Today in another drawing for the US Powerball lottery, the top prize is $1.9 billion. On Saturday again, no one had, counting including the extra, six winning numbers. A ticket costs $2.more

Footballers of leader Paris Saint-Germain defeated the well performing Lorient 2:1 in the 14th round of the French Premier League in an away game this season. The guests had to cope without injured Argentine Lionel Messi.more

The British liner launched in 1934, after making 1,001 voyages across the North Atlantic, retired in 1967 and has been docked at the Long Beach waterfront ever since. It is one of the biggest tourist attractions in this California city. Or at least it was one until 2020, when it was shut down due to a pandemic, though not just because of that.more

Well-sleeping women are more motivated to perform professionally and gain success. Men are not affected, the US study suggests.more

Forty-six percent of employees say they intend to switch employers if they increase the number of days they work in the office, and more than 30 percent would accept lower wages if it allowed them to decide the number of days they work remotely, according to a survey by Deloitte.more

An extra bank holiday will take place across the UK to mark the coronation of King Charles III next year. It will fall on Monday, 8 May 2023, two days after the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, the government said. more

Iga Swiatek defeated American Cori Gauff 6:3, 6:0 in her third match at the WTA Finals tennis tournament in Fort Worth. The Pole was already assured of advancing to the semifinals, where she will face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.more

Three sections of the Elizabeth line have been connected, allowing passengers to travel across London without having to change stations. Previously anyone going from Heathrow, Reading, Abbey Wood and Shenfield had to change at Paddington or Liverpool Street to remain on the new Tube line.more

Milan's players defeated Spezia 2:1 in the 13th round of the Italian Premier League and advanced to the position of vice-leader. In the visiting team, Bartłomiej Drągowski and Jakub Kiwior played the entire match, while Arkadiusz Reca featured from the 54th minute.more

For the first time ever, British nurses will hold a nationwide wage strike, it was reported today. The nurses' organization is demanding wage increases of 5 percentage points above inflation.more

President Joe Biden's administration is unofficially encouraging the Ukrainian government to signal openness to negotiations with Russia and abandon its publicly demonstrated demand that engagement in peace talks be possible once President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, Reuters reported today, citing information from The Washington Post.more

Napoli's players defeated away runner-up Atalanta Bergamo 2:1 in a shocker of the 13th round of the Italian Premier League and consolidated their hold on first place. Piotr Zielinski scored the assist on the first goal for the visitors.more

The remains of three presidents of the Second Republic of Poland in exile will be brought to Poland on November 12. Farewell ceremonies are being held today in Newark, UK. Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, August Zaleski and Stanislaw Ostrowski are laid to rest at the Polish Airmen's Cemetery there.more

Dawid Kubacki won the season's inaugural World Cup ski jumping competition in Wisla. Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud was second, and Austrian Stefan Kraft was third. There were six Poles in the final "30" and three in the top "10."more

Food banks (Tafel) in Germany have never before supplied so many people. "Since the beginning of the year, we have seen a 50 percent increase in the number of customers," - relayed the head of Tafel Deutschland Jochen Bruehl to the Rheinische Post daily yesterday. This means that some 2 million people are benefiting.more

It is not yet known what the program for the event will be, and as expected, tickets sold out in a flash. And this despite the fact that ticket prices have increased significantly. For example, the booking fee is 10 times more expensive this year.more

Manchester City defeated Fulham 2:1 at home in the 15th round of the English Premier League thanks to Norwegian Erling Haaland's goal in added time. "The Citizens" moved up to first place and await the outcome of today's London derby between Chelsea and current leader Arsenal.more

Twitter, which has been headed by Elon Musk since late October, has launched an $8 monthly subscription program that will allow users to, among other things, receive a blue tag, until now only given to verified accounts.more

Barcelona defeated Almeria 2:0 at Camp Nou in the 13th round of the Spanish Football Premier League and took the lead in the table. Early in the match, a penalty kick for the hosts was missed by Robert Lewandowski. Gerard Pique played the last match of his career.more

Almost half of UK workers have had their accents mocked, criticised or singled out in a social setting, a survey suggests. more

Bayern Munich defeated Hertha 3:2 in Berlin in the 13th round of Bundesliga football and will be the leader at least until today. Augsburg's Rafal Gikiewicz returned to goal after injury, but his team succumbed to Eintracht Frankfurt 1:2. Jakub Kaminski scored an assist in Wolfsburg's winning goal.more

Starting in January 2023. Wizz Air is launching four new routes from Poland to Verona in Italy and Malaga in Spain, the carrier announced Thursday. Passengers will be able to fly from Gdansk and Poznan to Verona and from Krakow to Malaga.more

Dublin will submit a motion that Ireland's Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will become Eurogroup president for a second term, even though he will no longer be head of ministry when his mandate in the Eurogroup ends in January, the Irish government said yesterday.more

Poppy roundels, specially wrapped buses and unique station announcements are returning to London’s transport network this week as TfL kicks off the capital’s annual Poppy Appeal.more

Britain’s citizenship exam is so difficult even Prince Harry was perplexed at times when helping his wife, Meghan Markle, to study for it.more