38 minutes ago About sharing Bodycam footage shows police hunting Prague gunman By Kathryn Armstrong & Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe Correspondent in London and Prague Prague police say the gunman who killed 14 people at a university on Thursday afternoon killed himself after being surrounded by the authorities. The attack, which happened at the Faculty…
1 hour ago About sharing Martin Kemp is best known as the bassist in the 1980s pop band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in EastEnders By Yasmin Rufo and Helen Bushby BBC Culture reporters Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp has paid for a refund for a couple unable to attend his concert…
Alex Batty, 17, who returned to the UK this week, went missing while on holiday at the age of 11.
Books & the Arts / December 22, 2023 The Misguided Satire of American Fiction The Misguided Satire of “American Fiction” A buzzy film adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure, a novel about publishing’s racial politics, misreads what is truly ailing the book industry. Stephen Kearse Ad Policy Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction. (Photo by Claire Folger)…
Activism / StudentNation / December 22, 2023 The Year of the Youth Over the last year, we’ve seen an extraordinary surge in student organizing around LGBTQ rights, climate change, labor, Palestine, and more. StudentNation Ad Policy Students participate in a protest in support of Palestine and for free speech on the Columbia University campus on…
Column / December 22, 2023 We Need to Modify—Not Trash—Oregon’s Trailblazing Drug Decriminalization Law Measure 110 made Oregon the first in country to decriminalize all drugs. The law was poorly implemented and should be changed, not discarded. Sasha Abramsky Ad Policy A person holds drug paraphernalia near the Washington Center building on SW Washington St….
Culture / December 22, 2023 The Medieval-ness of Mark Zuckerberg There’s something very feudal about his massive doomsday bunker. Kate Wagner Ad Policy This is, in essence, what the billionaire Meta CEO is building. (Shutterstock) In December, Wired released an in-depth investigation detailing the alarming extent to which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has bought up…
The rise is below inflation but comes after a year of travel disruption for passengers.
1 hour ago About sharing A makeshift shrine to the dead was visited on Friday morning as students tried to make sense of the murders By Sarah Rainsford BBC Eastern Europe correspondent in Prague As the darkness lifted in Prague on Friday, bright lights were still burning inside the Arts Faculty as they had through…
1 hour ago About sharing The clip of the incident has gone viral on Chinese social media in recent days By Fan Wang BBC News Chinese authorities are investigating a hospital over an incident where a surgeon allegedly punched the patient he was operating on at the time. It was captured in a clip that…