Песня Тейлор Свифт I Knew It, I Knew You из саундтрека к фильму «История игрушек 5» впервые заняла лидерскую позицию в британском музыкальном чарте семь раз. Об этом сообщает Official Charts Company, отвечающая за составление хит-парадов Великобритании.
Исполнительнице 36 лет. Благодаря этому достижению она вошла в число артистов, у которых семь раз песни возглавляли британские чарты. В этот круг входят Майкл Джексон, Джордж Майкл, U2, Робби Уильямс и Давид Гетта. Абсолютным рекордсменом остаётся Элвис Пресли — у «короля рок-н-ролла» было 21 песня, занявшая первое место.
Второе место по количеству лидирующих песен занимает группа The Beatles с 18 композициями. Их последний релиз «Now and Then» 10 ноября 2023 года поднялся на первую позицию, а в день выхода занял 42-е место.
Ранее Тейлор Свифт признали самым продаваемым исполнителем 2025 года по версии Международной федерации производителей фонограмм (IFPI). Она получает этот титул уже в шестой раз и четвёртый год подряд.
Cleopatra by Alexandre Cabanel. The Egyptian queen created her own secret drinking club with lover Mark Antony. Credit: Public Domain
Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt but was also known for her love of parties. She even created her own secret drinking club.
The famous ancient ruler became well known during her time for her intellect and wit and was often described as incredibly seductive and persuasive. These qualities made her all the more mysterious throughout the centuries.
She is now a popular figure in media, literature, and art, and her enchanting qualities, romantic relationships, and beauty are of particular interest to people.
Perhaps the most surprising fact about Cleopatra, who was a strategic and often cutthroat ruler, is that she was quite the reveler.
Cleopatra maintained a relationship with Roman leader Mark Antony and even gave birth to his twins, Alexander Helios, which means sun, and Cleopatra Selene, which means moon, shortly after Antony returned to Rome in 40 BC.
While Antony was living in Egypt with Cleopatra, despite being married in Rome, the pair would throw parties and were known to appreciate a good drink.
Cleopatra formed a secret drinking club, played pranks
In fact, Cleopatra and Antony created their own secret drinking club called “The Inimitable Livers,” ostensibly as a group to honor the god Dionysus but likely to drink and revel.
In 41 BC, the couple formed the group, which included nightly feasts and debauchery, as well as the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol.
Along with these drinking parties, Antony and Cleopatra were known to roam around the streets of Alexandria, the urban center of ancient Egypt, wearing disguises and pulling pranks on locals.
Cleopatra generally loved joking around and even pranked her Roman lover. According to Pliny the Elder, Cleopatra once bet Antony that she could spend 10,000,000 sesterces, which is likely equivalent to over $10 million today on one dinner alone.
Antony balked at the preposterous idea and agreed to the bet, believing that spending such a massive sum on one dinner was impossible.
Cleopatra and Antony then went to dine together, and the couple was served a completely normal meal which definitely wasn’t worth such a sum.
As the meal was ending, Antony was beginning to believe he had won the bet. Cleopatra, however, called one of her servants over and asked for a cup filled with strong vinegar.
Once the servant brought the vinegar to the queen, Cleopatra removed one of her massive pearl earrings from her ear and dropped the precious earring into the cup.
The pearl, which was worth a huge amount of money, then began to dissolve in the vinegar solution. After it was fully dissolved, Cleopatra drank the solution.
Cleopatra VII Philopater ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. After her death, the Roman Empire took control of the country.
The Ptolemaic Dynasty was formed by Ptolemy I Soter, a Greek general in Alexander the Great’s army, in 305 BC. Although located in Egypt, the dynasty that Ptolemy established remained incredibly Greek.
Cleopatra, a direct descendant of Ptolemy, was the first Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language, as all those before her spoke only Greek. She was also believed to have spoken Ethiopian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Syriac, Median, Parthian, and Latin.
The name Cleopatra comes from the Ancient Greek words κλέος (kléos), meaning “glory,” and πατήρ (pater), meaning “father,” which means “glory of her father.”
Una amiga me lo advirtió antes de ir. “Las que vais a ver a Bad Bunny me parecéis las mismas que las que van a rezar al Papa, no me interesa nada ni lo uno ni lo otro”. A mí no me pareció que fuera lo mismo rezar que cantar cosas como “Si tu novio no te mama el culo, pa eso que no mame”, pero mi amiga tenía razón en algo fundamental. En la práctica, no hay tanta diferencia entre perrear y rezar en 2026. Y no es que lo diga ella (o yo), es que el papa León XIV se reunió con Bad Bunny en su apretada agenda madrileña en un guiño de complicidad cristiana y, por si quedaban dudas, Benito bendijo al Pontífice durante el concierto. Hacia la mitad apareció el sapo Concho, mascota animada de la gira, en las pantallas gigantes y dijo: “Acho, un fuerte aplauso para el Papa que ha llevado esperanza y unión a tantas personas en el mundo”.
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Analysis of grape seeds from ancient wells in Tuscany. Credit: Oya Inanli / CC BY 4.0
Researchers have used ancient DNA from grape seeds to trace the origins of wine-making traditions that still shape modern viticulture, finding a direct genetic thread connecting an Etruscan settlement in Italy to wine regions across Europe today.
Oya Inanli of the University of York led a team that studied 80 waterlogged grape seeds from two wells at Cetamura del Chianti, a site in Tuscany dating to around 300 BC.
The seeds span the Etruscan and Roman periods up to roughly 1200 CE. The study was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
More than a quarter of the seeds belonged to a single variety, identical in genetics, and maintained without change for at least 362 years. Direct radiocarbon dating confirmed this variety was present from the Etruscan period through Roman occupation.
Researchers identified it as a clonal lineage, meaning winemakers repeatedly propagated the same vine without allowing it to reproduce sexually. This practice remains common among winemakers today.
One grape variety survived unchanged for over three centuries
The DNA of the dominant variety also pointed to a significant discovery. Genetic markers associated with berry color showed a 92 percent likelihood that the clonal variety produced white grapes.
A new study decodes ancient grape DNA, tracing a single wine variety through over 362 years and connecting Roman-era viticulture to modern European winemaking traditions. pic.twitter.com/mRRzkTyCuF
— Tom Marvolo Riddle (@tom_riddle2025) June 12, 2026
This makes Cetamura del Chianti one of the earliest known sites with genetic evidence for white wine production in the pre-Roman Mediterranean. Two other seeds showed markers linked to dark berries, suggesting red wine was also part of life at the settlement.
Researchers found genetic links stretching well beyond Tuscany. A Cetamura seed closely matched a grape seed recovered from a first-century Roman farm in Mont Ferrier, France. This points to the Romans moving specific vine varieties deliberately across their empire.
A separate Cetamura seed from the transitional Etruscan-Roman period showed a sibling-level genetic relationship with a modern Hungarian variety called “Baratcsuha szurke.” That variety belongs to a broader family of old European grapes, including a vine in Slovenia said to be more than 400 years old.
Ancient grape DNA traces modern wine’s origins across Europe
The team applied multiple methods, including ancient DNA analysis, near-infrared spectroscopy, geometric morphometrics, and radiocarbon dating.
Seeds from deeper layers of the wells preserved more genetic material, pointing to stable, waterlogged conditions as a key factor in DNA survival.
The research provides concrete evidence that agricultural traditions of the Etruscans and Romans laid the groundwork for wine culture across Europe.
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Germany's missile maker Diehl Defence is negotiating to manufacture Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missile in Germany, the Financial Times reported. Talks with the Ukrainian developer Fire Point are planned for the coming weeks, as European states hunt for weapons able to reach deep into Russia.
Four years of full-scale war have turned Ukraine's defense industry from an aid recipient into a source of battle-tested designs, with Kyiv's manufacturers now fielding interceptor drones and advancing a domestic ballistic missile program that European militaries increasingly want to tap. German Flamingo production would hand Europe a ground-launched deep-strike weapon independent of Washington's political swings, while giving Fire Point the orders and financing to scale output.
"This could really happen"
Diehl chief executive Helmut Rauch briefed journalists during the ILA Berlin Air Show.
"We are in discussions about how we could work together," he said. "I think this could really happen. In the next few weeks, we have several meetings regarding this and then we will see."
For a new product, he added, it "makes a lot of sense to have it also in Germany or other countries," and Diehl is "optimistic and positive" about cooperation. The Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi noted that joint output of the FP-5 Flamingo in Europe could become the largest example of NATO countries adopting Ukrainian defense know-how.
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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, visiting Kyiv last month, said the "technological leaps here in Ukraine are remarkable." Joint ventures are being explored for long-range drones, air defenses, and electronic warfare, he said.
The initiative comes as Berlin scrambles to replace US Tomahawk missiles that were due in Germany this year alongside an American battalion. US President Donald Trump scrapped that Biden-era decision amid friction with Chancellor Friedrich Merz around the war in Iran.
Diehl builds the Iris-T air-defense system, a mainstay of Ukraine's protection against Russian missile attacks. The firm inked a technology deal with Fire Point in April without disclosing details.
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The ground-launched Flamingo claims over 3,000 km of reach — roughly double the Tomahawk's. The missile has so far played a limited part in Ukraine's long-range campaign, and some reports have questioned its effectiveness. At least two Flamingos, though, struck a military plant in the Russian city of Cheboksary on 10 June, about 900 km from the Ukrainian border — the longest successful known Flamingo strike so far.
Fire Point co-founder and chief designer Denys Shtilierman told the Financial Times in May that the company turns out about 200 Flamingos a month with capacity to spare.
"We just need orders and money," he said, admitting an engine bottleneck he expected to resolve soon.
So far, however, publicly documented Flamingo attacks remain limited to a handful of strikes, each involving only a small number of missiles.
Raquel Berríos (Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, 43 años) cree que su música provoca conjuros. “Cada vez que sacamos álbum pasan cosas raras. Con Regresa, el anterior, nos contactó Bad Bunny; con este hemos roto como pareja”, avanza la cantante del dúo Buscabulla en una terraza en el Raval tras participar una charla en el Primavera Pro un día antes de su concierto en el festival y de continuar su gira por España.
Freuding's comments are the latest in a series of increasingly warnings from Western leaders and defense officials about the threat emanating from Russia and Europe's current lack of preparedness.
While America's infrastructure is crumbling, we have given a genocidal, murderous regime over $350 billion, funded by U.S. taxpayers. Disgusting. https://t.co/9PGWUcspU7 — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) June 11, 2026
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