It's that time of the year again – the weather is turning, and the leaves are starting to fall from the trees. As the temperature outside starts to drop, our homes are becoming colder. Soon, it’ll be time to start getting cosy with the central heating on. However, before we put the heating on for the first time, there are a few things to do. more

The Supreme Court decided to ask the German Ministry of Justice to release data on the number of crimes committed in Germany in 2014-2022. The decision of the Supreme Court suspends for some time the procedure of handing over the Polish girl to her German father - reports the wPolityce.pl portal.more

Legia Warsaw lost 0:1 (0:0) away to AZ Alkmaar in the match of the 2nd round of the Conference League football. In the other match of Group E, Aston Villa defeated Zrinjski Mostar 1:0 at home, with Matty Cash scoring an assist on John McGinn's goal.more

Rishi Sunak has been reported to the police after making a dig at Nicola Sturgeon during his Tory Party conference speech. The prime minister cracked a controversial joke about the former first minister as he addressed the Conservatives in Manchester on Wedenesday.more

Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay will be exempt from qualifying for the 2030 World Cup, the AFP news agency reported, citing the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). These countries will host three World Cup matches, the main hosts of which will be Spain, Portugal and Morocco.more

Prime Minister Mark Rutte should investigate Prince Bernhard's Nazi past, parliamentarians from several groups, as well as Jewish organizations, have called for. "This is yet another discovery that adds a new black page to a painful part of recent Dutch history," - Naomi Mestrum, director of the Center for Information and Documentation of Israel (CIDI) in Amsterdam, declared.more

A submission from the British Medical Association said the UK Government failed to ‘provide clear, consistent and visible public health messaging’.more

American Cori "Coco" Gauff won her 15th match in a row, which is a record for this year's tour among tennis players. The third-seeded player defeated Russian Weronika Kudermetova 7:6 (7-5), 6:2 in the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament on hard courts in Beijing.more

The Dutch military police (Koninklijke Marechaussee) arrested six men on Wednesday evening at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, who were arguing on board a plane that arrived from Poland, Koninklijke Marechaussee reported. According to the spokesman of the gendarmerie, all those detained are Poles.more

Scientists from Oxford are developing a 3D printing method that can help repair brain damage, reports the journal Nature Communications.more

A new living wage of €14.80 an hour will be announced today. This is the minimum rate required for a full-time worker without dependents to afford goods and services. Cost-of-living pressures have led to an increase of 95c or almost 7pc on last year’s rate of €13.85 an hour.more

The Executive Council of the World Football Federation (FIFA) on Wednesday admitted Russia's under-17 national team to the competition. A week ago, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) decided to take a similar step.more

A rich archive of correspondence and notes by Adam Mickiewicz, Sigismund Krasinski and Cyprian Kamil Norwid is stored at the General House of the Resurrectionist Fathers in Rome. "Everything will be digitized and made available on the Internet," he - informed the superior of the house, a biblical scholar and lecturer at the Pontifical Urbanian University, Father Professor Andrzej Gieniusz.more

Poland is the largest apple producer in the European Union and the 4th largest producer in the world. Even though there is an abundance of these fruits in our country and the apple is promoted as the national fruit, its consumption is not increasing. Households eat approximately 11-12 kg of apples per person per year.more

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told Conservative Party conference that government will cancel the rest of HS2, will overhaul the education system for 16-18 year olds by scrapping A-levels and phase out smoking by gradually raising the legal age.more

Firms have told the BBC they were not aware of a ban in England on single-use plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene trays that comes into force on Sunday. more

Magda Linette and American Peyton Stearns defeated Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia and Russian Veronica Kudiermetova 1-6, 7-6 (7-3), 10-8 in the quarterfinals of the WTA doubles tennis tournament on hard courts in Beijing.more

Yesterday, Duchess Kate visited the town of Bracknell in southeast England to meet Ukrainians living there who fled the war.more

Train drivers belonging to Aslef walked out at 16 rail companies on Wednesday resulting in no services on major London commuter routes.more

After joining the European Union, Ukraine should receive 186 billion euros in subsidies over seven years, which means that a number of EU countries would have to become net contributors to the Community budget, according to calculations by the General Secretariat of the EU Council, accessed by the "Financial Times".more

Due to an injury sustained in yesterday's match between Barcelona and FC Porto in the Champions League, Polish national team captain Robert Lewandowski will not participate in the October training camp, Polish Football Association spokesman Jakub Kwiatkowski confirmed.more

Only about one in eight UK fisheries have been awarded “green” status for sustainability in the latest edition of the Good Fish Guide.more

Eastern Europe is not an anti-Russian monolith, argues historian Luuk van Middelaar in the daily NRC. "We in Western Europe too easily forget how diverse relations with Russia are in Eastern Europe," he says. - he asserts.more

A 14-year-old alive today will never be able to buy a cigarette under the new plans.more

Morocco, Spain and Portugal will jointly organize the 2030 World Cup. Three matches are to be held in South America to mark the tournament's centennial, FIFA announced yesterday.more