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Getty ImagesMany bus passengers in England will face a one-way fare increase of £2 to £3 from Wednesday. Leading campaign groups said it would lead to a “costly start” until 2025.The old £2 limit was introduced under the Conservative government to cope with the rising cost of living.The Department for Transport, however, said the money raised would help support travel in rural communities and towns where there is a heavy reliance on buses.The new £3 cap, covering most bus journeys in England, will remain in place until the end of 2025.Fares that would be below £3 without the cap –…
Today’s weather. The first day of the new year will be cloudy and windy throughout the country – in some places the wind speed will reach 100 kilometers per hour. Across the country, the biomet will be unfavorable. Thermometers show temperatures from 4 to 9 degrees.Wednesday, the first day of the new year, will be cloudy, but the sky is expected to clear – clear weather is expected in southern Poland. Only in the north-west and north it rained up to 2-5 liters of water per square meter. Thermometers in Suwalki region show 4 degrees of heat, in the center…
Getty ImagesNational energy prices have been rising, with little relief for bill payers through the rest of the year.Ofgem’s second price cap increase this winter comes into force on Wednesday and means someone paying by direct debit and using a typical amount of gas and electricity will pay £1,738 a year.This is £21 more per year than under the previous cap, so bill payers are urged to submit a meter reading to avoid overpaying on estimated usage.Bills are about 50% higher than pre-Covid levels, and analysts predict they will rise another 3% in April.Regulator Ofgem, which sets the cap covering…
Getty ImagesU.S. officials say hackers linked to the Chinese government are responsible for security breaches at major telecommunications companies and U.S. agencies.The latest hack, announced Monday, targeted the U.S. Treasury Department, which called the infiltration a “major incident.”Officials said the hackers were able to access employee workstations and some unclassified documents. China denies any involvement.It is the latest in a series of cyberattacks against American and Western targets in recent months.What was hacked?The Treasury Department hack followed the announcement in late October that the two main US presidential campaigns were being targeted.The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
We said goodbye to the old and welcomed the new year – 2025. For many, this is a time of new resolutions or other changes. Some of them are already known, for example, the appearance of new cities on the map of the country.Poles bid farewell to 2024 and entered 2025 after counting the last seconds until midnight. The first day of the calendar year is a holiday in Poland.TVN24 reporter Pavel Lukasik in the square of the Warsaw Palace. Residents gathered there to celebrate TVN24How to have fun in Poznań? Report of TVN24TVN24 reporterPresident Andrzej Duda emphasized in his…
Kyiv welcomed the new year an hour before us. But there was no grand celebration in the main square of the city center. President Volodymyr Zelensky released a message in which he thanked Ukrainians for the past 12 months. “It is an honor for me to be the president of such people – Ukrainians, who prove that no cruise missile can defeat a cruise nation.”New Year arrived in Kyiv at 23:00 Polish time. In the main square in the center of the capital of Ukraine, the silence that prevailed there was symbolic. No fireworks or colorful lights. The last day…
Anshul VermaSushila Meena went viral for her fast bowling actionUntil a few days ago, 10-year-old Sushila Meena was leading an ordinary life, far from the public eye, in a small village in the state of Rajasthan, in northern India. But everything changed when legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar shared a video on social media of her playing cricket, thereby putting her in the media spotlight.He praised his bowling action and said it had “shades of” former Indian bowler Zaheer Khan – who was known for his accuracy, swing, intelligent variations with the ball and action distinct bowling.The video was an instant…
Grandmaster Jan-Krzysztof Duda lost 0:3 to the current leader of the world ranking, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, in the semifinals of the World Blitz Championship in New York. He won a bronze medal. In this version of the royal game, the Pole stands on the podium of the world championship for the third time. He won silver medals in 2018 in St. Petersburg and in 2021 in Warsaw.Jan-Krzysztof DudaKrzysztof Cesarz/PAPUnlike in the quarter-finals, in which the 26-year-old grandmaster from Wieliczka beat American Fabiano Caruana 2.5-0.5, he started the competition to reach the final in black, not white.Against the world number one,…
“The proposal of representatives of the Polish 2050-TD club is unfounded,” said Wlodzimirj Charzasty, the deputy chairman of the Sejm. He announced that the Left Club does not support the so-called random law regarding the consideration of cases related to next year’s presidential elections by the Supreme Court. A week ago, a so-called random bill was submitted to the Seimas, which is related to the Supreme Court’s resolution of cases related to next year’s presidential elections. It assumes that the validity of this election will be decided by three chambers of the Supreme Court: Criminal, Civil and Labor. Previously, the…
Georgian protesters welcomed the new year in front of the parliament building. A table stretching hundreds of meters was set up in Tbilisi’s main artery, where the two spent the last moments of 2024 eating and talking. Just before midnight, demonstrators also gathered in front of the Guldani prisoners, waiting for the release of their loved ones. Crowds gathered in front of the Georgian Parliament and along Rustaveli Street. Despite the ban, the sky lit up with fireworks. There are adults, there are teenagers, and there are children. Many carried Georgian and EU flags. The entire street is lit up…