The launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, which will see astronauts fly around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, is scheduled for February 2026. NASA has announced that the SLS rocket system and Orion capsule that will take the crew into space are almost ready.more

Violence and abuse by patients against staff in GP clinics is widespread globally and usually triggered by long waiting times and the refusal to prescribe requested drugs, research shows. The findings are based on a 24-country study of the threats and aggression that family doctors, receptionists and other practice staff experience at work.more

Magdalena Fręch lost to lower-ranked German tennis player Ella Seidel 5:7, 4:6 and was eliminated in the first round of the WTA 1000 tournament on hard courts in Beijing.more

In 10 years, the first metro line in Krakow will be put into operation, announced Mayor Aleksander Miszalski yesterday. Ultimately, the metro will have two lines with a total length of approx. 29 km and will run from Nowa Huta to Opatkowice and Kurdwanów.more

The court in London, where the final hearing in the extradition trial of Michał Kuczmierowski, former head of the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves (RARS), was to take place today, has been closed due to a sewerage failure in that part of the city, a court official said.more

The change in US President Donald Trump's approach to Ukraine is likely to be a washing of his hands of this war. Meanwhile, the situation in Kyiv is difficult, Ukrainian democracy is becoming fragile, and there is a shortage of soldiers on the front line. Europe must step up its aid, according to 'The Economist'.more

A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex "as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace".more

More than half of respondents (50.8%) believe that US President Donald Trump is not a guarantor of Poland's security, according to a survey conducted by United Surveys for Wirtualna Polska.more

Barcelona has not been granted permission to play Sunday's Spanish Premier League match against Real Sociedad San Sebastian at the Camp Nou stadium, which is undergoing renovation. This means another delay in the return to the iconic venue.more

City Thameslink in London has been named the worst of Britain's busiest railway stations for cancellations in the year to August. About one in 13 of almost 150,000 scheduled stops there were cancelled during that time, according to Office of Rail and Road (ORR) figures analysed by BBC.more

Sadiq Khan has slammed Reform UK proposals to end the rights of migrants to apply for permanent British residency after five years and restrict their access to benefits. The Mayor of London described the move as "unacceptable" and said it would impact "thousands" of people living in the capital who are "contributing hugely to our city". more

The world tennis rankings were released with a one-day delay due to the tournaments in China concluding yesterday. Spain's Carlos Alcaraz remains top of the rankings. Kamil Majchrzak, who has been the highest-ranked Pole for two weeks, has fallen from 61st to 65th place. Hubert Hurkacz is 69th.more

Great Britain’s energy system operator says it has significantly improved its monitoring of domestic electricity grids to “future proof” the country’s low-carbon power network. After widespread power cuts across most of Spain and Portugal in April, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) started work to pinpoint dangerous fluctuations that could lead to outages.more

Seven charities have withdrawn Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, as their patron after an email she wrote in 2011 to Jeffrey Epstein, the late American financier and sex offender, was revealed, the BBC reported yesterday.more

World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Tarik Jaszarević said vaccines do not cause autism and their value should not be questioned, Reuters reported. He also stressed that reports linking the use of paracetamol during pregnancy to autism in children are scientifically unfounded.more

Six novelists have been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. Among them is Indian-born Kiran Desai, who has previously won the prize in 2006 for "The Burden of Lost Things." Two others, Andrew Miller and David Szalay, were previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize for other titles.more

Real Madrid secured their sixth victory in six matches of the Spanish top-flight season, defeating Levante 4-1 away yesterday.more

In the Nordic countries, there are nationwide restrictions on the sale of alcohol at night. In France and Belgium, decisions on this matter are left to local authorities, which impose restrictions for reasons of public order.more

US President Donald Trump, during his speech at the United Nations yesterday, accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of introducing "Sharia law" in the British capital. The mayor's office issued a statement calling Trump's comments outrageous and prejudiced.more

Addressing the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly, US President Donald Trump criticized the organization as useless, called on states to halt migration and combat climate change, and criticized his predecessor. He threatened Russia with sanctions but demanded that Europe cease importing Russian oil.more

Making a claim to an insurance company can be worse than the distress of the original incident, according to Which?, as it launches a rare type of action against the sector.more

An Italian court upheld the arrest of a 34-year-old Polish man yesterday after he killed two 21-year-old women walking on the roadside in Lombardy while driving a van under the influence of drugs, the Ansa news agency reported. The accident shocked the public. The Polish man has been charged with road rage.more

Manchester City's Norwegian striker Erling Haaland scored his 91st goal in the English Premier League in the match against Arsenal London (1:1), equalling the Scandinavian record set by his compatriot Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who played for Manchester United between 1996 and 2007.more

Disruptions on the London Underground can stem from numerous causes, from signal breakdowns to passenger emergency alarms. Nevertheless, it appears that burnt toast has been a remarkably frequent offender.more

Much of the law in England is old and complicated – partly because there are so many sources of it – among them are statute, common law, case law and even European conventions and other international laws to which the UK subscribes.more