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‘Seething’ Ulrika Jonsson slams Gregg Wallace as ‘crude & sleazy’ amid furious backlash over his ...
ANGRY Ulrika Jonsson led a furious backlash against Gregg Wallace yesterday after the former MasterChef host mounted a disastrous defence of his behaviour. Sun writer Ulrika called Wallace, 60, “ignorant and arrogant” after he posted a video blaming
Nations fail to deliver U.N. treaty on cleaning up plastic pollution
BUSAN, South Korea - Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 countries remained deadlocked over how to curb the world’s growing mountain of plastic waste. The marathon
Lake-effect snow buries parts of the Great Lakes, with more expected
MADISON, Ohio - Great Lakes communities were pummeled with snow this weekend as unusually warm weather plunged into a lake-effect snow event that is expected to continue until Monday. At least 30 inches had fallen in several places in Michigan’s Upper
Seahawks emerge from mess of game with win vs. Jets, sole possession of first
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Had one of the most accurate quarterbacks in NFL history — Aaron Rodgers — been able to hit a wide-open Garrett Wilson in the end zone midway through the second quarter, this game might have been over almost before it started. Instead,
‘Moana 2’ was destined for streaming. Now it’s breaking box office records
Walt Disney Co.’s animated sequel “Moana 2” navigated its way to No. 1 at the box office with a record-breaking domestic Thanksgiving weekend debut, a remarkable feat considering that this big-screen return to Motunui almost didn’t
Commentary: Washington’s weaknesses refuse to go away. Can Huskies fix issues up front?
EUGENE, Ore. — After outlasting Oregon for a 34-31 win in last December’s Pac-12 championship game, Dillon Johnson said UW did so because “we were the most physical team.” The statistics supported that assertion. Johnson — the Huskies’ junior running back and
What We Are Reading Today: ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’
Updated 4 min 35 sec ago MANAL AL-BARAKATI December 01, 2024 20:46
What We Are Reading Today: ‘On Belonging and Not Belonging’
Updated 5 min 47 sec ago Arab News December 01, 2024 21:47
Letter: Kate Hepburn obituary
Christopher Wilson rightly commends Kate Hepburn’s versatile command of graphic and typographical pastiche. Also vital to the success of the books she designed was her imaginative sympathy for the style and humour of the writers whose work she guided from
Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah review – hallelujah! A fresh take on the ...
By revealing the murky circumstances in which it was created, Charles King’s fascinating history of the oratorio shows it in a new light
Joyce Crick obituary
My mother, Joyce Crick, who has died aged 95, was a lecturer, scholar and translator of German literature. She lived a life of determination, erudition and grit.
New Book “Nurse Florence® – Why Do I Need the Flu Shot?” Makes Flu Vaccines ...
Award-winning author and Registered Nurse Michael Stephen Dow has released “Nurse Florence - Why Do I Need the Flu Shot?.” Praised by Literary Titan and aligned with CDC recommendations, this timely resource empowers young readers, parents, and educators to
Engineer innovates a course to help students communicate, and then writes about it
Peter Denning was teaching a class in computer science at George Mason University in Virgnia to young people, when a student approached him in a quandary. Having received a request from his boss to be more innovative, he spent time developing what he felt were
Time To End ‘Monopoly’ Of Few Heroes In History Books: VP Dhankar
(MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday called for bringing about a big change in history books to do justice to India's heroes and end the manipulation of ... ...
Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah review – hallelujah! A fresh take on the composer’s much-loved work
I love the amorous mayhem of Handel’s operas, but have always had my doubts about his oratorios, especially the Messiah. First there’s the bossy compulsion to stand during the “Hallelujah” chorus, just because a spurious tradition says that King George II did
Amplifying South Asian narratives, empowering region’s filmmakers
The power of storytelling shone through at the Tasveer Film Festival, a key player and pivotal stakeholder in the global South Asian film market. Since its inception in 2002, the festival has consistently amplified South Asian narratives and boosted their
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Michael Kempe review – portrait of an optimistic thinker
A newly translated biography rescues Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – the 17th-century German philosopher – from Voltaire’s parody of him as a sunny but deluded soul
Living with Birds: The memoir of One of India’s Greatest Ornithologists
I first met Asad Rahmani in the late 1990s, when he was the director of the prestigious BNHS (Bombay Natural History Society), and did a few conservation-linked stories after talking to him. But I had been hearing a lot about him before that from my friend
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Nair DA Bank robber rings, drug cartels, financial fraudsters, Cheetah extinction events, teen suicides, racial discrimination, college admissions
Ideas and originality are overrated – just ask Titian or Michelangelo | Nell Frizzell
Stop telling yourself you have to create something unique, and perhaps you will free yourself to make something good
Author finds deep and disturbing history of violence against Native American women in ‘Searching for Savanna’
San Diego Union-Tribune | 2024-12-01, 14:35
The story of what happened to Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind is both uniquely hers, and one shared by too many Indigenous women. When author and journalist Mona Gable began writing about LaFontaine-Greywind, she learned that violence against Native American women
Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo review – a playful tale of interspecies affection
The Finnish novelist’s reissued debut, about a man who rescues and cares for a troll, still feels fresh and bright 20 years on
Book review: 'Charles J. Stick and His Gardens'
Richmond Times Dispatch | 2024-12-01, 13:02
Among landscape and garden architects, Britons Lancelot “Capability” Brown and Gertrude Jekyll, joined by Americans Frederick Law Olmstead and Thomas Church, represent heights of accomplishments in their careers. ...
Three new books capture an era when Jews were (literally) on the same page
In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call the Jewish Bookshelf. On it sat “The Source” by James Michener, “Exodus” by Leon Uris, “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth, “This Is My God” by
Literary calendar for week of Dec. 1
MISSING GEORGE: Introducing “We Miss You, George Floyd,” a children’s picture book by Shannon Gibney about a little girl who finds comfort at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis after the murder in her neighborhood of Floyd. 7 p.m. Wednesday,
The House of Gazes by Daniele Mencarelli review – a slow-burn tale of lives on ...
A poet’s job in a children’s hospital relieves his depression in the Italian’s rewarding debut novel
