Новости за 17.03.2019

Probably Lent is misunderstood more than any other liturgical season. This misunderstanding has a long history. Mention Lent and most people would point to fasting and abstinence from meat almost as if these are synonyms of the word ‘Lent’. This reductionist approach (a worse one further down) easily explains the popular devaluation of the meaning of Lent. What are two days of fasting in a culture chockfull of diet regimes which are stricter than anything the Church requests from Catholics on just two days a year? Читать дальше...

England run in 12 tries in thrashing Scotland to seal a ninth Grand Slam and regain the Six Nations title.

Should we remove the George Cross from the Maltese flag? And how about Victoria, whose statue presides over the canopies in Republic Square? Should we relocate her to some kind of garden of forgetful remembrance, where she would be joined by a hundred equally relocated symbols of her empire? Speaking for myself, these are the sort of questions I might resort to when counting sheep fails. Still, if the reaction to Charles Xuereb’s comments to this newspaper last Wednesday is anything to go by, my... Читать дальше...

One of Penny Andrews’ favourite photographs shows her standing next to the former shadow chancellor, Ed Balls. The most striking thing about it is her turquoise hair. But cast your eyes down and you can see two Labour veterans peeking out from the top of her sock. Such is Andrews’ admiration for Jennie Lee and Barbara Castle that she has had their faces tattooed on her right calf.

Mit seiner Wutrede bei Bayern München ist Giovanni Trapattoni zur Kultfigur geworden. Seine Ausdrücke "Flasche leer", "Ich habe fertig" und "Was erlauben Strunz?" sind den deutschsprachigen Fußball-Fans heute noch in bester Erinnerung. Am Sonntag feiert die Trainerlegende, die Salzburg 2007 zum Meistertitel führte, ihren 80. Geburtstag.

Finale im alpinen Skiweltcup in Soldeu: am Sonntag steht mit dem Riesentorlauf der Damen das letzte Saisonrennen auf dem Programm - verfolgen Sie das Rennen im Liveticker.

Finale im alpinen Skiweltcup in Soldeu: am Sonntag steht mit dem Slalom der Herren das letzte Saisonrennen auf dem Programm - verfolgen Sie das Rennen im Liveticker.

Just when it looks like the Italian striker's career is stuttering to a stop, he reminds us of his incredible ability to enthral

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A 6-year-old boy from South Florida who found an unsecured gun in his home shot himself to death Saturday morning, police said.

Like so many paddlers residing in northern climates, skiing, snowshoeing and winter camping only goes so far in getting me through the cold-weather months. Map-watching is one of my favorite off-season pastimes—that is sleuthing out potential canoe routes, coastlines and whitewater rivers, and using contour lines, archipelagos and creative intuition to imagine what these places

On Friday night, an armed robbery occurred in the Town of Duson in the 200 block of Austria Road. Continue reading…

Ramsey will move to Italy this summer after spending 11 years at Arsenal.

Unter Sonntag, 17. März, ist im Buch der Geschichte unter anderem verzeichnet:

Bali Body, which boasts an incredible 1.3 million followers on Instagram, debuted the new product on Tuesday March 5 and one unit sold every 30 seconds.