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The day a London bus jumped Tower Bridge to avoid disaster is tale that will fill every pub quiz in 2025. Because of all the trivia about London’s iconic public transport, one example sounds a little too extraordinary to be true. A few days after Christmas 1952, a London bus jumped the gap between the two halves of Tower Bridge’s road section after it started to open. If something similar happened today, it might sound like a publicity stunt or a terrorist incident. A matter of life or death But for driver Albert Gunter it was more or less a…

Israel’s practice of demolishing homes continues to devastate Palestinian families situated on the slopes of Mount Gerizim. While agents in Israel and the US are subsequently settlement plots in the same area. Around 50 families in Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank have been given notices by Israeli forces that their homes will be demolished, under the pretext that their houses have been built on “archaeological land”. The demolition orders were issued last week and gave homeowners 14 days to object, after which their homes could face immediate demolition. While usually Israel issues demolition orders for homes built in…

Almost 15 years after the seizure, the affair of the Force Blue, the yacht that cost Flavio Briatore a very long legal battle which ended with his definitive acquittal, marks a new, sensational chapter. The entrepreneur has in fact sued for damages before the court of Turin, the judges of the Court of Appeal of Genoa who authorized the sale of the yacht and the Genoese accountant who, as judicial administrator, physically took care of its sale, at the beginning of 2021. “My yacht sold off at a vile price” Flavio Briatore The tycoon is furious and wants his Yacht…

Christmas arrived an hour ago, but no one noticed in Vicolo San Giliberto, in the heart of Ballarò. Two girls with hoodies on their heads argue with a young black man, they want their money back. Christmas night among the crack addicts A gentleman in his fifties laughs, a young man wearing only a short-sleeved t-shirt slips into an abandoned house, another has just left and is now wandering with his eyes lost in space in front of the Church of the Madonna. Hope is dying in Palermo where drugs and poverty have taken control. If you travel among the…

Two reporters and a police officer killed in gang attack in Haiti forcing the closure of a hospital on Christmas Eve. Two reporters were killed and several were wounded on Tuesday in a gang attack in Haiti on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital, Haiti news media reported. A police officer was also killed in the attack Street gangs forced the closure of the General Hospital early this year and authorities had pledged to reopen the facility in Haiti’s capital on Christmas Eve. But as journalists gathered to cover the event, suspected gang members opened fire. Robest Dimanche, a…

Jubilee, the Pope opened the holy door ROME – Pope Francis opened the holy door of St. Peter’s. As the Pope opened the holy door he said: “Let’s raise our voices, hope is not quiet living” The 88-year-old pontiff, who has recently been suffering from a cold, was pushed in a wheelchair up to the huge, ornate bronze door and knocked on it, before the doors opened. In a ceremony watched on screens by thousands of faithful outside in St Peter’s Square, the Argentine pontiff went through the door followed by a procession, as the bells of the Vatican basilica…

Call them, if you want, Christmas suggestions, but this story that comes from Savona reassigns to the word “community” those values ​​that have been lost over time. And if it’s just a fleeting story of goodness under the tree, never mind. Better than nothing. In short, it all starts from a post that Mrs. Eleonora wrote a few days before Christmas on the Facebook page “Savona disappeared”. post shows a photograph of a small villa overlooking the port, right above the Aurelia and a few tens of meters from the Torretta. In the photo a red arrow points to an…

The new temporary tax on the main energy operators for 2025 will have a maximum bonus of 60% on the amount of the tax for those companies that make strategic investments. Investments that are “essential” for the ecological transition and decarbonization and that, due to their magnitude, contribute to economic growth and employment, whether made in fixed or technological assets committed to industrial projects, will be considered as such. These investments can range from the production of renewable hydrogen to transforming waste into products that have a second life or into renewable gases, such as biogas. This is stated in…

Gantz confirmed for the first time that Israel was responsible for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. After months of questioning and denials to the public and media, Gantz admits he was responsible for the escalation of Israel’s war in Lebanon. Israel calls for Iran to be targeted Israel calls for Iran to be targeted “directly” and publicly claimed responsibility for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh earlier this year, in comments made by Israel’s former war cabinet member, Benny Gantz. According to Israeli media, Benny Gantz called for Israel to “target Iran directly” to stop attacks from…

5 Best UK Sports Moments of 2024 Para-archer Jodie Grinham won gold for Team GB in the mixed team compound final – all whilst being seven months pregnant. She won bronze in the individual compound event earlier in at the Olympics. Team GB athlete Keely Hodgkinson wins gold in her 800-metre final at Stade de France. She is the first British woman to claim the 800m gold since Dame Kelly Holmes in 2024.  She later won the BBC’s Sports Personality of The Year – becoming the fourth woman in a row to win the prize following Emma Raducanu (tennis), Beth…