Philip Paul, 25, from south-east London, was sentenced to three years in prison after he accidentally sent a message to a Surrey police officer advertising the sale of crack cocaine and heroin. The Daily Mail tabloid reports this. According to a press release from local police, the message from Paul came to the police officer due to an error in one digit in the phone number. The man pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class A drugs and possession of cannabis.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg refused the investigators' request to arrest Orthodox priest Daniil Sidorov, who is accused of trying to rape a student. During the investigation, Sidorov has been banned from certain actions, E1.ru reported . The attack on a 19-year-old student occurred on November 10; E1.ru published two recordings from surveillance cameras. The first one shows a man following a girl, looking back periodically.

Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation has published a more than 1,100-word response to a travel blogger's negative review of Cairo International Airport. The American publication The New York Times drew attention to this. The author of the One Mile at a Time website, Ben Schlappig, caused a violent reaction from the Egyptian authorities.

In China, a man convicted of murder spent 20 years in prison and decided to celebrate his release by throwing a banquet at the victim's home. This was reported by the South China Morning Post. According to the publication, the incident became known from the video sharing application Douyin, an analogue of TikTok. The victim's son, surnamed Xiang, said he lost his father at the age of 15 in a murder carried out by a family neighbor.

20-year-old St. Petersburg resident Lesya Aleshina (the character’s name has been changed at her request) is a lesbian who admitted that she would like to be heterosexual. She said on social networks that she would like to fall in love with a guy and start a family with him so as not to hide anymore, but she cannot do this because she still likes girls. Her story sparked controversy on TikTok and Twitter in the queer community and beyond.

Sales of packages of drugs used for emergency contraception and medical abortion reached record levels last year. We are talking about the purchase of drugs by retail buyers and the purchase by medical institutions, Nest reported , citing information from a source in the pharmaceutical market. Some drugs were purchased more than three times more often last year than four years ago.

The Estonian average salary after taxes is more than twice as high as the Russian one, according to data from the statistical departments of the two countries for 2023. I left Russia for Germany and don’t want to go back. I work as a doctor and finally get a normal salary.

In the Bryansk region, at least 11 women are suspected of selling paternity to foreign citizens, which would allow them to obtain Russian citizenship. This was reported by the local publication Bryansk Today , as well as the Baza telegram channel close to the security forces. According to the latter, the fathers of the five children of one of the suspects, 27-year-old Margarita K., were four citizens of China and one citizen of Tajikistan.

Russia is using artificial intelligence (AI) to escalate cyber attacks on UK infrastructure, particularly the country's energy system. According to The Guardian, British Minister of Intergovernmental Relations and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden warned about this when speaking at the NATO conference in London.

US President-elect Donald Trump intends to dismiss all transgender people from the US military. The Times newspaper reports this, citing sources in the Pentagon. At the same time, the publication notes that there are currently about 15 thousand transpersons serving in the US Army. According to the Times, a decree on the dismissal of all transgender people from the Armed Forces could be signed by Trump on the first day of his presidential term, which he will enter next January.

The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, called on the businesses of the alliance countries to prepare for a “military scenario” by rebuilding production and distribution lines. A military official addressed entrepreneurs at an event of the European Policy Center think tank in Brussels, Reuters reported .

The director of the state-owned Yakovlev company, which produces Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, was dismissed. A source for the Kommersant newspaper in the aviation industry said that the resignation occurred on the orders of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin “for the failure of the civil aviation program.” Yakovlev CEO Andrei Boginsky left along with Tupolev managing director Konstantin Timofeev, the newspaper reported, citing the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).

Anti-war Russians have long been accustomed to the lies of the authorities, to their cynicism and attitude towards citizens as expendable material. The Z-community is also used to this, but is still capable of surprise. About the indignation of pro-war bloggers and how they discovered a liar in place of the main voice of power - in a new column by writer and Z-community researcher Ivan Filippov.

The head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Veronika Skvortsova, said that Russian scientists have managed to reduce to zero the side effects of the vaccine against intestinal cancer they are developing. The vaccine administered to experimental animals reduced the size of the tumor by 75-80%, Skvortsova said at a meeting with Vladimir Putin.

The singer known as Cher only learned her real name at age 23, when she decided to officially change it. According to CNN, she wrote about this in her new book entitled “Cher.” Memoirs. Part one." “I believed my name was Cherilyn until one day, many years later, I decided to legally change my name to simply Cher,” the book says. The singer was born in 1946, and decided to change her name in 1979. I'm tired of being a lesbian.