Новости за 27.12.2024

As watchmakers celebrated anniversaries of iconic models, 2024 saw an array of limited editions and upgraded timepieces released throughout the year.

After a long delay, a tripartite panel comprising the government, the employers and employees has reached a compromise on a minimum wage hike, calling it a "minimum wage adjustment".

Seventy-one corpses; that's what police found in two forest monasteries, thrusting them into the public eye for all the wrong reasons.

In 2024, Russia took over the Brics chairmanship. The central theme of the Russian year in Brics has been "Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security". It reflects the desire of all participants for constructive cooperation based on the principles of international law, the values of equality, mutual respect and the sovereign choice of the path of development.

'Alternativ fur Deutschland" (AfD) means "The Alternative for Germany", and the alternative on offer is fascism. Not actual Naziism, but the AfD uses fascist rhetoric and tactics to attract German voters. It has also attracted some improbable foreign admirers.

FROM Brat Summer to Bridgerton Boobs – it’s been a cracker of a year in the fashion world, says Fashion Editor Clemmie Fieldsend.

CYNICS said 2024’s television could only get worse after it started with ITV’s landmark drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office. But you know the funny thing?

OUT with the old, in with the new . . . job, that is.

The first two weeks of the new year see the annual January jobs spike, with employers reporting an average 80 per cent surge in applications.

Fresh research from Career Wallet suggests that 19 per cent of staff plan to shift careers in 2025, driven by concerns about the long-term viability of the role they hold in their current industry. Читать дальше...

CINDY Beale has been left fighting for her life in an induced coma in EastEnders after the horror Christmas attack.

IT’S been another fascinating year for film, seeing tennis being made sexy and Paul Mescal fighting a great white shark.

MUIREANN Bradley is a young lady who sings the blues.

Listening to the Irish teenager is like being transported back in time to the heyday of Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald or Nina Simone.

Now Muireann, who turned 18 this month, has signed a transatlantic deal with Decca and Verve Forecast, labels synonymous with those three iconic singers. Читать дальше...

PINNED down by a hail of bullets and deadly accurate mortar shelling, the SAS fighters knew if they stayed put they were dead.

Picture supplied by Bav Media 07976 880732. Picture dated December 2021 shows HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,Britain’s most expensive prison which has now has opened its cells to its first prisoners. Britain’s most expensive prison, which features football pitches, a horticultural area and no bars on the windows, has opened to its first prisoners. HMP Five Wells, the UK’s first privately run mega prison in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, officially opened last month and welcomed its first prisoner last week (Feb 4). Читать дальше...

MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000.

FOR six out of ten of us, Christmas would not be ­complete without board games.

FOOTIE ace Phil Foden’s children take a spin in custom-built mini Mercedes G-Wagons.

G’DAY and festive greetings from Down Under, where the sun is shining, the surf’s up and life’s a bowl of cherries.

iPhone users, unite!

The U2 frontman and global activist appears to have added a city-view abode in the Hollywood Hills to his international portfolio.

The Japanese artist and the French luxury brand's CEO Pietro Beccari spoke to WWD about bringing back the seminal collection and why they're banking on Y2K nostalgia to revive luxury spending.

This year saw the impact of Donald Trump's return to the White House, the first rate cut from the Federal Reserve in roughly four years and more.