A leading government adviser on cities has urged ministers to make urban areas friendlier for walking and cycling, saying this would boost prosperity, health and personal freedom, and could even help solve the housing crisis.more

66 percent respondents were in favor of introducing a four-day working week - according to a survey conducted by ClickMeeting. More than half indicated that such a system would not affect the daily number of tasks they perform at work.more

Lionel Messi will not feature in the Argentina national team's friendly matches during their tour of the United States due to injury, his parent football federation has announced. The 36-year-old star player suffered the injury last week.more

The owner of the block of flats on which Banksy painted his latest mural has said he does not plan to raise the rent but would potentially sell. Several residents in the building, in Finsbury Park, north London, said they were worried their rent would be hiked now that Banksy has confirmed the tree painting which appeared over the weekend was his.more

On Wednesday, March 20, a new season begins - astronomical spring. From this point on, the nights become shorter than the days. We will see Jupiter from the bright planets in the sky at this time, and there will also be an opportunity to see Mercury. Spring also welcomes us with comet 12P/Pons-Brooks.more

London is not a child-friendly city and more must be done to stem the exodus of families, the head of the country’s oldest children’s charity has warned. Dr Carol Homden, CEO of Coram, said families in the capital are under more pressure from the cost-of-living crisis than those elsewhere, and urged the government to act to make London a more affordable place for families to live.more

The captain of the Polish national football team Robert Lewandowski admitted before the barage semi-final against Estonia in Warsaw that he is full of faith in advancing to the European Championships. As he added, he is not thinking about his future in the national team at the moment. "Right now I only have Estonia in my mind" - he stressed.more

Getty Images flags second royal photo days after storm over image of Princess of Wales...more

Unilever is to cut 7,500 jobs globally as part of an overhaul aimed at saving about €800m (£684m) over the next three years. The consumer goods company, whose brands range from Marmite and Hellmann’s mayonnaise to Dove soap, Lynx deodorant and Domestos bleach, employs 128,000 people worldwide, including 6,000 in the UK.more

Nottingham Forest was yesterday penalised by having four points deducted from the English Premier League football table for breaching the Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR), the league said in a statement.more

Roads in England and Wales are at "breaking point" due to potholes, with repairs at an eight-year high, according to a new report. The Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) said councils were expected to fix two million potholes in the current financial year. That is up 43% on the previous year and the highest annual total since 2015-16.more

On Monday evening, the British House of Commons rejected all 10 amendments to the bill to allow the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda proposed by the House of Lords, which means that the bill will return to the upper house.more

The Spanish sanitary authorities have once again detected the virus causing hepatitis A (hepatitis A) in a shipment of Moroccan strawberries, the Union of Agriculture and Livestock (ULR) from Valencia announced today.more

Mortgage deals are typically on offer for just 15 days before being pulled, despite homeowners and buyers having the widest choice for 16 years. This is the shortest shelf-life in six months, according to financial information service Moneyfacts. As a result, people have little time to decide when rates are volatile.more

Iga Swiatek has strengthened her lead in the world tennis ranking. The Pole increased her lead over second-placed Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka after winning the tournament in Indian Wells. American Coco Gauff remains third. Meanwhile, Hubert Hurkacz has dropped from eighth to ninth place in the world tennis ranking. He is still led by Serbian Novak Djokovic.more

Most Poles expect the war between discount stores - Lidl and Biedronka - to intensify, reports "Rzeczpospolita" today, citing research by UCE Research and the Offerista Group.more

The V&A Museum has been criticised after Margaret Thatcher was described as a “contemporary villain” alongside Hitler and Osama Bin Laden in an exhibit. The late Conservative Prime Minister is described as a villain in a display on British humour throughout the ages.more

The British fleet's military maneuvers off the coast of Gibraltar led to numerous negative reactions in Spain. The Spanish media and military and veterans' organizations do not hide their dissatisfaction.more

The British Embassy in Ukraine has been forced to deny rumours that King Charles III has died after Kremlin-approved state media channels, some with millions of followers on social media, began spreading the fake news.more

In Rio de Janeiro, in eastern Brazil, a record felt temperature was recorded: 62.3 degrees Celsius. It occurred in the western district of Guaratiba.more

General classification leader Stefan Kraft overtook Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi on the Ski Jumping World Cup payroll after winning the Raw Air series. The Austrian earned more than 356,000 Swiss Francs. After successful performances in Norway, the best of the Poles is Aleksander Zniszczol.more

The British Museum was the UK's most-visited attraction for the first time since before the Covid pandemic, according to a tourism industry body. Figures from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) showed there were 5,820,860 visits to the central London museum in 2023, a 42% increase on 2022.more

"Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls the words of the head of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, about the need for a program for maintaining bookstores and counteracting monopolization of the publishing market.more

London’s population has “almost certainly” surged to a record high in a reversal of the ‘race for space’ during Covid. Research by think tank Centre for Cities found that Londoners’ escape to the country during Covid was modest and short-lived.more

Robert Lewandowski, Adam Buksa and Kamil Grosicki are three of the 27 players called up by selector Michał Probierz to the national team for the European Championship qualifiers, who scored goals in their clubs' league matches at the weekend. The training camp starts today in Warsawmore