According to the latest statistics, around 4,5 million people in the UK are suffering from “influenza-like symptoms”. Some churches have even implemented infection prevention measures, the first time since the 2008/9 swine flu outbreak. Priests are encouraged to disinfect their…
Take a look at this impromptu list of achievements on gender equality: 1870 – Married Women’s Property Act allows women to keep their property. 1918 – Canadian and British women gain the right to vote. 1956 – Golda Meir, the…
From 05.01 to 10.01 Dublin is hosting one of the biggest events of the year 2018 – the David Bowie Festival. This year’s third edition promises to be bigger and better than the last one. Each year since Bowie…
More than 10,500 work permits were issued in 2017. This year, the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation plans to loosen up visa regulations for “lower-skilled workers” in some sectors. In October, the number of unemployed was 246,900, in November…
And how would you spend the longest night of the year? Winter solstice is the astronomical phenomenon that has been celebrated across the world through centuries. The best places to witness it are Stonehedge in the UK and Newgrange in…
Two years to the day after the Paris agreement was signed, over 50 world leaders and hundreds of ministers gather again in the capital of France. They will discuss concrete solutions to reduce global warming, and most importantly, to boost…
A Chinese-Russian tandem proved László Fejes Tóth’s zone conjecture. For more than 40 years, mathematicians in the field of discrete and combinatorial geometry were trying to prove the theorem. Finally, Alexandr Polyanskii and Zilin Jiang from the Israel Institute of…
If the way the Brexit negotiations are handled is not one of the best examples of Murphy’s laws, then what is? “If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.” Yesterday, this “something” manifested in the form…
According to Donald Tusk on Twitter several minutes ago, he and Theresa May are “getting closer to sufficient progress” to attack stage two talks in December. “Tell me why I like Mondays! Encouraged after my phone call with Taoiseach @campaignforleo…
