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Britain's House of Commons will review rules on bringing infants into the parliament building, it was reported yesterday after an MP was reprimanded for taking her infant son to a debate.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

Bulb Energy, the seventh largest energy supplier on the British market, announced that it will go under receivership, which in practice means bankruptcy. It is the 22nd company to withdraw from the market since September due to high energy prices.more

Regular lifestyle, regular hours of sleep, hobbies, exercise, avoiding the computer and bad news - such behaviors have so far helped Poles to maintain a good mood during the COVID-19 epidemic.more

Companies are being urged to stop asking interviewees about their previous salary over concerns it keeps women earning less than men, a charity has said.more

City Hall has urged businesses and shops in London to open up their toilets to the general public as more than 90 per cent of Londoners have said there are not enough in the capital.more

From 1 July 2022, civil marriage will be possible for same-sex couples in Switzerland, in line with the will of nearly two-thirds of voters participating in a September referendum on the issue, the government in Bern announced yesterday.more

Individuals could be stripped of their British citizenship without warning under a proposed rule change quietly added to the nationality and borders bill.more

Specialist NHS clinics for severely obese children and young people are to be set up in England as part of an early intervention scheme to help tackle an issue costing about £6bn a year.more

Since January this year, more than a thousand teenagers have tried to commit suicide - this is more than in the entire 2020 - 843, or in 2019 - 951, and in 2018 and 2017 it was about 700 cases. The number of death attempts has also increased, reports "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

The end of the furlough scheme in September does not appear to have led to a spike in unemployment as some feared, official figures suggest. more

Voters now want to rejoin the EU, polls show, in evidence that goods shortages and spats with Brussels are fuelling disillusionment with Brexit. more

Italians dream of a white Christmas, that is, in a white zone, without restrictions restricting their freedom to celebrate. In order to "save" the holidays, local authorities are already introducing restrictions to contain the fourth wave of the pandemic, although the situation is better than in other countries.more

Research shows that up to 70 percent. people over 60 in Poland do not use the Internet. Due to the pandemic, seniors have more difficult access to education in this field. "Digitally excluded people are more lonely and left on their own" - experts point out.more

British royalty, politicians and veterans have paid tribute today to the soldiers who died in both world wars and subsequent conflicts. Due to a back injury, Queen Elizabeth II did not participate in the celebration of Remembrance Sunday.more

EU authorities have pursued an energy policy in recent years that has increased Europe's dependence on natural gas from Russia, and now we will pay the price, according to Spanish media.more

Lives are at risk because patients are facing unacceptably long waits for a 999 response, paramedics across the UK have told a BBC investigation.more

Christmas is just around the corner - or, if the rate at which festive light displays are popping up around London is anything to go by, it’s already here.more

Various events on the occasion of the National Independence Day - organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and by the Polish community - in Great Britain will take place from Thursday to Sunday.more

Tourists are booking stays even for the end of November because they are afraid that in case of another lockdown they will not be able to move from their homes again and they want to get some extra money, "Gazeta Wyborcza" writes today.more

Thousands of payphones across the UK could be protected under new rules. Regulator Ofcom said it is proposing stronger rules to safeguard phone boxes from removal if they meet certain criteria.more

The number of Italians living abroad and immigrants in Italy is almost equal; there are about 5 million of them - announced in the report of the Migrantes Foundation. It was reported that emigration from Italy increased by 3 percent in the year of the pandemic.more

Marks & Spencer diversity managers have begun introducing staff pronoun badges as part of a nationwide drive.more

Electricity prices in Germany are currently higher than in most countries in the world. Higher prices can be found in developing countries, the daily Spiegel reports today.more