ROME’S COLOSSEUM: Free entrance on first Sunday of the month
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Italy: Sunday outing ITALY’S Domenica al Museo (Museums on Sunday) initiative continues all through 2024, giving free entrance to state-owned monuments, museums and archaeological websites on the primary Sunday of every month. The scheme, launched in 2014 was suspended throughout the pandemic however resumed in 2022.
Denmark: Legislation-abiding ONLY 660 burglaries had been reported in Denmark between December 19 and January 1, 2024. This was barely above the 559 recorded throughout the identical interval within the earlier 12 months however effectively beneath 2019’s 1,343, a discount the authorities attributed the success to the Nabohjaelp neighbourhood watch app.
Distaff facet IT was agreed at a board assembly of Superliga membership Copenhagen FC that the membership would take over FC Damso’s first workforce, presently ranked in Denmark’s third tier of ladies’s soccer. This has changed rich Copenhagen’s plans to create a ladies’s workforce and place it instantly within the prime division.
Norway: Not going FOLLOWING Queen Margrethe of Denmark’s surprising abdication, royal watchers are asking if Norway’s King Harald, who’s 86, will comply with swimsuit. Regardless of bouts of ill-health, together with most cancers in 2003, Harald has all the time declared that he would occupy the throne “to the bitter finish”, in response to royal professional Caroline Vagle.
Attempt once more: AN Appeals Court docket confirmed that the naval officer answerable for the frigate Helge Ingstad when it was concerned in a collision in November 2018 was responsible of negligence. His lawyer stated that the officer, who stays within the Navy, believes he’s being made a scapegoat and will now enchantment to the Supreme Court docket.
Belgium: Breezing alongside BELGIUM’S offshore windfarms within the North Sea produced report quantities of electrical energy in 2023, producing 8 terawatt-hours of electrical energy, sufficient for 2 million households throughout a 12 months. A complete of 689 offshore and land-based wind generators now cowl virtually one-tenth of Belgium’s electrical energy consumption.
Going up A WEEKLY grocery store final December price 29 per cent greater than the earlier 12 months, stated client affiliation Check-Aankoop which displays 3,000 merchandise in Belgium’s seven greatest grocery store chains. Check-Aankoop additionally discovered that final December’s costs rose 8.1 per cent in contrast with December 2022.
Germany: Not alone FEDERAL CRIMINAL POLICE figures present that many ladies really feel uneasy when strolling alone at the hours of darkness. Anyone, male or feminine, who feels anxious strolling at night time can now name the free “Method-home” hotline, answered by a volunteer will speak to them till they attain their vacation spot.
I spy THE authorities are allegedly involved in regards to the state-controlled China Scholarship Council (CSC) which sends 1000’s of scholars to Germany every year, Der Spiegel newspaper stated. It claimed safety officers have warned that they might be used for “spying on, and influencing, Chinese language expatriates.”
Netherlands: Namesakes JULIA and Noah had been the preferred kids’s names in 2023, in response to Holland’s SVB nationwide insurance coverage scheme. In all, 681 child women obtained the identify of Julia, and 888 boys had been registered as Noah whereas the gender-neutral identify of Riley was given to 84 women and 82 boys.
Legislation-abiding MURDERS throughout 2023 in Amsterdam fell to a low of 11, two of them involving ladies, the Parool newspaper reported. Firearms had been utilized in 4 of the killings however solely two had been gang-related and several other of the crimes had been dedicated by males who had been recognized with psychiatric issues, police stated.
France: Kitted out EDUCATION Minister Gabriel Attal issued a information supposed to assist native authorities implement his plan to introduce uniforms in state colleges all through the nation. Though the initiative has backing from some right-wing politicians, most academics and fogeys stated they opposed Attal’s proposals.
Airbus probe FORENSIC specialists from Toulouse-based Airbus and France’s BAE state company flew to Japan on January 3 to help an investigation into the runway accident involving an A350 and a coastguards’ aircraft. 5 coastguards died however not one of the Airbus’s 367 passengers and 12 crew had been injured within the ensuing blaze.
Finland: Tree answer THE Helsinki Area Environmental Providers Authority (HSY) is as soon as once more gathering tens of 1000’s of Christmas timber for recycling now the vacation season is over. Bushes left at Helsinki residents’ nearest waste assortment or recycling factors are then chipped and used as a bulking agent when composting bio-waste.
US oil A CUSTOMS service revealed the US as Finland’s third-largest export vacation spot and likewise the nation’s fifth-largest supply of imports for Finland throughout the first 9 months of 2023. The rise in crude oil imports from the US mirrored a change of technique following the veto on commerce with Russia.
Eire: Flu season THE Nationwide Scientific Lead for Well being Safety Surveillance stated at the start of January that greater than 10,000 flu circumstances had been recorded for the reason that center of December. Nonetheless, the outbreak will not be anticipated to peak till mid-January, when as much as 800 folks may need hospitalisation every week.
Outdated crocks APPROXIMATELY half of the 1.5 million automobiles given full roadworthiness exams final 12 months didn’t cross, the Nationwide Automobile Testing (NCT) service stated. Automobiles taken to the Cavan centre had a better failure than these examined at some other NCT centre, with 59pc of automobiles getting the thumbs-down.
Portugal: Horse sense STRONG, stocky Garrano horses, first domesticated 16,000 years in the past, may disappear now that they’re not wanted in agriculture. Eighty years in the past there have been 60,000 Garranos in Portugal however this has shrunk to between 1,500 and three,000, the Affiliation of Garrano Horse Breeders (Acerg) warned.
Bullfight followers THE 176 bullfights that had been held in Portugal final 12 months attracted 400,700 aficionados, a 7 per cent enhance on 2022, the Portuguese Bullfighting Federation (ProToiro) revealed. This was the second-best determine since 2016, outstripped solely by 2019 when a report 428,000 folks went to observe bullfights.
Sweden: Pink stink WASTE administration firm Assume Pink, well-known for its pink garbage baggage, was accused of burying and dumping tens of 1000’s of tons of garbage at 21 illicit websites in 15 Swedish municipalities. Eleven folks linked to the corporate now face expenses for committing Swedens’s “worst-ever environmental crime.”
Examine it GOTHENBURG UNIVERSITY researchers discovered final 12 months that the younger “are getting higher at understanding educational English, however worse at understanding educational Swedish.” They now learn far more in English, prompting publishers to foretell that fewer books will probably be translated into Swedish sooner or later.
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