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A transgender police candidate from the town of Torrelodones near Madrid has sparked a lively polemic in Spain. During the competitive exams in March, he changed his gender to female and achieved the best results in physical fitness tests in the female category. The other candidates feel cheated, writes "ABC."more

Amsterdam authorities call for 20 km/h speed limit for electric bikesmore

58 percent of Ukrainian employees work in large companies, according to the "Polish Labor Market Barometer" survey. Nearly one in two entrepreneurs say they have a Ukrainian employee, and nearly one in three Ukrainian workers are employed as skilled middle-level staff, it added.more

Some environmental groups oppose the extermination of rats in urban spaces, which have proliferated in the wake of a strike by municipal workers in Paris against pension reform and the backlog of tons of garbage on the capital's streets, the daily Le Figaro reported.more

A gynecologist from The Hague who is the father of more than 500 children worldwide will stand trial, the daily De Volkskrant reported yesterday. The 41-year-old sperm donor was sued by Donorkind, an organization for donor children, and the mother of his two children.more

The sale of laughing gas to the public will be banned as part of a wider crackdown on antisocial behaviour, a Cabinet minister has confirmed. Levelling-Up Secretary Michael Gove said the “scourge” of nitrous oxide was turning public spaces into “drug-taking arenas” and was helping fuel anti-social behaviour that ministers are determined to stamp out.more

Wadhurst in East Sussex has been named as the UK's best place to live. Judges for the Sunday Times said the town offered "pretty much everything needed for modern life in miniature".more

The results of the so-called The number of intelligence tests among Americans has been steadily increasing since 1932, but in the years 2006-2018 this trend was reversed in almost all cognitive categories.more

Councils across the UK are giving out £500 of free food vouchers to people who apply. There are over £420m worth of vouchers which have been funded through the Household Support Fund, however, it's worth applying now if you hope to get the support.more

119,000 people took part in yesterday's protests in Paris, where protesters against the pension reform clashed with the police. people, most since the beginning of the so-called mobilization in January. More than a million people took part in the protests across the country.more

Teacher vacancies in England have virtually doubled since before Covid, with school leaders increasingly forced to use non-specialist teachers, which threatens to drive down pupil attainment, according to research.more

Buying frozen products is a favorite way for Belgians to save money in stores, the daily Le Soir reports. A recent survey shows that more than half of all Belgian shoppers save in this way.more

London primary-school pupils not fully vaccinated against polio are to be offered catch-up jabs after Easter. The disease, common in the UK in the 1950s, was eliminated by 2003. But poliovirus traces were found in north and east London sewage in early 2022.more

Cocaine use in Europe declined slightly during the Covid-19 pandemic, but has now reached a new high. Many countries have also seen a relatively strong increase in methamphetamine, the German daily Tagesspiegel writes, citing the latest report by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).more

2.5 percent of non-EU physicians have been refused permission to work in Poland. The main reason is the lack of knowledge of the Polish language, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports today.more

Nearly half of all specialist doctors in England and Wales were born outside the UK, along with two in five GPs, census data shows. Non-UK-born nationals also make up a quarter of care workers and one in five social workers.more

The state of the world's resources and access to water, as well as how to deal with emergencies, analyzes the latest UNESCO report released today. World Water Day marks March 22.more

Since Finland took the title of happiest country in the world in 2018, it hasn't given it up to any other country. This year it managed to retain the title again, and for the sixth year in a row Finland topped the World Happiness Report ranking. In terms of contentment, the Finns are ahead of the people of Denmark and Iceland, which also made it to the podium.more

People living in Tower Hamlets are the most likely in London to be admitted to hospital and die with a lung condition, new figures show.more

Scotland’s pioneering policy of minimum pricing for alcohol has been linked to a 13% drop in the number of deaths from alcohol consumption, and hundreds fewer hospitalisations, according to a study.more

Hundreds of patients have lost their eyesight or had it irreparably damaged because of NHS backlogs, new research suggests.more

The 40-year-old Yevhen Mezhevych, a native of Mariupol, found his son and two daughters several months after the children were deported to Russia, The Guardian daily reported last night.more

Demand for labor in Poland is rather low, and this will weigh on employment in the coming months, Santander Bank Polska economists estimate, commenting on today's CSO data. In real terms, wage growth will remain negative until the third quarter of this year. - they added.more

Half of the gas stations in the Rhône Delta department (in the southeastern part of the country) were hit by fuel shortages today, AFP reported.more

Three million people who applied for a driving licence during the worst of the pandemic experienced major delays, a report has found. Some applicants lost jobs or income, and suffered social isolation and mental health problems, parliament's Public Accounts Committee said.more