The employer should pay for the coffee, tea, toilet paper, gas, electricity and water used by employees while working at home, said NIBUD, a Dutch foundation funded primarily by the government and advising on household finances.more
September was the warmest on record globally, according to the weather service Copernicus. It was 0.05C hotter than September last year, which in turn set the previous record high for the month.more
Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described Monday as a "historic" step.more
The captain of the Polish national football team has passed his master's exam at the Higher School of Education in Sport today, the university informed on Facebook.more
This Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Inside Science staff will rise early in the morning to tune into the webcasts announcing the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry. more
In the Rędzin district of Wrocław, in the floodplains near the estuary of Widawa to the Odra River, walkers noticed an alligator yesterday. The police were called to the scene, which in turn notified the employees of the Wrocław zoo.more
Germany is considering introducing feminine forms for military ranks, according to reports, 20 years after women gained the right to join the Bundeswehr.more
By 2030, 30 percent the territory of Great Britain will be national parks and other protected areas, declared Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday.more
The M-15 agricultural jet, which was produced in Mielec in the 1970s, was indicated by the American magazine "Popular Mechanics" as the ugliest plane in the world. Interestingly, the common name for this machine is Belphegor - just like the name of the famous Louvre phantom.more
The giant African rat named Magawa received a gold medal from the British animal charity for bravery for detecting mines and unexploded mines in Cambodia, British Sky News reported on Friday.more
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air has signed a cooperation agreement with the Hungarian Armed Forces on the training of pilots and flight attendants.more
The world heard about the hundred-year-old war hero Tom Moorze in April this year. Thanks to his charity campaign, an online fundraiser managed to raise nearly £ 39 million for the NHS. For his feat, Moore was awarded the title of Knight Knight by Queen Elizabeth II in July, and a biopic will now be made about him.more
Poles were left shaken and stirred by news that a suspected British agent called James Bond was on Her Majesty’s secret service in the country in the 1960s, after the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) posted about him on social media.more
The Duchess of Sussex is known for her willingness to engage in social affairs. Now that she is no longer constrained by the regime of the British royal court, she can do so again. Meghan Markle, together with the icon of feminism Gloria Steinem, decided to organize an action aimed at encouraging Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential elections.more
The Duchess of Sussex strategically crafted an emotional letter to her father “with a view to it being disclosed to the public”, the High Court has heard.more
Bilbao flees from the vertigo of speed to impose the 30 km/h limit on all its streets. It is the first city of more than 300,000 residents to take this measure in the world.more
"I still can't explain how it happened" - with these words Robert Lewandowski most often returns to the match against VfL Wolfsburg, where he scored five goals in nine minutes. Today five years have passed since this historic event.more
Airbus has announced plans for the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft models that run on hydrogen and could take to the skies by 2035.more
Half of Italians working remotely admit that they have problems with organizing a lunch break, and the meals are not varied. Pausing at home is less relaxing than at work, they say. The survey results indicate that working at the computer disturbs the order of the day.
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