Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players, has passed away at the age of 73. The Indian classical music icon died of the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at a San Francisco hospital, his family said in a statement. Hussain was a four-time Grammy Award winner and has received the Padma Vibhushan, India’s…
Rights monitors in the United States have hailed the US Justice Department’s indictment of two military officers accused of monitoring torture and ill-treatment as part of the ousted regime of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The indictment was unsealed on Monday, just a day after opposition groups entered Damascus and ousted al-Assad, charging former Syrian…
getty images Changes to the law are being considered to completely ban the use of three specific pesticides that harm bees. The government has said that the emergency use of three pesticides that can be fatal for bees will soon be stopped forever. Neonicotinoids were banned in 2018, but sugar beet farmers have been given…
Overall, buzzball is all about batting. It is the area of the England team that causes the most vocal debate. Destructive at their best, the collective failures of England’s batsmen have led to their most devastating defeats. Take Ben Duckett, for example. He is the first England opening batsman since Alastair Cook in 2016 to…
Time magazine has chosen Donald Trump as Person of the Year for the second time. “For a comeback of historic proportions, for leading a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency, and for transforming America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year are,” Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs said…
getty images Prosecutors said Carlos Watson orchestrated a years-long scheme that resulted in investors losing “millions of dollars” OG Media founder Carlos Watson has been sentenced to nearly a decade in prison for lying about his once-trendy start-up to attract investors. Prosecutors said the former Goldman Sachs banker and former MSNBC host orchestrated a years-long…
getty images Craig Wright to appear at the London High Court in February 2024 A computer scientist has been found guilty of contempt of court for falsely and persistently claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin. in March, High Court ruled Craig Wright was not Satoshi, and ordered him to stop claiming…
Here are the key developments on the 1,020th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. This is the situation as of Tuesday, December 10: military President Volodymyr Zelensky issued orders to increase funding to equip Ukraine’s brigades with new drones. “We have recently approved a decision regarding the amount of such direct funding. But now I see…
pa media The Princess of Wales enlisted the help of recently widowed Lady Gabriella Windsor in planning her Westminster Abbey carol service this year. Lady Gabriella, whose husband Thomas Kingston took his own life in February, helped choose which musical acts would appear at the annual Together at Christmas event. The BBC understands that King…
