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Future generations of New Zealanders born after 1 January 2009 will not be able to buy cigarettes for their entire lives under a package of new anti-smoking laws passed in New Zealand's parliament yesterday. These are among the strictest such laws in the world, Reuters reported.more

If in doubt, one should first of all check the regulations and contact details of the e-shop, writes today's Rzeczpospolita.more

GPs are inundated with demands for antibiotics at a time when pharmacists have warned supplies of some products for respiratory illnesses are at a 25-year low.more

As workers across the UK prepare for strike action over pay, it has emerged that 2022 has been the worst year for real wage growth in nearly half a century.more

Renters are being pummelled by the cost of living crisis, emerging as the household type most likely to be struggling to afford housing costs and energy bills.more

Sexual harassment on the street will be made a crime with jail sentences of up to two years, the government has said. more

The German government presented the first report on the homeless, according to which, at the time of recording at the turn of January and February this year, about 263,000 people in West Germany did not have their own shelter.more

On Thursday, December 8, the South Korean authorities changed the rules governing the calculation of the age of residents. Instead of the local method used so far, a system used worldwide has been adopted. Thanks to this, all citizens of this country will officially become younger by a year, and some even by two years.more

Energy provider Pinergy has on Friday announced a 14% hike in electricity prices which will add around €320 to a typical household’s annual bill.more

The number of people smoking in the UK dropped to its lowest level on record last year but more people were using e-cigarettes, new figures have revealed. more

More than 3 million low-income UK households cannot afford to heat their homes, according to research, as a “dangerously cold” weather front arrived from the Arctic.more

Free universal preschool childcare and more funding for after-school clubs could increase government revenues and save a family with young children between £620 and £6,175 a year, a joint report welcomed by the Labour party has revealed.more

In the Netherlands, GPs will be able to prescribe abortion pills to women wishing to terminate their pregnancies, the upper house of parliament decided yesterday. Until now, the pills could only be ordered from abortion clinics.more

Lockdowns and quarantines were introduced during the pandemic to isolate people infected with SARS-CoV-2 from outsiders. However, they did not protect the families of those infected from infection. How many people 'caught' the virus in their own home? Professor Rebecca Tunstall of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York set out to answer this question.more

Primary schoolchildren at risk from a severe form of strep A could be given preventive antibiotics as a blanket measure, in a move described as “rare” by health officials.more

EU-funded survey of people aged 16-19 finds one in four have trolled someone – while UK least ‘cyberdeviant’ of nine countries.more

More than 2.5 million Italians have fallen ill with influenza since the beginning of autumn, the National Institute of Health Services reported. Such a high number of cases had not been recorded since 2009, when the so-called swine flu raged.more

High inflation and the associated price shock are dampening the festive mood of Germans. According to a survey by pollster Insa for the daily Bild, 23 per cent of people will not buy any Christmas presents this year, and less than half would be able to pay for gifts from their current income.more

73% of the employed do not expect to lose their jobs, i.e. by 1 percentage point more than in October. Such a possibility is expected by 23 per cent of people - that is 2 percentage points less, according to the November CBOS survey, published on Friday.more

'Disinformation, if we learn more deeply about how it works, can help us find the weaknesses in society that allow it to spread widely; therefore, you need to be smarter than the disinformer to be better able to counter it,' announced Givi Gigitashvili of the US think tank Atlantic Council.more

In the UK, there will not be a single day without some kind of strike until 24 December, with two or three professional groups going on strike at the same time for most of the three weeks remaining before Christmas.more

The King should be officially separated from the Church of England, campaigners have said, after official figures this week showed the country is no longer majority-Christian.more

In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, a majority of residents support a referendum on island reunification, but if it were to take place, the idea would be clearly rejected in Northern Ireland, according to a poll published yesterday by The Irish Times.more

More and more foreigners are working in Poland, they account for 6.5 per cent of all insured persons. At the end of September 2022, more than 1 million foreigners were registered with ZUS, an increase of 23.5 per cent compared to the same period in 2021. - informed ZUS president Prof. Gertruda Uścińska.more

New York and Singapore topped the list of the most expensive cities in the world. The annual Worldwide Cost of Living Index report, prepared by ECA International, highlighted what we have been feeling so painfully for months - the average cost of living in the largest cities increased by an average of 8.1% in 2022. This is the largest increase in at least 20 years, the report notes.more