The Russian ruble demonstrates the best indicators among other participants in the currency market in 2025, the growth of the national currency of Russia is even ahead of the graphs of the value of valuable metals, Bloomberg reports with reference to the data on insurance markets. Since the beginning of the year, the ruble has strengthened 38 percent of the dollar, its closest pursuers gold, the Swedish crown and silver showed an increase of 23, 14 and 12 percent, respectively.

In Moscow, a 41-year-old man died from stab wounds. His 15-year-old daughter is suspected of murder. The message about this appeared in the official telegram channel of the capital's department of the Investigative Committee. “On April 15, 2025, the body of a man with signs of violent death in the form of stab wounds was discovered in the apartment of a residential building located on Bartenevskaya Street in Moscow.

US Vice-President Jay Di Wence almost deprived the team of winners of the American football championship among students of their sports trophy. During the festive ceremony in the White House, he tried to raise the cup, but as a result he broke it and dropped the base, ABC News reports .

Vlad Larvin from the city of Biysk of the Altai Territory opened a Russian restaurant in the city of Houston two hours from New York. The restaurant has been operating since October 2024, Americans and Europeans mainly go there. Larvin told about this "Cold". “I position our restaurant as a place with the Russian soul.

Russian schoolchildren have a new hobby-they order cheap tattoos on markets, which include machine, needles and paints designed only for training skin. However, adolescents ignore these warnings and use all this to make tattoos for themselves and friends, BFM reports.

The HBO channel announced the composition of the actors who will play six main adult roles in the new series from books about Harry Potter. The announcement appeared after several months of rumors and reports of different casting options that HBO did not confirm, reports The Hollywood Reporter. According to journalists, HBO promised the exact adaptation of Joan Rowling's books.

Germany will set a limit to accept applications for the provision of political asylum. About this, according to Zeit Online, said the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the future chancellor of the country Friedrich Mertz. According to him, the number of applications accepted by the authorities is planned to be limited to 100 thousand. “Our idea is to really significantly reduce these numbers. It should not be a six -digit number, ”Merts explained.

At the end of March, US President Donald Trump instructed the US Federal Commission (FCC) to conduct an investigation against Disney, which he accused of excessive rewards of diversity. A few weeks before that, large studios Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery also began to change their policy, writes Le Figaro. Trump's pressure on the entertainment industry is already noticeable, the publication notes.

Vlad Larvin moved from Biysk to the United States, rented a two-story house in a suburbs of New York and made repairs himself-he settled with a partner on the second floor, and on the first he opened a restaurant in Russian cuisine. Now the locals come there again and again to eat herring with potatoes or olivier. Vlad told the "cold" why he decided to open a restaurant, what dishes like the Americans and how they differ from the Russians.

Two British tourists drowned off the coast of the popular tourist Australian city of Seventin Seventin at the southern tip of the Big Barrier Reef, writes BBC. On Sunday, a 17-year-old teenager and a 46-year-old man, whose names are not revealed, carried into the sea while bathing on the beach, where the presence of rescuers was not supposed. Later, the participants in the rescue operation took their bodies from the water.

The World Health Organization (WHO) conducted two-day exercises in its headquarters in Geneva in case of a new pandemic. Representatives of 15 countries participated in them, including Denmark, Somalia, Qatar, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine. The curator of the exercises was Mike Ryan, business director of the WHO program in the field of healthcare, reports The Telegraph with reference to protocols from the exercises.

Almost half of the Russian parents believe that the growth of digitalization in Russian education has led to an increase in the number of homework that children at school are asked. This is evidenced by the data of the study conducted in the RANEPA. 41.5 percent of the parents surveyed also noted the increase in the fatigue of their children, 41.6 percent-a decrease in control by teachers, almost as many respondents said that they are in good quality with the use of digital technologies.

“Flows the stream” and “The wreath floats”-songs that, it would seem, remained in the past, suddenly returned to the tops of the auditions because of the youth. Zumers and millennials buy tickets for concerts of the People's Artist of Russia Nadezhda Kadysheva, whose income after several years of the break suddenly grown three times. Since 2025, the ensemble of her husband “Golden Ring” completely refuses the chamber seats and switches to the stadiums to accommodate everyone.

The growing popularity of the drug for weight loss "Opikpik" left the plus-siz models without work. Models and activists of the movement for body positive complain that “heroin chic” and the culture of a “healthy lifestyle”, which idealizes thinness, returned to fashion. This is written by The Guardian newspaper. In 2021, the Plus-Sayz Sky Standley model was considered one of the rising stars of this sphere of activity.

The ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence became the most downloaded mobile application in the world in March. This is the first month when the Openai chat boot was in the first place by overtaking Instagram and Tiktok, Appfigures Analysting Service reported . The ChatGPT application was installed for a month 46 million times, 28% more than in February. Instagram in the global ranking fell in second place with a similar result, and Tiktok - to the third with 45 million downloads.