Month: April 2019

A warplane has attacked the only functioning airport in Tripoli as fighting between forces loyal to the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar and rival militias escalated and EU foreign ministers met in Brussels to try to de-escalate the violence. Mitiga airport, in an eastern suburb of the capital, was closed after it was hit in an…

John Oliver continued to call out big business greed in seemingly mundane American industries – robocalling, show wrestling – on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight with a look at one of the country’s few affordable housing industries: mobile homes. According to federal housing surveys, around 20 million Americans – roughly one in 18 – live in…

My wife of 30 years and I are separated (but still live in the same flat) and own a very successful business together. About nine years ago, we had a massive row and she told me she didn’t love me. I am quite a dominant person, but my mother had dementia and my wife had…

Now that, Virginia, is the way to close out a season. Led by De’Andre Hunter and his NBA-ready game, the Cavaliers turned themselves into national champions Monday night, holding off tenacious, ferocious Texas Tech for an 85-77 overtime win – a scintillating victory that came 388 days after a crushing setback that might have sunk…

The European court of human rights has ruled that Russia violated the rights of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny by placing him under house arrest in 2014 and imposing other restrictive measures. Navalny was held under house arrest for months from February 2014 while he and his brother Oleg were investigated for embezzlement in a…

The United States has designated Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization, Donald Trump said on Monday, marking the first time Washington has formally named a branch of the armed forces of a foreign government as a terrorist group. In a statement, Trump said this unprecedented step, “recognizes the reality that Iran is…

The adulation which poured down after the final whistle as Eden Hazard, almost sheepishly, clapped his thanks to all sides of the arena was a recognition of one man’s brilliance. His had been a virtuoso display, played out to gasps of disbelief from stands, dug-outs and opposing ranks alike. It might have been tempting to…

A prominent awards show for indigenous music in Canada has been plunged into turmoil after a group of Inuit performers accused a Cree folk singer of cultural appropriation. Several well-known Inuit singers have cut ties with the Indigenous Music awards (IMA), an annual show due to held in Winnipeg on 17 May, over the nomination…

Felicity Huffman has agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions cheating scandal, the biggest celebrity name so far to admit to her involvement in the scheme. Court documents made public on Monday show that 12 other prominent parents, in addition to Huffman, will also plead guilty in the case. The actor, 56, was accused…

Travelling the international film festival circuit, as I do, can be both a thrilling privilege and a source of frustration. On the one hand, seeing a flood of wonderful, adventurous films from all corners of the globe is a great perk of the job, as is contributing to early critical dialogue around them that boosts…