Europe United Kingdom A wave of far-right anti-migrant sentiment is sweeping across the UK and a protest in Portsmouth was marked by violent incidents; around 500 hooded people besieged the port, disrupted ferry terminals after learning of the landing of 140 migrants
Europe Monaco Monaco Art Week 2021, the country's largest art exhibition, begins today, bringing together galleries, auction houses, collectors and art lovers
Europe Portugal Portuguese citizens spend more time connected to the Internet than sleeping - as a study by Nielsen&Dynata shows
Europe Hungary During journalist Eszter Mengyán's latest environmental podcast, President János Áder emphasised that over-consumption has serious consequences for the environment and invited to avoid buying unnecessary clothes by preferring second-hand items
America Venezuela Juan Guaidó, one of the main opposition representatives, was attacked in his own home by the Venezuelan police; the bulletproof windows of his car and his neighbors managed to keep him safe
Oceania Papua New Guinea A five-year-old Australian girl has been miraculously found alive on a small island in the country; she had been missing for 36 hours in a small boat
Europe Iceland Results of the trials conducted between 2015 and 2019 on the four-day working week show an "overwhelming success" of the initiative: productivity remained the same or improved in most workplaces
America Jamaica The five-year sports development plan at Maggotty High School, in St. Elizabeth, is having success with 10th place nationally, following the recent 2021 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championship, the highest level achieved by the school
Africa Lesotho The "Observing Plastic Free Wednesday" project, which starts today and will last for the next eight months to reduce plastic use, has been launched by the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture together with the UN Development Programme
Africa Djibouti Djibouti Football Federation, with the support of FIFA, recently organised a four-day refresher course for the trainee referees to revisit the current laws of the game
Asia Cyprus After the recent fire, the worst in the country's recent history, experts stressed the need to use new firefighting technology that is more effective in locating fires in real time
Asia Turkmenistan 30 new buildings of industrial and social purposes to be commissioned on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Independence
Asia Mongolia The Mongolian-Russian Mining and Processing Plant “Erdenet” was awarded the title of Hero of Mongolia for its 40 year-long social responsibility program