Police officer and dog team up to rescue man stuck in frozen Michigan lake video | US news
Posted on June 5, 2024
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US news Police officer and dog team up to rescue man stuck in frozen Michigan lake – video A man who fell through the ice on a frozen Michigan lake was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man’s dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety.
Michigan state police said bystanders called 911 on Thursday after the 65-year-old man fell through ice-covered Arbutus Lake.
[Read More]The story was so remarkable: what happened after a devastating climbing accident
Posted on June 5, 2024
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BooksIn a fascinating new book, climber and author Michael Wejchert tells of two couples and a tragedy in remote Alaskan mountains
“It’s beautifully overwhelming,” says Michael Wejchert of the rock, ice and alpine routes he has climbed all over the world. “There’s a moment that anybody who’s climbed in a remote part of the Alaska range can remember where the plane flies away and suddenly the sound of the engine fades and you’re completely alone on a glacier, miles and miles from anywhere and that silence, especially at first, is deafening.
[Read More]US air force Osprey crash wreckage and remains of five crew found off Japan | US military
Posted on June 5, 2024
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US military This article is more than 1 month oldUS air force Osprey crash wreckage and remains of five crew found off JapanThis article is more than 1 month oldAircraft crashed last week off south-western Japan carrying eight American personnel on training mission
US and Japanese divers have discovered wreckage and remains of five crew members from a US air force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off south-western Japan, the air force announced on Monday.
[Read More]Celebrity Big Brother: Angie Bowie, David Gest and the bleakest farce
Posted on June 4, 2024
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Have you been watching?Big BrotherReviewThis year’s CBB house looked set to be the scene of some entertaining discourse but it entered a depressing new phase after the death of David Bowie I gave up on Big Brother last year. Until January 2015 I hadn’t missed a single series, but even my high tolerance for the shrill rows and needless added drama of modern reality television had been met. Too many words spoken in anger, not enough interesting conversation about the nature of fame.
[Read More]David Beckham and Paris Saint-Germain celebrate league title in Lyon | David Beckham
Posted on June 4, 2024
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David Beckham This article is more than 10 years oldDavid Beckham and Paris Saint-Germain celebrate league title in LyonThis article is more than 10 years old Lyon 0-1 Paris Saint-Germain
PSG claim title but club must await disciplinary panel resultDavid Beckham won yet another league title, in his fourth country, as Paris Saint-Germain celebrated their first championship in 19 years following a 1-0 win at Lyon.
The former England captain has won titles with Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy and now PSG and is hoping to be offered another year's contract at the French club.
[Read More]Did the poster give it away? The 12 clues that foreshadowed Successions ultimate winner
Posted on June 4, 2024
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‘Proximity to power’ … the runners and riders of Succession season four. Photograph: Home Box Office/HBO‘Proximity to power’ … the runners and riders of Succession season four. Photograph: Home Box Office/HBOTelevisionFrom a specific catchphrase to some revealing marketing materials, maybe the victor of Jesse Armstrong’s drama was in plain sight all along. Here are the signs we should have spotted
Spoiler alert: this article is for people who have watched Succession season four.
[Read More]Having an pe can end in tears
Posted on June 4, 2024
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BooksReviewFormer sabreur Steven Poole is engaged by Richard Cohen's history of swordplay, By the Sword By the Sword by Richard Cohen
519pp, Macmillan, £20
The clash of swords is the beginning of a conversation. Bullets merely speed by each other and either hit or miss their target, but blades engage. They smack and slither, disengage and reacquaint themselves. In fencing, a sequence of thrusts, parries and counterthrusts is termed a "
[Read More]How we made Closer by Clive Owen and Patrick Marber
Posted on June 4, 2024
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How we madeTheatre‘I wanted to write a Shakespearean scene with someone in disguise, so I went into a lesbian chatroom pretending to be a gay woman’
Patrick Marber, playwrightI was in Atlanta in 1996 with a tour of my play Dealer’s Choice and I was dragged along to a lap-dancing club. It seemed a potent, haunting place for a scene about power and sex. That night I wrote a version of the lap-dance scene in Closer with characters called A and B.
[Read More]Italy's culture of racism exposed by fans' abuse of black football star | Italy
Posted on June 4, 2024
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The ObserverItaly This article is more than 14 years oldItaly's culture of racism exposed by fans' abuse of black football starThis article is more than 14 years oldBorn in Sicily to Ghanaian parents, Inter Milan's Mario Balotelli personifies a refusal to accept a multi-ethnic societyThe songs are varied, offensive and, in at least one case, openly racist. "If you jump up and down, Balotelli dies" is a favourite with supporters of arguably the most famous Italian football club, Juventus.
[Read More]Like a bully in the schoolyard, Fox News sets its sights on the anti-work movement
Posted on June 4, 2024
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Fox NewsHost Jesse Watters wasted no time in painting the Reddit thread’s moderator as a clumsy, ‘lazy’ caricature
In 2013, the subreddit r/antiwork was born. “Unemployment for all, not just the rich!” read its tagline. America was experiencing a mood change at that time. Occupy: The Movie had just hit theaters, lodging the eponymous movement in the national consciousness; the Socialist Alternative party had just won its first ever seat on Seattle’s city council; and Senator Bernie Sanders, the longtime independent from Vermont and self-described “democratic socialist” was considering a presidential run.
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