Lord David Cameron has denounced the election in Russia which saw Vladimir Putin tighten his grip on power following the stifling of any real opposition. The Foreign Secretary said “this is not what free and fair elections look like” after early results on Sunday showed the Russian president won nearly 88% of the vote.more

The Rio Cinema in London has canceled what Variety magazine says is the city’s “biggest screening party” for next month’s Eurovision Song Contest, in protest of Israel being allowed to take part in the competition.more

It's supposed to be about 20,000 fewer prisoners, they will be released earlier - announced Deputy Minister of Justice Maria Ejchart in an interview for today's "Rzeczpospolita". Prisons are overcrowded, she said, adding that the first early releases have already taken place.more

British Defense Minister Grant Shapps and Commander of the Armed Forces Adm. Tony Radakin canceled a planned trip to Odessa in southern Ukraine at the last minute due to a credible threat of a Russian missile attack, The Sunday Times revealed.more

On the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland, the fourth volcanic eruption since December last year occurred on Saturday evening. The lava flow was preceded by small seismic shocks, reported the Icelandic Meteorological Institute.more

Aleksander Zniszczoł was seventh, Piotr Żyła 26th, Dawid Kubacki 28th, and Kamil Stoch 30th in Sunday's second World Cup competition on the ski jumping hill in Vikersund. The winner was Austrian Daniel Huber, and the best in the Raw Air series was his compatriot Stefan Kraft.more

The government has U-turned on its plans to phase out the badger cull, with proposals to exterminate the vast majority of some local populations across much of south-west and central England.more

The owner of a restaurant from the city of Valjevo, located in western Serbia, does not charge Poles for the ordered meal. He made the decision after learning about the story of Polish doctor Ludwik Hirszfeld, who fought a typhus epidemic in Serbia during World War I, N1 television reported on Saturday.more

Clerkenwell in central London has been named as the best place to live in the capital. North Berwick in East Lothian is the overall best place to live in the UK, according to an annual list published by the Sunday Times. It described Clerkenwell as "all that's best" about life in the capital.more

MPs from the right wing of the ruling Conservative Party in Great Britain are talking with its moderate faction about removing the leader - and therefore prime minister - Rishi Sunak and replacing him with the leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt - the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail reported yesterday.more

Iranian-born scientist Shiva Kaviani has been living at Istanbul airport for a month now, unable to return to her country for political reasons and denied a visa by Canada, where she was heading, on formal grounds. It is a story like out of the Steven Spielberg film "Terminal", the media notes.more

Second-placed Bayern Munich won away against last-placed SV Darmstadt 5-2 in the 26th round of the German top football league and is seven points behind Bayer Leverkusen, which will play against Freiburg today. Harry Kane scored his 31st goal of the league season, but was injured.more

Only 10% of funding promised to reduce inequality as part of the levelling up agenda has been spent, MPs have said. The Public Accounts Committee found ministers were "unable to provide any compelling examples of what levelling up funding has delivered so far". It also criticised a "worrying lack of transparency" in how cash was allotted. more

From the latest report entitled "Poles' sleep. Losses for the economy. 2024 edition" (third edition), authored by UCE RESEARCH and the ePsychologi.pl platform, based on a survey of a nationwide group of over a thousand adult Poles, shows that currently 41% of Poles are dissatisfied with the quality of their sleep.more

Manchester City and lower-ranked Coventry City advanced to the FA Cup semi-finals. "The Citizens", who will appear in this phase for the sixth time in a row, defeated Newcastle United 2-0, and the Championship players unexpectedly won away against Wolverhampton 3-2.more

Police files on Jack the Ripper - the serial killer who murdered at least five women in London in 1888 - will be auctioned on Friday 22 March, Sky News reported. The seller is the great-grandson of a detective who worked on the case.more

American Express Travel has released its 2024 Global Travel Trends Report, revealing the inspirations and trends that will drive traveler bookings around the world this year.more

Consumer rights’ group Which found that the cost of a day out to some of the capital’s most famous landmarks has soared exponentially since 1974, sometimes by several thousand percent.more

Economy Minister in the Welsh Government Vaughan Gething was today announced as the winner of the election to become the new leader of the local branch of the Labour Party and will become the new First Minister (Prime Minister) of Wales. He will be the first black head of government in Europe.more

Engineers working remotely took 90 minutes to arrive and restart a crucial part of UK air traffic control’s IT system during the August bank holiday meltdown, according to an independent report.more

One of the Italian banks bought a palace in Venice, on the facade of which there is a work by an anonymous artist - Banksy "The Migrant Child". This mural is slowly deteriorating due to salt water in the canal next to the historic Palazzo San Pantalon.more

Iga Swiatek advanced to the final of the WTA 1000-ranked tournament in California's Indian Wells. The number one seeded Polish tennis player defeated Ukraine's Marta Kostiuk (No. 31) 6:2, 6:1. The encounter lasted one hour and nine minutes.more

There is wide variation across England in how long patients wait for hospital treatment, BBC News analysis reveals. Patients should start treatment within 18 weeks but at the worst-performing hospital trust, Milton Keynes, nearly two-thirds are waiting longer.more

The British airline easyJet will launch a new connection between Amsterdam and Krakow from September 2 this year, Kraków Airport announced. Until now, only the Dutch KLM operated this route.more

A copy of the famous Titanic, announced by an Australian billionaire, is set to set sail on its maiden voyage in 2027. Clive Palmer, who is behind the investment, announced that a cruise on the replica ship will allow tourists to "experience the splendour" enjoyed by passengers on the luxury liner 100 years ago.more