A Home Office case worker has been arrested on suspicion of trying to sell UK residency to an asylum seeker living in Northern Ireland. BBC News NI can reveal the official allegedly contacted a vulnerable man and asked for £2,000 in return for approving his refugee application.more

Juventus Turin must pay almost 10 million to Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in salary arrears for the 2020/21 season, the Italian College of Arbitration decided yesterday.more

Nearly 1 million people aged over 66 in the UK are living in deprivation, according to government statistics, the highest number since comparable records began.more

Britain's Prince Harry, the younger son of King Charles III, has officially changed his primary residence address to the United States, according to the British Companies Register, Sky News reported today.more

A woman who called 999 more than 2,000 times in a campaign of abuse against emergency workers has been jailed for 22 weeks. Sonia Nixon, 56, is one of the worst offenders in London for making nuisance emergency calls, and has been dubbed a “massive drain” on police resources. more

Thomas Thurnbichler will remain as coach of the national ski jumping team, but will have new assistants Maciej Maciusiak and Arvid Endler. This was announced by the Polish Ski Association after a meeting to sum up the season, one of the weakest in recent years.more

The opening of this museum is the culmination of 14 years of our efforts and I hope that it will help to make the history of Polish airmen in the United Kingdom better known," said Geoff Burton, initiator of the RAF Ingham Heritage Centre, the only museum in the world dedicated to the Polish bomber squadrons.more

Cocaine could only be available in pharmacies, Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema declared on Tuesday, quoted by AFP. Regulating the sale of cocaine and MDMA (ecstasy), she said, is the only way to combat the illegal trade in these substances.more

All of the UK’s native breeds of chicken, duck, geese and turkey are under threat because of bird flu, a report from the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has found.more

Prime Minister Donald Tusk was among the 100 most influential people chosen by the "Time" weekly. A laudation in honour of the Polish politician was written by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who highlighted his merits in the fight against populism.more

Manchester City's players will not repeat last year's Champions League triumph. In the return leg of their quarter-final match, they tied Real Madrid 1:1 after regulation 90 minutes and extra time, before losing in a penalty shoot-out 3-4. The first meeting was 3:3.more

There was an explosion at a munitions plant belonging to the UK's largest defence company, BAE Systems, in south Wales yesterday. The company reported that no one was injured and production was not interrupted.more

The degree to which EU countries are getting money from the €800 billion Recovery Fund varies. There are countries that have received most of their pot like Italy, which has received more than €100 billion in grants and loans. Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands, on the other hand, have not yet received a single euro.more

British tourists planning trips to Egypt and Morocco are being alerted to rapidly changing situations in the Middle East, following serious events over the weekend. The UK government has issued fresh travel guidance for those visiting these increasingly popular holiday spots known for their value resorts and hot climates.more

Poland will win 11 medals at this year's Olympic Games in Paris, while the largest number of rings - 123, including 39 gold - will go to representatives of the USA, estimated the Gracenote virtual medals table released yesterday.more

A study has evaluated everything from rainfall and car free places to walking trails and general safety.more

One Tesco store has taken an extreme new security measure to combat shoplifting and enhance worker safety. The supermarket branch is now requiring customers to be vetted via CCTV before they can enter the store.more

The island of Tragonisi in the Aegean Sea has been put up for sale in Greece. The uninhabited island can be bought for €50 million, the Greek Reporter portal reported.more

The number of workforce dropouts claiming to suffer long-term sickness has surged to a record high as Britain’s labour crisis deepens. More than 2.8 million people say they are too ill to work, the highest number since records were first collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).more

It is Arsenal - despite Bayern Munich's disastrous season - who have the tougher task of the two English clubs who will play the rematches in the quarter-finals of the football Champions League tonight. Manchester City cannot be sure of promotion either, according to the British media.more

Inflation has fallen to its lowest level in two-and-a-half years, driven largely by slowing food price rises. Prices rose by 3.2% in the year to March, down from 3.4% the month before, according to official figures.more

With the European Parliament election approaching, a growing number of EU citizens say they plan to vote, according to a survey raising expectations about the usually low turnout. But EU citizens in the UK are less likely to say they willparticipate, based on a separate research carried out last year.more

There are over 3 million dwellings in London – but surprisingly, not all of them are occupied. There’s one London borough where a lot of the properties lie empty, a ridiculous feat amid the fact that 1 in 51 people in the capital are homeless, according to statistics from Shelter England.more

The district court in Huddinge near Stockholm yesterday arrested a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old for two weeks in connection with the murder of a 39-year-old Pole. The prosecutor's office accuses the teenagers of hiding the person who fired the gun.more

Rafael Nadal won against Italian Flavio Cobolli 6:2, 6:3 in the first round of the ATP Tour 500 tennis tournament on the courts in Barcelona. The 37-year-old Spaniard is back in action after a long break. He played his previous official match on 5 January in Brisbane.more