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Sean Connery, the whiskey-voiced son of Scotland who brought James Bond to the screen for the first time and went on to lead a long and celebrated acting career, died on Saturday (October 31). He was 90. The BBC reported that the actor passed peacefully in his sleep after being “unwell for some time,” according to his […]
Oct 28th 2020 NEW YORK, SÃO PAULO AND SINGAPORE WHEN KAMPALA went into covid-19 lockdown, singletons in the Ugandan capital were looking for “lockdown partners”, says Allan Creed, who works in digital marketing. He and his friends couldn’t get to their local shops to buy contraceptives. Mr Creed has been relying on free condoms doled […]
Oct 25th 2020 SOMETIME AROUND the middle of the 19th century, Maria Sutton Clemments worked as a slave on an Arkansas cotton plantation. Years later she remembered one typically vicious overseer. If her fellow slaves “didn’t chop that cotton just right,” she recounted, “he would have them tied up to a stake or big sapling […]
Oct 24th 2020 GAMPO-EUP, HONIARA AND KAOHSIUNG For more coverage of climate change, register for The Climate Issue, our fortnightly newsletter, or visit our climate-change hub FOR SOME years wooden fishing boats, from another time as much as from another place, have been washing up on the western shores of Japan’s main island. Now numbering […]
By Sara Radin Low-rise, boot-cut jeans adorned with paisley embroidery and studs; candy-colored halter tops; ombré-tinted sunglasses dotted with glittering rhinestone hearts. These are just a few of the iconic, Y2K pieces that make up the ass-kicking wardrobe of McG’s 2000 take on Charlie’s Angels. Small details, like stitching and tapering, were key to telling […]
Oct 19th 2020 FOR THE industry’s critics, it is a scandal that exposes exactly what they have been warning about. Many people have an almost instinctive distaste for the business in selling long-term-residence rights in a country or even citizenship there for cash, usually in the form of an authorised investment. So a documentary this […]
Oct 17th 2020 ALMATY, ISTANBUL, KAMPALA, MEXICO CITY AND SÃO PAULO PEOPLE WERE hungry during lockdown. So Francis Zaake, a Ugandan member of parliament, bought some rice and sugar and had it delivered to his neediest constituents. For this charitable act, he was arrested. Mr Zaake is a member of the opposition, and Uganda’s President […]
Devolved decision-making helps; but tensions between tiers of government are inevitable International Oct 12th 2020 SPEAKING IN PARLIAMENT on October 12th, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, grappled with a problem facing countries across the world: how to contain a resurgence of the coronavirus, without imposing a national lockdown. Like other governments, his has responded so […]
Oct 10th 2020 UNTIL THIS year many New Yorkers had never heard of Hart Island, where the city’s unclaimed dead are buried. Then, in the midst of the pandemic, video of contractors digging long trenches there went viral. Around 120 bodies were sent to the tiny islet every week, as burial grounds and crematoriums struggled […]
In a hungry world, the WFP is more needed than ever; and it is short of cash International Oct 9th 2020 IN A TYPICAL year, one or two people might win the Nobel Peace prize. This year, 17,000 did. That is the number of employees at the World Food Programme, which was declared the winner […]