Portugal: Fatima Shrine launches hotel booking portal

Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, one of the world's most popular Marian devotions, has launched an accommodation booking option via its website.more

In many supermarkets in Canada, you can pay for your purchases at self-service checkouts, but large shops of this type with only self-service checkouts have not caught on in the country. The chains are therefore returning to cashier-operated checkouts.more

Authorities in the municipalities of Obidos and Caldas da Rainha in the west of Portugal have warned residents in the region against using local bathing waters following the appearance of at least two sharks of a species dangerous to humans.more

Nato members have been concerned by Russia's recent damaging activities, including cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns, on the territory of several member states, including Poland, the Alliance said in a statement issued yesterday.more

The Balkan Insight website warns against fraudulent beauty clinics that are mushrooming in Greece. Self-proclaimed clinics extract thousands of euros from clients, people go into debt to pay for their services, but the desired results are not achieved.more

As of April 1, there were 77,450 people in prisons and pretrial detention centers in France, the highest number in history, the country's Ministry of Justice reported. During the year, as many as 4,370 inmates arrived. Prisons are overcrowded and some inmates have to sleep on mattresses.more

The US military cannot trust artificial intelligence (AI) because the models it uses also make bad decisions and could trigger a nuclear war. The use of these technologies in making important decisions in combat situations should be restricted, 'Foreign Affairs' magazine estimates.more

Duralex, a French manufacturer of glass kitchenware, also popular in Poland, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, has been declared bankrupt. The company had been struggling financially for many years, recently exacerbated by soaring energy prices following Russia's aggression against Ukraine and Chinese competition.more

District electoral commissions will still be accepting applications for lists of candidates for the European Parliament today (2 May) until 4 p.m. The list of candidates must be supported by the signatures of at least 10,000 voters.more

The latest Reuters and Ipsos poll shows that US President Joe Biden is leading by a narrow margin of just one percentage point over Donald Trump ahead of November's White House election. Twenty-eight per cent of respondents indicated neither.more

Every year, tens of thousands of Poles apply for a visa lottery to try to fulfill their American dream. This year, applicants will learn the results on May 4. The chances of winning are small, less than 1%, but you must also remember that this is not the only option for legally moving to the USA.more

This Spanish city has been hailed as Europe's most beautiful hidden gemmore

Use your voice to prevent others from deciding for you - with this slogan, the European Parliament encourages Europeans in 27 member states to take part in the June elections. The spot published yesterday is intended to make the young generation aware of what Europe would look like if the European Union had not been created.more

The US federal medical agency CDC has confirmed the first case of HIV infection during a cosmetic procedure. Three victims opted for a so-called vampire facelift procedure at an unlicensed clinic, the ABC news portal reported.more

Temperatures in Europe are rising roughly twice as fast as the global average, reported the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the EU climate agency Copernicus, warning of consequences that will affect, among other things, human health and melting glaciers.more

Tornadoes in Oklahoma killed at least four people, including an infant, leaving thousands without power yesterday. The destructive element leveled buildings and injured about 100 people across the state, according to preliminary data.more

Until recently, 400,000 people took part in the invasion of Ukraine. Russian soldiers, but it is believed that soon the number of these forces may increase to 500,000, says a British expert in the Guardian and emphasizes that Kiev must find a way to acquire new soldiers.more

A 60-year-old lawyer and journalist from Buenos Aires, Alejandra Marisa Rodriguez, qualified to compete in the beauty pageant for the title of Miss Argentina after winning the Miss Buenos Aires title. Competing for the title of Miss her city, the young-looking Ms Rodriguez beat dozens of women much younger than herself.more

Dozens of bombs and rockets fell on the Lviv region today. One of them 15 km from our border,’ Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on Platform X today. The head of government added that, at this time, former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is setting up an ‘anti-European strategy with pro-Putin far-right politicians’ in Budapest.more

113,000 people registered a visit to Venice on the first day of the new rules requiring them to register their arrival in the historic centre. Tourists who do not stay overnight must pay a €5 fee. This amount has already been paid by almost 16,000 people, according to the city authorities.more

Personal integrity, including resistance to corruption, as well as patriotism and being guided in one's political activities solely by concern for Poland's interests - these are, according to CBOS respondents, the most important features of future MEPs. Being a representative of various minorities was found to be the least important.more

The exhibition in Tampere, Finland, will close, having become the 'most hated' in the country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The building will then serve as the site for a new museum dedicated to Finnish-Russian relations.more

The European Parliament adopted the first legislation in EU history to combat violence against women and domestic violence. They are intended to help prevent rape and to better protect women against cyberbullying and online harassment, including sending them obscene content. However, the EU has failed to adopt a common definition of rape.more

More and more parents in Germany are turning to counseling services because their Christian children want to convert to Islam "in order to no longer be outsiders at school," the Bild tabloid website reported, citing a security official.more

The adoption of the bill on aid for Ukraine by the US Congress will significantly improve the country's military situation, but it will not end the war or reverse the losses caused by many months of delay, says Keir Giles, an expert at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London.more

Germany was ranked the fifth most popular country for foreign workers and the first non-English-speaking country, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study released yesterday. Australia, the US, Canada and the UK ranked higher.more

Coffee is becoming more expensive in Italy, causing increasing concern among millions of coffee lovers. For a cup of espresso, you have to pay as much as €1.40 (PLN 6.02) in the big cities. There are fewer and fewer bars that serve it for less than €1.more

Pedro Sanchez's government yesterday announced financial compensation for victims of sexual abuse committed by people of the Church, both clergy and lay people, employed in its structures. He stressed that the burden of compensation should be placed on the shoulders of the Church.more