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As part of efforts to entice females to serve, Canadian military officers are suggesting highlighting the social and entertaining aspects of life in the ranks as well as redesigning uniforms that women wear so skirts are shorter and slimmer.more

Buckingham Palace is one of London's most spectacular homes and, of course, the queen herself lives there.more

Working together with space researchers, amateur photographers have discovered a new auroral form. Named 'dunes' by the hobbyists, the phenomenon is believed to be caused by waves of oxygen atoms glowing due to a stream of particles released from the sun.more

Residents of an apartment building in southern India were left in shock after a mix of beer, brandy and rum started gushing out of their taps.more

Nowak, Kowalski and Wiśniewski are the three most popular names in Poland - informs the Ministry of Digitization. more

A large building in East London will soon be filled with old tube trains, and an old aeroplane, as part of a UCL laboratory.more

EasyJet, which operates more than 30 routes out of Liverpool, has been working with US-based Wright Electric on an all-electric aircraft which it aims to have in service by 2030. more

A South Korean court has told a local match organiser to compensate two fans after Cristiano Ronaldo did not play in a Juventus friendly as advertised.more

The temperature rose to a record February high of 27 degrees on the west coast of Sardinia Monday as Italy basked in an unseasonably warm area of high pressure.more

Pennsylvania's most famous groundhog on Sunday declared: "Spring will be early, it's a certainty."more

Fragrance is an important element of behavioral training of wild animals, including tigers and leopards. It turns out that the aroma of Calvin Klein is especially stimulating for tigers. That is why the employees of the zoo in English Banham appealed to send them perfumes.more

The climate activist Greta Thunberg has said she has applied to register her name and that of the Fridays For Future movement she founded in 2018, which has gone global and catapulted her to international fame.more

Zuzanna and Antoni are the names most often given in 2019. One of the rarest names is Zoi, Emi and Eileen for girls, and Javier and Fabien for boys, according to the Ministry of Digitization (MC).more

They can kill 700 rats in seven hours. Therefore, a group of specially trained dogs, mainly terriers, are hired by British farmers to free their farms from rodents.more

The wreck of a large transport ship from several hundred years ago was discovered by archaeologists in Wisła at the height of Lomianek Dolne, north of Warsaw.more

A rare coin featuring the Queen's uncle before he abdicated has been sold for £1m, setting a new record for the sale of a British coin. The Edward VIII sovereign was bought by a private buyer in the UK from a collector in the US, having been located by the Royal Mint.more

On the streets of Rome in the evening and at night it is too dark - doctors alert. They emphasize that the result of the lack of sufficient lighting are road accidents and falls on the pavements. more

"The idea is for the employee to be able to take up to half a year of unpaid leave to create his own company" - informs "Gazeta Wyborcza" in one of the latest editions. He adds that the vacation is already working on the Ministry of Development headed by Jadwiga Emilewicz.more

The U.K.'s Royal Mail is putting out a set of stamps featuring screenshots of classic British-made computer games, from 1984's Elite to the recent Tomb Raider remakes. more

Scientists have described an unusual experiment carried out in Earth orbit. Unfortunately, it did not go completely as planned by NASA - the Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" reports, adding that "it calls into question the possibility of distant travel in space."more

Half of last year's towns failed to make the cut with previous winners like Dover and Blackpool kicked off top spots and replaced with six "skid-mark" Yorkshire townsmore

In Omsk, Siberia, Christmas gifts for children included sweets with a portrait of President Vladimir Putin, containing vodka - Radio Swoboda reports. more

A person who wins the online auction for the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity will be able to spend the weekend in the flat of the Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.more

Witold Gombrowicz had chances of receiving the Nobel Prize in 1969 - according to the archives of the Swedish Academy revealed after 50 years. In the same year, the Polish playwright died, and the Irish literary Nobel went to the Irishman Samuel Beckett.more

Wetherspoon's is just something that is part of British life. Most of us have experienced one at some point.more