TEHRANΒ βΒ Iranians β battered by a government crackdown whose dead have yet to be fully tallied, still reeling from the 12-day conflict with Israel last year and fed up with endemic economic malaise born of sanctions and corruption β now face the prospect of another war with emotions ranging from anger to anticipation, but above all,…
ASOS has paid tribute to its co-founder after he died in a fall from the balcony of his apartment in Thailand. Quentin Griffiths fell from the 17th floor of the apartment block in the seaside resort city of Pattaya on 9 February, Thai have police said. Police said initial investigations suggest there are no indications…
Director Sang-il Lee sets his epic-scaled βKokuhoβ in the vivid world of kabuki theater, but itβs not just the movieβs milieu that distinguishes it. Spanning 50 years and running nearly three hours, βKokuho,β which has become Japanβs biggest live-action hit ever, evinces intensely mixed feelings about its two main charactersβ quest for greatness. Kabuki is…
The Football Association has spoken to Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe to remind him of his responsibilities as a participant in English football, Sky News understands. The intervention from football’s governing body follows Sir Jim’s comments about immigration. The founder of the INEOS chemicals group told Sky News that Britain had been “colonised” by…
One of the toughest decisions for Jared Honig came three years ago. Heβs a Granada Hills High graduate and was a teacher and girlsβ basketball coach at his alma mater βforever.β But he and his wife lived in Santa Clarita and just had a third child. So when the Valencia High girlsβ basketball coaching job…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) endorsed former Rep. Katie Porter, her protege and former Harvard Law School student, for California governor on Thursday. βFrom the moment Katie set foot in my consumer law class, I knew that she would be a warrior for working families,β Warren said in a statement, citing Porterβs work on the foreclosure…
For this week’s Savings Guide, we have a special edition with Mark Chicken, a chartered financial planner at The Private Office, looking at how you can save your child from university debt… For parents with young children, university can feel a very long way off. But with graduates in England facing up to 40 years…
βStrip Law,β a new cartoon premiering Friday, finds Netflix in an Adult Swim state of mind, which is to say there was no thought of it being made for everybody. (Possibly including some of the people it was made for.) Itβs rude, lewd, surreal in a banal sort of way, at times ridiculously violent β…
More money than ever has been left over in the public finances due to more tax being paid, official figures show. January had the biggest budget surplus since records began in 1993, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It meant the government received more money than it spent last month, leaving…
The roars were back at The Riv on Thursdayβ¦ and so was the rain. After a four-birdie spree on the back nine, Englishman Aaron Rai vaulted into the lead at six-under-par through 16 holes before the horn sounded to suspend play at 5:41 p.m. He and 29 others will finish their first rounds when play…