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

Health charities call for taxes on salty products and bans on junk food sponsorship of sport to help cut deaths from heart disease, writes "The Guardian".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

The Body Shop has been rescued from administration, in a deal that appears to secure the immediate future for 1,300 shop and office workers. A consortium led by the British cosmetics tycoon Mike Jatania has acquired the ethical beauty brand's 113 UK stores which remain trading, for an undisclosed sum.more

The vast majority of Germans (71%) believe that their country is no longer able to cope with the large number of refugees from crisis areas. Only 27% of respondents remain optimistic about this, according to a Politbarometer survey for broadcaster ZDF.more

In the second round of the Nations League, Polish footballers lost 0:1 away to Croatia, with the only goal scored from a free kick by Luka Modric, who turns 39 today. In the second match of group A1, Portugal won 2:1 against Scotland in Lisbon, with a goal by 39-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo in the 88th minute.more

Health Equity North shows that women in the north live shorter lives, work more hours for less pay, are more likely to be an unpaid carer and to live in poverty than women in other regions of England. more

The Ukrainian military is using unmanned "dragon drones" on the front lines that drop molten metal on Russian positions, giving a modern twist to munitions used with terrible consequences in both world wars, US broadcaster CNN reported.more

Liverpool has many unusual Beatles-themed venues, including the Casbah Coffee Club, which operated from 1959 to 1962. Founded by the mother of one of the band’s original drummers in the basement of their family home, the venue became a meeting place and a place for the legendary band to play music. Today, the property has been partially converted into a five-bedroom guesthouse.more

The world number one tennis player, Italian Jannik Sinner, defeated American Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 in the final of the US Open Grand Slam tournament. This was his second triumph in this tournament, but his first in New York.more

Many immigrants come to Europe expecting to "ride free". We do not agree to this - emphasized President Andrzej Duda in the program "Full Measure", broadcast on a network of local American televisions. Duda compared the situation on the Polish border with Belarus to the situation on the southern border of the USA.more

The British should start getting used to the fact that their domestic companies, even those with a long history, will be taken over by Polish companies, because this is a symptom of the Polish economy being stronger and stronger - wrote the Daily Telegraph yesterday.more

Starliner has finally come home, more than three months after it launched on a planned 10-day mission.more

Which? crowns Asda Everyday winner of best cuppa 2024 after blind tasting by 79 ‘experienced and committed’ tea drinkers.more

The international world order is "under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War", the heads of the UK and US foreign intelligence services have warned.more

The German, Dutch and English national teams all claimed victories at the end of the first round of the Nations League. Georgia, after a brilliant debut in this year's European Championship, crushed the Czech Republic 4-1 in Tbilisi on Saturday.more

Pedro Almodovar's first English-language feature film, "The Room Next Door," which explores issues of friendship and euthanasia, won the Golden Lion for best film at Saturday's closing gala of the 81st Venice Film Festival. The Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Maury Delpero's "Vermiglio."more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday after meeting his Irish counterpart Simon Harris that his visit to Ireland was a "reset moment" in relations between the two countries. A Downing Street statement said it marked "a new era of cooperation and friendship".more

Second-seeded Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka defeated American tennis player Jessica Pegula (No. 6) 7-5, 7-5 in the US Open Grand Slam final. It was her third career triumph in this event, but her first in New York.more

A Vistara passenger plane flying from India to Germany made an emergency landing in eastern Turkey on Friday after a piece of toilet paper with the handwritten words "bomb on board" was found in the toilet, Turkish authorities said.more

Russian pranksters claim that former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted in an interview with them that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski would have agreed in 2022 to lose Crimea and Donbas if he had not. Johnson did not say that. The role of warmonger is attributed to him by Russian propaganda.more

We are withdrawing the licence of three companies operating electric scooters that will disappear from the streets of Madrid from October, the Spanish capital's authorities said on Thursday, justifying the decision on the grounds of the safety of residents. more

A 27-year-old man who set fire to an asylum seeker hotel in Rotherham during the riots sweeping Britain in early August was sentenced to nine years in prison yesterday. It is the longest sentence handed down so far in connection with the riots.more

Judge Juan Merchan presiding over Donald Trump's criminal case in New York decided yesterday to postpone the hearing at which he was to decide on the former president's sentence until 26 November, already after the presidential election. The sentence was due to be announced on 16 September.more

Google is engaging in anti-competitive practices in online advertising technology and such conduct could be detrimental to thousands of UK publishers and advertisers, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said yesterday, outlining the preliminary findings of its investigation.more