Timothee Chalamet stars in Warner Bros.’ “Dune.” Warner Bros. Mean girls, Spider-Women and sandworms will headline the 2024 box office — and they’ll have to do some heavy lifting. The March 1 release of “Dune: Part Two,” the delayed and much-anticipated follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 science fiction epic is expected to attract hordes of moviegoers. It’s arguably the most […]
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Rome Baroque Festival brings great music to the churches of the Eternal City
The highly anticipated appointment with baroque music is back in the capital. It is the 16th edition of the Rome Baroque Festival, the event that brings compositions not only of a religious nature from the Italian seventeenth century to the churches of the city. The one in 2023 is a program full of different musical genres, from the Cantata to […]
Rome Baroque Festival brings great music to the churches of the Eternal City
The highly anticipated appointment with baroque music is back in the capital. It is the 16th edition of the Rome Baroque Festival, the event that brings compositions not only of a religious nature from the Italian seventeenth century to the churches of the city. The one in 2023 is a program full of different musical genres, from the Cantata to […]
The Falcon Heavy rocket launches the American mini-Shuttle X-37B into orbit
It took off from Cape Canaveral, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launcher, the US Army’s secret X-37B space plane. The Pentagon has revealed few details about the mission conducted by the US Space Force (USSF) under the program National Security Space Launch (NSSL). The unmanned robotic vehicle, built by Boeing, is the size of a small bus and resembles an […]
China’s many systemic problems dominate its outlook for 2024 | George Magnus
There were contrasting reactions when the US rating agency Moody’s downgraded China’s A1 credit rating outlook from stable to negative last month. Financial markets, focused on the economy, paid it barely any attention. Chinese state media, looking at the politics, saw red. Global Times called it “biased and unprofessional”. A few days later, the Ministry of State Security issued a […]
UK shop inflation sticks at 4.3% despite lower food price rises | Retail industry
Shop prices continued to rise at 4.3% in December as a price rise on non-food items offset easing costs on food. The increase in the price of goods in stores compared with a year ago was the same rate of inflation as in November and came after several months of easing. Retailers warned that new border checks on EU goods […]
Six things to watch in 2024 global economy, from tax cuts to AI | Global economy
Recession, stagflation, a cost of living crisis, damaged public finances and higher interest rates. The four years since a new deadly virus spread around the world from the Chinese city of Wuhan has been a catalogue of woe for the global economy. 2023 has been the first year since 2019 to be relatively shock-free, in the sense that there has […]
UK factory output lower than expected after fall in domestic and export orders | Manufacturing data
Britain’s factories started the year on a weaker footing after 17 consecutive months of contraction, as higher borrowing costs and a slump in demand took their toll. Factory output fell by more than expected in December after a drop in orders from domestic and export clients, according to the latest snapshot from S&P Global and the Chartered Institute of Procurement […]
we will see new power dynamics and explore new frontiers
Jupiter anticipates 2024: we will see new power dynamics and explore new frontiers The 2024 Horoscope A special year, explains the astrologer, with Pluto entering Aquarius after almost 300 years
The unusual trend of the ozone hole in 2023 in the Copernicus animation
The 2023 ozone hole in Antarctica has completed its cycle after a series of ups and downs and twists that surprised the experts. It was about the seventh longest on record according to data from Copernicusthe European Union’s Earth observation program which he shared on X timelapse animation of this year’s performance: “The 2023 Southern Hemisphere ozone hole finally closed […]