Unfortunately, Polish law does not create the possibility of granting Polish citizenship to Alfie Evans - said President Andrzej Duda. He added that the boy's case moved him very much.more
Margaret O'Brien, 69, moved from Canada to Wolverhampton in 1971, got married, had three children and worked for the local council for more than 25 years as a dinner lady, meals on wheels driver, lollipop lady and cleaner.more
US comedian Bill Cosby has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault, each of which carries a potential 10 years in prison. The actor, 80, has been on trial for drugging and assaulting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand in 2004.more
The father of seriously ill toddler Alfie Evans says he wants to "build his relationship" with the hospital he has been locked in a legal battle with.
Tom Evans, who has been fighting to take his 23-month-old son out of Alder Hey Children's Hospital, said he now wanted to be "left alone" to do so.more
Alfie Evans responds to her father's voice and touch; he has emotional contact with his parents - says Polish doctor, who in January examined a two-year-oldmore
The largest labour union at Poland's national airline LOT will begin a strike on May 1 that could lead to delays at Warsaw Chopin airport, the head of the ZZPPiL union said.more
Justice Secretary David Gauke has signalled the Government could support creating a specific offence to deal with upskirting. He told MPs he was "sympathetic" to calls for further action against the practice and his officials were reviewing the current law to "make sure it is fit for purpose".more
In the hopes of making advertising more transparent for users, Facebook will vet political adverts in time for England and Northern Ireland's May 2019 local elections. Facebook's CTO, Mike Schroepfer, is expected to reveal details to the UK parliament today, according to the BBC .more
A BRITISH professor is being held for unknown charges in Tehran by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard, according to a human rights group. Anti-war activist Abbas Edalat was arrested on April 15, the Centre for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said.more
Popular messaging service WhatsApp is banning under-16s from using its platform in the European Union. Users must currently be at least 13, but the firm is changing the rules ahead of the introduction of new EU data privacy regulations in May.more
The father of a 23-month-old at the centre of a life-support treatment battle has told reporters gathered outside the hospital that he will meet doctors later on Thursday to discuss taking his son home.more
The All-Polish Youth appealed for bringing teddy bears to British consulates across Poland, in a gesture of solidarity with Alfie Evans. "Let's shower the British embassy with plush toys," reads the slogan launched today in Warsaw.more
20 years ago - on April 25, 1998 - a concordat entered into force, concluded between the Holy See and the Republic of Poland, which as an international agreement regulates diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Poland.more
The parents of seriously ill toddler Alfie Evans will challenge a High Court ruling preventing them from taking him to Italy for further treatment. The family's lawyers told the BBC that a hearing has been scheduled at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday afternoon.more
A former Grenadier Guardsman who arrived in Britain aged seven after his parents fled the Nazis has been told he is not British enough for a UK passport. In a row which echoes the scandal of the Windrush Generation furore, grandad Tadeusz Polanski was told by the Home Office that he was not a British citizen.more
The first statue of a woman in Parliament Square was set to be unveiled today two years after a campaign to get female representation outside the Palace of Westminster began. A bronze statue of Millicent Fawcett will join eleven all-male statues including Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.more
The number of zero hour contracts in the UK labour market rose by around 100,000 last year according to the Office for National Statistics. The agency reported that in its latest survey of firms there were 1.8 million contracts that did not guarantee a minimum numbers of hours in the year to November 2017. more
India's cabinet on Saturday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an emergency meeting in response to nationwide outrage in the wake of a series of cases.more
A British teenager hacked into a US security chief's home television and made the words "I own you" appear on screen, a court has heard. Kane Gamble, 18, rocked the US intelligence community when he blagged his way into top officials' accounts in a campaign of "cyber terrorism". more
