The cat, named Jintao, spun in the washing machine drum for ten minutes until the washing stopped. The animal was lucky and escaped with only minor injuries to its paws, the South China Morning Post reports . A woman from the Chinese province of Jiangsu, located on the coast of the Yellow Sea, said she was shocked when she saw her cat in the washing machine. She pulled out the pet along with the laundry. The video shows a wet and trembling cat staggering towards its owner.

At the premiere of the film “Yolki-12,” the journalist asked actor Dmitry Nagiyev the secret of the popularity of the franchise. Nagiyev responded that Russian viewers are tired of the abundance of films about the war, reports the EZh telegram channel. “There are so many films about the war, I just don’t have the strength anymore. Dullness, dirt, this illusion of a peaceful, happy life,” Nagiyev said. The actor was also asked what adventures happened in his personal life this year.

The company will be saved at the expense of Russians and mass layoffs, and this will be led by a friend of Putin’s former secretary. Will it work? Gazprom is the Russian company most affected by the war with Ukraine. Europe's largest gas supplier has lost half of its exports, the promised "reorientation to the east" has not worked, and all the hyped partnerships with Turkey and China are failing. The sanctions set Gazprom back a decade and allowed its competitors to profit.

The robberies took place in New York State, on Long Island. In both cases, the American did not use a weapon, but threatened the cashier solely with the help of a note, reports the New York Post. The attacker attacked two Flagstar Financial bank branches in turn, located eight kilometers from each other. The man did not use a firearm, but only handed the cashier a threatening note, in which he demanded not to resist and to put the money in a sports bag.

The wife of Tolyatti City Duma deputy Lyubov Dorozhkina flew to Russia after giving birth to a child in Chile. The woman apologized to Russians for past statements and added that she was glad to return to her native country, according to her VKontakte page. In the comments, Dorozhkina was asked not to pay attention to those who criticize, but simply to be glad that her son was born with a “strong” passport of the Republic of Chile.

US President Donald Trump is pleased with the progress of peace negotiations. Washington believes that 90% of controversial issues related to the truce between Russia and Ukraine have been practically resolved, Reuters reports , citing a representative of the American administration. Delegations from the United States and Ukraine met in Berlin to discuss the possibility of an early truce.

At Thai airports, due to the escalation of the kingdom’s conflict with neighboring Cambodia, control over Cambodians arriving in the country, as well as citizens of third countries, has been tightened. This was reported by the Thai edition of the Bangkok Post. Strengthening security measures affected the airports of the capital of the kingdom of Bangkok - Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi, as well as the cities of Phuket and Chiang Mai.

American student and aspiring businessman Michael Satterlee created a stand on a 3D printer into which two cans of soda can be inserted at once. Last month, an 18-year-old boy earned $300,000 selling his “rechargeable coasters,” Business Insider reports . Before the popular can holder came out, Satterlee experimented with different products. He created them on a 3D printer and then tried to sell them through the online platform Shopify.

In Novorossiysk, Ukrainian naval Sub Sea Baby drones hit the 636.3 class submarine Varshavyanka, the Security Service of Ukraine reported . They added that as a result of the operation, which the SBU carried out jointly with the Ukrainian Navy, the submarine “received critical damage and was actually disabled.” The Ukrainian special service did not say when the attack occurred.

Twin pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, located at the Ueno Zoo, will return to China at the end of January. Thus, Japan will be left without pandas for the first time since 1972, the Kyodo agency said. Seoul will transfer the animals to Beijing under a bilateral lease agreement. It is unknown whether Japan will be able to obtain another pair of pandas from China amid diplomatic tensions following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's statements regarding Taiwan, the agency noted.

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Moscow, and his family managed to transport a significant part of his fortune to Russia. Now he has settled in Rublyovka and began studying for an ophthalmology course, The Guardian reports , citing anonymous sources. Assad received his medical education in London and periodically, even before the start of the war in Syria, as the publication notes, practiced ophthalmology in Damascus.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler and said that the Kremlin will not stop if Ukraine is captured, Politico reported . “Just as the Sudetenland [the then existing Czechoslovakia] was not enough in 1938, Putin will not stop. If Ukraine falls, he will not stop there. This is Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine – and against Europe,” Merz said on the evening of Saturday, December 13.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, a nurse from a private sanatorium was convicted of infecting more than 70 patients with hepatitis C and HIV. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to the joint press service of the judicial system of Kabardino-Balkaria. It is reported that the woman’s actions became known after an inspection that was carried out in the Nalchik sanatorium from September 2022 to November 2023.

Taxi drivers staged a nationwide strike against the low tariffs of the Yandex Go service. In their work chats, they share that they create fake orders, wait for the car to arrive, and then call on their colleagues to give up work for a day, writes 7x7. “All my friends are not working today. The main thing that doesn’t suit me personally is that Yandex does not show the cost and final destination of the client when accepting an order.

A resident of Perm was able to obtain a birth certificate for the first time in 55 years of her life. Due to the lack of a document, the woman did not receive secondary education, could not go to government clinics and officially find employment. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Perm Territory, Igor Sapko, spoke about this on his VKontakte page. According to his information, the woman lived in Kazan until she came of age, and then moved to Perm.