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About 1 million people who need to obtain eVisas to prove their right to live and work in the UK or return after travelling abroad have not yet done so even though the deadline to register is just over a week away.more

The UK’s first official facility for consuming illegal drugs opens in Glasgow within a month, a move that experts and campaigners hope will bring major changes to drug policy.more

A huge illegal car park near Heathrow Airport will be ripped out after more than 300 vehicles were found on green belt land. Hundreds of cars illegally parked on a privately owned site on Manse Close, around 10 minutes from the UK’s busiest airport, were discovered by Hillingdon Council following complaints from residents.more

Journalists and legal bloggers are to be allowed to report on family court cases across England and Wales from early next year. Transparency will no longer be restricted to pilot courts and will be permanent.more

Deputy head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration Czesław Mroczek told the Sejm yesterday that from 1 January to 15 December this year, 30,000 attempts to cross the border illegally were recorded. This compares with almost 26,000 in 2023 and more than 15,000 in 2022.more

The heiress to a hotel fortune celebrates the passage of a law against systemic child abuse. Paris Hilton, who was herself a victim of abuse many years ago while in foster care, has repeatedly called on US authorities to introduce legislation to protect minors from abuse. more

More than 100 dangerous dogs a month on average have been destroyed since XL bullies were banned nearly a year ago, the BBC has learned. Police forces in England and Wales say the costs of kennelling thousands of seized dogs, often for months at a time, have risen sixfold to £25m a year and many facilities were at capacity.more

Fewer foreigners are committing crimes, and a significant decrease – by as much as one third – concerns citizens of Georgia, reports "Rzeczpospolita" today. The newspaper asks why such a big change and explains that those who break the law are more often deported from Poland.more

The government and regulators have broken the law by being too lenient on water companies that spill sewage, the UK's environment watchdog has found. The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said sewage releases should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances, such as during unusually heavy rainfall, but that "this has not always been the case".more

European Union privacy watchdogs hit Facebook owner Meta with fines totaling €251 million on Monday after an investigation into a 2018 data breach on the social media platform that exposed millions of accounts. more

The European Commission is taking the British government to court over alleged violations of the rights of EU citizens in the UK, a decision that ​casts a cloud over Keir Starmer’s attempted post-Brexit reset.more

A London court today sentenced to 33 and 40 years in prison the father and stepmother of slain 2023. 10-year-old Sarah Sharif. Last week, a jury ruled that the couple were guilty of murdering and cruelly treating the girl from the man's first marriage.more

The UK today imposed sanctions on 20 oil tankers that were illegally carrying Russian petroleum products, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced. He added that his government would provide £35 million (US$44 million) to Ukraine to repair its energy infrastructure, which has been targeted by Russian attacks.more

The European Commission yesterday launched a procedure against Poland for failing to conduct mandatory alcohol testing of pilots and cabin crew at airports.more

A British court yesterday handed down a guilty verdict against a woman who doused the leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party Nigel Farage with a milkshake during the election campaign. The sentence includes a 13-week suspended prison sentence, community service and payment of £150 in compensation.more

Thirteen vapes are thrown away every second in the UK – more than a million a day – leading to an “environmental nightmare”, according to research.more

EU countries have approved changes to EU regulations that are intended to make it harder for drivers who commit road offences in another member state to avoid liability. Countries are to strengthen cooperation in identifying perpetrators and collecting fines.more

EU member states have today approved a new regulation on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR). According to it, all packaging must be recyclable by 2030, and the sale of single-use cosmetics or spices packaged in plastic will be banned.more

UK high street retailers have been accused of recruiting young workers as store assistants without basic employment rights over the busy Christmas period.more

A new definition of mobbing, higher compensation for employees, additional obligations for employers and more radical regulations prohibiting discrimination or harassment - we read in Money.pl about the changes being prepared by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy.more

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy yesterday called on Washington authorities to investigate suspicious drone activity detected near important facilities in their states. There are nearly a million registered drones in the US, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official.more

British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism.more

Norway's parliament passed a new abortion law yesterday, extending the period in which a woman can decide to terminate her pregnancy from 12 to 18 weeks. The center-left coalition's bill was supported by the People's Party, the Conservatives, and some of the right.more

EU interior ministers decided today in Brussels to abolish travel controls at land borders with Bulgaria and Romania from January 1, 2025. Both countries have been seeking entry into the full Schengen zone since joining the EU in 2007.more

The Northern Ireland assembly has voted to continue with the special Brexit trading arrangements for another four years. It means Northern Ireland will retain some EU trade laws as a means of maintaining an invisible border on the island of Ireland, despite continued opposition in some unionist quarters.more