American wrestler John Cena held his last match on the night of December 14 at the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) arena in Washington. 48-year-old Sina ended his career after losing a fight to Austrian Walter Hahn (performs under the pseudonym Gunther). After the fight, Cena said goodbye to the audience and left his shoes and wristbands in the ring. He left the arena to the applause of the audience. “It has been a pleasure serving you all these years.

Nobel laureate and human rights activist Ales Byalyatsky told how his release went At four in the morning [on the day of liberation] I was woken up by a security guard—us “yellow tags” and “extremists” are woken up for checks twice every night. He told me to come out. The head of the colony's operations department told me to pack my things. I realized that this was probably it.

In Berlin, a meeting began between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and US representatives - President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. The Ukrainian leader himself announced this on his social networks. The main topic of the meeting was the US peace plan. As Western media reported, in particular, the parties will discuss Kyiv's response to Washington's proposals.

They were deported from Belarus without passports. They didn’t know until recently that they would be taken to Ukraine Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Labkovich, Viktor Babariko, Maria Kolesnikova and Alexander Feduta, Chernigov, December 14, 2025 A press conference of released Belarusian political prisoners was held at the Chernihiv regional hospital. Viktor Babariko , Maria Kolesnikova , Alexander Feduta and Vladimir Labkovich spoke at the event.

The Moscow authorities did not approve the traditional ceremony of lighting the eight-candlestick on the occasion of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, which was supposed to take place on Revolution Square, the press service of the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar told RBC. “For security reasons, the Moscow mayor’s office did not approve the ceremony of lighting a candle on the Hanukkah menorah on Revolution Square in Moscow. Due to this, the ceremony was cancelled,” the statement said.

It crashes into satellites and the ISS, and also falls from the sky onto people. The problem can be solved, but it is not easy Space Frontiers / Hulton Archive / Getty Images Space debris. 1986 On November 5, three Chinese astronauts were scheduled to depart from the Tiangong orbital station back to Earth. They stayed in space for six months, and other astronauts had already arrived to replace them. However, at the last moment the return was postponed.

Netflix On December 12, Netflix released Knives Out 3: Resurrection, the third installment in the detective franchise directed by Rian Johnson and starring Daniel Craig. This time his hero Benoit Blanc is investigating a murder committed on Easter in a neo-Gothic church in the state (but not in the metropolis) of New York. The film also stars Josh O'Connor, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington and others.

Actionist artist Pavel Krisevich, immediately after leaving the special detention center, where he spent 15 days under arrest, was taken to one of the police departments of Istra near Moscow, according to the actionist’s telegram channel. Krisevich was released from the special detention center on December 13. Late in the evening of the same day, the artist’s telegram channel said that Krisevich was taken to the police department to sign some kind of warning.

Residents of settlements in Nikolaev, Odessa, Kherson, Chernigov, Donetsk, Sumy and Dnepropetrovsk regions remain without electricity due to strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on December 13. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced this on December 14. According to the Ukrainian leader, several hundred thousand families remain without electricity. Repair crews are working to restore power. “Russia is prolonging the war and wants to harm our people as much as possible.

Two attackers opened fire on the beach. More than 10 people died. One shooter was disarmed by a passerby Mark Baker / AP / Scanpix / LETA Emergency personnel treat a victim at Bondi Beach in Sydney, December 14, 2025. On December 14, a shooting occurred in Sydney near Bondi Beach (also known as Bondi Beach). According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), eyewitnesses said two men dressed in black opened fire while standing on a small pedestrian bridge.

One thousand three hundred and ninetieth day. Zelensky is trying to rewrite Trump's peace plan. He is ready to limit the number of Ukrainian Armed Forces, but only at the current level Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters in our daily materials because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us the thoughts you have about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

Residents of Tomsk went on a picket against the blocking of Roblox - and asked to allow their children to “fight sectarians” About 50 residents of Tomsk went on a picket against the blocking of the Roblox gaming platform, local publications RIA Tomsk and Tomsk.ru reported. The protest took place on the afternoon of December 14 on the outskirts of the city, in the local Hyde Park, in the park on Vysotsky Street.

Several people were injured in a shooting that took place on Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. The shooting occurred as the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, which begins on December 14, was celebrated on the beach. News.com.au reports that 10 people died, although authorities have not confirmed this. The police reported numerous casualties.

Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to return TV presenter Ivan Urgant to the public space when famous Russians asked him to do so, The New York Times reported in a large publication about Urgant. According to the publication’s sources, “prominent Russians” directly appealed to Putin with a request to “rehabilitate Urgant,” who disappeared from Russian television after speaking out against the full-scale invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine.

Critic Lisa Birger examines Sergei Kuznetsov’s novel “Moss’s Meat Grinder,” where there is a place for dystopia, a bloody thriller, and almost pornography In November, the Meduza publishing house published the novel “Moss’s Meat Grinder” by Sergei Kuznetsov (“Teacher Dymov”, “The Skin of a Butterfly”, “Round Dance of Water”) - about how people who do not know each other in different parts of the world in 2030 commit or attempt to commit suicide.