Новости за 07.01.2019

A screening of the National Theatre’s production of Antony and Cleopatra,  directed by Simon Godwin, will be held at Spazju Kreattiv Cinema, St James Cavalier, Valletta, on Thursday at 7.30pm. Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony fall fiercely in love. Читать дальше...

Behind the cordon a child’s bicycle could be seen propped up against a hedge.

Barcelona director Guillermo Amor insists that Philippe Coutinho has "a lot to give" for the Catalan giants.

A frustrated Daria Gavrilova has vowed not to be a “good girl anymore” when she enters next week’s Australian Open without a win through the summer.

‘World class player had a chance to say ‘naa, we’ve moved on from these portrayals’.’

Melissa Twigg, Daily Beast
According to Ethiopian lore, the Ark of the Covenant is hidden in a church in Aksuma small city in the northern highlandsand guarded by a single monk.

Felix Martin, New Statesman
Cheap credit is creating the conditions for the next financial crisis.

Alyssa Ayres, War on the Rocks
Editor's Note: This is the second article in a special series published in collaboration with the Raisina Dialogue, which kicks off on Jan. 8 in New

Arsenal boss Unai Emery spoke on the preferred position of potential new signing Denis Suarez after the match against Blackpool in the FA Cup on Saturday evening. Only seven days into the January transfer window, the Gunners have been linked with several players around Europe as usual. Arsenal’s erratic recent form in the Premier League […]

Dan Runde, The Hill
2019 presents not just challenges, but opportunities.

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg View
It's hardly surprising that Sheikh Hasina's party won last week's elections in Bangladesh. The scale of her victory, however, is literally unbelievable: Her Awami League wonall but 10 of Bangladesh's 298 constituencies. In her own seat of Gopalganj, the prime minister won by 229,539 votes to 123.No wonder her party has been accused of to put it politely over-managing the election. The polls were, after all, preceded by a long period in which political opponents were intimidated, jailed or exiled. Читать дальше...

Nina Krushcheva, Project Syndicate
The problem with a semi-authoritarian regime like Vladimir Putin's is that people's behavior is not fully under the leader's control. And, in today's Russia, this extends to the news media, which report far more often and more boldly on social challenges, and the anger they stoke, than outsiders might expect.

Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy
After the tributes die down, the outgoing defense secretary will be remembered for recklessly expanding, and covering up, the country's wars.

The two-week-old boy sustained "catastrophic injuries" in the attack by his family's Staffordshire bull terrier.

L. Riddoch, Scotsman
Playing a waiting game on Indyref2 is dangerous for the SNP but so too are its other options, writes Lesley Riddoch

Joshua Shifrinson, Russia Matters
Why have relations between Russia and the Westparticularly the United Statescollapsed over the last decade? Analysts remain starkly divided. Many blame the Russian government and Vladimir Putin for seeking militarized solutions and changes to Europe's post-Cold War status quo. Others attribute the estrangement largely to Western policy, seeing the expansion of NATO and the European Union, alongside Western efforts to assert influence in Russia's so-called near abroad, as provoking the Russian bear. Читать дальше...

English FA Cup: Raul Jimenez (38') Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Liverpool

George Will, National Review
Today's Germany is the best Germany the world has seen.

Sailing greats and industry experts confirmed

Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures

Conrad Black, National Post
All countries are striving to better their lot, and so are we. The worrisome fact is that we are not doing a particularly brilliant job of it

Dilan Okcuoglu, Conversation

The St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Saskatoon was broken into one night before Ukrainian Christmas eve.