Osama bin Laden wife to leave Pakistan for Yemen | Osama bin Laden

 Posted on April 21, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  709 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Osama bin Laden This article is more than 12 years oldOsama bin Laden wife to leave Pakistan for YemenThis article is more than 12 years oldAmal Ahmed al-Sadah, 29, expected to return home after being held by security services since US raid on compoundOsama bin Laden's youngest wife is expected to leave Pakistan for her homeland, Yemen, within days. Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, 29, has been held by security services since US special forces killed Bin Laden, whom she married in 1999. [Read More]

Ronnie Knight obituary | Crime

 Posted on April 21, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  772 words  |  Brenda Moya

CrimeObituaryRonnie Knight obituaryLondon nightclub owner and criminal who helped fellow crooks evade justice on the ‘Costa del Crime’ in SpainRonnie Knight, the former London club owner, wide boy, convicted criminal and ex-husband of the actor Barbara Windsor, played as big a part as anyone in establishing the south of Spain as the “Costa del Crime”. For many years he acted as an unofficial consul for British criminals seeking a home away from the bothersome gaze of the police. [Read More]

Cred shock: Tommy Lee left fuming by Australian cigarette prices | Health

 Posted on April 20, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  640 words  |  Delta Gatti

Health This article is more than 2 months oldCrüed shock: Tommy Lee left fuming by Australian cigarette pricesThis article is more than 2 months oldAsked to pay $62.99 for a pack due to the country’s high tobacco taxes, Mötley Crüe drummer expresses displeasure on Instagram with middle finger emoji The Mötley Crüe drummer, Tommy Lee, has given Australian cigarette prices the middle finger on social media after finding out just how much a packet of smokes costs from a 7-Eleven in Melbourne. [Read More]

I thought I was dead: Pakistan cable car survivors describe 16-hour ordeal

 Posted on April 20, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  898 words  |  Brenda Moya

PakistanSix children and two adults were rescued on Tuesday after being left hanging hundreds of metres in the air Attaullah, 16, was travelling to school on Tuesday to collect his exam results, using a cable car to cross the ravine from his village – as he had done many times before. But when a cable broke and left him, five other children and two adults hanging precariously in the air hundreds of metres above a steep gorge, he said he had no hope he would survive. [Read More]

Its been a year since Ive been close to a strangers mouth can I recover from Zoom fa

 Posted on April 20, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2649 words  |  Christie Applegate

Ruth OzekiOur features have been obscured by masks, or viewed on screens, for months. We may never look at ourselves in the same way again, writes novelist Ruth Ozeki Last April, I ran into a neighbour on the street. This was not a person I knew well, just someone I used to see from my window, walking masked around the neighbourhood during that first locked-down winter of the pandemic. But by spring 2021, the dangers seemed to be subsiding. [Read More]

Losing ground: how one New Orleans community is sinking | New Orleans

 Posted on April 20, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1375 words  |  Christie Applegate

A 2016 Nasa study identified groundwater use from Entergy’s decommissioned Michoud power plant as the primary cause for the sinking. Photograph: Julie Dermansky for FloodlightWhile land is subsiding throughout the city, industrial water use has exacerbated the problem in one predominantly Black and Vietnamese area by Sara Sneath for FloodlightFloodlight embedIn the early 1990s, James Wright lost his family home in New Orleans’ Ninth ward when a new school was built on his block. [Read More]

Sarah Snook to play Dorian Gray as hit Australian production heads to Londons West End | Theatre

 Posted on April 20, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  383 words  |  Brenda Moya

Australian arts in focusTheatre This article is more than 6 months oldSarah Snook to play Dorian Gray as hit Australian production heads to London’s West EndThis article is more than 6 months oldThe Succession star will take over role from actor Eryn Jean Norvill in The Picture of Dorian Gray, which toured Australia to sell-out audiences Succession star Sarah Snook will headline the Sydney Theatre Company’s acclaimed one-woman adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray when it makes its West End debut early next year. [Read More]

The 2023 Great British Bake Off contestants ranked!

 Posted on April 20, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1163 words  |  Christie Applegate

The Great British Bake OffCheer up – Bake Off is just days away! We rate this year’s batch of contestants, from the pet therapist to the veg grower and … the Terminator? The 14th series of The Great British Bake Off is now only days away. And for a show that prides itself on consistency, a few things have changed this year. Alison Hammond is now a presenter, and hopefully the show won’t cause as much of an international racism furore as it did last year. [Read More]

400-year-old dress found in shipwreck sheds light on plot to pawn crown jewels | Netherlands

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  615 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

The well preserved dress was found in a shipwreck by divers off the Dutch island of Texel. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty ImagesThe well preserved dress was found in a shipwreck by divers off the Dutch island of Texel. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty ImagesNetherlands This article is more than 7 years old400-year-old dress found in shipwreck sheds light on plot to pawn crown jewelsThis article is more than 7 years oldDress was lost when part of a royal fleet sank in bad weather crossing from Dover to the Netherlands in 1642 [Read More]

Dirt by Bill Buford review unstinting and endlessly curious

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  897 words  |  Delta Gatti

Book of the dayAutobiography and memoirReviewBuford returns to his love affair with cooking in this engaging, if garrulous, account of working in a top Lyon restaurant It has taken Bill Buford a long time to give us Dirt. His last book, Heat, which detailed his macho adventures in the Italian kitchen, came out in 2006. But then, as he admits, timing is hardly his thing. If (eventually) he can learn how to rustle up moules à la poulette, a tricky dish involving a sauce made from the jus of sautéed mussels and an egg yolk that a split second either way may ruin, this has no effect whatsoever on other clock-related activities. [Read More]