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Russian businessman Aleksandr Padar, owner of a chain of eye clinics in Siberia called Omikron, has filed a lawsuit against the World Health Organization (WHO). The businessman wants the WHO not to use the name Omikron in relation to the new Covid-19 variant.more

Pestering women in the street or in pubs could be outlawed in a bid to combat sexual harassment in public.more

The Co-op has become the latest supermarket chain to say it will not enforce new mask wearing rules to avoid their staff being abused by customers.more

The United Kingdom yesterday imposed a further package of sanctions on Belarus, now in its fifth year, which, as has been pointed out, is in response to the continuing disregard for international law by Alyaksandr Lukashenko's regime and the ongoing violation of fundamental freedoms and human rights.more

The Duchess of Sussex has won the latest stage in her legal fight against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over a letter she sent to her father.more

The competences of the Polish Institute of Family and Demography, which PiS deputies want to establish, go far beyond demographic research. For example, the president of the institution will be able to take part in cases concerning minors, writes today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

Commuters have been warned that Tube staff will begin handing out £200 fines as part of a crackdown on face mask rulebreakers in London.more

The government has adopted a bill on passport documents, pursuant to which a new passport register will be created. Disappear, among others the paper version of the application for a passport document, and the age limit from which passports with a 10-year validity period and a signature are issued will be reduced to 12 years.more

Boris Johnson has announced a raft of new measures to combat the Omicron variant of coronavirus. more

Thousands of drivers are still on the road despite racking up enough penalty points for disqualification.more

The Portuguese government has approved fines for people arriving in the country after 1 December without valid coronavirus tests. The maximum fines are EUR 800.more

Britons who refuse to wear a face mask will face fines of £200 as the Government tightens Covid restrictions to contain the Omicron variant, according to a report.more

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced yesterday that his country is ready to engage in a serious discussion with the UK government about illegal migration. He stressed, however, that Paris did not intend to be a hostage of the internal policy of British authorities.more

\ The UK government has announced new restrictions to slow the spread of the Omikron variant, including the obligation for travelers arriving to perform a PCR test and an isolation order until the result is obtained. Earlier, authorities announced the discovery of the first cases of a new variant of the coronavirus in the country.more

Would you grass up your neighbour? Taxman pays informants to help catch fraudsters.more

Annalena Baerbock, head of the Greens, announces that the new government will "give itself 10 days to check" whether the current pandemic protection and vaccination measures are sufficient, otherwise the government and experts will consider introducing further measures, reports Die Welt.more

Evie Toombes, 20, who was born with spina bifida, is suing her mother's doctor over "wrongful conception". The medic failed to advise the pregnant woman to take folic acid, the lack of which caused the foetal defect, Australian news.com.au reported yesterday.more

Convicted 1978 murderer Kevin Strickland was acquitted by a Missouri court on Tuesday and released from prison after nearly 43 years. Despite the conviction being overturned, the man will not receive any compensation from the state for his time in prison.more

Domestic abuse now accounts for one in eight crimes reported to the Met Police, new figures show.more

Information published on Twitter by senator Krzysztof Brejza about the government's plan to create a pregnancy registry caused an avalanche of comments. Brejza assured that he had already addressed the minister with a senatorial intervention, demanding an explanation.more

Shamima Begum claims she did not hate Britain when she travelled to Syria as a teen to join ISIS and pleaded again for a chance to fight her case in court.more

After the riots in Rotterdam on Friday, yesterday night there were further clashes between opponents of the pandemic restrictions with the police in several Dutch cities.more

UK drivers will be banned from filming or searching playlists on hand-held devices from next year under government plans to toughen road safety laws.more

Ministers looking at ‘all legitimate means’ to deter migrants, says Dominic Raab.more

Nationality and borders bill includes plan to send refugees to another country while claim processed more