The British private consulting company Skytrax, which specializes in studying the quality of services provided by airports and airlines, has compiled the top 10 best airlines in the world for 2024. The rating was published on the company’s website, Afisha Daily noted . The comments to the rating say that it was compiled based on the votes of travelers from all over the world. Topping the list was Doha-based Qatar Airways.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Dagestan opened a criminal case against an employee of the Amanat rehabilitation center for combating addictions under articles of unlawful imprisonment and causing grievous bodily harm, resulting in the death of a person through negligence. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Directorate for Dagestan. According to investigators, the incident occurred on January 12 of this year.

A 37-year-old resident of the Irkutsk region, whose name has not been released, left her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter in the mother and child room at the train station in Novosibirsk and went to buy alcohol. Siberian Express reports this. As the publication writes, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs department at the station, the woman was driving home after taking her daughter for a medical examination at one of the clinics. While waiting for the train, she went out to buy alcohol.

A man jumped onto a bracket between the carriages of a high-speed train as it pulled away from the platform in Bavaria. The man survived after 20 minutes of driving at a speed of 280 kilometers per hour, The Guardian reported , citing German police. The man is 40 years old and is from Hungary, police said. A passenger was lighting a cigarette on the platform in front of the train when the doors slammed shut.

A rare fully spherical chicken egg laid in Devon will be auctioned in Exeter, England, The Guardian reported . The egg is going to be sold by a 57-year-old woman named Alison Green, who works on a local farm. Greene has been processing eggs for the past three years and called this absolutely round one “the one in a billion” - because in her entire life she had never found a single egg of such a perfect spherical shape. The auction is scheduled to take place in March.

On January 15, American film director David Lynch, author of the legendary films Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and the Twin Peaks series, one of the most famous directors in the history of cinema, died. He was 78 years old. At the request of Kholod, film critic Vladimir Lyashchenko explains why his films were so difficult to decipher and whether it is worth doing. Why do many people feel a sense of personal loss after Lynch's death?

US President-elect Donald Trump announced the launch of his own cryptocurrency, the $TRUMP memcoin, a few days before his inauguration. He announced this on his page on the social network Truth Social. “It's time to celebrate everything we stand for: Victory! Join my special Trump community. Get your $TRUMP now,” Trump wrote. The post also includes a link to the memcoin website.

A photo of the beautiful parents posing with three not-so-beautiful children, with the caption “Plastic surgery - you can’t hide it forever,” appeared in the early 2010s, but can still be found on social networks today. The girl from the photo is Taiwanese model Heidi Yeh. She starred in commercials for Sony and KFC until an accidental meme ruined her career and personal life in 2012. "Cold" tells this story.

At the Kamchatka Regional Oncology Center, 49 people were diagnosed with hepatitis B and C. All of them underwent computed tomography (CT). This was reported by the press service of the city court in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the head of the Ministry of Health of the Kamchatka Territory Alexander Gashkov and local media . From the court materials it follows that 36 people had an acute form of the disease, and 13 had a chronic form. According to Gashkov, some patients have already been tested.

Six Russian oil tankers that are still being built at the Russian Zvezda shipyard in the Primorsky Territory are subject to US sanctions. This is the first time Washington has imposed sanctions against ships that have not yet been put into operation, Reuters noted . According to the agency, the United States imposed sanctions last week. They led to a sharp rise in oil prices and an increase in the cost of tanker transportation.

In Turkey, local OnlyFans star Ezra Vandan was arrested after she said on her social networks that she intended to break the record and have sex with a hundred men in 24 hours. This was reported by local media and the woman herself on the social network X. Vandan published a post about her desire to have sex with a hundred men this week. “My goal is to break the record first in Turkey and then in the world! I'll start with a hundred people in 24 hours.

Due to a fuel oil spill, swimming in the Black Sea in summer can lead to burns and allergic reactions, and some sandy beaches will cease to exist. Former Minister of Environmental Protection, scientific director of the Institute of Water Problems of the Academy of Sciences, Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, told RBC about the scale of the health threat when vacationing at Krasnodar resorts.