Londoners are being warned to remain extra-vigilant as pickpocketing in some areas of the capital surges by 700%. Between March 2023 and 2024, the Metropolitan Police received more than 79,000 reports of pickpockets.more

The British newspaper "Daily Telegraph" presented on Friday the final predictions of its journalists regarding the result of the US elections, assuming Donald Trump will win by a narrow majority. With the reservation that in a close race the predictions are based largely on hunches.more

A tree in the Scottish Highlands which could be 1,000 years old and known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed until a gathering in 2009.more

The law on the deposit system will enter into force on October 1, 2025, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. He added that the government still needs time to properly prepare the implementation of this system.more

World ranking leader Aryna Sabalenka started her season-ending WTA Finals tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a victory. The Belarusian tennis player defeated Chinese Qinwen Zheng 6-3, 6-4 in the first match of the purple group.more

Kemi Badenoch has promised to win back voters who have deserted the Conservatives after securing an historic victory in the party's leadership contest. The 44-year-old becomes the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK.more

The title of "Best Destination in the World to Travel by Car" in the Travelbook Awards 2024 competition, organized by the portal Travelbook.de, went to northern Spain. The judges were impressed not only by the attractions of this part of Spain, but also by the fact that it pays attention to a sustainable approach to tourism.more

Rough sleeping in London hit another record high this summer, with an 18% increase on the summer before, as the mayor predicted the problem was likely to get worse this winter.more

A builder has been jailed for claiming that he had fought for the Wagner Group in Ukraine, while brandishing a knife at a Viking re-enactment event. Piotr Kucharski, 49, from The Glebe, Watford, wore combat clothing and badges with insignia of the Russian mercenary group to the historical event in Stonham Aspal, Suffolk.more

Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski was named the Spanish league player of October. The Polish captain has scored 10 goals in five games this month: against Young Boys Bern, Deportivo Alaves, Sevilla, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.more

North Korea boasted Friday that the new intercontinental ballistic missile it just test-launched is “the world’s strongest,” a claim seen as pure propaganda after experts assessed it as being too big to be useful in a war situation.more

The number of live births in London has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years, new figures show. Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS( shows that 104,252 babies were born in the capital last year, a drop of 2,444 on the previous year and the lowest figure since 2008. more

A third of Poles - 36 per cent. - approve of the use of physical punishment against children, and 80 per cent approve of the use of shouting as a disciplinary method, according to the survey ‘Barometer of attitudes towards child abuse 2024’. However, acceptance of the use of physical punishment against children has fallen by 10 percentage points in Poland since 2005.more

Iga Swiatek admitted that by changing coaches she did not want to make big changes to her game. ‘I needed an evolution, not a revolution’. - stressed the Polish tennis player at a press conference ahead of the season-ending WTA Finals tournament in Riyadh.more

The 125 year old Swiss manufacturer has signed a lease on the 6,000 sq ft former Gap store under Piccadilly Circus lights.more

There are too many b&b (bed and breakfast) facilities for tourists in the centre of Rome, said Mayor Roberto Gualtieri. He acknowledged that in Italy, mayors do not have the power to curb the massive phenomenon of creating more such accommodation.more

While the atmosphere around the Polish Social and Cultural Centre is still thickening ahead of the upcoming general meeting, our editorial office has received a statement from the POSK Management Board today, which we publish in its entirety below.more

Ruben Amorim, who has until now coached Sporting Lisbon players, has officially become Manchester United's coach. According to the English club, the condition for the 39-year-old Portuguese to start work, which is expected to be on 11 November, is the receipt of a work visa.more

An EU citizen caught up in a Home Office backlog of applications for post-Brexit residency status is to be deported by Border Force officials in Scotland. Costa Koushiappis, 39, who is Greek Cypriot, has been told to show up at Edinburgh airport at 7am on Friday to be forcibly put on a flight to Amsterdam.more

More than 400 alleged victims have so far contacted the legal team working on the case against the late Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed, who was accused of sexual harassment and rape, the lawyer handling the case, Dean Armstrong, reported yesterday.more

Zimbabwe will seek compensation from Britain for the injustices it committed during the colonial era and intends to take legal action on the matter, President Emmerson Mnangawa announced yesterday during a meeting with tribal chiefs.more

There have already been 202 deaths in the Spanish province of Valencia, which was swept by flash floods on Wednesday, local authorities said, as quoted by EFE news agency. The number could rise as the search for the missing continues.more

Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz has dropped out of the 1/8 finals of the ATP Masters 1000 hard court tournament in Paris. Yesterday, the runner-up of the world tennis ranking lost to the 18th on the ATP list Frenchman Ugo Humbert 1:6, 6:3, 5:7.more

On 1 November 1944, Donald Watson created the world's first Vegan Society. In 1994, 1 November was established as World Vegan Day.more

In the first three weeks after the introduction of controls at all German borders, police detected around 13 per cent fewer unauthorised entries than in the previous three weeks. This is shown in preliminary figures from the Federal Police, cited by the dpa agency.more