Utility company Edison International said fire officials are investigating whether company equipment - a fallen downed wire - may have started the California fires. Bloomberg reports this. According to the publication, the company itself reported the fallen wire. It was found on a pole associated with the Eagle Rock Sylmar 220 kV power line. At the same time, the company noted that they do not know whether the wire break occurred before or after the start of the fire.

Professional basketball player Liz Cambage, who played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for the Los Angeles Sparks and the Southside Flyers, and also played for the Australian national team, said that after finishing her sports career she created an account on OnlyFans, where she began to earn several times more. The Daily Mail tabloid reports this. According to the publication, Cambage ended her career in 2022 and at the same time opened an account on Onlyfans.

In 2015, a dismembered body was found on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Residents of nearby houses suggested that the murdered person could be 79-year-old Valentina Ulanova - she had not been seen for several days. When the police arrived at Ulanova’s apartment, the door was opened by her friend, 68-year-old Tamara Samsonova. Investigators searched the apartment and found Samsonova’s diary.

The Minister of Entrepreneurship, Trade and Tourism of the Republic of Sakha Timur Handy, answering a question in the framework of the “Another Perspective” program on the Yakutia 24 TV channel about the most daring ideas of entrepreneurs that he received, said that local businessmen sell snow in Moscow. Torboznoe Radio drew attention to this. “How enterprising are Yakut entrepreneurs that they managed to sell Yakut snow in Moscow.

A teacher at a private kindergarten in Kazan, whose name was not specified, left her one-and-a-half-year-old child on the street during a walk. This was reported by the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan. As stated in the press release, the child was outside for more than an hour.

The Italian Bishops' Conference has issued new guidelines for the training of clergy, according to which gays are allowed to enter seminaries and become priests, subject to celibacy. Euronews reports this. According to the publication, the new recommendations suggest that when considering a candidate, it is important to evaluate not only a person’s orientation, but also take into account aspects of his personality as a whole.

Cyprus President Nicos Christodoulides told a tourism conference in the capital Nicosia that the country intends to resolve “all technical issues” in order to join the Schengen area in 2025. This was reported by the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. According to Christodoulides, at the moment Cyprus and Ireland are the last two countries that are members of the European Union but have not joined the Schengen area.

At the end of last year, the memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, “Freedom. Memories 1954–2021.” Against the backdrop of the political crisis and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many in Germany criticize Merkel and see the causes of the current problems in her decisions. At the request of Kholod, a member of the Council for Foreigners and Integration of the City of Dresden, Maxim Andreev, talks about Merkel’s book and what answers to criticism can be found in her memoirs .

American actress Brooke Shields, known for the films “The Blue Lagoon”, “Adorable Child” and “Endless Love”, said in an interview with Us Weekly that the plastic surgeon during the operation decided to give her a “bonus” and performed a vaginal rejuvenation procedure, permission for which the actress did not give. According to Shields, at the age of 40, she turned to a gynecologist, who asked if the actress wanted to have surgery to reduce her labia.

In Krasnoyarsk, two dogs, a husky and a Labrador, were locked in a garage on Second Bryanskaya Street. The animals spent two weeks there at sub-zero temperatures and without lighting, food or water. Siberian Express reports this. As the publication writes, citing local residents, the dogs barked and howled in the garage until animal rights activists found out about them. Activists of the social movement “DogSpas” said that the authorities initially did not want to deal with the problem.