Paul Stratton has been recognised for his work on behalf of refugees from Ukraine. In the football 'Match for Peace' between Everton and Dynamo Kyiv, a supporter of the English team took a penalty kick in the second half.more
Prehistoric Europeans consumed dairy products thousands of years before the adult lactose digestibility was developed, scientists report in the weekly "Nature".more
Hungary's Wizz Air will launch a service from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira from 30 October, the carrier announced. The flights will be operated on Wednesdays and Sundays.more
The government is refusing to name the councils excluding some households from receiving a vital support payment to help with the cost-of-living crisis.more
A legal challenge calling for greater media scrutiny of the decision to keep Prince Philip's will private has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.more
Robert Lewandowski criticized Bayern Munich activists in an interview with the American television ESPN. The Barcelona forward said, inter alia, about the circumstances of his departure from the German club. "A lot has been said about me," he admitted.more
Hospitals in the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have one of the longest patient wait times for surgery in England, according to a Daily Mail investigation. The Trust placed at number eight on the list of hospitals with patients waiting more than the NHS recommended waiting time of 18 weeks. more
There is a strong relationship between the scale of extinction of organisms and the global change in temperature, the researchers report in the journal Biogeosciences.more
Barcelona and Sevilla have agreed to transfer Jules Kounde. The French defender will sign a five-year contract with the Catalan club on Monday. According to the media, the contract value is EUR 50 million. As Barcelona informed, the breakaway clause will amount to as much as one billion euros.more
Bhutan will introduce the highest tourist tax in the world from September, informs the local daily "Kuensel". Tourists in the "last kingdom in the Himalayas" will have to pay $ 200 a day per person "for sustainable development."more
Iga Świątek was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament on clay courts in Warsaw. The Polish tennis player, seeded with number one, lost yesterday to French Caroline Garcia (No. 5) 1: 6, 6: 1, 4: 6. The match lasted two hours and 19 minutes.more
The Republican and Democrat group starts a new party in the US called Forward. The party is expected to attract a centrist, moderate electorate disappointed by the deep divisions on the American political scene, reports CNN.more
Covid infections are on the way down in the UK, dropping by more than half a million in a week, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.
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The UEFA Control, Ethics and Discipline Committee fined Lech Poznań with a fine of EUR 48,000 for incidents during the first match of the 1st round of the Champions League qualifying round with Azerbaijani Karabakh Agdam.more
Spanish prosecutors said they would seek the sentence of Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison if found guilty in a trial of her alleged tax fraud.more
At the moment, inflation may just be reaching its peak, assessed Goldman Sachs analysts. However, they added that the current inflation data and pressure on currency depreciation will require further monetary policy tightening, and interest rates will reach 8%.more
With inflation soaring to a new 40-year high last month, campaigners fear next year’s hike in regulated fares for regular rail users could be the biggest since the railways were privatised in 1996.
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Soaring inflation has made life harder for most of the world — but some people are still smoking expensive cigarettes, and doing shots of fancy tequila.
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The Spanish flight crew of EasyJet has abandoned the strike announced for the weekend. The decision was made after an agreement was reached during Thursday's negotiations, during which protesters received guarantees for pay rises.more
According to employers, job candidates lack soft skills; among these they most often mention: resistance to stress, adaptability, reliability, discipline and creativity, according to the Manpower report.more
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has announced that his club will try to bring seven-time Golden Ball winner Lionel Messi back to Camp Nou. As he emphasized, they have a "moral debt" to the Argentine to end his career in this team.more
Employees of meteorological centers have become the target of attacks "on an unprecedented scale". The reason was their announcement of an unprecedented wave of record heat.more
