Новости за 15.12.2023

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BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Heavy snowfall sweeping north China is presenting not only logistical challenges and disruptions to transportation but is also serving as a welcome surprise and opportunity for many.

As snow accumulates

The final episodes of 'The Crown' season 6 have dropped, and there's plenty of royal drama to tackle if Netflix wants to. What's the status of 'The Crown season 7? Is it happening? Let's break down what we know.

GUANGZHOU, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A tourist bus departed from China's Zhuhai port on Friday morning bound for Blue Dolphin Island, marking the start of group tours on a trial basis via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB), the longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing in the world.

HANGZHOU, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tianjin Bohai Bank of China will face four-time winner VakifBank Spor Kulubu in the semifinals of the FIVB Women's Club World Championship after losing to Türkiye's Eczacibasi Dynavit Istanbul 25-17, 25-23, 25-19 here on Friday.

SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The 2023-24 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup kicked off here on Friday, with Chinese skaters successfully advancing in individual events.

NAGOYA, Japan, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese paddlers had a good opening day as the 2023 Women's World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals kicked off in Nagoya, Japan on Friday.

MADRID, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona faces a vital game on Saturday when it travels to play Valencia with questions hanging over coach Xavi Hernandez after recent poor displays.

(Photo credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports) The New York Yankees traded outfielder Billy McKinney to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for international signing money. The amount of money was not included in Friday's announcement from the Yankees. McKinney, 29, re-signed with New York on a minor league deal last week. He batted .227 with six homers and 14 RBIs in 48 games with the Yankees in 2023. A first-round pick

TEHRAN -- Eleven policemen were killed and seven others injured in a "terrorist" attack in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan early Friday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's central bank raised the key interest rate by 100 basis points to 16 percent amid high inflationary pressures, the bank said in a statement Friday.

BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Another year is just around the corner and global market watchers are reviewing the year 2023 for China, a year of hard-won, inspiring rebound amid a struggling global economic recovery.

After scarfing down my lovely breakfast – rock-hard granola bar with an exquisite Fireball whisky demi-glace – I speculated that neurons were once again sending signals to my brain. (The “speculation” part tipped me off.) This was good. It had been a long, cold night in the tent. But now, with fire made and body […]

(Photo credit: Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports) The Kansas City Royals reportedly are finalizing a deal Friday with free agent outfielder Hunter Renfroe. MLB Network said it is a two-year, $13 million contract plus incentives and includes a player opt-out after 2024. Renfroe, 31, split the 2023 season with the Los Angeles Angels and Cincinnati Reds and hit .233 with 20 homers and 60 RBIs. The eight-year veteran is a ca

They may be little, but the scandal behind how M&Ms got their name is big. Chocolate lovers are gobsmacked after discovering the brand's scandalous history behind one of the nation's most beloved sweet treats

What do you buy yourself when are you are the third/seventh-richest man in the world and, seemingly, a little worried about the state of humanity?

The billionaires have seen their companies undergo drastic layoffs this year, but they're still focused on doomsday bunkers and space-faring civilizations.

Sales of the one-ounce gold bars are limited to two per membership and sell out "within a few hours."

After an eight-year hiatus, our Column Contest triumphantly returned (thanks in no small part to the support from our Patreon members). We received over 400 entries. As with past contests, this year’s group featured many worthy winners. After much deliberation, we’re excited to announce the three grand-prize-winning columns. They are, in random order:

LEON EDWARDS and Colby Covington are all set to battle it out at UFC 296 for the welterweight title – and the fight has seen extra spice added after Covington’s comments in the press conference.

Representing Mexico once more at the Oscars with her second film, “Totem,” Lila Avilés has proven that the critical success of her debut feature, “The Chambermaid,” was not a fluke. The former actress, who worked in virtually all areas of film production and directed theater before venturing into filmmaking, has been hailed as part of […]

The former White House chief of staff is charged alongside Donald Trump with a conspiracy to tamper with the 2020 election in Georgia.

Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27 member nation bloc by removing key hurdles on their long path toward membership.

There are more women than men in some of the largest urban U.S. counties east of the Mississippi River, on the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South. That ratio is reversed in the West, where there are more men in the most populous counties. Figures released last week from the 2022 American Community Survey show that sex ratios vary by geography. That is in part due to gender imbalance in tech companies and the fact that places with large numbers of colleges or universities draw more women. The... Читать дальше...

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