The series "Succession", "The Bear" and "Awantura" are the winners of the Emmy Awards for television work for 2023. The 75th anniversary awards ceremony was held yesterday in Los Angeles with a four-month delay caused by last year's strike of actors and screenwriters.more

Iga Swiatek won against American tennis player Sofia Kenin 7:6 (7-2), 6:2 and advanced to the second round of the Grand Slam Australian Open in Melbourne. The encounter lasted one hour and 51 minutes.more

One of the most controversial Islamist groups in the UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is to be banned as a terrorist organisation, accused of praising the Hamas attacks. Home Secretary James Cleverly said the group was "antisemitic" and "actively promotes and encourages terrorism".more

The Spanish government will introduce a 38.5-hour working week in 2024, announced Yolanda Diaz, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor and Social Economy. In 2025, the working week will be limited to 37.5 hours.more

A fresh series of strikes has been unveiled by the main train drivers' union, Aslef, in its long-running pay dispute with 16 train companies. The stoppages between Tuesday 30 January and Monday 5 February will affect different operators each day. The drivers will also refuse to work overtime from Monday 29 January until Tuesday 6 February.more

Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced yesterday that emergency contraception - the so-called the morning-after pill - to be available without a prescription. From July 2017, emergency contraception, i.e. the so-called "Morning after pills" are only available by prescription.more

At The Best FIFA Awards Gala in London, Argentine Lionel Messi of Inter Miami was voted the best footballer of 2023. Frenchman Kylian Mbappe of PSG and Norway's Erling Haaland of Manchester City were also nominated in the FIFA poll.more

The UK will send 20,000 troops to one of NATO's biggest military drills since the Cold War as the alliance practices repelling an invasion by Russian forces, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps announced today.more

Artificial intelligence (AI) will affect nearly 40 per cent of jobs worldwide, some replacing and complementing others; the impact will be even stronger in developed economies, according to International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva.more

AirBnB has suspended a listing where guests were being charged to camp in tents in a living room in central London. The extremely basic accommodation was on the site for £68 a night in Soho before being temporarily removed on Thursday (January 11). more

On the night of Tuesday and Wednesday 16 and 17 January, an asteroid (asteroid) roughly 100 or 200 metres in diameter will pass our planet. The distance to the object could be as great as the distance to the Moon, CNEOS data indicate.more

Pep Guardiola has revealed that Erling Haaland will not play until the end of January. "I hope he will be ready at the end of the month. That's even sooner than we initially expected" - announced the Manchester City coach. The Norwegian footballer suffered a foot injury at the beginning of December.more

An accidental premature detonation of a mine alerted the Germans and led to the massacre of 20,000 British soldiers during the Battle of the Somme. This was the discovery made by scientists who first studied German fortifications on Hawthorn Ridge near Beaumont Hamel in northern France. The explosion in question, which occurred on 1 July 1916, was a colossal mistake by the British.more

The Kampinos National Park is the largest bat wintering ground among Polish national parks. Their number is still growing. This was confirmed by the recently completed count - 1,783 individuals were recorded.more

Love it or hate it, snow's not all that common in London. Since 2018's Beast from the East, we've been wary of a repeat, seeing as it brought pretty much everything to a halt and we struggled to get into the office. We know, sad right? But it looks like we're in for more snow, according to new weather maps produced by WXCharts. more

Six people from Rwanda have been granted asylum in the UK since the two countries signed an agreement in April 2022 to return illegal immigrants to the African country, the i daily reported today, pointing out that this undermines the government's claims that Rwanda is a safe country.more

Real Madrid have won the Spanish football Super Cup for the 13th time in history. In yesterday's final of the tournament in Riyadh, the 'royals' won against Barcelona 4:1. Robert Lewandowski scored the goal for the defeated, while Real's hat-trick was scored by Vinicius Junior.more

A Jamaican gangster has avoided deportation from the UK to his homeland as a result of a mutiny by passengers aboard a British Airways flight who refused to take their seats until he was escorted off the plane, 'The Mail on Sunday' has revealed.more

'Women deserve to feel safe, yet these alarming figures risk telling a different story,' MP Sarah Olney says Standard.co.uk.more

Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki admitted in an interview published yesterday that, looking at the increasing centralization of the European Union and Brussels' interference in the affairs of member states, he understands why the British decided to leave it.more

World number one tennis player Iga Swiatek maintained her lead of 975 points over second-placed Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka just before the start of the Grand Slam Australian Open. Latvian Jelena Ostapenko returned to the top 10 after more than five years. Serbia's Novak Djokovic continues to lead the ATP ranking.more

Several thousand people attended a rally in London yesterday in solidarity with Israel to mark 100 days since the 7 October attack by the Palestinian organisation Hamas on the country and to call for the release of all hostages held by the organisation.more

The world's five richest people have doubled their fortunes in three years, while the wealth of 60 per cent of the poorest has fallen in value, Oxfam reported today.more

A 41-year-old Polish man, who has lived in Edinburgh for many years, was severely beaten by two men aged around 18-20, he says, for calling his dog in Polish, Scottish media reported yesterday.more

Paris Saint-Germain's players defeated Lens 2:0 away in the 18th round of the French Premier League. The defending champion team from the capital strengthened their lead in the table. On the home team, Przemyslaw Frankowski missed a penalty kick.more