Portuguese midfielder Otavio has joined Al-Nassr, the Saudi football league club confirmed yesterday. Financial details were not disclosed, but FC Porto received €60 million for the 28-year-old midfielder, according to local media reports.more

Price and occupancy rates for hotels in Central and Eastern European cities are already higher than they were before the pandemic, writes today's "Puls Biznesu." It notes that facility operators are singling out Poland as the largest hotel market in the region.more

Even if the plan to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda works, the cost of keeping others in Britain will rise to more than £5 billion a year over the next five years, warned the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank.more

A young Polish man was raped at a subway station in Munich. How could this have happened? - asks the Bild daily portal. The victim is an 18-year-old student at a language school. The alleged perpetrator is a 20-year-old from Afghanistan. Police have determined that the rape occurred between 2:35 and 3:05 a.m. on Saturday night.more

A solemn mass bid farewell to General Ludwik Kmicic-Skrzynski in Manchester yesterday. The coffin with the body of the veteran of the struggle for freedom and independence, who died in 1972, was taken to Poland and will be buried in a cemetery in Bialystok on Saturday.more

Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola has undergone "emergency surgery" for a back problem and will be out of the Premier League for at least a month, the club have announced.more

The Spanish Civil Guard intercepted the yacht Rossio, sailing under the Polish flag, at sea near the Canary Islands. As much as 700 kg of cocaine in packages was found on board. Four people were detained - two Italians, one Croatian and one Serbian.more

A graduate earning £35,000 a year pays almost double the average tax of someone with the same income from rent on property, according to a study of inequality in the UK tax system.more

Rakov Częstochowa footballers lost in Sosnowiec to Denmark's FC Copenhagen 0:1 (0:1) in the match of the fourth and decisive round of the Champions League qualifiers. The rematch will take place on August 30.more

In 2022, almost 218,000 migrants applied for asylum in Germany - more than in France (around 140,000) and Italy (77,000) combined. Nowhere in the EU are so many asylum seekers as in Germany. According to the expert, the level of social benefits is not a decisive factor. Some countries pay more than Germany.more

Baggage mishandling rates last year hit the highest in a decade globally as the airline industry scrambled to recover after the pandemic, a report shows. Some 26 million pieces of luggage were lost, delayed or damaged in 2022 - nearly eight bags in every 1,000.more

A European Commission report has said Ireland’s housing targets likely need to be “substantially” revised upwards, even though the government is struggling to hit its existing targets.more

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the apology from the president of the local football federation, Luis Rubiales, who kissed one of the players on the mouth during the World Cup gold medal ceremony, was "insufficient". He added that it was an "unacceptable gesture".more

Transport for London (TfL) is yet to install more than 800 Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) cameras ahead of the scheme’s expansion later this month, reports have stated. more

48.1% of respondents plan to participate in the referendum scheduled for October 15. respondents in a survey conducted by UCE Research for the Onet portal, the results of which were published yesterday. 37.5 percent do not plan to participate in the referendum. surveyed.more

The number of foreign doctors working in Belgium has doubled over the last decade to more than 10,000. - reported the Politico news portal, citing data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).more

Drivers are being warned of traffic chaos over the bank holiday weekend next weekend, with more than 14 million journeys expected.more

Bosses at Britain's biggest companies saw their pay rise by almost 16% on average last year as most workers' wages were squeezed by rising prices. The High Pay Centre said the median pay of a FTSE 100 chief executive was £3.91m in 2022, up from £3.38m in 2021.more

Chelsea London, which made a personnel revolution in the summer, is struggling with the scourge of injuries. Another from a very long list of players unable to play is Carney Chukwuemeka, the scorer in Sunday's 3-1 defeat of West Ham United in the second round of the English Premier League.more

Between 1,500 and 2,000 items worth many millions of pounds have been lost from the British Museum in London as a result of the activities of its former curator, who for years removed the exhibits and then sold them, the Daily Telegraph reported.more

In the first quarter of 2023, greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union economy amounted to a total of 941 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, a decrease of 2.9 percent. compared to the same quarter of 2022 (969 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent). This decrease occurred simultaneously with the growth of EU GDP in the first quarter of 2023 by 1.2%. compared to the same quarter of 2022more

Peter Wilby, former editor of the British newspapers The Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman, has been sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, for taking sexual pictures of children.more

Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei, who won the 10,000m race at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest and was the fastest at this distance for the third time in a row (before 2019 and 2022), admitted that he enjoyed his success "as never before".more

The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, followed by the outbreak of World War II, opened one of the darkest chapters in European history, announced the vice-president of the European Commission Viera Jourova and Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders on the eve of the 84th anniversary of the signing of the agreement between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union.more

Whether you have bought someone the watch or their dreams for a special birthday or you have been saving up for months, the time-telling device can become a person’s most prized possession. more