Gaming was once compared to drugs, gambling and alcohol in South Korea. Now its gaming academies offer a chance to earn a six-figure salary – if you make the grade Son Si-woo remembers the moment his mother turned off his computer. He was midway through an interview to become a professional gamer. “She said when I played computer games, my personality got worse, that I was addicted to games,” the 27-year-old recalls. Continue reading...
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Prima l'uscita a sorpresa in piazza San Pietro, poi i ringraziamenti ai fedeli, infine l'omelia e il richiamo a Francesco. La prima messa di Natale di Papa Leone è iniziata e si...
Winning margin of 28,000 votes announced a month late but before review of all ‘inconsistent’ ballots was completed Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura has been declared the winner of Honduras’s presidential election after a vote count that dragged on for almost a month and was marred by fraud allegations and criticism of interference by the US president. The rightwing Asfura, 67, a construction magnate and former mayor of the capital, Tegucigalpa, secured 40.27% of the vote, against 39.53% for the centre-right Salvador Nasralla, a margin of just 28,000 votes. Continue reading...
PIANCAVALLO (PORNENONE) - Lo scarpone che si impiglia nella rete sotto al seggiolino della seggiovia e il 32enne è precipitato da un'altezza di 10 metri: è gravissimo....
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The Glasgow-set sitcom is back after two years … and the highlight is Cathy losing any semblance of civility, flirting aggressively then calling Eric a ‘big stupid donkey’. Happy holidays! Sitcoms aren’t meant to go anywhere: the default setting is one location full of characters who keep resetting to zero. Few have followed that rule as faithfully as Two Doors Down, a low-key comedy set on a middle-class close on the outskirts of Glasgow and focusing on retirement-age couple Eric and Beth Baird (Alex Norton and Arabella Weir), whose quiet life is forever interrupted by their eccentric neighbours inviting themselves in. That might be why it’s stayed on air for more than a decade: it’s never essential but always entertaining enough. You know what you’re getting. The show prefers to stay put in the Bairds’ lounge, and if it does venture elsewhere it will usually just be to someone else’s house – nothing flashy. Domestic trivia takes precedence over big events; laughs are more often from what’s said than big visual gags. Emotions are kept in check, too. Wry British comedy that plonks itself down on suburban sofas – Abigail’s Party, The Royle Family, Mum – tends to have wrenching pathos lurking, with the characters harbouring either desperate sadness or reserves of affection for each other that they ultimately can’t keep hidden. Two Doors Down doesn’t bother with all that. After years of getting to know them, Beth would still rather her neighbours didn’t pop in. Continue reading...
The understated lead in this year’s creepy festive drama is ideal for the whispered dread it drips with. Be warned, though: it verges on horror – young kids may well be terrified It is a truth universally acknowledged that a family gathered around a roaring yuletide screen must be in want of a ghost story. Since 1968, therefore (or a couple of years earlier, depending on whether you count the precursor Whistle and I’ll Come to You, directed by Jonathan Miller – and who am I to tell you nay?), the BBC has sporadically provided one in the form of the Ghost Story for Christmas series. These days, it is an annual event, delivered as a half-hour adaptation by Mark Gatiss of a spooky short story from the Victorian or Edwardian archives, which gives us some shivery distraction and provides some lovely actors with gainful employment of a not too onerous kind in the lead-up to Christmas. To begin, the recent reboot of the series comprised mostly adaptations of Gatiss’s greatest love, MR James, but there has also, as befits the co-creator of Sherlock, been one by Arthur Conan Doyle (Lot No 249). Then, last year, it was derived from a tale by E Nesbit-yes-that-E-Nesbit from the days before she was pulling in royalties from The Railway Children, and the Psammead wasn’t even a glint in Edith’s eye. Continue reading...
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass Pope Leo has told Christians that the Christmas story should remind them of their duty to help the poor and strangers. In his Christmas Eve sermon, the pope said the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn showed followers that refusing to help those in need was tantamount to rejecting God himself. Continue reading...
Svolta filologica grazie a un decreto del Colle: chiesta diligente osservanza all’esercito. «Siam pronti alla morte, l’Italia chiamò». Punto, fine. Pausa con corona. Rompete le righe, ma soprattutto mordetevi la lingua se siete tra quelli - quasi tutti - abituati a urlare «sì!» al termine del Canto degli italiani (poesia di Goffredo Mameli, musica di Michele Novaro, correva l’anno 1847). Lo stabilisce un decreto del 15 marzo scorso firmato dal presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella, adottato su proposta del premier, Giorgia Meloni (leader - per restare in tema - di Fratelli d’Italia), poi pubblicato in Gazzetta Ufficiale il 7 maggio 2025. Una scelta filologicamente ineccepibile quella del Quirinale, dato che nel testo primigenio del Mameli (1827-1849) di questa entusiastica ma superflua esclamazione non c’è traccia. Fu il compositore Novaro (1818-1885) - genovese come il suo socio - ad aggiungerla per concludere il brano (adottato ufficialmente dal nostro Paese come inno nazionale solo nel 2017) «in un grido supremo, il quale è un giuramento e un grido di guerra». Continua a leggere
Il duetto sulle note del compositore scozzese Erland Cooper
Il successore di Francesco ha celebrato la sua prima messa in Vaticano nelle vesti di Pontefice e si è affacciato in piazza San Pietro nonostante la pioggia battente
Il pontefice prima è uscito a sorpresa in piazza San Pietro e ha ringraziato i fedeli: 'Grazie per essere venuti anche sotto la pioggia'
Leone XIV esce sul sagrato della basilica vaticana: “Grazie per il vostro coraggio con questo clima. Gesù Cristo che è nato per noi ci porta la pace e l’amore di Dio”
The father-and-dad pair are a total delight in this tale of a 16-year-old trying to prove Santa’s existence. They deserve a whole new episode together In an era in which it is now an annual tradition for the US streaming giants to put out bland paint-by-algorithm holiday movies, there is something rather satisfying about the oddball British Christmas stand-alone special. The ingredients tend to be as follows: appearances by the year’s favourite comic actors; niche cultural references, with or without cameos; a wittily biting but heartwarming script that preferably leaves the viewer weeping into their Baileys. In many ways, Finding Father Christmas hits all those notes, if never quite fulfilling its potential. It follows 16-year-old Chris (Bafta-winner and total delight Lenny Rush), who still believes in Santa despite being in the middle of his GCSEs. Three years after the death of his mother and with Chris still writing letters to the north pole, his concerned dad and depressed postman Nicholas (The Inbetweeners’ James Buckley) decides it’s finally time to have “the talk”. Continue reading...
I dati ribaltano la storia della catastrofe annunciata: l’economia americana accelera e Scott Bessent preme sulla Fed perché tagli i tassi e riveda al ribasso il tetto all’inflazione. Le statistiche, si sa, hanno un difetto imperdonabile: arrivano sempre dopo le profezie. E spesso le smentiscono. Così, mentre le cassandre della globalizzazione annunciavano sconquassi, recessioni a catena e un’economia Usa piegata dai dazi di Donald Trump, i numeri hanno fatto quello che sanno fare meglio: raccontare un’altra storia. Meno apocalittica, molto più prosaica. E decisamente più imbarazzante per chi aveva già pronto il necrologio dell’economia Usa. Continua a leggere
Governor declared emergency in several counties, with near white-out snow conditions in parts of the Sierra Nevada A powerful winter storm swept across California on Wednesday, with heavy rain and gusty winds leading to evacuation warnings for mudslides in parts of the southern part of the state, bringing near white-out snow conditions in the mountains and hazardous travel for millions of holiday drivers. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, declared a state of emergency in several counties, including Los Angeles. Continue reading...
Dalle 22 la solenne cerimonia nella Basilica di San Pietro
Two stars of Irish acting unite in eagerly anticipated film about gypsy gangster Tommy Shelby Two stars of Irish acting are united as Cillian Murphy meets Barry Keoghan in the first look at the eagerly anticipated Peaky Blinders film. Murphy questions his identity as “famous gypsy gangster” Tommy Shelby in the 70-second teaser released by Netflix on Christmas Eve. Continue reading...
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Il Dipartimento di Giustizia sta esaminando «oltre un milione di documenti in più potenzialmente legati al caso di Jeffrey Epstein» dopo averli ricevuti dalla procura di New York e dall’Fbi....
Nella città di Maiduguri, lo afferma un leader di una "milizia anti-jihadista" sentito dall'Afp
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