What I know about women | Movies

 Posted on May 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  670 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

What I know about womenMoviesInterviewWhat I know about womenInterview by Rosamund WitcherWillem Dafoe 54, actor, married, one sonI've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women. My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse and they worked together, so I didn't see either of them much. It was a sexual education, because my sisters were the horniest little girls. [Read More]

Witness claims police said Is he one of us? as they restrained Malcolm X killer | Malcolm X

 Posted on May 8, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  879 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Malcolm X This article is more than 5 months oldWitness claims police said ‘Is he one of us?’ as they restrained Malcolm X killerThis article is more than 5 months oldMustafa Hassan says comment proved to him that police and FBI knew beforehand that there would be an attempt on activist’s life A witness to the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X has come forward to claim that a comment he overheard as police were restraining assassin Thomas Hagan outside the Audubon Ball room proved to him that the New York police department and FBI knew beforehand that there would be an attempt on the civil rights activist’s life. [Read More]

3 Doors Down founding member Matt Roberts found dead aged 38 | Pop and rock

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  172 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Pop and rock This article is more than 7 years old3 Doors Down founding member Matt Roberts found dead aged 38This article is more than 7 years oldGuitarist discovered unconscious in Wisconsin hotel hallway Roberts left band in 2012 for health reasonsGuitarist Matt Roberts, a founding member of the rock band 3 Doors Down, has died in Wisconsin. The 38-year-old was in West Bend to perform at a benefit. The West Bend police department said someone called authorities around 7am on Saturday to report an unconscious man in a hotel hallway. [Read More]

American man wakes up with amnesia speaking Swedish | California

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  583 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

California This article is more than 10 years oldAmerican man wakes up with amnesia speaking SwedishThis article is more than 10 years oldMan cannot remember anything of past life after being found unconscious in Palm Springs motel roomDoctors are looking into the mystery of an American man who awoke speaking only Swedish, with no memory of his past, after he was found unconscious four months ago at a motel in southern California. [Read More]

Appeal court cuts jail term for woman who aborted baby at 40 weeks | Abortion

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  558 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Abortion This article is more than 10 years oldAppeal court cuts jail term for woman who aborted baby at 40 weeksThis article is more than 10 years oldSentence for Sarah Catt, who admitted administering poison with intent to procure miscarriage, is cut to three and a half yearsA woman jailed for eight years after aborting her unborn baby within a week of her due date has had her sentence reduced to three and a half years. [Read More]

Babel by RF Kuang review an ingenious fantasy about empire

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  840 words  |  Valentine Belue

Fantasy booksReviewTranslation is the key to magic, as Kuang uses her genre to sharpen a historical investigation into colonisation, learning and power Welcome to Babel: the great Oxford translation institute in an alternative version of Victorian England, where translators hold the keys to the British empire. Every device and engineering technique there is, from steam trains to the foundations of buildings, relies on silver bars enchanted with “match pairs”; words in two different languages that mean similar things, but with a significant gap between them. [Read More]

Experience: I was trapped in a nine-inch crevice

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  786 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

ExperienceLife and style'I'd been trapped for five hours and no longer expected to make it out alive. But I wasn't prepared to give up either'One Sunday last year, eight of us hiked for a couple of hours through the desert near San Diego to reach Thunder Canyon Cave. We had to abseil through a waterfall to get inside, so we put on our wetsuits and lowered ourselves 30ft down. By 11am we were inside. [Read More]

Films beginning with U | Movies

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  762 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

1000 films to see before you dieMoviesFilms beginning with UUgetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) A haunting fable about the vanity of human wishes, as incarnated in two men in 16th-century Japan: a potter and a merchant. One yearns for riches, and is seduced by a phantom princess; the other longs to be a samurai, and leaves for the warrior's life while his wife drifts into prostitution. An absorbing and beautifully photographed tale. [Read More]

Marvels Midnight Suns review superheroes, strategy and Gen Z banter

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  866 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

GamesReviewPC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; Firaxis/2K Making good use of the comics, this turn-based strategy games gives players satisfyingly fiendish challenges – and room to chillax afterwards Playing a turn-based strategy game developed by genre leader Firaxis, creator of the brilliant XCOM reboots, there were several things I did not expect to be doing. I did not foresee having to sort out the love life of macho vampiric superhero, Blade. I didn’t expect to be joining a book club with Captain Marvel (first read: Sun Tzu’s Art of War). [Read More]

Pro-Russian forces accused of seizing Chechen rebel's widow | World news

 Posted on May 7, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  328 words  |  Kary Bruening

World newsPro-Russian forces accused of seizing Chechen rebel's widowPro-Russian forces have allegedly kidnapped a young woman who secretly married Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord who was killed last month. Elina Ersenoyeva, 26, was seized in Chechnya's capital, Grozny, on August 17 by masked gunmen - thought to be loyal to the Kremlin - in an apparent attempt to extract information about her husband's accomplices and finances. Tatyana Lokshina, of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights office in Moscow, described the abduction as " [Read More]