists, wrestlers and pentathletes will look for their chances.more

In the UK, the first people who fuelled the riots sweeping the country in recent days with their social media posts were sentenced to prison terms yesterday.more

The chief of the World Health Organisation is considering convening an expert committee for advice on whether Africa’s growing mpox outbreak in Africa should be declared an international emergency.more

Natalia Kaczmarek won the bronze medal of the Olympic Games in Paris in the 400m run with a time of 48.98. Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic won, improving the Olympic record with 48.17, with silver for Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain with 48.53.more

The largest English vineyards increased their revenues by 15% last year, as wine investors respond to the climate crisis by planting more vines. While the UK still languishes well down the list of the largest wine-producing nations, below countries such as Uzbekistan and Tunisia, the industry’s output has soared in recent years, rising by 77% last year to 161,960 hectolitres, equivalent to 21.6m more

Twenty-one per cent of respondents take their dog or cat on holiday and 60 per cent leave their pet in the care of relatives or friends, according to a survey conducted for BIG InfoMonitor. Seven per cent of respondents choose to have their pet looked after by a professional pet sitter.more

Zoopla puts average viewing time at 49 minutes, as eye tracking study shows focus on mirrors and plants, not floors and walls...more

A new group of Covid-19 variants, known collectively as FLiRT, have driven up infection rates in the UK over the summer. The latest weekly figures show that cases - which have been rising - remained stable.more

Barcelona have completed the signing of RB Leipzig's versatile forward Dani Olmo, the Catalan club confirmed on Friday. Sources have told ESPN that the deal is worth an initial €55 million ($60m), with an additional €7m due in potential add-ons.more

Reports of antisemitic incidents in the UK in the first half of this year have reached another record high, according to figures from a Jewish security charity. From January to June 2024, the Community Security Trust (CST) recorded reports of 1,978 anti-Jewish hate incidents, up from 964 in the first half of 2023.more

The Pole was sentenced by a court in Copenhagen to four months in prison and expulsion from Denmark for attacking the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen. The incident occurred in early June in the center of the Danish capital.more

Banksy’s latest animal-themed artwork has been stolen from London just hours after it went on display. The latest piece is a stencil of a wolf howling towards the sky, painted on what appears to be a satellite dish on top of a building on Rye Lane in Peckham, south-east London.more

ABC News has said it will host the first debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on 10 September. The network confirmed the showdown in a post on X, formerly Twitter, after Trump said on Thursday that he would be open to debating his Democratic rival multiple times before the November election.more

British Airways will drop its flights to Beijing from October, as it feels the impact of being banned from Russian airspace. Western airlines have been banned from flying over Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.more

The Polish kayaking team took fourth place at the Olympic Games in Paris, losing the fight for bronze by 0.24 seconds to the Hungarians. The wrestler Arkadiusz Kułynycz was also close to winning the medal, losing to the Ukrainian Żan Bełeniuk in the match that decided for third place.more

Propaganda is deterring people from accessing healthcare as Aids-related deaths rise 34% since 2010, writes 'The Guardian'.more

Despite being in the height of summer, tickets for London’s highly anticipated Winter Wonderland are now on sale. On Thursday, August 1, tickets went on sale for the iconic festive event which will return for six weeks from November 21, 2024, through to January 5, 2025.more

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida today canceled a planned four-day trip to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia after the weather agency warned that the risk of a potential "megaquake" had increased in the vast swath of the Pacific Ocean stretching from southwestern to central Japan.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last night called on police to "keep high vigilance" even as the wave of riots that have swept across the country in recent days appears to be subsiding.more

Portuguese player Pepe has decided to end his football career. He announced his decision in a video published on social media. In July, at the age of 41 years and 130 days, he became the oldest ever participant in the European Championships.more

Since the change of government, hospitals have changed their approach to abortion on medical grounds and are performing it more willingly than under the United Right government, according to a survey conducted by the 'Dziennik Gazeta Prawna'. Its results were discussed in Wednesday's edition of the newspaper.more

Cold, wet weather and climate change have led to a lack of wasps across the UK, according to experts. Each summer, wasps across the country capture about 14 million kilograms of insects such as caterpillars and greenfly, making them helpful to gardeners.more

When asked for an explanation, the man is said to have apologised, saying he wanted to leave a mark of the family’s visit to the world-famous Unesco World Heritage site.more