Новости за 13.12.2023

Wall Street is drifting near its all-time high, ahead of an afternoon announcement from the Federal Reserve that could show whether all the optimism is warranted.

‘I would sleep all day too if I had money like hers,’ one person says

DRIVERS have discovered the small side windows in a car CAN be rolled down using a “hidden” switch.

Love Island star Montana Brown had to take her baby son to the hospital after he accidentally fell from the kitchen counter

Also in this newsletter: UK stagnation fears resurface, poor countries’ debt costs hit ‘crisis’ point, US mortgage rates fall to lowest level since July

Colby Covington pulled no punches when giving his opinion on the UFC's top 15 fighters at 170 pounds one by one.

Video Boost is in the process of rolling out to Google’s Pixel 8 Pro, with the promise of much better video quality after Google gets a chance to process your recordings. A big part of Video Boost is “Night Sight Video,” and it’s easily the most impressive point Google has for this Pixel 8 Pro-exclusive feature.

An interview with Hamza Hamouchene and Manal Shqair on the militarization of climate politics

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New data reveals that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is already the second-best selling video game of 2023, despite awful reviews, a low Metacritic score, and complaints that its campaign was too short.

road accident deaths in Mumbai in Congress attacks Maharashtra government

Parts of a federal building in downtown Detroit have been closed because of elevated levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease. The Detroit News reports Wednesday that the U.S. General Services Administration-Great Lakes Region said water tests from Nov. 8 found legionella in specific test points in the Patrick V. McNamara Building. The GSA says it has notified building occupants, shut off the affected water outlets, and restricted access to the outlets. Legionnaire’s disease is a... Читать дальше...

Emergency bridge repairs may continue into Thursday and Friday. Motorists are encouraged to find alternate routes.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A large plume of smoke could be seen from southwest Columbus Wednesday afternoon but it was just for training. Columbus fire called multiple vehicles to 440 Norton Road in the Cherry Creek neighborhood at 12:34 p.m. for what appeared to be a big fire. The large smoke could be seen from [...]

9000-year-old double burial with shaman and infant reveals she may have been his 4th-great-grandmother  Livescience.com

A genetic analysis gives new insight into the identity of a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer who died 9,000 years ago.

EU authorities are putting the finishing touches to a decision that would prohibit Apple's practice of blocking music services from pushing their users away from App Store to alternative subscription options, the report said.

First-time author Cait Corrain was dropped by her publisher Del Rey Books after fellow authors exposed her for leaving negative reviews on Goodreads. Many of the fake reviews were directed at authors of colors.

From meal kits like Blue Apron to prepared food services like Veestro, the best vegetarian meal delivery services take the guesswork out of meal planning.

1. At the final PMQs of the year, Keir and Rishi parried like it's 1973  The Independent
2. UK ‘isn’t being governed’, Keir Starmer tells Sunak  The Guardian
3. Full exchange: Starmer and Sunak clash over economic hardship during Christmas  The Independent
4. Rishi Sunak's chaotic rage is boiling over  inews
5. Bloomberg UK Politics: Merry Making  Bloomberg

The unprecedented agreement reached at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai this week is unlikely to prompt a dramatic upheaval in the U.S. energy landscape, but it could bolster efforts to shift the country toward energy sources that are less harmful to the planet. The text, released Wednesday, calls for a “transition away” from planet-warming fossil...

No deadline has been set for the move.

BBC Wales political editor Gareth Lewis looks at the names in the mix to succeed Mark Drakeford.

Minnie Driver has admitted that she was left devastated after she watched her ex-boyfriend Matt Damon win an Oscar for the film Good Will Hunting back in 1998.

The Biden administration aims to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been approved by the FDA.