Giorno: 5 Gennaio 2023

Pope Benedict XVI’s funeral: Pope Francis remembers the dead pontiff’s life, legacy and courage

Former Pope Benedict XVI was laid to rest with a funeral mass before thousands of mourners in St. Peter’s Square Thursday, with Pope Francis presiding over the event and honoring his predecessor’s courage. Thousands watched and mourned and bells tolled as pallbearers carried Benedict’s cypress coffin from St. Peter’s Basilica and placed it at the […]

Post-Brexit ?1,000 farming payments ‘too little, too late’, says NFU

Read More Farmers are to receive additional payments of up to ?1,000 a year for protecting nature and the environment, as the government changes post-Brexit subsidies to agriculture. The increased payments will come under the environmental land management schemes (Elms), the cornerstone of the government’s system for replacing the EU’s much-criticised common agricultural policy (CAP). […]

House Speaker race: Byron Donalds responds after Cori Bush says his ‘being Black’ makes him ‘a prop’

Post Content Rep.-elect Byron Donalds has responded to criticism from fellow Rep.-elect Cori Bush, who said his “being Black” makes him a “prop” in the House speaker race. Taking to Twitter, Donalds, R-Fla., responded to Bush, D-Missouri, by simply saying: “Nobody asked.” He also encouraged her to challenge his “policies and the outcomes” rather than […]

Saldi invernali, via in tutta Italia: guida all’acquisto sicuro

Read More Iniziano i saldi nella maggior parte d’Italia. Dopo Basilicata, Sicilia e Valle d’Aosta oggi in quasi tutte le altre regioni partono gli sconti di fine stagione (qui il calendario completo). Per i consumatori è l’occasione giusta per dare una ritoccata al guardaroba o togliersi qualche sfizio senza spendere molto, ma sempre con qualche […]

Invasive animals on the 2023 watchlist

Read More The last two years have been remarkable. The lockdown periods, restrictive for us humans, allowed many species to start moving around without our interference. Scientific literature is full of examples of birds and mammals that were seen in cities where they are normally absent or rare.  While these unusual sightings delighted us from […]

10 conflicts to watch in 2023

Read More Will he or won’t he? This time last year, that was the question. Russian President Vladimir Putin had massed almost 200 000 troops on Ukraine’s borders. US intelligence warned that Russia was preparing for an all-out war. All the signs pointed to an assault, bar one: it seemed unthinkable. True, Russia had attacked Ukraine […]

Benedict XVI funeral expected to draw big crowds to St Peter’s Square

Read More An estimated 100,000 Catholics have descended on St Peter’s Square for the funeral of the former pope Benedict XVI. Benedict died on Saturday, aged 95, almost a decade after becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign. He will become the first former pontiff in the modern history of the Catholic church […]

McCarthy, House Freedom Caucus discussing concessions in effort to sway 20 Republican voters

Post Content Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and members of the House Freedom Caucus are reportedly discussing additional concessions in efforts to sway more Republican voters toward electing McCarthy as Speaker of the House. A GOP aide confirmed to Fox News that McCarthy is considering giving more power to HFC members as he tries to gain […]

Morte Scarponi, il pappagallo Frankje si allena con Garofoli e Antonio Nibali. “Michele è con noi”

Read More 04 gennaio 2023 https://video.repubblica.it/sport/morte-scarponi-il-pappagallo-frankie-si-allena-con-garofoli-e-antonio-nibali-michele-e-con-noi/435337/436301?rss <iframe class=”rep-video-embed” src=”https://video.repubblica.it/embed/sport/morte-scarponi-il-pappagallo-frankie-si-allena-con-garofoli-e-antonio-nibali-michele-e-con-noi/435337/436301&width=640&height=360″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe> Un segno o una casualità. Ognuno la pensa come crede, in base alla propria sensibilità. Ma non può non commuovere il video pubblicato dalla squadra di ciclismo dell’Astana, l’ultima di Michele Scarponi, […]

UK average annual temperature tops 10C for first time

Read More The UK’s annual average temperature topped 10C for the first time in 2022, as last year was confirmed as the country’s warmest on record. The mean temperature across the 12 months was 10.03C, beating the previous all-time high of 9.88C in 2014, the Met Office said on Thursday. It means 15 of the […]