Pilgrims lined up early Wednesday to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica, as Christmas marked the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration that is expected to bring some 32 million Catholic faithful to Rome. Traversing the Holy Door is one way that the faithful can obtain indulgences,…
At least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday. Authorities said it appeared to be a deliberate attack. The driver of the car was arrested, Magdeburg police confirmed. The state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, said at a news conference at…
SSE plans $28 billion investment in U.K. grid infrastructure Electricity pylons hold power cables leading away from the SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy) gas-fired Keadby Power Station near Scunthorpe in northern England on September 6, 2022. Lindsey Parnaby | Afp | Getty Images British energy company SSE said Tuesday that its electricity network subsidiary SSEN…
U.K. inflation picks up in October A shopper browses fruit and vegetables for sale at an indoor market in Sheffield, UK. The OECD recently predicted that the UK will experience the highest inflation among all advanced economies this year. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.K. inflation picked up sharply to a higher-than-expected 2.3% in…
Nestle to cut additional $2.8 billion of costs by 2027 The company’s logo is seen at a Nestle plant in Konolfingen, Switzerland September 28, 2020. Arnd Wiegmann | Reuters Nestle on Tuesday said it would cut at least a further 2.5 billion swiss francs ($2.8 billion) on top of existing initiatives by the end of…
A German soccer club is leaving X because of the increase in hate speech and disinformation on the social media platform that it claims could undermine the snap elections in the country. FC St. Pauli announced the decision on Thursday, saying billionaire owner Elon Musk has turned the platform into a “hate machine” since he…
Germany marked 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities on Saturday under the theme “Preserve Freedom!”, against the sombre backdrop of conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and fears that democracy is under attack around the world. The liberal ideals of 1989 “are not something we can take for granted”, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said…
For the last 17 years, a worldwide army of online sleuths obsessively tried to figure out the title of what has been dubbed “the most mysterious song on the internet.” Now, they have the answer after a chance discovery by one intrepid researcher who triumphantly reported his breakthrough on online forum Reddit: it is called…
