Passport points at home and abroad will be closed starting Wednesday, November 9. They will return to work next Monday. This is in connection with the launch of the new Passport Document Registry.more

Lazio defeated Roma 1:0 in the capital's derby, and Juventus won against Inter 2:0 in Sunday's blockbusters of the 13th round of Italy's top football league. The leader is Napoli, which has a six-point lead over AC Milan.more

YouGov launched a survey to ask British people what they thought about the ‘screaming child surcharge’.more

Customers will wait longer for some Apple phone models, as the largest assembling Foxconn factory in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou is operating with significantly reduced capacity, the US company announced. Foxconn has imposed further restrictions due to Covid-19.more

Arsenal defeated Chelsea in the London derby at its stadium 1:0, and Liverpool won away from Tottenham 2:1 in Sunday's blockbuster 15th round of the Football Premier League. "The Cannoneers" returned to the leadership position. Aston Villa, with Matty Cash in the lineup, beat Manchester United 3:1.more

A new yellow weather alert has been issued for large parts of south-east England, after days of heavy rain.more

For the first time in Venice's history, it happened yesterday that while St. Mark's Square was flooded, water did not enter the nearly 1,000-year-old basilica. The water was stopped by glass protective barriers, installed in recent weeks. Yesterday they passed a successful test of the so-called high water (acqua alta).more

Union Berlin, until recently the leader of the Bundesliga soccer league, lost as much as 0:5 away to Bayer Leverkusen in the 13th round. The table is led by German champion Bayern Munich, which beat Hertha 3:2 in Berlin the day before.more

Ukrainian artist Andriy Danylko, known as Verka Serdiuchka, has sold Freddie Mercury's unique 1974 Rolls-Royce car for £250,000. The money will be used for a modern rehabilitation center in Ukraine, the Suspilne portal reports.more

Today in another drawing for the US Powerball lottery, the top prize is $1.9 billion. On Saturday again, no one had, counting including the extra, six winning numbers. A ticket costs $2.more

The British liner launched in 1934, after making 1,001 voyages across the North Atlantic, retired in 1967 and has been docked at the Long Beach waterfront ever since. It is one of the biggest tourist attractions in this California city. Or at least it was one until 2020, when it was shut down due to a pandemic, though not just because of that.more

Footballers of leader Paris Saint-Germain defeated the well performing Lorient 2:1 in the 14th round of the French Premier League in an away game this season. The guests had to cope without injured Argentine Lionel Messi.more

Well-sleeping women are more motivated to perform professionally and gain success. Men are not affected, the US study suggests.more

Forty-six percent of employees say they intend to switch employers if they increase the number of days they work in the office, and more than 30 percent would accept lower wages if it allowed them to decide the number of days they work remotely, according to a survey by Deloitte.more

Iga Swiatek defeated American Cori Gauff 6:3, 6:0 in her third match at the WTA Finals tennis tournament in Fort Worth. The Pole was already assured of advancing to the semifinals, where she will face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.more

An extra bank holiday will take place across the UK to mark the coronation of King Charles III next year. It will fall on Monday, 8 May 2023, two days after the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, the government said. more

Three sections of the Elizabeth line have been connected, allowing passengers to travel across London without having to change stations. Previously anyone going from Heathrow, Reading, Abbey Wood and Shenfield had to change at Paddington or Liverpool Street to remain on the new Tube line.more

Milan's players defeated Spezia 2:1 in the 13th round of the Italian Premier League and advanced to the position of vice-leader. In the visiting team, Bartłomiej Drągowski and Jakub Kiwior played the entire match, while Arkadiusz Reca featured from the 54th minute.more

For the first time ever, British nurses will hold a nationwide wage strike, it was reported today. The nurses' organization is demanding wage increases of 5 percentage points above inflation.more

President Joe Biden's administration is unofficially encouraging the Ukrainian government to signal openness to negotiations with Russia and abandon its publicly demonstrated demand that engagement in peace talks be possible once President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, Reuters reported today, citing information from The Washington Post.more

Napoli's players defeated away runner-up Atalanta Bergamo 2:1 in a shocker of the 13th round of the Italian Premier League and consolidated their hold on first place. Piotr Zielinski scored the assist on the first goal for the visitors.more

The remains of three presidents of the Second Republic of Poland in exile will be brought to Poland on November 12. Farewell ceremonies are being held today in Newark, UK. Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, August Zaleski and Stanislaw Ostrowski are laid to rest at the Polish Airmen's Cemetery there.more

Dawid Kubacki won the season's inaugural World Cup ski jumping competition in Wisla. Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud was second, and Austrian Stefan Kraft was third. There were six Poles in the final "30" and three in the top "10."more

Food banks (Tafel) in Germany have never before supplied so many people. "Since the beginning of the year, we have seen a 50 percent increase in the number of customers," - relayed the head of Tafel Deutschland Jochen Bruehl to the Rheinische Post daily yesterday. This means that some 2 million people are benefiting.more

It is not yet known what the program for the event will be, and as expected, tickets sold out in a flash. And this despite the fact that ticket prices have increased significantly. For example, the booking fee is 10 times more expensive this year.more