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Croatian President Zoran Milanovic won reelection for another five-year term on Sunday, near-complete official results showed. Milanovic, nominated by the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP), was estimated to have won 74% of the vote, after more than 99% of the ballots were counted. Dragan Primorac, the candidate for the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), secured around 26% of the vote. Croatia held a runoff vote between the two contenders on Sunday after the first round of voting on December 29. Who is Zoran Milanovic? Milanovic was first elected president in 2020. He previously served as prime minister from late 2011 until early 2016. A stalwart of…

The You Me Bum Bum Train is the most life-changing experience you can pay for in London It’s been three weeks since I was a passenger on the You Me Bum Bum Train and I’m still completely shaken up by it. The adrenaline shows absolutely no sign of leaving my body, I’m still questioning what really happened to me and if I’ll ever feel ‘normal’ again – whatever that might mean. ‘What on earth is a You Me Bum Bum Train?’. Well, that’s the thing – and this makes a review pretty complicated, I can’t tell you anything about it…

Jeff Bezos told Reuters on Sunday that he trusts Elon Musk will not leverage his relationship with President-elect Donald Trump against Blue Origin. Bezos expressed optimism about the new administration’s space policies, crediting Musk for prioritising public interest over personal gain.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Romania’s capital, Bucharest, on Sunday to protest the Constitutional Court’s decision last month to order that the presidential election be re-run. They demanded that the vote take place and that outgoing centrist President Klaus Iohannis resign immediately. “We demand a return to democracy through the resumption of elections, starting with the second round,” George Simion of the right-wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), said. Why did Romania’s top court cancel the first round? The Constitutional Court initially declared the first round outcome as legal, only to surprisingly annul it two days before the runoff was due…

America’s most expensive natural disasters in recent decades Over the last several decades, various types of natural disasters have wreaked havoc around the U.S., but which cataclysms have cost the most? The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lists hundreds of costly disasters that occurred from 1980 through 2024. “The U.S. has sustained 403 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2024). The total cost of these 403 events exceeds $2.915 trillion,” the NCEI notes. Hurricanes occupy nine of the top…

  The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, will propose this Wednesday to social agents an increase in the minimum wage of 50 euros (4.4%), which would reach 1,184 euros per month, with fourteen payments, according to confirmed in an interview in La Vanguardia. This is the highest option proposed by experts, who recommend an increase of 3.4% or 4.4% by 2025, depending on two different calculation methods, that is, increasing the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI). in 39 or 50 euros gross per month, which would rise to 1,173 euros or 1,184 euros gross per month. Díaz…

Sunday’s front pages feature a variety of domestic political and showbiz stories.  Many of the papers feature dramatic images from the Los Angeles wildfires, as the fires continue to spread and the death toll rises.

The back pages lead on the weekend’s FA Cup matches and talk of football transfers.

Viewers convinced Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win error forced contestants to lose £250,000 The latest episode of Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win has caused quite the kerfuffle as fans have accused the show of getting an answer wrong. Returning couple Richard and Lorna started strong at £30,000 with 32 lives, however, this number quickly dwindled as they climbed up the ladder. Minutes into the episode, fans were screaming on their behalf over a question on the standard length of the cable of Henry vacuums (of all things). Using some skills of deduction, Lorna and Richard debated between eight and…

Max George’s quick-thinking mum ‘saved his life’ ahead of major heart surgery Max George has spoken about his terrifying health ordeal in his first interview post-heart surgery. The Wanted singer, 36, was rushed to A&E last month and later had a life-saving pacemaker fitted. Thankfully, he was discharged from hospital in Manchester before Christmas and is now at home, recuperating with his family by his side. But it certainly hasn’t been an easy road, as Max now reveals that it’s thanks to his mum’s quick thinking that he’s even alive at all. Speaking to The Sun, Max recalled waking up…

Why I think Rockstar Games has the best video game villains – Reader’s Feature A reader complains that video game villains lack depth and proper reasons to hate them, while praising the bad guys in Rockstar’s GTA 4: The Lost And Damned. I don’t think video game villains hit as hard they should. Many of them appear to be evil for the sake of being evil and to give the protagonist an almighty foe to face off with, come the endgame. The best antagonists are irredeemable pieces of excrement, who you longingly wish to shut up and vanquish from…