In the Japanese city of Futsu, a cafe with coffins has opened - for $14, anyone can lie in them and think about life and death. The South China Morning Post writes about this. The café was opened by Kajiya honten, a funeral parlor founded in 1902, in collaboration with a funeral supply company. The opening took place in September 2024.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke by phone with Vladimir Putin. The conversation was first reported by the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Reuters, citing its source, clarified that the conversation lasted about an hour. A Bloomberg source said that Scholz discussed with Putin “ways to end the fighting in Ukraine.” The telephone conversation was later confirmed by the German government.

A giant and rare deep-sea fish called the kingfish has washed ashore in San Diego, southern California. An individual of the species, recognized as the largest underwater vertebrate, was discovered by oceanographers from the Scripps Institution. It is clarified that this is the second such case in the last few months. This was reported by WGN9 TV channel. The kingfish rarely washes up on California's shores, with only 20 such cases recorded since the early 1900s, oceanographers said.

A Russian university expelled two students who complained of an attack with a metal object, threats and bullying by a fellow student at the psychology department. The aggressor himself escaped punishment and continues to study at a university, writes the Consortium of Women's Non-Governmental Associations. Students Ekaterina and Yuliana entered the Eastern European Institute of Psychoanalysis (VEIP) in the summer of 2024.

Iranian authorities will open a new clinic to “treat” women who violate the compulsory hijab law, which requires women to cover their heads in public. Iran International writes about this. Plans to open such a medical facility were announced by the head of the Department of Women and Family Affairs of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Mehri Talebi Darestani. She will be the head of this clinic.

The laser beam can become an opaque object and cast a shadow, like a tree on a sunny day. A group of scientists from the University of Ottawa's Department of Physics told Phys.org about a ray experiment that began through a conversation during a lunch break. The scientists discussed diagrams over lunch that had once been made using 3D visualization programs, said the head of the research team, Rafael Abrajao.

A team of scientists from the University of Western Ontario and Queen's University of Canada studied data from people diagnosed with ADHD from four to 22 years of age. According to their study, published in the journal Clinical Psychology, high IQ is one of the reasons for late diagnosis. This is reported by Science Alert. Scientists studied data from 568 people, taking into account not only their age, but also their gender and the influence of socioeconomic factors.

Ukraine will lose Donbass and Crimea, and will also not be able to join NATO, and Kiev understands this, Politico reported , citing an unnamed foreign policy expert of the American Republican Party. The expert “is familiar with the Ukrainian president and his entourage,” the publication clarified. Kyiv now believes that Donald Trump, who won the US presidential election, “may well turn out to be” a better option than Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris, an expert said.

The President of the partially recognized Republic of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, and Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab left the administration building. This was reported by the local telegram channels “ Patriots of Abkhazia ” and AMRA-life . This information was later confirmed by Interfax with reference to one of the opposition leaders, Eshsou Kakalia. The republic's leadership left the building amid protests that began before the parliamentary session.

The authorities of partially recognized Abkhazia decided to withdraw the bill on ratification of the investment agreement with Russia. TASS reports this with reference to the press service of the President of the Republic Aslan Bzhania. According to RBC, the presidential administration took this step in order to “stabilize the situation in the republic.” The publication's report also says that Bzhania is in Sukhumi, but it does not specify where exactly.

The administration of current US President Joe Biden is going to ban transactions with Gazprombank, the last major Russian state-owned bank connected to the SWIFT international payment system. This was reported by the Japanese publication Nikkei Asia, citing several sources, including senior officials of the European Union. The US authorities notified the G7 countries that the final decision on new sanctions would not be made until the end of November, Nikkei interlocutors told the outlet.

Minimum mortgage rates in Sberbank exceeded 28% per annum. Without discounts, home loan rates from the largest Russian bank exceed 30%, TASS reported . The last time Sber had similar interest rates per annum on mortgages was in the spring of 2000, the Agency noted . Help Kholod tell human stories We put people at the center of our journalism and talk about people who face injustice, but do not lose spirit and continue to fight for their rights and freedoms.

The artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini, developed by Google DeepMind, advised the user to die after he asked the bot several questions about his studies. This was reported by the user's brother on Reddit. A link to the dialogue with the chatbot is attached to the publication. “This is for you, man. For you and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden to society. You are a burden to the Earth.

42-year-old Alina Sergeeva from St. Petersburg loves teaching and could spend hours preparing for each lesson, but the need to feed herself and her daughter forces her to work very hard, which leaves her with virtually no free time. Despite the fact that her ex-husband pays alimony for her daughter, and Sergeeva’s income for St. Petersburg is above average , she cannot close the loan and thinks that she will never be able to do this.

In the United States, 55-year-old police officer Larry Clay Jr. paid $100 for the rape of an underage girl to her stepmother. The trial in this case has been postponed for the 12th time, and the accused himself does not admit guilt, according to a Washington Post investigation. Clay worked as a sheriff's deputy in the small, poor town of Gauley Bridge, population 550, in West Virginia. He often went on duty alone, driving around local streets with a gold-plated badge on his chest.