One of the fastest-growing social platforms in China, Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, has experienced a significant surge in downloads as American users prepare for TikTok’s shutdown on 19 January. Similar to Instagram, the app allows users to upload photos and videos.
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The centre, to be known as The Thistle, will offer addicts a space to take drugs in a clean and safe environment with nurse supervision, with the long-term goal of supporting recovery. Its opening represents victory in the city council’s decade-long legal battle to depart from Westminster’s hardline drugs policy.
4. Republican representatives have introduced a bill with what name that would allow Donald Trump to purchase Greenland?
7. Blue Origin reached orbit for the first time with a new rocket named after which Nasa astronaut?
The UK-based oil firm will cut around 5% of its 90,000 global workforce this year, in addition to around 3,000 external contractors. The job losses, understood to affect office-based staff, are part of cost-saving measures designed to reduce spending by $2 billion (£1.6 billion) by the end of 2026.
6. Which rare comet payed us a visit this week for the first time in 160,000 years?
9. BP
Authorities threatened to remove and potentially euthanise Rillette, the wild boar adopted by French horse breeder Elodie Cappe. The case ignited protests and a court ruled in Cappe’s favour, allowing Rillette to stay with her and ordering the state to pay €1,500 in damages.
1. The UK opened its first legal drugs consumption room in which city?
Joe Biden had been scheduled to bestow the honour on the Pope in person, but presented it over the phone instead after calling off his Rome trip due to the California wildfires. Fewer than 10% of recipients fall into the highest “with Distinction” category – and that handful includes Biden himself, who received the honour in 2017 from outgoing president Barack Obama.
3. Who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the United States’ highest civilian honour?
8. What is the name of the wild boar at the heart of a much-publicised legal dispute in France?
10. In which South Korean city did more than 3,000 police officers conduct a pre-dawn raid, leading to the detention of President Yoon Suk Yeol?
1. Glasgow
3. Pope Francis
“New Glenn”, the latest spacecraft developed by Jeff Bezos’ SpaceX rival, became the first Blue Origin rocket to reach Earth’s orbit following a successful launch in Florida. The rocket is more than five times taller than the company’s existing New Shepard rocket, which has taken passengers into space but has never been sent into orbit.