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It’s often hard to quantify the excesses of the rich and powerful. Sure, we can clock the total cost of a red carpet outfit, do some napkin math to figure out how much a big gala must have cost, or watch the super-mansion price listings like very jealous hawks. But for most of the things that separate the Famouses from us Normals, it’s very hard to get any kind of itemized listing of all the ways they’re just plain better than us mere mortals....

In his homily, Francis said the Catholic Church in Canada is on a new path after being destroyed by “the evil committed by some of its sons and daughters.” He said tackling sexual abuse and other similar “crimes” required “firm action” and “irreversible commitment”. Francis apologized during stops in Alberta and Quebec for the role Catholic institutions played in the indigenous school system, but until now had not spoken directly about sexual abuse....

“We were lucky enough and brave enough to just leave Mexico and try something different, you know, chase a dream,” Bastarrachea said. Just a year and a half into their new life in Canada, the 32-year-old is now faced with a challenge they never dreamed of: learning to live life without his left leg. Before arriving in Canada, Bastarrachea and Ballester got matching tattoos to commemorate their arrival in Canada, where they planned to start a new life....

After former President Donald Trump fired Steve Bannon, other White House advisers joked that Bannon’s only job was leaking stories to the press, Jared Kushner wrote in his new memoir. “Stephen Miller joked to Hope [Hicks] and I, “I have a plan to divide Steve Bannon’s extensive workload. I hope you leaked it to Jonathan Swan at Axios. Jared, you’re calling Mike Bender from the Wall Street Journal. I’m going to call Jeremy Peters from the New York Times and … we’re done,” Kushner wrote, according to CNN....

The first asteroidcalled 2016 CZ31, will fly at about 7 p.m. ET (23:00 GMT) on Friday, at about 34,560 mph (55,618 km/h), according to NASA (opens in a new tab). Astronomers estimate that the asteroid is about 400 feet (122 meters) across at its widest point, making it about as wide as a 40-story building is tall. The asteroid will safely miss our planet, passing about 1,740,000 miles (2,800,000 kilometers) from Earth — or more than seven times the average distance between Earth and it moon....

«Joueurs du Mega Millions, vérifiez vos billets! Nous avons un gagnant (…) dans l’Illinois. Restez à l’écoute pour plus de détails!», a tweeté la loterie de cet État du centre-est. «Nous sommes impatients de savoir qui a gagné et espérons féliciter le gagnant bientôt!», a renchéri dans un communiqué Pat McDonald, un responsable de Mega Millions. Le gros lot avait d’abord été estimé à 1,28 milliard de dollars, mais «la valeur finale a été supérieure à l’estimation», sur la base des ventes réelles, a expliqué Mega Millions....

The notorious Russian arms dealer is back in the spotlight after it was reported that the US offered to use him in a prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan, two high-profile Americans held by Russia. Much of Booth’s early life, including the place and date of his birth, is a mystery. According to his biographers, he was born in 1967 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, the son of an accountant and a car mechanic....

Russian state media have speculated for months that Griner, who was detained at a Moscow airport in February on drug charges, and Whelan, who was sentenced to 16 years in a Russian prison on espionage charges he described as a set-up, could are exchanged with Booth. Freedom has long been sought by the Kremlin. But the Biden administration has remained silent on the possibility. Then on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Antony Blinken offered the first public look at efforts to bring Griner and Whelan home, saying the US had made a “substantial proposal” to Russia....

The 53-year-old actor caused controversy at this year’s ceremony after he slapped Chris Rock on stage following a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and her looks. Smith posted a statement on Instagram to apologize but has since gone silent. The nearly six-minute video, uploaded to his YouTube channel and Instagram page, shows Smith answering questions that have been circulating ever since, starting with why he didn’t apologize to Rock in his acceptance speech....

Suchen Sie ein Haus in der Nähe von Winterthur Die Polizei des Kantons Zürich ist derzeit in Stadel im Einsatz. Dies ist Heimforschung, die Chemikalien enthalten könnte. Am Donnerstag wird in Stadel bei Winterthur ZH eine Hausdurchsuchung durchgeführt. Die Fotos zeigen mehrere Polizeiautos sowie ein Fahrzeug des forensischen Instituts. Wie die Sprecherin der Kantonspolizei Zürich, Carmen Scherber, gegenüber Blick bestätigte, handelte es sich um einen Einsatz der Kantonspolizei Zürich und des Bundespolizeiamtes Fedpol im Auftrag der Bundesanwaltschaft....

Erstens würden Affenpocken nicht übertragen, wenn die infizierte Person keine Symptome wie Pockenbläschen und Pusteln habe, sagte Vernazza in einem am Freitag veröffentlichten Interview mit der «Neuen Zürcher Zeitung». Infizierte wissen, dass sie ansteckend sind. Immunität nach Heilung Zweitens sind Menschen mit Affenpocken nicht lange ansteckend. Wenn die Blasen verheilt sind, ist die Person immun. Anders sieht es bei den AIDS verursachenden HI-Viren aus: Sichtbare Symptome treten meist erst Jahre nach der Ansteckung auf, Infizierte sind aber schon vorher ansteckend....

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life. Joe Nathan James Jr. was fatally injected in a south Alabama prison after the US Supreme Court rejected his request for a stay. Officials said he was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. since the start of the execution was delayed by almost three hours. James, 50, was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting death of Faith Hall, 26, in Birmingham....

The Hungarian leader provoked reactions at home and abroad with a recent speech in which he spoke out against “race-mixing”. Soon after, Zsuzsa Hegedüs, a sociologist who has known Orbán for 20 years, tendered her resignation, criticizing the prime minister for what she called a “pure Nazi” speech. “I am Jewish. And the job of our generation is to stop something like that because we have seen what happened. Not only with Jews....

Comment The parent company for Alex Jones’s Infowars website filed for bankruptcy, his attorney announced Friday, as parents of victims in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School are seeking $150 million in defamation damages against the right-wing conspiracy theorist who falsely claimed the massacre was a “giant hoax.” As the first week of the civil trial in Austin concluded, Jones’s attorney, F. Andino Reynal, told the courtroom that his client’s media company, Free Speech Systems, had filed for bankruptcy but that it would not interfere with the defamation lawsuit....

“L’un de nos gendarmes se trouvait à proximité lorsque l’accident s’est produit”, explique le commandant de gendarmerie Gibiot. Il prévient alors aussitôt les secours ainsi que ses collègues et entame la réanimation du conducteur de la Peugeot 307. “Je n’étais pas loin derrière, j’ai vu le policier faire sa réanimation pendant un long moment”, rapporte un homme arrivé au la scène peu après l’accident. “Puis quand les pompiers sont arrivés, très vite, ils ont mis les draps sur les corps, c’était trop tard....

And it looks like this new normal isn’t going anywhere. In fact, many “digital nomads” can do their work from anywhere — and they’re taking advantage. These workers have no fixed business location and earn their living working remotely from anywhere in the world. In response to the growing trend, more and more countries are making it easier than ever to work remotely. This includes an array of tropical locations that can make your job feel like a year-round vacation....

White House officials have said the long-planned call will have a broad agenda, including discussion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which China has yet to condemn. At its core, U.S. officials see the exchange as another chance to manage competition between the world’s two largest economies, whose ties are increasingly clouded by tensions over democratically governed Taiwan, which Xi has vowed to reunite with the mainland, by force if necessary....

That proposal, which has been on the table since June, includes an offer to swap convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, CNN reported earlier this week. Speaking at a press conference at the State Department, Blinken declined to say whether he thought Russians were more or less likely move on the proposal following the conversation, nor would he describe how Lavrov responded. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday that Lavrov “strongly suggested” to Blinken that the United States should return to a mode of “quiet diplomacy” regarding a possible prisoner exchange “without speculative information stuffing....

La suite après cette publicité Après une première période assez rythmée sans pour autant avoir des occasions, les deux équipes ont commencé à laisser un peu plus d’espaces derrière. Mais malgré quelques tentatives bordelaises de Maja ou Bakwa, Larsonneur a su rester vigilant pour garder sa cage inviolée. En manque d’idées offensives, Bordeaux et Valenciennes ne se créaient pas de grosses occasions en fin de match. L’entrée de l’attaquant coréen Hwang Ui-Jo, en instance de départ, n’y changeait rien....

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London have discovered that a specific region of the spike protein of Sars-CoV-2 – the virus that causes Covid-19 – is a good target for a pan-coronavirus vaccine that could offer protection against all Covid-19 variants and common colds. Developing a vaccine that protects against a number of different coronaviruses is a huge challenge, they said, because this family of viruses has many key differences, often mutates and generally provides insufficient protection against reinfection....