Pharmacies, pubs and banks made up half of the closures on Britain's High Streets in the first six months of this year, data suggests. A total of 6,945 stores have closed so far in 2024, which is the equivalent of 38 shops per day.more

Cristiano Ronaldo has crossed another boundary - his social media is followed by over a billion users. "We are making history," said the 39-year-old famous Portuguese footballer.more

Regardless of whether Law and Justice would field Mateusz Morawiecki, Mariusz Błaszczak or Karol Nawrocki - the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski (PO) would achieve the highest result in the presidential election - according to the IBRIS poll for Onet.more

Plymouth is the highest performing city in the annual Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index, with Bristol rising to second place and Southampton remaining in third place. Cities across the South West region lead the Index, with Plymouth, Bristol, Swindon and Exeter all being among the best performing cities, consistently scoring above the UK average for health & safety and skills.more

Tourists currently have to pay from twenty-five to several hundred euros per day to rent two sunbeds and an umbrella in Italian beach clubs. As the European Commission argues, the reason for this state of affairs is primarily the issue of unregulated beach concessions. This is set to change soon.more

Soon, almost all people coming to the UK who do not require a visa will have to get an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) before they arrive. The document costs £10. From April next year, this will also apply to Polish citizens.more

"Ballooning" NHS England waiting times and delays getting emergency treatment are costing lives, according to a critical government-commissioned report on the service.more

During Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, fragments of missiles and drones were found in neighboring countries at least 34 times, the independent Russian portal Verstka wrote yesterday, citing its own calculations.more

The number of people in Scotland whose death was caused by alcohol remains at a high level, with the largest number of deaths in 15 years. The latest figures from National Records of Scotland, (NRS) show 1,277 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2023.more

Russian pranksters claim to have spoken with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski. They pretended to be former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and asked about help for Kiev. The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paweł Wroński, stated that he had not heard about the case. The conversation was reported by the media in Russia today.more

Kylian Mbappé is not ready to compromise with Paris Saint-Germain. The France superstar rejected a mediation offer by the French soccer league's legal commission on Wednesday in his dispute with his former club over wages and bonuses.more

Campaigners have called on the Government to make Afro hair a protected characteristic to prevent race discrimination in schools and the workplace.more

The minimum wage in Poland in 2025 will increase to PLN 4,666 gross - compared to PLN 4,626 gross proposed earlier at the meeting of the Social Dialogue Council, and the minimum hourly rate will increase to PLN 30.50 from PLN 30.20 gross proposed earlier - it was announced in the latest version of the draft regulation.more

Great Britain will provide Ukraine with a new aid package worth over £600 million (over PLN 3 billion), announced British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who visited Kiev yesterday.more

A court in the northern Portuguese city of Braga yesterday ordered Ryanair to refund a passenger the €56.50 hand luggage fee it charged, plus interest and legal costs.more

The UK yesterday imposed sanctions on a further 10 ships that are part of Russia's ‘shadow fleet’, vessels used to circumvent the embargo on Russian oil trade imposed by Western countries following the Russian assault on Ukraine.more

The German government's decision to introduce controls at all state borders and the opposition CDU's plans to turn back even those refugees who ask for asylum from the border threatens a serious conflict with Poland, warns ‘Die Welt’.more

The time for London Open House 2024 – the UK capital's annual festival that celebrates architecture for all – has come around. This is the event where buildings, many normally off-limits to the public, throw open their doors to welcome everyone – from the simply architecture-curious to die-hard genre enthusiasts, and from students to professionals and the general public. more

More than two months before the Portugal-Poland Nations League match scheduled for November 15, all tickets for the match have been sold out, the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) announced.more

The European Commission believes that the Baltic Sea will become the second largest location for wind farm energy production in the EU. ‘The region has a large potential, estimated at more than 90 GW of capacity,’ announced Lukasz Kolinski, acting director for green transition at the EC, at a conference in Brussels.more

First it was Lidl with its croissant handbag, and now cult bakery chain Greggs has announced the launch of its first jewellery collection, a glittering range of gold-plated pieces that includes sausage roll earrings. more

One in three employees has been ridiculed in front of colleagues or faced psychological violence, according to the report "Bullying in the workplace" published in yesterday's issue of "Gazeta Wyborcza".more

The majority of households are worried about the rising cost of shopping despite slowing price rises, according to industry data. Kantar Worldpanel - which tracks supermarket till prices, sales and market share - said its measure of grocery inflation slowed to 1.7% in August.more

Almost 10 million UK pensioners will lose their entitlement to state-funded winter heating subsidies. Keir Starmer's Labour government yesterday pushed through a drastic reduction in the number of people entitled to this benefit.more

Former German Formula One car driver Ralf Schumacher and his life partner Etienne Bousquet-Cassagne have admitted that they form a happy relationship. They told the story in an interview that will air on the German TV station RTL on Sunday.more