Piotr Zieliński scored a goal for Napoli, but his team lost at home to Real Madrid 2-3 in the second round of the Champions League. Both English clubs: Manchester United and Jakub Kiwior's Arsenal London suffered defeats yesterday.more
Spain's public debt exceeded a previously unheard-of level of EUR 1.56 trillion in the second quarter of this year, announced the country's central bank, Banco de Espana.more
While debate rages about Outer London’s TfL services after the ULEZ expansion, several are among the best places to raise a family, according to a study.more
Ireland is one of 10 EU countries to see the average price of farm products drop in the last year, a hint that food prices are set to come down even more in future.
Irish prices fell by 8.5pc between March and June this year, compared with the same period in 2022. more
"Olympic gold is the only trophy I haven't won yet." - stressed Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors during the NBA teams' media day. He is another star player in the league who has expressed interest in playing in next year's Games in Paris.more
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was chosen as a potential candidate for president in the 2025 elections by 26.4 percent. respondents who voted for Andrzej Duda in the previous elections. 51.6% of voters voted for Rafał Trzaskowski (PO) as a candidate. respondents from the group that supported him in 2020 - according to the Research Partner survey.more
As the daily "Het Laatste Nieuws" warns, the number of reports about bedbugs in Belgium is growing rapidly. In 2023, there are almost four times more notifications than in the previous year.more
Planned strikes on the London Underground have been called off following "significant progress" in talks over jobs and conditions. About 3,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members were due to strike on Wednesday and Friday.more
A debate took place in the European Parliament today entitled "Large-scale corruption of Schengen visas." The case of illegal visa trade in some Polish consulates was widely reported around the world.more
Iga Swiatek has advanced to the 1/8 finals of the WTA hard-court tournament in Beijing. Today the number two seeded Polish tennis player won against Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva 6:4, 6:1. She will fight Magda Linette for the quarterfinals.more
Dorothy Hoffner, 104, of Chicago, tandem skydived with an instructor on Sunday. She is the oldest person to accomplish such a feat, the ABC network portal reported.more
Magda Linette and American tennis player Peyton Stearns advanced to the quarterfinals of the doubles round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing. Today they defeated fourth-seeded Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe 6:2, 7:6 (7-3).more
Travellers face a week of disruption as rail services are hit by a fresh round of walkouts by train drivers and London Underground workers in a long-running dispute over jobs and pay.more
Pope Francis has suggested an opening towards the issue of priests giving blessings to same-sex couples, provided that it is limited and each case is handled separately and not confused with giving a wedding. This is how he responded to the five conservative cardinals who presented their concerns to him.more
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries on nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID -19."more
Barcelona has announced a contract extension with 16-year-old Lamin Yamal. The new contract runs until the summer of 2026. This is the maximum period for which a player under the age of 18 can be signed.more
If the UK's ruling Conservative Party was hoping that the ongoing annual conference in Manchester would help it turn around its dismal ratings, it is completely failing so far. The dominant theme is what won't get done: tax cuts and the construction of the HS2 high-speed rail line.more
In Portugal and mainland Spain, record air temperatures for the beginning of October were recorded on Sunday and Monday - they exceeded 37 degrees Celsius.more
Duchess Sarah Ferguson has passed along information that her one-time assistant, Jenean Chapman, was murdered in Texas. The aristocrat wants to help the woman's family transport her body from Dallas - where the crime was committed - to New York.more
Sweden's national soccer team selector Janne Andersson has declared that if his team does not advance to Euro 2024 then he will leave immediately, and that could happen in as little as two weeks.more
The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) fined the American company Apple for monopolistic practices of USD 50 million. The watchdog says the tech giant abused its dominant position by imposing unfavorable conditions on dating app providers.more
Families are eating less healthily and turning to ready meals and processed foods due to the cost of living crisis, a study has found.
More than two-thirds of people (69%) said they considered themselves to be healthy eaters but 28% said they were eating less nutritious food because it is too expensive, according to the BBC Good Food Nation survey.more