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The top baby names of 2019 have been revealed in the official list by the Office of National Statistics.more

Almost 260 million children in the world do not go to schools and have no chance of getting an education - the Polish Humanitarian Organization is alarming. The reasons are, among others poverty, disability, armed conflict or distance to school.more

Tourist voucher, previously unused leaves, the possibility of remote learning - all this made Poles willing to book trips for September.more

More than 4,000 Brits have been referred to the police for breaking the mandatory 14-day quarantine on return from their holidays. more

Londoners and people from Stockholm have been infected with coronavirus at similar rates, a new study suggests.more

The Balearics have banned party boats and daytime pool parties under new restrictions to control a recent increase in the number of new Covid-19 cases.more

Coronavirus tests are to be carried out on more people to get a better idea of how many are infected at any one time.more

The average age of people currently infected with the coronavirus in Italy has dropped to 35, the National Institute of Health announced. At the beginning of the epidemic, the average was 60 years. more

It is widely believed that there was no lockdown in Sweden due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, it is not true: the lockdown was voluntary, emphasize experts from Sweden and Denmark, quoted by the weekly New Scientist.more

The president of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has lost his social mandate, and the West should help Belarusians to decide for themselves about the country's future, write in today's editorial comments the British newspapers "The Times" and "The Guardian".more

The Italy government approved a €400 citation for people out in public not wearing a mask. more

Fresh strikes are expected in Belarus after a weekend which saw tens of thousands take to the streets to demand the departure of long-term President Alexander Lukashenko.more

The public's appetite for working from home and local lockdowns if a Covid-19 vaccine cannot be found appears to be growing, research suggests.more

Ireland reported 200 new Covid-19 cases arising from multiple clusters across the country on Saturday, the highest daily amount since the beginning of May. The country’s chief medical officer described this as “deeply concerning”.more

2020 is considered the worst year in their lives by 50 percent. Canadians asked for their assessment in a study by Leger Marketing and the Association for Canadian Studies.more

Oldham is on the brink of local lockdown after it recorded the worst coronavirus infection rate in the country.more

French Prime Minister Jean Castex said yesterday that the pandemic situation was "going in the wrong direction" for two weeks and that the government would tighten sanitary regulations. He added that he wanted to avoid having to freeze the economy "above all else".more

In response to the arrests during the solidarity protests with Margot and the continuous campaign against LGBTI people in Poland, we called on the President of the European Commission to take specific actions against the Polish authorities, wrote MEP Robert Biedroń on Twitter.more

Most European countries have introduced the obligation to wear masks in public spaces. Covering the mouth and nose is most often required in stores and transport. The rules may even differ within one country; there are fines for ignoring them.more

Anti-Semitism is becoming more and more common among Germans, although it takes new and more secret forms, said Thomas Haldenwang, head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Saturday.more

Just over half of the UK would definitely get a coronavirus vaccine, with "damaging misperceptions" affecting potential uptake, a poll has revealed. more

Protesters and riot police have clashed in Belarus's capital Minsk and other cities, after a state TV exit poll said long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected in Sunday's election.more

German government-owned train operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) announced Monday they want the requirement to wear a face-mask on public transport to be better enforced. The announcement came after lawmakers criticized the travel operator for failing to adequately ensure that passengers wear masks.more

Face coverings have become mandatory in more indoor settings in England and Scotland following a recent spike in coronavirus cases. Places where coverings must now be worn in both countries include museums, places of worship and aquariums.more

In France, an anti-mask movement has emerged, insisting that wearing a face covering to prevent the spread of Covid-19 is inefficient and an infringement on their personal freedom. This comes as authorities in several more cities decreed masks mandatory in all public spaces.more