09.12.2024 17:42 The decision to grant asylum to Bashar al-Assad comes amid concerns over Russian military bases in Syria. 09.12.2024 17:44 India has appointed Sanjay Malhotra as governor of the country's central bank for a three-year period, according to CNBC TV18.09.12.2024 17:48 European markets were slightly higher on Monday as the new trading week kicked off.09.12.2024 17:49 Nvidia shares were under pressure after a Chinese regulator said it was investigating the chipmaker over possible violations to the country's antimonopoly law. 09.12.2024 18:17 Around 54,000 people will be covered by the evacuation efforts, as authorities prepare for 'worst-case scenario'.09.12.2024 18:21 The 14th Amendment of the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship. Amending it is a lengthy, difficult process.09.12.2024 18:35 Bashar Al-Assad’s grip over Syria was visible everywhere in the capital. It was all dismantled in less than 24 hours.09.12.2024 18:52 Health secretary tells hospitals to put safety above waiting time targets after service warned of potential ‘quad-demic’Wes Streeting has held urgent talks with NHS leaders in England about how the service will cope with an impending winter crisis, amid signs that it is already under intense pressure.At the meeting on Monday, the health secretary told the chief executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, and the bosses of large hospital trusts to prioritise patient safety over trying to meet waiting time targets. Continue reading... ... 09.12.2024 18:56 Tensions over executions and plans for petrol price rise and hijab law add to reversals in Gaza, Lebanon and SyriaThe fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the latest in a string of foreign policy reversals for Iran including the weakening of its allies in Lebanon and Gaza, has coincided with growing domestic frustration over rising executions, planned increases in the price of petrol and a proposed law that imposes heavy fines and loss of access to public services to any woman not wearing the hijab.The confluence of events is putting unprecedented pressure on Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, to demonstrate what reforms he has introduced since being elected in June. He is viewed domestically as a consensual figure and faces a conservative parliament, but his supporters are impatient for changes that will lift the economy. Continue reading... ... 09.12.2024 19:00 Adrianne Lenker makes a record in the woods, Jack White returns with ripping riffs and Mach-Hommy gives a lyrical masterclass as we start counting down our critics’ picks of the year• More on the best culture of 2024*** Continue reading... ... 09.12.2024 19:04 The climbdown in the geopolitically sensitive region comes amid growing anger against the administration. 09.12.2024 19:04 Stephen Zunes on what important domestic factors allowed Syria’s opposition forces to overthrow the Assad regime. 09.12.2024 19:20 Criminology student Nasen Saadi had so many questions one teacher asked him if he was planning murder, trial toldA criminology student could have stabbed a woman to death on a Dorset beach because he wanted to know what it would be like to take a life and how it would feel to make a woman feel afraid, a jury has been told.As he plotted the attack, Nasen Saadi asked his lecturers so many questions about how police tracked suspects that one teacher asked him if he was planning to commit a murder, Winchester crown court heard. Continue reading... ... 09.12.2024 19:28 The move by Chinese regulators came a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced U.S. technology to China.09.12.2024 19:29 The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.09.12.2024 19:32 Thanks to a 56-yard game-winning field goal as time expired in the ACC title game, the College Football Playoff dodged controversy.09.12.2024 19:36 Jacques Audiard’s crime musical becomes frontrunnerWinslet up for Lee and The RegimeHugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes and Daniel Craig vying for best actorDemi Moore, Pamela Anderson and Zendaya up for best actressSnubs for Blitz, Hard Truths, The Outrun – and One DayFull list of nominationsFresh from its sweep at the European Film awards on Saturday, Jacques Audiard’s daring crime musical Emilia Pérez has dominated the Golden Globe nominations in Hollywood, taking 10, including nods for best comedy or musical, best director, and for its leading performer, Karla Sofía Gascón.Gascón plays a Mexican cartel kingpin in the film who transitions to a woman in order to fulfil her dream – and evade the local mafia. Should she win, Gascón will be the first trans actor to take a film Golden Globe; three years ago, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez triumphed for her role in TV show Pose. Continue reading... ... 09.12.2024 19:51 Syrians in Germany cheer toppling of al-Assad as an official suggests offering people 1,000 euros to return.09.12.2024 19:57 Who among us deserves a get-out-of-jail-free card?09.12.2024 20:00 Footage shows people looting expensive items after ‘butcher of Damascus’ fled to Moscow with familySyria live – latest updatesAs prisoners were set free from their subterranean jail cells around Damascus, shocked crowds roamed the ousted former president Bashar al-Assad’s mansions to grab what they could carry – and marvel at the trappings of his wealth.Pictures from the presidential palace showed a man carrying a beige plush chair over his shoulder as people roamed the tiled floors beneath intricate carved wooden ceilings. In another image, a smashed chandelier lay in a courtyard beneath an ornate sloping staircase, a crumpled Syrian flag bunched among the broken glass. More images showed wooden furniture and fittings that had been carried into the garden outside as people attempted to haul them away. Continue reading... ... 09.12.2024 20:03 Specialist law firms and CMCs could be in line for massive payday with their cuts from consumer compensationA cloud of anxiety was hanging over the British Motor Museum. Alongside showrooms featuring the 1988 Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR-9 and the Land Rover Defender used in opening scenes of the James Bond film Skyfall, were conference rooms filled with worried lawyers, bankers and compliance staff from across the motor lending industry.Attenders of the Financing and Leasing Association’s annual motor finance convention in Warwickshire last month had spent weeks trying to get to grips with a shock court of appeal decision that sided with two aggrieved car loan customers. Continue reading... ... 09.12.2024 20:04 A Cambodian woman who worked as a technical trainee at a strawberry farm north of Tokyo plans to file a damages suit against the farm manager, alleging multiple instances of rape that led to pregnancy and abortion, her lawyer said Monday.
The 23-year-old woman claims she was continuously sexually assaulted by the 58-year-old male manager just months after she began working at the farm in Tochigi Prefecture in July 2022, according to her lawyer. She said the assaults continued "almost every day" for about five months, through April 2023.
Read full story here09.12.2024 20:15 Rescue teams scour the notorious prison near Damascus for detainees and hidden underground cells.09.12.2024 20:16 NBC News’ Richard Engel reports from Damascus, Syria, where celebrations have broken out following the fall of the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Questions remain over how rebel factions will begin to self-govern a country that has endured a 13-year civil war.09.12.2024 20:30 'Emilia Pérez' leads the film side with 10, while TV sees noms for 'Shogun', 'The Bear,' and more.09.12.2024 20:33 The practice comes with benefits and drawbacks.09.12.2024 20:33 The Supreme Court sidestepped a new dispute over race in education by declining to consider whether an admissions program for public high schools in Boston unlawfully considered race.09.12.2024 20:34 Over 21 months, the pop superstar’s culture-dominating stage show doubled the gross of its closest competitor, according to ticket sales figures confirmed for the first time.09.12.2024 20:36 Relations between the neighboring countries on the island of Hispaniola have long been frosty. They are now complicated by up to 10,000 deportations a week.09.12.2024 20:41 'It Ends With Us,' starring Blake Lively, captures the insidiousness of domestic abuse but leaves little room for emotional catharsis 09.12.2024 20:42 What to know about the major changes 'It Ends With Us' made from Colleen Hoover's book to movie.09.12.2024 20:43 'It Ends With Us' is a movie about heavy issues, but its costumes for Blake Lively are deeply and puzzlingly unserious. Страницы: 777778779780781782783784785786787788789790791792793794795796797798799800801802803804805806807808809810811812813814815816817
Bashar Al-Assad’s grip over Syria was visible everywhere in the capital. It was all dismantled in less than 24 hours.
Health secretary tells hospitals to put safety above waiting time targets after service warned of potential ‘quad-demic’Wes Streeting has held urgent talks with NHS leaders in England about how the service will cope with an impending winter crisis, amid signs that it is already under intense pressure.At the meeting on Monday, the health secretary told the chief executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, and the bosses of large hospital trusts to prioritise patient safety over trying to meet waiting time targets. Continue reading... ... 
Tensions over executions and plans for petrol price rise and hijab law add to reversals in Gaza, Lebanon and SyriaThe fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the latest in a string of foreign policy reversals for Iran including the weakening of its allies in Lebanon and Gaza, has coincided with growing domestic frustration over rising executions, planned increases in the price of petrol and a proposed law that imposes heavy fines and loss of access to public services to any woman not wearing the hijab.The confluence of events is putting unprecedented pressure on Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, to demonstrate what reforms he has introduced since being elected in June. He is viewed domestically as a consensual figure and faces a conservative parliament, but his supporters are impatient for changes that will lift the economy. Continue reading... ... 
Adrianne Lenker makes a record in the woods, Jack White returns with ripping riffs and Mach-Hommy gives a lyrical masterclass as we start counting down our critics’ picks of the year• More on the best culture of 2024*** Continue reading... ... 
Criminology student Nasen Saadi had so many questions one teacher asked him if he was planning murder, trial toldA criminology student could have stabbed a woman to death on a Dorset beach because he wanted to know what it would be like to take a life and how it would feel to make a woman feel afraid, a jury has been told.As he plotted the attack, Nasen Saadi asked his lecturers so many questions about how police tracked suspects that one teacher asked him if he was planning to commit a murder, Winchester crown court heard. Continue reading... ... 
The move by Chinese regulators came a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced U.S. technology to China.
The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.
Thanks to a 56-yard game-winning field goal as time expired in the ACC title game, the College Football Playoff dodged controversy.
Jacques Audiard’s crime musical becomes frontrunnerWinslet up for Lee and The RegimeHugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes and Daniel Craig vying for best actorDemi Moore, Pamela Anderson and Zendaya up for best actressSnubs for Blitz, Hard Truths, The Outrun – and One DayFull list of nominationsFresh from its sweep at the European Film awards on Saturday, Jacques Audiard’s daring crime musical Emilia Pérez has dominated the Golden Globe nominations in Hollywood, taking 10, including nods for best comedy or musical, best director, and for its leading performer, Karla Sofía Gascón.Gascón plays a Mexican cartel kingpin in the film who transitions to a woman in order to fulfil her dream – and evade the local mafia. Should she win, Gascón will be the first trans actor to take a film Golden Globe; three years ago, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez triumphed for her role in TV show Pose. Continue reading... ... 
Who among us deserves a get-out-of-jail-free card?
Footage shows people looting expensive items after ‘butcher of Damascus’ fled to Moscow with familySyria live – latest updatesAs prisoners were set free from their subterranean jail cells around Damascus, shocked crowds roamed the ousted former president Bashar al-Assad’s mansions to grab what they could carry – and marvel at the trappings of his wealth.Pictures from the presidential palace showed a man carrying a beige plush chair over his shoulder as people roamed the tiled floors beneath intricate carved wooden ceilings. In another image, a smashed chandelier lay in a courtyard beneath an ornate sloping staircase, a crumpled Syrian flag bunched among the broken glass. More images showed wooden furniture and fittings that had been carried into the garden outside as people attempted to haul them away. Continue reading... ... 
Specialist law firms and CMCs could be in line for massive payday with their cuts from consumer compensationA cloud of anxiety was hanging over the British Motor Museum. Alongside showrooms featuring the 1988 Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR-9 and the Land Rover Defender used in opening scenes of the James Bond film Skyfall, were conference rooms filled with worried lawyers, bankers and compliance staff from across the motor lending industry.Attenders of the Financing and Leasing Association’s annual motor finance convention in Warwickshire last month had spent weeks trying to get to grips with a shock court of appeal decision that sided with two aggrieved car loan customers. Continue reading... ... 
A Cambodian woman who worked as a technical trainee at a strawberry farm north of Tokyo plans to file a damages suit against the farm manager, alleging multiple instances of rape that led to pregnancy and abortion, her lawyer said Monday.
The 23-year-old woman claims she was continuously sexually assaulted by the 58-year-old male manager just months after she began working at the farm in Tochigi Prefecture in July 2022, according to her lawyer. She said the assaults continued "almost every day" for about five months, through April 2023.
Read full story here
NBC News’ Richard Engel reports from Damascus, Syria, where celebrations have broken out following the fall of the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Questions remain over how rebel factions will begin to self-govern a country that has endured a 13-year civil war.
'Emilia Pérez' leads the film side with 10, while TV sees noms for 'Shogun', 'The Bear,' and more.
The practice comes with benefits and drawbacks.
The Supreme Court sidestepped a new dispute over race in education by declining to consider whether an admissions program for public high schools in Boston unlawfully considered race.
Over 21 months, the pop superstar’s culture-dominating stage show doubled the gross of its closest competitor, according to ticket sales figures confirmed for the first time.
Relations between the neighboring countries on the island of Hispaniola have long been frosty. They are now complicated by up to 10,000 deportations a week.
'It Ends With Us,' starring Blake Lively, captures the insidiousness of domestic abuse but leaves little room for emotional catharsis 
What to know about the major changes 'It Ends With Us' made from Colleen Hoover's book to movie.
'It Ends With Us' is a movie about heavy issues, but its costumes for Blake Lively are deeply and puzzlingly unserious.