Jude Bellingham fined 40,000 for referee remarks after Dortmund defeat | Borussia Dortmund

 Posted on May 14, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  275 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Borussia Dortmund This article is more than 2 years oldJude Bellingham fined €40,000 for referee remarks after Dortmund defeatThis article is more than 2 years oldMidfielder questioned appointment of Felix ZwayerBellingham accepts fine for ‘unsportsmanlike behaviour’Jude Bellingham has been fined €40,000 (£33,970) by the German Football Association (DFB) for comments about the referee Felix Zwayer after Borussia Dortmund’s Bundesliga defeat by Bayern Munich. The England international has been charged with “unsportsmanlike behaviour” and has accepted his punishment. [Read More]

Rapper Lil' Kim sentenced to a year and a day for lying about shootout | World news

 Posted on May 14, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  459 words  |  Delta Gatti

World newsRapper Lil' Kim sentenced to a year and a day for lying about shootoutThe rapper Lil' Kim was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison and fined $50,000 for lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends who were involved in a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station. Dressed in a blue trouser suit that was far more sober than the revealing outfits in which she performs, Lil' Kim became the first prominent female rap artist to go to jail owing to a fracas involving her entourage. [Read More]

The day I met Arthur, the dog who walked through the jungle to stay by me

 Posted on May 14, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2758 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

‘Even at a distance I could see that some of the mud was blood; he had bad wounds as well as dirt on him.’ Photograph: Krister Göransson‘Even at a distance I could see that some of the mud was blood; he had bad wounds as well as dirt on him.’ Photograph: Krister GöranssonDogsFor adventure racer Mikael Lindnord and Arthur the stray dog, it was friendship at first sight – so much so that Arthur followed him 100 miles in the forest [Read More]

Zizinho | | The Guardian

 Posted on May 14, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  713 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

ObituaryZizinhoBrazilian football star who was once idolised by PeléThomaz Soares da Silva, the footballer Zizinho, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was Pelé's childhood idol. Had the result of the 1950 World Cup final turned out differently, perhaps both players would be remembered equally. But Zizinho became a symbol of Brazil's unexpected 1950 defeat - a calamity that traumatised the nation. Even though Zizinho, a striker, was not personally blamed for Uruguay's 2-1 victory - that misfortune went to the goalkeeper, Barbosa, and the left back and left half - as the team's strongest personality he was one of its eternal reference points. [Read More]

Cate Blanchett reveals 'many' past relationships with women | Cate Blanchett

 Posted on May 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  453 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Cate Blanchett This article is more than 8 years oldCate Blanchett reveals 'many' past relationships with womenThis article is more than 8 years oldActor hints at lesbian experiences while promoting Carol, Todd Haynes’ period drama co-starring Blanchett and Rooney Mara as her younger lover Cate Blanchett has spoken about her “many” past relationships with women while promoting her new film, Carol, a lesbian love story co-starring Rooney Mara. In an interviewwith Variety magazine ahead of the film’s premiere at Cannes on 17 May, Blanchett was asked if playing the title role in the Todd Haynes-directed period drama was her first turn as a lesbian. [Read More]

Exposing Stalins famine in Ukraine archive, 1933

 Posted on May 13, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2002 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

From the Guardian archiveUkraineIn March 1933, the Guardian published a series of articles about the Holodomor, or ‘death by hunger’, that was unleashed on Ukraine as part of Stalin’s drive to collectivise farming across the Soviet Union In the spring of 1933, Malcolm Muggeridge, the Manchester Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, discovered the existence of widespread man-made famine in the Soviet Union. Travelling secretly through Ukraine and the North Caucasus, formerly the USSR bread basket, he was appalled at the scenes of mass starvation and piles of dead bodies. [Read More]

How Denmark's 'ghetto list' is ripping apart migrant communities | Migration

 Posted on May 13, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1514 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

This is EuropeMigrationHow Denmark's 'ghetto list' is ripping apart migrant communitiesCopenhagen and other cities are planning mass housing evictions in a ‘social experiment’ to encourage integration From the outside, Copenhagen’s Mjølnerparken housing estate is pretty unremarkable. Located just beyond the Danish capital’s hip Victorian tenement belt, this sturdy-looking complex of squat red-brick 1980s blocks surrounded by lawns seems quintessentially Scandinavian – green, tidy and even a little prim. The estate is nonetheless at the heart of a storm, shaken by a drastic set of policies that Danish media have called “the biggest social experiment of this century”. [Read More]

Italy blocks TikTok for certain users after death of girl allegedly playing 'choking' game | Italy

 Posted on May 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  489 words  |  Christie Applegate

Italy This article is more than 3 years oldItaly blocks TikTok for certain users after death of girl allegedly playing 'choking' gameThis article is more than 3 years oldProbe launched after girl’s sister reportedly told parents she had been ‘playing the blackout game’ before her death Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into the accidental death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly took part in a “blackout challenge” on the video-sharing network TikTok. [Read More]

That orange, it made me so happy: 50 poems to boost your mood

 Posted on May 13, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3310 words  |  Christie Applegate

PoetryHumour, beauty, solace ... the right poem can bring a ray of sunshine. Andrew Motion, Kayo Chingonyi, Tishani Doshi and other poets recommend the verses that lift their spirits Photograph: MacMillanBrian Bilston Poet and novelist 1) Hope Is the Thing With Feathers, Emily Dickinson 2) Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!], Frank O’Hara 3) Not My Best Side, UA Fanthorpe 4) Aimless Love, Billy Collins 5) Survivor, Roger McGough Poetry refreshes the parts that other words cannot reach and, like the little bird of Emily Dickinson’s Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, contains the strength to sustain us even in the “chillest land / And on the strangest sea”. [Read More]

The rise of period pants: are they the answer to menstrual landfill and womens prayers?

 Posted on May 13, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2291 words  |  Brenda Moya

MenstruationPreviously a niche, expensive product, period knickers are now readily available on the UK high street. Women explain why they are turning their backs on single-use pads and tampons It was December 2020 and Janet (not her real name), a 53-year-old IT consultant from Edinburgh, was doing her weekly shop in the Sainsbury’s closest to her house. In went the toilet roll, meat and vegetables. She wheeled her trolley on to the feminine hygiene aisle and saw a pair of period knickers. [Read More]