20 minutes ago About sharing Bianca Williams said people are blaming her for two officers losing their jobs By Yasmin Rufo BBC News British athlete Bianca Williams says she is “shocked with the amount of money that’s been raised” for two constables fired for gross misconduct. More than £130,000 has been donated to Jonathan Clapham…
Luis Rubiales: Ex-Spanish football federation chief given three-year ban by Fifa Last updated on 7 minutes ago7 minutes ago.From the section Football Former Spanish Football Association president Luis Rubiales has been banned from all football-related activities for three years. Rubiales, 46, kissed forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain’s Women’s World Cup final win…
Politics / October 30, 2023 Why Is Germany Cracking Down on Pro-Palestine Protest? A climate of fear and division has been stoked by the government’s increasingly hard-line stance against migrants and dissent. Hanno Hauenstein Ad Policy A protester confronts riot police at a gathering of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Sonnenallee in Neukoelln in Berlin, 2023. (Photo…
42 minutes ago About sharing By Dearbail Jordan Business reporter, BBC News Chinese clothing giant Shein is buying the Missguided brand name from Frasers Group little more than a year after the British firm rescued the business. Frasers announced that it was selling Missguided’s intellectual property and trademarks to Shein. But it is retaining the…
There were no obvious signs of trauma, LA Police said about the death of the Friends star, aged 54.
1 They inscribed their lives on clay and moved away I hear the echo pulse by pulse 2 Some memories we chase like goats away from flowers, yet we wake one day to the wilted ruins 3 Let’s meet in the word forgotten from the dictionary, and breathe its air like the smell of the…
Feature / October 30, 2023 Louis Armstrong’s Last Word Louis Armstrong Gets the Last Word on Louis Armstrong For decades, Americans have argued over the icon’s legacy. But his archives show that he had his own plans. Ethan Iverson This article appears in the November 13/20, 2023 issue, with the headline “Louis Armstrong’s Last Word.”…
The Front Burner / October 30, 2023 Solidarity Between BLM and Palestine Has Deep Roots Black liberationists have long found kinship with the Palestinian cause, seeing a common desire to live free of violence. Kali Holloway Ad Policy (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) During the racial justice uprisings of 2020, multiple murals of George Floyd…
Books & the Arts / October 30, 2023 Dissolve Into Nothing The enigmatic science fiction of Djuna. The Enigmatic Science Fiction of Djuna The radical visions of South Korea’s mononymous, pseudonymous, and officially anonymous sci-fi novelist and film critic. E. Tammy Kim Ad Policy Illustration by Lily Qian. This article appears in the November 13/20,…
44 minutes ago About sharing Yahel, left, with mother Lianne, centre, and sister Noiya By Sammy Jenkins, Nathan Heath & Fiona Lamdin BBC News The parents of a British-Israeli woman killed in her home by Hamas alongside her two children say they were found “all cuddled together”. Bristol-born Lianne Sharabi, 48, and her two teenage…