US President-elect Donald Trump will appoint billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE for short - the same name as the cryptocurrency that Musk has long supported. According to Trump, they will continue to fight “government bureaucracy”, as well as eliminate redundant regulations, restructure federal agencies and reduce their “wasteful spending.” America has its own Soviet Union.

The father of ten-year-old Sarah Sharif, who died from beatings, Umar Sharif, admitted that he beat his daughter to death with a cricket bat and a metal pole. The father confessed at the trial in a British court, The Guardian reported . The girl was found dead in her family's home in the British county of Surrey on August 10, 2023. The day before, the entire Sharif family, including father, stepmother and five other children, flew to Pakistan.

About 30 small and medium-sized Russian airlines may be at risk of bankruptcy due to the government's initiative to write off debts to foreign lessors and introduce a 25% profit tax. Izvestia was informed about this by the Association of Air Transport Operators (AEVT). They said that they are now preparing proposals to change the tax code, since the current rules will harm the financial position of Russian airlines.

Contract worker from Vladikavkaz Manuchehr Beknazarov hit himself on the head with an ax to avoid being sent to the combat zone in Ukraine. He was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony on charges of evading the duties of military service by feigning illness or other means during the period of mobilization and leaving a unit without permission. This was reported by Kavkaz.

A woman in Thailand's Buriram province installed an iron prison cell in her apartment to isolate her 42-year-old son, who uses drugs and has a gambling addiction. Oddity Central reports . According to the publication, the 64-year-old woman, whose name was not specified, lived “in constant fear” for more than 20 years and went to extreme measures to protect herself and her neighbors from her son at moments when he became too aggressive.

One of the most prestigious literary awards, the 2024 Booker Prize, was won by British writer Samantha Harvey for her novel In Orbit. This was reported on the official website of the award. Harvey’s novel became the first work set in space to receive the Booker Prize, and the writer herself became the first woman in five years (since 2019) to receive this award, writes Kommersant.

North Korean soldiers, together with the Russian military, entered the battle on the territory of the Kursk region. This was announced by US State Department press secretary Vedant Patel, writes Korea Times. “Today I can confirm that more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to eastern Russia, and most of them have moved to the very west of the Kursk region, where they began to participate in combat operations with Russian forces,” Patel said.

British resident Hilda West, who will turn one hundred years old in February 2025, is going to get a new, third tattoo for her anniversary. However, the woman fears her daughter's reaction, reported the Warwickshire World. West, 99, lives in the county town of Kenilworth. In 2019, she became the oldest owner of a tattoo in the United Kingdom, the publication writes. West got her first tattoo on her wrist - in the form of the initials of her late husband Ernest and son David.

Fatigue at work can lead to problems with self-control. This conclusion, as The Guardian writes , was reached by scientists from the Italian School of Advanced Studies IMT. They conducted a study that they say is consistent with the “ego depletion” theory, which argues that willpower is a limited resource that is depleted with effort. The Guardian notes that the theory of "ego depletion" has been around for decades and has been constantly criticized.

In the village of Dzerzhinskoye, Tomsk Region, an airsoft grenade exploded in the hands of an 11th-grader. The teacher brought the shell to class. The Tomsk prosecutor's office reported this. According to the prosecutor's office, on November 11, a teacher brought an airsoft grenade to a life safety lesson. A teacher at school No. 65 bought a shell from an online store to tell 11th graders about the design of a hand grenade, the Sapa telegram channel clarifies .

Belarusian action artist Vladislav Bokhan, on behalf of the United Russia party, sent a demand to Russian schools to make tin foil hats and act in them: supposedly such hats were supposed to protect them from NATO satellites. Some teachers actually took part in the action, which the prankster-actionist called “Helmet of the Fatherland.” She was received ambiguously on social networks: some people considered her too cruel, as they saw in her a mockery of intimidated people.

Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev, who is married to Vladimir Putin's cousin, decided to impress the president and presented him with a large-scale reform in the oil industry. Tsivilev hoped to unite the three largest oil companies and gain control of this sector. The Financial Times (FT) newspaper writes about this with reference to four high-ranking representatives of the Russian energy industry. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on Tsivilev’s plans.

The police complained about the impossibility of replacing servers based on Russian Elbrus processors. Crystals for processors were made in Taiwan, but supplies stopped, Vedomosti reported , citing a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A group of people wearing masks with flags bearing Nazi symbols came to the parking lot in front of the American Veterans building, where they were staging a production based on “The Diary of Anne Frank.” They waved swastika flags and shouted racist and anti-Semitic slogans. ABC News reports . The event took place at one of the branches of the American Legion, an organization of American veterans created after World War I, in Howell, Michigan.

The court sentenced former police officer from the city of Lowell in the US state of Arkansas Roy Mitchell to 120 days in prison and 20 years of probation for sexually abusing three minors. 5News reports this. According to the publication, the 45-year-old policeman was first arrested in October 2023. The investigation against Mitchell began after a call to the Crimes Against Children hotline. 5News does not specify who exactly called.