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Overuse of mobiles by university students may be related to lower grades, drinking problems and more sexual partners, a study says.more

British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems.more

A spokesman for Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has announced a third probe into Apple regarding privacy and transparency.more

Experts found that harmful alcohol use is 10 times higher in hospital inpatients compared with the general UK population.more

A poll of 2,000 UK adults asked which British icons they think are the most inspirational. Topping the chart was theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, with Sir David Attenborough taking second place. more

The capital is experiencing a bigger than ever population exodus out to the sticks, official new figures show.more

Virgin Media broadband, TV and home phone customers will see price increases of up to £54/year from this autumn - but if you're affected you can leave penalty-free or try to haggle down your bill.more

Soho is the least healthy neighbourhood to live in the country, new research has revealed. more

For the last few days it has had the population of a small town, so it's not a surprise that the fields of Worthy Farm are a bit of a state.more

Londoners overwhelmingly support the legalisation of cannabis for adult recreational use, according to a poll commissioned by the Evening Standard and the independent think-tank Volteface. more

While arranged marriages remain the norm in India, they are evolving into a system of semi-arranged marriages giving women more freedom and making them less vulnerable to domestic violence, according to a UN report.more

The energy transformation would cost Poland about EUR 900 billion, and during talks on the EU financial framework, the amount of around EUR 5 billion was proposed - said Tomasz Dąbrowski, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Energy in London, quoted by the Financial Times.more

A man who refused to register his son's birth because he says he does not want him to be controlled by the state has lost a high court case.more

More than a fifth of Britons are now turning to their kitchen cupboards in a misguided attempt to get the perfect summer tan.more

Almost two million Londoners - of which an estimated 400,000 are children under 15 - struggle to afford or access enough food, new statistics published today by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, suggest.more

The British "The Times" criticized today the Council of Europe for the decision to restore Russia's voting rights in the Parliamentary Assembly, accusing the institution of resigning from monitoring the observance of human rights.more

Beating, violence, smacking are unacceptable and I never said that it is allowed to beat children or allow any violence - said the Ombudsman for Children's Rights Mikołaj Pawlak. As he added, the smacking is an unacceptable educational method.more

The population of the UK has risen to 66.4 million but the growth rate has stalled, official estimates show. more

Southern Water is under criminal investigation by the Environment Agency after "serious failures" in its sewage treatment sites and for deliberately misreporting its performance.more

San Francisco will become the first US city to effectively ban e-cigarette sales, after the city's board of supervisors unanimously voted in favor of an ordinance Tuesday.more

In Poland, more and more marriages decide to divorce, and the most divorce proceedings are affecting after holidays - Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more

The Netherlands has been hit by its largest telecommunications outage in years, with the 112 emergency number knocked out across the country.more

More than two million people face Tube strike action across the network from the end of next month under plans announced today.more

Kowalscy prefer VAT reduction more than PIT reduction - according to the IBRiS survey for "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" and radio RMF FM.more

Children will be able to access treatment for their gambling addictions in the first clinic of its kind in the UK. more