A new expanded edition of Maia Kobabeβs award-winning graphic memoir βGender Queerβ will be released next year. Oni Press has announced that βGender Queer: The Annotated Editionβ will be available in May. The special hardcover edition of the seminal LGBTQ+ coming of age memoir includes commentary by Kobabe as well as other comic creators and…
A court has thrown out a Β£50m compensation claim against the Scottish government over its doomed deposit return scheme. Waste management firm Biffa won a contract as part of plans to bring in the scheme, and later took ministers to court when the initiative was shelved. Biffa had been seeking Β£51.4m in damages at the…
Britain’s wealth gap is growing and it’s now practically impossible for a typical worker to save enough to become rich, according to a report. Analysis by The Resolution Foundation, a left-leaning think tank, found it would take average earners 52 years to accrue savings that would take them from the middle to the top of…
Itβs time for Mira Costa to try to wipe away the disappointing memory from last seasonβs Southern Section Division 1 girlsβ beach volleyball final, where the Mustangs lost to Redondo Union 3-2. Mira Costa faces JSerra at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Long Beach City College in this seasonβs championship game. Key returnees for Mira Costa…
PARISΒ βΒ Thereβs a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler FranΓ§ois Villon: βWhere are the snows of yesteryear?β Theyβre right here, in high summer, on Parisβ oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, where an enormous art installation, a trompe lβoeil inflatable snow-clad mountain range, has arisen…
The Bank of England has cut the interest rate for the fifth time in a year to 4% but warned that climbing food prices will cause inflation to jump higher in 2025. In a tight decision that saw members of the rate-setting committee vote twice to break a deadlock, the Bank cut the rate to…
EDMONTON, CanadaΒ βΒ Jason Hills grew up in a rural hamlet in southern Alberta so small there were no traffic lights. Which wasnβt a problem because there wasnβt any traffic either. But there was a curling rink. βThere was nothing else really to do,β Hills said. βSo if you werenβt curling youβd go hang out at the…
As young men flinched and gasped around me at the Los Angeles premiere of βObsession,β I almost had to laugh. A slight head tilt, creepy smile or strange movement from star Inde Navarrette was enough to make them jump, and I had the realization that the most terrifying thing for a young man these days…
The advisory firm founded by Lord Mandelson is on the verge of being placed in administration, a member of staff has told Sky News. Global Counsel (GC), which severed its connection to the former government minister and ambassador to the US earlier this month amid his association with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, employs…
Chinese authorities said they arrested a Northern California scholar earlier this month, accusing him of espionage and endangering national security. U Min Zin was taken into custody on June 3 at Kunming Changshui International Airport in Yunnan Province, southwestern China, according to a New York Times report. Details about the arrest are still unknown. Min…