Adults who commit the premeditated murder of a child will be given tougher sentences of life without parole under plans due to be included in the Conservative party's manifesto.more
Swedish authorities have discontinued an investigation into a rape allegation against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, after a review of the evidence.more
A former Tesco employee, who took a €25,000 voluntary redundancy package unaware he had an option of continuing to work night shifts in the store, has been awarded €25,000 damages on top of his original €25,000 redundancy pay-out.more
Collecting data on recruitment about whether the vaccination obligation has been fulfilled does not constitute discrimination, said the Provincial Administrative Court in Poznań, which was announced yesterday by the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita".more
A judge sided with the Trump administration on Thursday in ruling that an Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State group was not a US citizen, leaving the 25-year-old and her son in limbo in Syria.more
A Madrid court has today (Friday) opted not to grant permission to stage a LaLiga match between Villarreal and Atlético Madrid in the US city of Miami.more
British taxpayers face paying out for a large fine after the EU launched a legal action against Boris Johnson's government over his failure to abide by the law and nominate a candidate for the new European commission.more
Upskirting, the act of secretly taking images under a person's clothes without consent, is to become a criminal offense. New legislation approved by Cabinet also punishes photographing the victims of accidents.more
The daytime speed limit on Dutch roads is to be cut to 100km/h (62mph) in a bid to tackle a nitrogen oxide pollution crisis, according to cabinet sources widely quoted by Dutch media.more
European Union finance ministers removed on Friday the Central American country of Belize from the bloc's blacklist of tax havens, according to an EU document.more
The EU institutions have reached a provisional political agreement on the revised General Safety Regulation. As of 2022 new safety technologies will become mandatory in European vehicles to protect passengers, pedestrians and cyclists.more
A resolution has been prepared in the EP criticizing Poland for the sex education project - yesterday the MEP Robert Biedron's office in Brussels said. MEPs call on the Polish parliament not to accept the amendment to the Penal Code.more
EU Citizens Rights Project is collaborating with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and the International Office for Migration (IOM) to offer a series of information sessions about Brexit, citizens' rights and the EU Settlement Scheme for local authorities' officers and politicians working with EU/EEA citizens. more
British authorities have put on hold what they deemed a "disproportionate" European arrest warrant issued by Spain as it seeks to extradite Catalan separatist leader Clara Ponsati over her role in a failed independence bid, official documents have shown.more
Extinction Rebellion climate-change activists won a legal challenge in London's High Court on Wednesday against a police-imposed blanket ban on protests during its "Autumn Uprising" in the British capital in October.more
An official communique on accepting Poland to the US Visa Waiver Program will be announced later today in Washington, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday morning.more
Verona's local council are threatening to sue Mario Balotelli after the forward's accusations of racist abuse in Brescia's 2-1 loss to Hellas Verona.more
Germany's leading airline Lufthansa on Tuesday requested an injunction from a court to prevent its cabin crew from striking for 48 hours on Thursday and Friday.more
French film director Luc Besson was taken to court in the northern Normandy region on Monday for refusing to allow hunters onto his land to shoot deer.more
83 percent of Europeans, who travel by plane, do not know their rights. Almost every sixth traveler in Europe admitted that he had accepted vouchers or a free meal instead of his monetary compensation.more
Five men accused of gang raping a 14-year-old girl have been acquitted of sexual assault because the victim was in an "unconscious state". The men were instead found guilty of sexually abusing the child during a drinking session, known in Spanish as a botellon, at an abandoned factory in the town of Manresa.more
