In WTA tournaments, Iga Swiatek played only 11 matches on grass courts, and won six of them. This season, the Polish tennis player, preparing for the Grand Slam Wimbledon (July 3-16), will start in Bad Homburg, Germany, where at the beginning she will have a serious test with Tatjana Maria.more

The two-day "Shakespeare & Poland" festival, which aims to promote Polish culture and show Polish-British ties, especially in the works of William Shakespeare and Jan Kochanowski, began yesterday in Stratford-upon-Avon, the English playwright's hometown.more

The rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenary Wagner Group is the biggest challenge facing the Russian state in recent times, and the loyalty of Russia's security forces will be crucial to the course of the crisis, the British Ministry of Defense estimates. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin left Moscow for the north of Russia.more

The highest rated person in the British royal family is the sister of King Charles III, Princess Anne, and the rating of Duchess Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, has fallen to an all-time low, according to the latest YouGov poll.more

Equipped with diplomatic immunity, dressed in a scruffy track suit and down jacket, a Russian man is blocking the recovery of a plot of land 400 meters from the Australian parliament, reports the Australian news.com.au portal.more

The US has accused Amazon of tricking customers into signing up for automatically renewing Prime subscriptions and making it difficult to cancel. more

Australia's Alex De Minaur defeated Denmark's Holger Rune 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), while Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz defeated American Sebastian Korda 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the ATP London grass court tournament. The final will take place this afternoon.more

Scientists have no doubt - droughts will haunt us more and more often; on Earth, there is and will be less water, including drinking water. It's up to us how and if we deal with this problem at all.more

Men are much less likely than women to consult a doctor. At the same time, medical statistics show that it is men who get sick more often. Thanks to preventive examinations, a man can avoid many diseases, including: testicular cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, as well as diabetes and thrombosis.more

With rising mortgage rates, UK banks and building societies will offer more flexibility to those who struggle to repay their loans, Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday after a meeting with the banking industry.more

The Covid-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdowns have greatly affected the mental condition of young people. Recent research by researchers from several UK universities has shown that there has been a dramatic increase in eating disorders and self-harm among teenage girls.more

OceanGate's CEO has repeatedly dismissed warnings about the risks of using the Titan submarine, according to the BBC. "In the race to the Titanic, you repeat the famous slogan, he is unsinkable," a former consultant to the company wrote in one of the e-mails to its boss Stockton Rush.more

French support for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has fallen from 69 to 58 percent in three months, according to an opinion poll conducted by the Odoxa studio for the daily Le Figaro.more

Due to a wage agreement with the London Heathrow authorities, the strike of security control workers, announced for 31 days until the end of August, has been called off, the union representing them, Unite, said.more

Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Oyster card on 30 June 2023, TfL has launched a new limited edition Oyster card to celebrate two decades of the iconic smartcard making travel via public transport around London quicker and easier for everyone. more

In many places in Sardinia, bans and limits on the number of people present on the beaches have been introduced. For some, leisure becomes an almost exclusive experience. Strict regulations are aimed at stopping the mass influx of tourists, as well as protecting the natural environment.more

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin admitted there were organizational problems on the occasion of June's Champions League final when fans were stuck in traffic around the stadium in Istanbul. Next year's decisive match at Wembley is set to be a special event.more

On Wednesday, the Olsztyn-Mazury airport inaugurated a new charter connection of the tour operator Itaka to Turkish Antalya. Flights on this route will be operated every Wednesday until September 20, the airport announced.more

Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent "silent" 999 calls.more

According to a report by the British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HEFA) just published, the number of women who decide to freeze their embryos or eggs for future in vitro fertilization has increased sharply in the last two years. According to experts, this is the result of social restrictions related to the pandemic.more

Tim Martin told Andrew Marr that the cost of beer will “quite probably” increase to £8 a pint more

Thanks to the triumph in the Grand Slam French Open, Iga Świątek is approaching the limit of 20 million dollars earned on the court since the beginning of her career and has advanced to 23rd place in the all-time WTA classification. The current earnings of the Polish tennis player is $ 19,154,913.more

In 2022, in French towns, up to 20,000 inhabitants, a total of over 32 thousand. cases of physical violence in a public place, or 38 percent. more than in 2016, reported the daily Le Figaro.more

Commuters in the capital will soon be able to use contactless payments at train stations outside London. Thus, they will no longer be forced to buy tickets every time and show them when passing through the gate.more

The players of the defending champions Barcelona will start the season of the Spanish top flight with an away match against Getafe on the second weekend of August - it was announced. On the other hand, the prestigious match against Real Madrid will be played by Robert Lewandowski's team - as the host - on 29 October.more