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HIV has increased among women and people identifying as transgender in Ireland, it emerged today. There was an increase of 107pc in diagnoses of HIV in heterosexual females in 2022 when compared with 2019.more

About 2m UK households have been forced to turn off their fridge or freezer to save money as they continue to struggle with what poverty campaigners called a “frightening” level of hardship.more

Nearly a third of service workers have considered leaving their role because of customer hostility, research shows. New data from the Institute of Customer Service has revealed that many workers have taken sick leave after facing abuse, as a group of leading businesses has called for more police action on the issue.more

A quarter of teenage children living in London have been a victim of violence in the past year, a survey has revealed. The study by the Youth Endowment Fund lifts the lid on the extent of youth violence in the capital. more

Attracting skilled overseas-trained doctors to the UK will remain "crucial", despite plans to train more healthcare staff here, the doctors' regulator has said. The General Medical Council (GMC) found that nearly two-thirds (63%) of new doctors in 2022 qualified abroad.more

2.9 thousand people already receive an honorary benefit from ZUS due to reaching the age of 100. We see that this number is constantly growing, said ZUS spokesman Paweł Żebrowski. Women receive the "age bonus" much more often. They constitute over 90 percent. all centenarians.more

Almost 60,000 London renters could be pushed into homelessness by 2030 if the Government does not increase housing support, according to a new analysis. more

More than half of professional Londoners are working in a hybrid way and 56% say they would not accept a job that does not offer that flexibility, a survey has found. more

The UK faces an ageing crisis and healthcare must step in, England's chief medical officer, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, warns in his annual report. People are living longer but some spend many of their later years in bad health - and that has to change, he said. more

During the march in solidarity with the Palestinians, which took place in London yesterday, 126 people were arrested, the London Metropolitan Police announced in the evening. The riots that accompanied the march and counter-protests were condemned by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more

Approx. 19 percent Poles - almost every fifth of us - have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - new research shows. This is much higher than the world average (approx. 5-10%). This is facilitated by unprocessed, transgenerational trauma dating back to World War II - explains Prof. Marcin Rzeszutek from the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw.more

As part of the "Independent to the Anthem" campaign, Poles sang the Polish anthem on Saturday noon. Dąbrowski's Mazurek was sung, among others, on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, in the Grand Theater in Łódź, on the Main Market Square in Krakow, in front of the town hall building in Białystok and in Wrocław. Poles abroad also took part in the action.more

Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed by IBRiS believe there should be personnel changes in the public media; national media are defended by Law and Justice voters, reported "Rzeczpospolita."more

Planning for weather is tricky with Londoners needing to consider the cold of November, rain showers and the heat of the Tube in their outfit choices. more

Half of Britons believe that pro-Palestinian demonstrations should not take place this Saturday, when Memorial Day is observed, and this despite the fact that slightly more people sympathize with the Palestinians than with Israel, a YouGov poll released today shows.more

At Time Out we’re crazy about all things London, so it came as no surprise to us that two – although only two — of the city’s many fantastic neighbourhoods ranked as some of the best places to live in the UK. more

Over 80 percent households experienced increases in electricity and gas prices due to the energy crisis, and nearly 70 percent Poles support the construction of nuclear power plants in our country - according to the study "Energy UREgulowana".more

Every police force in England and Wales has reported migrants who are domestic-abuse victims to Immigration Enforcement, new data suggests.more

Lack of access to dentists is costing lives because mouth cancers are not being spotted or treated early enough, a health charity has told BBC News. The disease killed more than 3,000 people in 2021 - up 46%, from 2,075 a decade ago, latest figures obtained by the Oral Health Foundation show.more

Spain's more than 48 million people are home to a record number of foreigners, according to a report released yesterday by the National Statistics Institute (INE) in Madrid. The government agency estimates their number at more than 6.4 million.more

Fifty-two percent of respondents believe that President Andrzej Duda did not do the right thing by announcing the entrustment of the mission to form a new government to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, with 38 percent holding the opposite view and 10 percent choosing the "don't know" answer. - According to a Pollster Research Institute survey conducted for "Super Express."more

Aggressive, critical and unfair bosses make employees less productive, with those whose priority is career development suffering more than employees whose priority is job security, according to a study by US researchers.more

The institutions which Poles trust the most are NATO, the Polish army and the European Union, according to an IBRiS poll for Onet. As highlighted, the majority of institutions have lost trust compared to last June's poll.more

Leaked documents spark furious backlash from groups who fear freedom of expression could be suppressed.more

British women top the list for the world’s biggest female binge drinkers, a report has found. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) compared alcohol consumption across 33 countries.more