Новости за 17.10.2016

YouTube popularity is growing, especially among young generations of internet user. While the most popular Youtubers in the world earn millions, Slovak vloggers can also make a tidy income.

Slovaks mostly communicate on Facebook and ignore Twitter, though younger internet users have also started to use Snapchat.

In exercise for this topic we focus on skill: Self Awareness

Spectator College provides readers of The Slovak Spectator who are trying to improve their English with glossaries of useful and frequently used words and expressions from stories published as part of the Spectator College as well as in the rest of the newspaper.

Jazzman and organiser of the festival Bratislava Jazz Days, Peter Lipa, opened the press conference by noting that these days, there is too much music everywhere and that he personally tends to switch it off.

The 14th Dalai Lama, whose civilian name is Tenzin Gyatso, visited Slovakia between October 15 and 17.

The traffic jams that drivers witness every day when entering Bratislava via the D1 will get worse before they get better.

Differing accounts leave many questions of how and why a prisoner was beaten so badly by guards.

Sagan came from behind the last sprint to the finish first, again demonstrating his dominance in cycling.

Slovak President Andrej Kiska was in opposition with the rest of the presidents of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries – Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic – concerning the refugee crisis.

It may be the fate of sculptors focusing on monumental works that their exhibitions are not too frequent – but in the case of renowned Slovak artist Jozef Jankovič, there may be more behind it.

Deborah Nelson, who won her Pulitzer Prize in 1997, has been reporting on environmental issues throughout her career. Her major report for Reuters, Water’s Edge, was published in 2014 and put a new perspective on reporting on climate change – “showing what is happening here and now, not only on the global scale but in people’s own backyards”.