22.12.2024 18:21 Commons leader Lucy Powell ‘disappointed’ by state of economy and shares people’s impatience for changeA cabinet minister has said she “can understand people’s frustration” with the Labour government since it came into power as the party ended the year slumped in the polls with MPs jittery after a turbulent first few months.Lucy Powell, the Commons leader, said she shared public impatience for change and was “disappointed” over the state of the economy but the party’s inheritance meant it was “a bit like turning around a huge oil tanker”. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 18:23 Police said the man has been issued a warrant for pre-trial detention on five counts of murder.22.12.2024 18:4622.12.2024 18:50 Rickey Henderson, legendary baseball Hall of Famer who was nicknamed “Man of Steal,” has died at 65. Henderson was Major League Baseball’s all-time leader in both stolen bases and runs scored and was viewed as the greatest leadoff hitter of all-time.22.12.2024 19:00 Over half of Americans see the drones that have been spotted over the East Coast as a threat to the U.S.22.12.2024 19:00 To force the miners back up and put an end to illegal gold mining in Stilfontein, the authorities cut off their supply lines, sending a clear message: 'Surrender or starve.'22.12.2024 19:00 Items in special exhibition displayed for first time include copy of David Copperfield taken by Scott to AntarcticaA seal blubber-stained copy of David Copperfield which survived Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910 expedition to Antarctica and a draft of Charles Dickens’s public letter announcing his separation from his wife will form part of an exhibition marking the centenary of the opening of the writer’s former London house as a museum.Hundreds crammed inside the Georgian terrace in Bloomsbury in 1925, spilling on to the pavement, as 48 Doughty Street was saved from demolition 55 years after the death of its most famous resident. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 19:00 Sales of Christmas cards are down as soaring price of stamps means many people opt for digital festive greetingsThe soaring price of stamps has cast doubt on the future of Christmas cards, but despite the money and time involved it seems gen Z want to keep the festive tradition likened to sending a “long distance hug”.This year, sales of boxed cards are down 23%, and individual Christmas cards 15%, according to John Lewis’s annual shopping trends report, but people have embraced Instagram or WhatsApp to share festive greetings, or sent e-cards. Some send a combination. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 19:05 Police in Magdeburg, Germany, said Sunday that those who died were four women aged 45, 52, 67 and 75, as well as a 9-year-old boy.22.12.2024 19:10 NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki joins a special edition of Meet the Press to look at how Americans have become more divided. 22.12.2024 19:16 "Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.22.12.2024 19:21 For more than three decades, Asheville, North Carolina, has hosted the National Gingerbread Contest, a celebration of Christmas, creativity and carbohydrates. The flooding brought by Hurricane Helene this past fall cancelled the contest, but what had been a destination event for bakers and spectators has become an ad hoc celebration of Asheville. Forty-one gingerbread creations have been placed around town to help bring holiday cheer (as well as attract donations and tourist dollars) to the struggling city. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports.22.12.2024 19:2522.12.2024 19:38 Alleged drone sightings have been multiplying exponentially, with more than 5,000 reported in the past few weeks. But experts say the majority of reports about unusual lights in the sky are probably anything but drones.22.12.2024 19:41 Trump also warns he would not let a ‘vital national asset’ for the US fall into the ‘wrong hands’Donald Trump has demanded that the Panama Canal be given back to the US if Panama did not manage the waterway in a fashion that was acceptable to him – and he accused the central American country of charging excessive rates for use of the ocean-connecting ship passage.“The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, a little more than a month before the start of his second US presidency. “This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop….”Reuters contributed reporting Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 19:43 Le nageur, star des JO, arrive nettement en tête d’un sondage réalisé auprès des Français. Chez les filles, la judokate Clarisse Agbegnenou domine une hiérarchie bien plus resserrée.22.12.2024 19:52 Today, upwards of 700,000 Israelis live in settlements which the U.N. calls illegal. "Sunday Morning" talks with two settlers and with Palestinians in the West Bank living on opposite sides of an Israeli security barrier.22.12.2024 20:00 A front garden makeover with dinosaurs, a playful addition to a Scottish castle and the latest from Shard architect Renzo Piano all caught the eye1. Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum, London SW7J&L Gibbons and Feilden FowlesA magical embodiment of evolution and geological time, given spatial and physical form by rocks, plants and buildings. The remaking of the front garden of the country’s second most popular visitor attraction also provides such useful things as a cafe, a learning centre and improved queueing and access. Educational, enjoyable, exotic.2. n2 office building, London SW1
Lynch ArchitectsThe practice led by serious-minded architect Patrick Lynch produced two exceptional buildings this year in Victoria, London: an extension to a coroner’s court and a new office building. The latter, poised above broad colonnades of sturdy V-shaped struts, with a miniature glade by muf architecture/art, is generous, handsome and, despite its commercial use, public-spirited. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 20:08 Ce samedi après la défaite du Barça face à l’Atlético, le défenseur français a évoqué les calendriers auxquels doivent faire face les joueurs professionnels.22.12.2024 20:18 Wednesday will mark both Christmas Day and the first night of Hanukkah. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., and author and rabbi Steve Leder, of Los Angeles, offer their thoughts on what the holiday season means to us all.22.12.2024 20:18 South America’s only native bear is under threat. Coffee farmers in the Andes are doing something about it22.12.2024 20:18 Head of women’s affairs Aisha al-Dibs says women from all provinces and ethnicities will help rebuild war-torn country.22.12.2024 20:30 Dumitru Alaiba discusses Moldova’s divide over EU membership and the challenges of Russian influence in the region.22.12.2024 20:30 We leave you this Sunday morning in the spirit of Christmas, with the northern lights in skies above Alaska. Videographer: Michael Clark.22.12.2024 20:32 Beijing calls on US to stop 'dangerous moves' that 'undermine peace and stability' in the Taiwan Strait.22.12.2024 20:33 The following is the full transcript of an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that aired on Dec. 22, 2024.22.12.2024 20:41 Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their agendasThe get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer, Nick Candy, was not just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds.Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their political agendas, developed under the umbrella of Trump’s Maga vision. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 20:53 Invité dimanche de BFMTV, le député du Nord a validé l’analyse de Jean-Luc Mélenchon qui considère que la bataille politique «se finira» entre le mouvement nationaliste et les Insoumis.22.12.2024 20:5422.12.2024 21:00 In this exclusive tale four generations of an expat Irish family share a London house, where they gossip and drink and dream as Christmas draws nearTwo Irish ladies in their high 70s sat drinking gin as they looked out to the great pall of winter: the drearier end of Kentish Town, late in the morning. There was a snap of rain on the wind, a lowering December sky.“You’re takin’ your life in your hands with them things,” said Annie. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 21:03 UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York earlier this month, and there has been some celebration on social media of the suspected killer.22.12.2024 21:14 L’une des deux victimes, décédé de trois balles dans la tête, est le fils des gérants du magasin. L’homme de 29 ans était connu des services de police. Страницы: 878879880881882883884885886887888889890891892893894895896897898899900901902903904905906907908909910911912913914915916917918
Commons leader Lucy Powell ‘disappointed’ by state of economy and shares people’s impatience for changeA cabinet minister has said she “can understand people’s frustration” with the Labour government since it came into power as the party ended the year slumped in the polls with MPs jittery after a turbulent first few months.Lucy Powell, the Commons leader, said she shared public impatience for change and was “disappointed” over the state of the economy but the party’s inheritance meant it was “a bit like turning around a huge oil tanker”. Continue reading... ... 
Rickey Henderson, legendary baseball Hall of Famer who was nicknamed “Man of Steal,” has died at 65. Henderson was Major League Baseball’s all-time leader in both stolen bases and runs scored and was viewed as the greatest leadoff hitter of all-time.
Over half of Americans see the drones that have been spotted over the East Coast as a threat to the U.S.
To force the miners back up and put an end to illegal gold mining in Stilfontein, the authorities cut off their supply lines, sending a clear message: 'Surrender or starve.'
Items in special exhibition displayed for first time include copy of David Copperfield taken by Scott to AntarcticaA seal blubber-stained copy of David Copperfield which survived Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910 expedition to Antarctica and a draft of Charles Dickens’s public letter announcing his separation from his wife will form part of an exhibition marking the centenary of the opening of the writer’s former London house as a museum.Hundreds crammed inside the Georgian terrace in Bloomsbury in 1925, spilling on to the pavement, as 48 Doughty Street was saved from demolition 55 years after the death of its most famous resident. Continue reading... ... 
Sales of Christmas cards are down as soaring price of stamps means many people opt for digital festive greetingsThe soaring price of stamps has cast doubt on the future of Christmas cards, but despite the money and time involved it seems gen Z want to keep the festive tradition likened to sending a “long distance hug”.This year, sales of boxed cards are down 23%, and individual Christmas cards 15%, according to John Lewis’s annual shopping trends report, but people have embraced Instagram or WhatsApp to share festive greetings, or sent e-cards. Some send a combination. Continue reading... ... 
Police in Magdeburg, Germany, said Sunday that those who died were four women aged 45, 52, 67 and 75, as well as a 9-year-old boy.
NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki joins a special edition of Meet the Press to look at how Americans have become more divided. 
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
For more than three decades, Asheville, North Carolina, has hosted the National Gingerbread Contest, a celebration of Christmas, creativity and carbohydrates. The flooding brought by Hurricane Helene this past fall cancelled the contest, but what had been a destination event for bakers and spectators has become an ad hoc celebration of Asheville. Forty-one gingerbread creations have been placed around town to help bring holiday cheer (as well as attract donations and tourist dollars) to the struggling city. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports.
Alleged drone sightings have been multiplying exponentially, with more than 5,000 reported in the past few weeks. But experts say the majority of reports about unusual lights in the sky are probably anything but drones.
Trump also warns he would not let a ‘vital national asset’ for the US fall into the ‘wrong hands’Donald Trump has demanded that the Panama Canal be given back to the US if Panama did not manage the waterway in a fashion that was acceptable to him – and he accused the central American country of charging excessive rates for use of the ocean-connecting ship passage.“The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, a little more than a month before the start of his second US presidency. “This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop….”Reuters contributed reporting Continue reading... ... 
Le nageur, star des JO, arrive nettement en tête d’un sondage réalisé auprès des Français. Chez les filles, la judokate Clarisse Agbegnenou domine une hiérarchie bien plus resserrée.
Today, upwards of 700,000 Israelis live in settlements which the U.N. calls illegal. "Sunday Morning" talks with two settlers and with Palestinians in the West Bank living on opposite sides of an Israeli security barrier.
A front garden makeover with dinosaurs, a playful addition to a Scottish castle and the latest from Shard architect Renzo Piano all caught the eye1. Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum, London SW7J&L Gibbons and Feilden FowlesA magical embodiment of evolution and geological time, given spatial and physical form by rocks, plants and buildings. The remaking of the front garden of the country’s second most popular visitor attraction also provides such useful things as a cafe, a learning centre and improved queueing and access. Educational, enjoyable, exotic.2. n2 office building, London SW1
Lynch ArchitectsThe practice led by serious-minded architect Patrick Lynch produced two exceptional buildings this year in Victoria, London: an extension to a coroner’s court and a new office building. The latter, poised above broad colonnades of sturdy V-shaped struts, with a miniature glade by muf architecture/art, is generous, handsome and, despite its commercial use, public-spirited. Continue reading... ... 
Ce samedi après la défaite du Barça face à l’Atlético, le défenseur français a évoqué les calendriers auxquels doivent faire face les joueurs professionnels.
Wednesday will mark both Christmas Day and the first night of Hanukkah. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., and author and rabbi Steve Leder, of Los Angeles, offer their thoughts on what the holiday season means to us all.
We leave you this Sunday morning in the spirit of Christmas, with the northern lights in skies above Alaska. Videographer: Michael Clark.
The following is the full transcript of an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that aired on Dec. 22, 2024.
Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their agendasThe get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer, Nick Candy, was not just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds.Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their political agendas, developed under the umbrella of Trump’s Maga vision. Continue reading... ... 
Invité dimanche de BFMTV, le député du Nord a validé l’analyse de Jean-Luc Mélenchon qui considère que la bataille politique «se finira» entre le mouvement nationaliste et les Insoumis.
In this exclusive tale four generations of an expat Irish family share a London house, where they gossip and drink and dream as Christmas draws nearTwo Irish ladies in their high 70s sat drinking gin as they looked out to the great pall of winter: the drearier end of Kentish Town, late in the morning. There was a snap of rain on the wind, a lowering December sky.“You’re takin’ your life in your hands with them things,” said Annie. Continue reading... ... 
L’une des deux victimes, décédé de trois balles dans la tête, est le fils des gérants du magasin. L’homme de 29 ans était connu des services de police.