22.12.2024 7:02 Widely regarded as the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history, he was not just one of the game’s most exciting players but also one of its most eccentric.22.12.2024 7:10 Five schools agreed to changes after reports that they failed to protect students from antisemitism and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination.22.12.2024 7:14 Germany is in shock after the deadly car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. A 9-year-old child is among at least five people who were killed in the attack. At least 200 more were injured, many critically. As details about the suspect emerged, the community gathered to honor the victims. Anna Noryskiewicz reports.22.12.2024 7:17 Japan's Tsubaki Miki won the women's parallel slalom at a snowboarding World Cup event on Saturday for her second win of the season.
The 21-year-old came second in the qualification round to reach the last 16 and won four heats to secure the title in Davos, Switzerland, edging Michelle Dekker of the Netherlands in the final. Swiss Flurina Neva Baetschi claimed third in the non-Olympic discipline.
Read full story here22.12.2024 7:18 The Christmas rush is on as retailers rejoice over what could be record holiday sales. Elise Preston reports.22.12.2024 7:21 Phil Sparks, a longtime CBS News soundman based in London, has died at the age of 61. He was known for his extraordinary work in countless war zones and assignments for "60 Minutes."22.12.2024 7:31 Hollywood star Blake Lively is accusing her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment in a new lawsuit. His attorney has denied the allegations.22.12.2024 7:37 The suspect drove through the doors of a JCPenny in Killeen, Texas, and continued inside for "several hundred yards," an official said.22.12.2024 7:42 The Chicago group Holiday Heroes seeks to bring joy and light to brave children at 18 different hospitals. Noel Brennan has more.22.12.2024 7:42 Many kids will be getting tablets or video games this holiday season. But this Boston boy has put down the gadgets and lifted up his entire neighborhood. David Wade reports.22.12.2024 7:46 High-rise residential buildings hit in Russian city of Kazan but no casualties reported; Zelenskyy reveals meetings with CIA chief. What we know on day 1,033 See all our Ukraine war coverage Ukraine staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000km (620 miles) from the frontline, on Saturday, damaging residential buildings and temporarily shutting down the airport. A drone smashed into a high-rise apartment block and damaged a skyscraper in the city of more than 1.3 million but there were no casualties, local officials said. Videos posted on Russian social media networks showed drones hitting a high-rise building and setting off fireballs. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said two drones hit a 37-storey apartment block and that Ukraine had been targeting an unspecified industrial facility but that it suffered no damage.Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Saturday without specifically mentioning the strike on Kazan: “We will definitely continue to strike at Russian military targets with drones and missiles.” Some Kazan residents were evacuated – Russian authorities did not provide figures – and all major public events in the area were cancelled as a precaution after the strikes. Russian civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia temporarily closed Kazan international airport, one of the country’s busiest, but reopened it later on Saturday. Alongside the drones that hit the apartment block, three drones were shot down and three were suppressed by air defence systems, the foreign ministry said. The attack on Kazan – about 800km east of Moscow – came a day after Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killed one person and wounded 13, and after five were killed by a Ukrainian attack on the Russian border region of Kursk.Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he had met the CIA director, William Burns in Ukraine – a rare public disclosure of a meeting between the pair. The Ukrainian president said he had met Burns on multiple occasions throughout the war but their meetings had been undisclosed. “Bill Burns paid his last visit to Ukraine as CIA director,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram, posting a photo of him shaking hands with Burns in front of a state crest of Ukraine. “He and I have had many meetings during this war, and I am grateful for his help. Usually, such meetings are not publicly reported, and all our meetings – in Ukraine, in other European countries, in America, and in other parts of the world – were held without official information.” Burns is set to leave the CIA post as US president-elect Donald Trump brings in his own candidate.Russia’s defence ministry said the army captured a new village on Saturday near the key city of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have made major advances in recent months. The village of Kostiantynopolske is about 10km south-west of Kurakhove, an industrial town that is a looming Russian target.The Russian embassy in London on Saturday described the UK’s planned transfer to Ukraine of more than £2bn ($2.5bn) backed by frozen Russian assets as a “fraudulent scheme”. Britain said in October it would lend Ukraine £2.26bn pounds as part of a much larger loan from the Group of Seven nations backed by frozen Russian central bank assets to help buy weapons and rebuild damaged infrastructure. The UK defence minister, John Healey, said the money would be solely for Ukraine’s military and could be used to help develop drones capable of travelling further than some long-range missiles. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 7:52 Magnitude 6.1 quake shakes country’s main island as RAAF flights carrying 144 passengers land in Brisbane and SydneyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVanuatu has been hit by another earthquake after hundreds of Australians landed on home soil from the islands and the federal government announced a new round of financial assistance.The latest magnitude 6.1 quake shook buildings on the country’s main island at 2.30am on Sunday after it struck 30km west of the capital, Port Vila. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 7:52 The sinking comes less than four days after another boat capsized in the country’s north-east, leaving 25 people deadA ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in north-eastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and more than 100 others missing, officials and eyewitnesses said on Saturday.Twenty people have been rescued so far. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 7:52 Rickey Henderson is widely considered to be one of the best leadoff hitters and base stealers in baseball.22.12.2024 8:04 A Japanese university and construction company have partnered on research to develop a lunar habitat capable of generating artificial gravity, enabling people to live on the Moon under conditions similar to those on Earth.
Kyoto University and Kajima Corp. aim to construct a ground-based prototype of the "Neo Lunar Glass," a paraboloid structure that generates gravity through rotation, by the 2030s.
Read full story here22.12.2024 8:13 The police said the man was being investigated for possible drunken driving but instead of stopping, he smashed his pickup truck into a J.C. Penney.22.12.2024 8:42 A man who struck multiple people after driving into a Texas mall was shot and killed by police, according to authorities.22.12.2024 8:47 Japanese forward Shuto Machino hit a brace and set up two more as Holstein Kiel came from behind in a 5-1 mauling of Augsburg at home in the German Bundesliga on Saturday, taking his season goal tally to six.
The 25-year-old, who began the season with four goals in the promoted side's first five games through September, was back on the scoresheet after bending in a 39th-minute free-kick from 25 meters out to give his side a 4-1 lead.
Read full story here22.12.2024 8:47 Quelque 5% du trafic maritime mondial empruntent le canal, qui permet aux navires voyageant notamment entre l’Asie et la côte est des États-Unis d’éviter un long et périlleux détour par l’extrémité méridionale de l’Amérique du Sud.22.12.2024 9:05 At least five people were injured, and the suspect killed, after a man drove his pickup truck through the glass doors of a J.C. ... 22.12.2024 9:16 En remontant jusqu’à la nomination de Michel Debré en 1959, l’Ifop qui réalise ce baromètre depuis des décennies, n’a pas retrouvé de niveaux d’impopularité aussi élevés pour un Premier ministre après sa prise de fonctions.22.12.2024 9:56 A body was found in a Texas lake, the same site where other deceased individuals have been discovered in recent months, ... 22.12.2024 10:00 The Southeast Asian nation’s monthslong festive period is more frequently being marked by climate devastation.22.12.2024 10:00 Exclusive: Automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest show images of the Massaco people, who are flourishing despite environmental threatsRead more on this story: New images show Brazil’s uncontacted people are thriving – but with success comes a new threatRemarkable images taken by automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest reveal an isolated community that appears to be thriving despite pressure from ranchers and illegal encroachment into the Amazon.The pictures, of a group of men, offer the outside world its first glimpse of the community – and give further evidence the population is growing. The group is known as the Massaco after the river that runs through their lands, but no one knows what they call themselves, while their language, social fabric and beliefs remain a mystery. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 10:01 In the West African nation of Niger, killings by insurgents have surged since the military seized power in a coup, expelled U.S. and European troops and stopped negotiations with Islamist groups.22.12.2024 10:02 An F/A-18 fighter jet was "mistakenly fired on" by the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, authorities said.22.12.2024 10:36 Der französische Präsident schlägt vor, europäische Soldaten in die Ukraine zu schicken – um einen künftigen Waffenstillstand ... 22.12.2024 10:39 Sechs Astronauten kreisen in der ISS um die Erde und beobachten von dort, was der Mensch ihr in seiner Raffgier zumutet: Elke ... 22.12.2024 10:57 Die USA haben Stellungen der Huthis im Jemen angegriffen. Dabei kam es zu einem dramatischen Zwischenfall: Als ein Kampfjet von ... 22.12.2024 11:00 Give yourself permission to grieve, not just for the end of your marriage, but also for the man you thought you knewThe question Last Christmas, my husband left me. He’d been on a few festive nights out with work and I noticed a change in his behaviour. When I asked what was wrong, he told me that a conversation we’d had a couple of months previously, whereby I talked about divorce, had been playing on his mind. I didn’t want a divorce, but I was just trying to get him to see that I felt he was neglecting me with his obsession over losing weight (which he didn’t need to lose) and exercising. Before the exercise obsession started he was my best friend and supporter, so this was such a shock.He never grieved for his father – a very difficult man – who died earlier in the year. The day after he left he sent an email saying he couldn’t stop thinking of me talking about divorce and he wanted to separate. I was shattered by this. Where had it come from? No amount of apology from me had any affect. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 11:00 The menu here was overseen by Rowley Leigh, but his generous touch in the kitchen is missingThe Don, 20 St Swithin’s Lane, London EC4N 8AD. Starters £14.50–£19.50, mains £22.50–£47.50, desserts £11.50–£12.50, wines from £35The Don in London’s Square Mile is a chilly restaurant. It’s not simply that on this grey November lunchtime, the vent to our left is pumping frigid air into the room, as if they failed to notice the clocks went back weeks ago. It’s also the hard-lined space with the slab-like picture windows looking out on to St Swithin’s Lane. It’s the parquet and the bright lights, the hefty chairs upholstered in a frosty shade of cadet blue, and the desperate attempt to soften everything with a large fern imprint on a taupe wall. The tables are set just far enough apart so diners can plot against their rivals and mutter “your shout or mine” at each other without being overheard. It feels like an overworked TV production designer’s idea of a City restaurant, from which at any moment every stick of furniture could be removed, along with the bar. Then it could become another much-needed commercial property sales office, as if nature were healing. Continue reading... ... 22.12.2024 11:00 Some made a splash in politics, social media, sport or the arts. Others took a brave personal stand. Observer writers and critics pick the names on everyone’s lips this year Continue reading... ... Страницы: 873874875876877878879880881882883884885886887888889890891892893894895896897898899900901902903904905906907908909910911912913
Widely regarded as the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history, he was not just one of the game’s most exciting players but also one of its most eccentric.
Five schools agreed to changes after reports that they failed to protect students from antisemitism and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination.
Germany is in shock after the deadly car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. A 9-year-old child is among at least five people who were killed in the attack. At least 200 more were injured, many critically. As details about the suspect emerged, the community gathered to honor the victims. Anna Noryskiewicz reports.
Japan's Tsubaki Miki won the women's parallel slalom at a snowboarding World Cup event on Saturday for her second win of the season.
The 21-year-old came second in the qualification round to reach the last 16 and won four heats to secure the title in Davos, Switzerland, edging Michelle Dekker of the Netherlands in the final. Swiss Flurina Neva Baetschi claimed third in the non-Olympic discipline.
Read full story here
The Christmas rush is on as retailers rejoice over what could be record holiday sales. Elise Preston reports.
Phil Sparks, a longtime CBS News soundman based in London, has died at the age of 61. He was known for his extraordinary work in countless war zones and assignments for "60 Minutes."
Hollywood star Blake Lively is accusing her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment in a new lawsuit. His attorney has denied the allegations.
The suspect drove through the doors of a JCPenny in Killeen, Texas, and continued inside for "several hundred yards," an official said.
The Chicago group Holiday Heroes seeks to bring joy and light to brave children at 18 different hospitals. Noel Brennan has more.
Many kids will be getting tablets or video games this holiday season. But this Boston boy has put down the gadgets and lifted up his entire neighborhood. David Wade reports.
High-rise residential buildings hit in Russian city of Kazan but no casualties reported; Zelenskyy reveals meetings with CIA chief. What we know on day 1,033 See all our Ukraine war coverage Ukraine staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000km (620 miles) from the frontline, on Saturday, damaging residential buildings and temporarily shutting down the airport. A drone smashed into a high-rise apartment block and damaged a skyscraper in the city of more than 1.3 million but there were no casualties, local officials said. Videos posted on Russian social media networks showed drones hitting a high-rise building and setting off fireballs. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said two drones hit a 37-storey apartment block and that Ukraine had been targeting an unspecified industrial facility but that it suffered no damage.Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Saturday without specifically mentioning the strike on Kazan: “We will definitely continue to strike at Russian military targets with drones and missiles.” Some Kazan residents were evacuated – Russian authorities did not provide figures – and all major public events in the area were cancelled as a precaution after the strikes. Russian civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia temporarily closed Kazan international airport, one of the country’s busiest, but reopened it later on Saturday. Alongside the drones that hit the apartment block, three drones were shot down and three were suppressed by air defence systems, the foreign ministry said. The attack on Kazan – about 800km east of Moscow – came a day after Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killed one person and wounded 13, and after five were killed by a Ukrainian attack on the Russian border region of Kursk.Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he had met the CIA director, William Burns in Ukraine – a rare public disclosure of a meeting between the pair. The Ukrainian president said he had met Burns on multiple occasions throughout the war but their meetings had been undisclosed. “Bill Burns paid his last visit to Ukraine as CIA director,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram, posting a photo of him shaking hands with Burns in front of a state crest of Ukraine. “He and I have had many meetings during this war, and I am grateful for his help. Usually, such meetings are not publicly reported, and all our meetings – in Ukraine, in other European countries, in America, and in other parts of the world – were held without official information.” Burns is set to leave the CIA post as US president-elect Donald Trump brings in his own candidate.Russia’s defence ministry said the army captured a new village on Saturday near the key city of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have made major advances in recent months. The village of Kostiantynopolske is about 10km south-west of Kurakhove, an industrial town that is a looming Russian target.The Russian embassy in London on Saturday described the UK’s planned transfer to Ukraine of more than £2bn ($2.5bn) backed by frozen Russian assets as a “fraudulent scheme”. Britain said in October it would lend Ukraine £2.26bn pounds as part of a much larger loan from the Group of Seven nations backed by frozen Russian central bank assets to help buy weapons and rebuild damaged infrastructure. The UK defence minister, John Healey, said the money would be solely for Ukraine’s military and could be used to help develop drones capable of travelling further than some long-range missiles. Continue reading... ... 
Magnitude 6.1 quake shakes country’s main island as RAAF flights carrying 144 passengers land in Brisbane and SydneyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVanuatu has been hit by another earthquake after hundreds of Australians landed on home soil from the islands and the federal government announced a new round of financial assistance.The latest magnitude 6.1 quake shook buildings on the country’s main island at 2.30am on Sunday after it struck 30km west of the capital, Port Vila. Continue reading... ... 
The sinking comes less than four days after another boat capsized in the country’s north-east, leaving 25 people deadA ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in north-eastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and more than 100 others missing, officials and eyewitnesses said on Saturday.Twenty people have been rescued so far. Continue reading... ... 
Rickey Henderson is widely considered to be one of the best leadoff hitters and base stealers in baseball.
A Japanese university and construction company have partnered on research to develop a lunar habitat capable of generating artificial gravity, enabling people to live on the Moon under conditions similar to those on Earth.
Kyoto University and Kajima Corp. aim to construct a ground-based prototype of the "Neo Lunar Glass," a paraboloid structure that generates gravity through rotation, by the 2030s.
Read full story here
A man who struck multiple people after driving into a Texas mall was shot and killed by police, according to authorities.
Japanese forward Shuto Machino hit a brace and set up two more as Holstein Kiel came from behind in a 5-1 mauling of Augsburg at home in the German Bundesliga on Saturday, taking his season goal tally to six.
The 25-year-old, who began the season with four goals in the promoted side's first five games through September, was back on the scoresheet after bending in a 39th-minute free-kick from 25 meters out to give his side a 4-1 lead.
Read full story here
Quelque 5% du trafic maritime mondial empruntent le canal, qui permet aux navires voyageant notamment entre l’Asie et la côte est des États-Unis d’éviter un long et périlleux détour par l’extrémité méridionale de l’Amérique du Sud.
At least five people were injured, and the suspect killed, after a man drove his pickup truck through the glass doors of a J.C. ... 
En remontant jusqu’à la nomination de Michel Debré en 1959, l’Ifop qui réalise ce baromètre depuis des décennies, n’a pas retrouvé de niveaux d’impopularité aussi élevés pour un Premier ministre après sa prise de fonctions.
A body was found in a Texas lake, the same site where other deceased individuals have been discovered in recent months, ... 
The Southeast Asian nation’s monthslong festive period is more frequently being marked by climate devastation.
Exclusive: Automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest show images of the Massaco people, who are flourishing despite environmental threatsRead more on this story: New images show Brazil’s uncontacted people are thriving – but with success comes a new threatRemarkable images taken by automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest reveal an isolated community that appears to be thriving despite pressure from ranchers and illegal encroachment into the Amazon.The pictures, of a group of men, offer the outside world its first glimpse of the community – and give further evidence the population is growing. The group is known as the Massaco after the river that runs through their lands, but no one knows what they call themselves, while their language, social fabric and beliefs remain a mystery. Continue reading... ... 
An F/A-18 fighter jet was "mistakenly fired on" by the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, authorities said.
Der französische Präsident schlägt vor, europäische Soldaten in die Ukraine zu schicken – um einen künftigen Waffenstillstand ... 
Sechs Astronauten kreisen in der ISS um die Erde und beobachten von dort, was der Mensch ihr in seiner Raffgier zumutet: Elke ... 
Die USA haben Stellungen der Huthis im Jemen angegriffen. Dabei kam es zu einem dramatischen Zwischenfall: Als ein Kampfjet von ... 
Give yourself permission to grieve, not just for the end of your marriage, but also for the man you thought you knewThe question Last Christmas, my husband left me. He’d been on a few festive nights out with work and I noticed a change in his behaviour. When I asked what was wrong, he told me that a conversation we’d had a couple of months previously, whereby I talked about divorce, had been playing on his mind. I didn’t want a divorce, but I was just trying to get him to see that I felt he was neglecting me with his obsession over losing weight (which he didn’t need to lose) and exercising. Before the exercise obsession started he was my best friend and supporter, so this was such a shock.He never grieved for his father – a very difficult man – who died earlier in the year. The day after he left he sent an email saying he couldn’t stop thinking of me talking about divorce and he wanted to separate. I was shattered by this. Where had it come from? No amount of apology from me had any affect. Continue reading... ... 
The menu here was overseen by Rowley Leigh, but his generous touch in the kitchen is missingThe Don, 20 St Swithin’s Lane, London EC4N 8AD. Starters £14.50–£19.50, mains £22.50–£47.50, desserts £11.50–£12.50, wines from £35The Don in London’s Square Mile is a chilly restaurant. It’s not simply that on this grey November lunchtime, the vent to our left is pumping frigid air into the room, as if they failed to notice the clocks went back weeks ago. It’s also the hard-lined space with the slab-like picture windows looking out on to St Swithin’s Lane. It’s the parquet and the bright lights, the hefty chairs upholstered in a frosty shade of cadet blue, and the desperate attempt to soften everything with a large fern imprint on a taupe wall. The tables are set just far enough apart so diners can plot against their rivals and mutter “your shout or mine” at each other without being overheard. It feels like an overworked TV production designer’s idea of a City restaurant, from which at any moment every stick of furniture could be removed, along with the bar. Then it could become another much-needed commercial property sales office, as if nature were healing. Continue reading... ... 
Some made a splash in politics, social media, sport or the arts. Others took a brave personal stand. Observer writers and critics pick the names on everyone’s lips this year Continue reading... ...