Новости за 18.12.2024

The 17-year-old Infanta is a much-loved figure in Spain, and for her first ever solo royal engagement, she made a fitting sartorial nod to Queen Letizia and Kate Middleton

Players competing in the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship could win £790k.

President Bola Tinubu's full speech at the National Assembly when he went to present the 2025 budget to the Senators and House of Representatives members.

There’s a difference between making government more effective and making it disappear, and according to financial reporter Catherine Rampell, El Cheato seems to be aiming for the latter. Via the Washington Post:

Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Nigerian Senate, has revealed one negative thing about the Presidential Villa as President Bola Tinubu visited the NASS.

Paul Krugman kicks off his new Substack with a look at crypto, the favored tool of tech bro billionaires. Take a look:

Instagram is projected to generate over half of Meta's US ad revenue in 2024, driven by increased monetisation and the growing popularity of short-form video content like Reels. This growth is fueled by user engagement with video and the potential for Instagram to absorb advertising spending if a TikTok ban is implemented.

France's flagship nuclear reactor at Flamanville in Normandy will finally enter service on Friday after a dozen years of delay, operator EDF said Wednesday.

Investigators see a lot of young people accessing extreme material, a counter-terrorism officer said.

Selver x TalTech's volleyball team has been knocked out of the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV) Cup Round after losing both legs of its round of 16 clash against Brasov Corona (Romania).

In 2020, the Orange Felon led the choir in an endless cycle of The Big Lie, even though they couldn't prove a stitch of it. In fact, as we've recently been reminded, the only irregularities in the 2020 election came from the Republicans themselves and their fake electors scheme.

The city of Aleppo, the economic and demographic capital of Syria, has been the battlefield of some of the major conflicts during the civil war. Behind the fighting lies the daily war of its residents, who survived until the fall of Bashar al-Assad and are ready to move on.  Click here to see the full story in Spanish.

Changes to homeschooling and academies come in Labour’s landmark bill

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday revealed that the administration is earmarking N4.91tn for defence and security for the 2025 fiscal year. This is also as Infrastructure, Health, and Education will get N4.06tn, N2.48tn and N3.5tn, respectively. Tinubu said this when he presented the 2025 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the 10th National Assembly

Bark Bark Woof Woof - DCI M.T. Greene is all over this drone thing;

Juanita Jean's - touching a hot stove;

Mike the Mad Biologist - the Great Crankiness;

Tell Me a Story - paying attention;

You Might Notice a Trend - more unhappy thoughts.

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Quanfluence, a quantum technology startup, secured $2 million in seed funding to scale its photonic quantum computing systems. Led by Pi Ventures, the funding will boost the development of their optical Ising machine and a general-purpose quantum computer, addressing complex optimization challenges beyond classical computing capabilities.

Italian bank UniCredit's move to increase its stake in German lender Commerzbank, which further fuelled speculation of a takeover bid, was "uncoordinated and unfriendly", the German government said Wednesday. UniCredit, Italy's second largest bank, said earlier Wednesday it had increased its stake in Commerzbank from 21 percent to around 28 percent.

FAFO is a word Trump voters should really learn the meaning of. It stands for F*k Around & Find Out.

Actors Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds stoked the wrath of fans after Deadpool star Ryan insisted that they were "working class," despite their various connections to Hollywood

Momeni will face a sentence of 15 years to life in prison for second degree murder.

Why Amit Shah visited a security camp in Maoist epicentre of Chhattisgarh

Hidden beneath an unassuming office block is a surprise dating back thousands of years - and it can now be visited by the public.

(Telecompaper) Penta Infra, an Amsterdam-based developer and operator of data centres, has welcomed pension investor PGGM as its new shareholder and investor, along with existing stakeholder Photon Capital...