The Royal Mint has unveiled a new collectable coin featuring the late pop star George Michael. Michael, who grew up in Hertfordshire, formed Wham! with fellow Bushey Meads School pupil Andrew Ridgeley.more

The boss of Ryanair has said holidaymakers will face higher fares this summer due to new Boeing planes being delivered late. Chief executive Michael O'Leary said the delayed delivery of the planes will constrain capacity for passengers.more

People in their early 20s are more likely to be not working due to ill health than those in their early 40s, a report has found. This is "radically different" from the past, the Resolution Foundation said, when the older you were the more likely you were to not work due to sickness.more

Liverpool's footballers have won the Carabao Cup for the tenth time in their history. "The Reds" beat Chelsea London 1:0 in the final at Wembley after extra time, with Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk scoring the goal in the 118th minute.more

A record number of Russians applied for asylum in South Korea last year, US broadcaster CNN reported yesterday, citing a report published by the Korean Immigration Service.more

A number of London newspapers are raising questions about whether British politics has begun to be driven by fear of Islamists and the radical left, and where further appeasement due to concerns about MPs' physical safety will lead.more

Kamil Stoch finished 11th in the ski jumping World Cup competition on the mammoth facility in Oberstdorf, Germany. Austrian Stefan Kraft won, claiming his 40th career victory and consolidating his lead in the overall ranking of the series.more

28 percent Poles believe that Ukraine will win in the war with Russia - according to a survey published on the website of the weekly "Wprost". 33.2% of respondents have the opposite opinion.more

The West should be bolder in seizing Russian assets that were frozen after the invasion of Ukraine; this is necessary so that these assets can be used to rebuild Ukraine, wrote British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in The Sunday Times.more

Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world. A team from the University of Queensland traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon to search for the previously undocumented northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima), following an invitation from the Waorani people to observe anacondas “rumoured to be the largest in existence".more

Most of the UK companies that took part in the world’s biggest ever four-day working week trial have made the policy permanent, research shows. Of the 61 organisations that took part in a six-month UK pilot in 2022, 54 (89%) are still operating the policy a year later, and 31 (51%) have made the change permanent.more

The author of a heavily criticised review of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy claims the public have been left “at risk” because many of his key recommendations have been ignored.more

Menopause symptoms can be considered a disability and employers face being sued if they do not make "reasonable adjustments", a watchdog has said. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued the guidance to clarify the legal obligations to workers going through the menopause. more

Kamil Stoch was 12th, Aleksander Zniszczoł 19th, Piotr Żyła 26th, and Dawid Kubacki 39th in yesterday's Ski Jumping World Cup competition at the mammoth facility in Oberstdorf. The winner was Slovenian Timi Zajc. His compatriot Peter Prevc and Austrian Stefan Kraft also stood on the podium.more

Yesterday, King Charles III of Great Britain expressed his appreciation for the determination and strength of the Ukrainian people. In a statement issued on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Russian attack, he wrote that - despite the difficulties and pain inflicted on them - Ukrainians continue to demonstrate heroism.more

More than two-thirds of women experience harassment while running, a study has found, as victims say they no longer report abuse to the police as it has become an “everyday occurrence”.more

Russian Anna Kalinska, who eliminated top-seeded Iga Swiatek on Friday, lost to Italian Jasmine Paolini of Polish origins 6-4, 5-7, 5-7 in the final of the WTA 1000 tennis tournament on hard courts in Dubai.more

In France, the situation of homeless people who gather in major cities, above all in Paris, is unprecedented and dramatic, the French weekly "L'Obs" alerted. There are already 330,000 of them in the country, twice as many as a decade ago, it stressed.more

From camels in Wiltshire to bush vipers in Redditch, a veritable menagerie of wild animals is being kept in homes across Britain. According to data from the wildlife charity Born Free, there are more than 200 wildcats, 250 primates and 400 venomous snakes living in domestic settings across England, Wales and Scotland, with cobras, crocodiles, tigers, kangaroos and bison among other residents.more

The city of Colima, in the west of Mexico, with more than 140,000 inhabitants, is the most dangerous city in the world, according to a report published by the non-governmental Citizens' Council for Public Safety and Justice.more

Russia's denunciation of its agreement with the UK on fishing rights in the Barents Sea will not cause shortages of cod and haddock - fish that are used for the most typical English dish, fish and chips - the UK government and industry body NFFF assured yesterday.more

The UK yesterday reached an agreement with the EU border protection agency Frontex to work more closely together to combat illegal immigration. Among other things, the agreement allows for the presence of officers and drones from the UK Border Agency at the EU's external borders.more

Ukraine must now rein in its offensive ambitions and try to hold its ground until either Russia is weakened or its Western allies start helping it again in the right way, according to Keir Giles, an expert at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London.more

Shamima Begum, who left London for Syria in 2015 at the age of 15 to join the terrorist organisation Islamic State, yesterday lost a further appeal to have her British citizenship revoked.more

The cost of withholding aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia would be much higher than continuing to help, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron warned yesterday, addressing the UN General Assembly on the eve of the second anniversary of Russian aggression.more