The legendary British jockey Lester Piggott died at the age of 86. In his career, he has had a record nine Derby wins and won 4,493 races. Last week Piggott was hospitalized in Switzerland, where he lived.more

The Queen will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee with a four-day weekend full of events, from the annual Trooping the Colour parade to the Platinum Party and the palace.more

A statue of Margaret Thatcher erected in her home town has been vandalised two weeks after a man was fined for throwing eggs at it. more

Crowds in Piazza di Spagna, in front of the Colosseum and by the Trevi Fountain - this is what end of May looks like in Rome. Tourists from many countries returned to the Italian capital en masse. It will be the first summer with practically no restrictions since the beginning of the pandemic. Perhaps a mask will still be required in some places.more

The day of the break between matches at the French Open does not mean that Iga Świątek will not visit the court. Today, the Polish tennis player trained with all her staff. Tomorrow in Paris, she will face the 1/8 final match with the Chinese Qinwen Zheng.more

About 25,000 amateur cyclists are taking part in a charity bike ride that loops from central London to Essex. more

Thanks to the Polish Culture NL Foundation, the OBA Oosterdok public library has a collection of several hundred items devoted to Poland, informs the NRC daily.more

Fans from Scotland and Ukraine on June 1 in Glasgow will sing the national anthem of Ukraine before the play-off for the World Cup in Qatar. It will be a sign of solidarity and opposition to Russia's ongoing military invasion.more

President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Olaf Sholz and President Vladimir Putin spoke yesterday afternoon about the food crisis caused by the blocking of Odessa ports, the release of 2.5 thousand. Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azovstal plants and the end of the war in Ukraine - reported the Elysée Palace.more

Seeded with number 12, Hubert Hurkacz won against Belgian tennis player David Goffin 7: 5, 6: 2, 6: 1 in the third round of the Grand Slam French Open in Paris. The next rival of the Pole will be either the Norwegian Casper Ruud (No. 8) or the Italian Lorenzo Sonego (No. 32).more

Russia is ready to use global food security for its own political ends, and the offer to create a corridor for food ships in exchange for the lifting of the sanctions indicates that they are severe, the British Ministry of Defense said today.more

After three months, relations between Ukrainian refugees and their host Dutch families deteriorate, claims the daily “De Volkskrant”. The newspaper reminds that almost a third of 60,000. refugees from Ukraine stayed in the private homes of the Dutch.more

Real Madrid players defeated in St. Denis near Paris Liverpool 1-0 in the Champions League final. For the 14th time, "Królewscy" won the European Cup and strengthened themselves at the forefront of the classification of the most successful clubs in this competition.more

The BBC has promised “bigger investment in programming from the nations” and less from London as part of a cost-cutting shift away from broadcast and to on-demand digital audiences.more

Due to the health condition of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has ruled the country for more than two decades, there are more and more speculations about his successor in the Kremlin. One of the sources indicates that Putin may be replaced by his 35-year-old daughter Katerina Tikhonova, initially taking over the leadership of the ruling United Russia party, informed "Bild".more

Historians were left blushing when they deciphered ancient Roman graffiti carved into stone near Hadrian's Wall. The insulting comment, inscribed more than 1,700 years ago, was unearthed near Hexham, Northumberland.more

63 percent of respondents are of the opinion that things in Poland are going in the wrong direction. 19 percent positively assess their direction, and 18 percent. he has no opinion on this subject - according to the Kantar Public poll in May. Compared to the results obtained in April, no changes have been noted.more

A new documentary featuring unseen footage from the Queen’s young life promises to offer a glimpse of ‘the fun behind the formality’.more

Six-year-old Illa Kostuszewycz, who lost his parents in a Russian missile attack in Mariupol, wrote a letter to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Ukrainian Pravda newspaper reported. "I would like the war to end as soon as possible and people will not die anymore" - emphasized the boy in an appeal to the authorities in London.more

The leader of the world list, Iga Świątek, defeated Danka Kovinic from Montenegro 6: 3, 7: 5 in the third round of the French Open tournament in Paris. Another rival of the Polish tennis player will be either French Alize Cornet or Chinese Qinwen Zheng.more

The findings suggest that the underfunding of labour-rights enforcement, combined with the rapid expansion of the seasonal worker scheme – which aims to plug shortages created by Brexit and Covid-19 – could be putting thousands of migrant labourers at risk of exploitation.more

People suffering from monkey pox, infected with the monkey pox virus and suspected of being infected will be obligatorily hospitalized. 21 days will be quarantine in case of exposure to monkey pox or being in contact with the monkey pox virus - according to the ordinance of the minister of health.more

People in a Birmingham pub were filmed standing on tables and chairs – to avoid a rat on the loose.more

Real Madrid is the toughest opponent of Liverpool in this season's Champions League football, not only thanks to the amazing ability to get out of hopeless situations - British media write ahead of today's final, but also give tips on how to stop the Spanish club.more

Two British citizens and a Moroccan who fought on the side of Ukraine and were captured by Russian forces may face the death penalty, reported pro-Russian separatists, whom the BBC cites behind the Russian agency Interfax on Friday.more