Russia will consider using its entire arsenal of weapons if the Kaliningrad Oblast comes under threat, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stated yesterday.more

October is bringing more disruption to the District line, with Transport for London planning to shut the Wimbledon branch over two weekends. Passengers were previously warned of closures as part of the authority's £5.5bn modernisation project to improve journey times and signalling issues.more

Ahead of today’s Nations League match against Romania in Warsaw, the manager of the Polish national football team admitted that he does not feel he is playing for his job, but pointed out that a defeat would certainly bring him closer to being sacked.more

President Donald Trump stated yesterday that he is looking into the possibility of building a US military base in Poland and that this may go ahead. When asked why he had not yet made a decision, he replied that he might already have done so.more

Around 700 prisoners were released from prisons in England and Wales yesterday as part of the first phase of a new programme to release prisoners early. The government introduced the programme because there has been a shortage of prison places for several years.more

Elon Musk, the head of an autonomous weapons company, Palmer Luckey, and the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, will advise the Pentagon on the wars of the future, according to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was quoted yesterday by the ‘Washington Post’.more

Owners of Airbnb-style properties in London who are flouting rules on short-term lets face a new tax-led clampdown. Westminster City Council is seeking to gain access to HMRC data to identify homeowners who are operating illegally. more

The Greek national football team, which beat Germany 1–0 on Sunday, also surprised the Netherlands yesterday. In Thessaloniki, the hosts drew 2–2 with the ‘Orange’. Among those who secured victories were Germany and the defending champions, Portugal.more

Following months of bringing high-end developments to the market, property developers began to supplement their portfolio with more affordable flats in the third quarter, according to a report by Otodom. There were also shifts amongst the largest cities – in September, the average transaction price in Kraków was higher than in Warsaw.more

A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time led to one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests.more

The UK may witness the beginnings of a 'polar vortex' disruption in the coming weeks - but a meteorological expert has reassured that we will have to wait until later in winter for a "proper Arctic blast".more

Household energy prices are set to soar in January, with a typical annual bill forecast to jump by £276, figures shared with the BBC reveal. The 16% predicted increase would hit millions of households at the coldest time of year, and would mark the biggest rise in bills for four years.more

Hubert Hurkacz has progressed to the second round of the ATP 500 tournament on hard courts in Beijing. On Thursday, the Polish tennis player defeated the American Learner Tien 5–7, 6–3, 6–4. Magda Linette, however, has been knocked out of the tournament, having lost 4–6, 3–6 to the Czech player Katerina Siniakova in the first round of the WTA 1000 tournament.more

Shop price inflation slowed in September as competition between retailers offset poor harvests and global commodity price rises, industry figures show.more

British counter-intelligence warned the country’s universities yesterday against collaborating with a Chinese research institution which, in its view, serves as a front for espionage activities. According to MI5, more than 100 researchers in the UK have unwittingly helped China to enhance its espionage capabilities.more

Since President Donald Trump took office, the State Department has revoked more than 250,000 US visas held by foreign nationals. According to the New York Post, the administration has been consistently tightening its immigration policy and rigorously vetting people currently in the country.more

Greggs has said it plans to shut four factories with the loss of about 740 jobs as part of an overhaul of its food manufacturing operations. The high street bakery chain said the proposed changes, which will take place over the next two-and-a-half years, will see it relocate parts of its manufacturing process.more

Cristiano Ronaldo left the Portugal squad’s training camp the day before the Nations League match in Denmark. The 41-year-old footballer wrote on social media that he would soon announce the reasons behind his decision.more

Poles are indispensable to Irish society, and most of them get on well with their hosts, said Artur Michalski, head of the Polish Embassy in Dublin. Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the official establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Republic of Ireland.more

Yesterday, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, accused a foreign photographer of “unacceptable intrusion into their children’s privacy” and “extreme recklessness” for loitering around the school attended by their children, Archie and Lilibet.more

French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have stated that they would be happy to welcome the United Kingdom back into the European Union. They made these remarks during a joint press conference yesterday, the second and final day of Macron’s state visit to Madrid.more

A major change to vaping rules comes in on Thursday, October 1, including a new tax. Announced in the 2024 Budget, the changes will see a tax of £2.20 per 10ml charged by HMRC on vaping products, regardless of whether they contain nicotine. The new rules come into force alongside tobacco duty increases. more

FC Porto centre-backs Jan Bednarek and Jakub Kiwior feel out of their depth in the Polish national team because they are not playing in the same central defensive partnership as they do for their club, according to the Portuguese media. In their view, this pairing in the White-and-Reds’ line-up “doesn’t work”.more

Around 17 million Poles ask artificial intelligence questions about their own health or that of their loved ones; 19 per cent of users have bought an over-the-counter medicine or a supplement following advice from artificial intelligence (AI), whilst 8.3 per cent have adjusted the dosage or stopped taking a medicine on that basis – according to the latest report entitled “Health with AI”.more

Around 55 percent of the network runs on the surface. The deep tube lines dominate the mental image because they serve the centre, but the sprawling outer sections of the Metropolitan, District and Central lines are largely open air.more