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K-pop and autocrats: jolt to democracy lays bare South Korea’s two sides
In the global battle for soft-power supremacy, a clear winner has emerged in recent years:
. Spearheaded by the boyband phenomenonBTS
, theKorean Wave
has turned a country that few knew much about into a cultural behemoth.But just days ago, as anticipation …
Digested week: style icon Daniel Craig and the king’s portrait hardly anybody wants
Monday
A man dies on the sidewalk at the hands of a masked gunman and much of the commentary around it is unsympathetic. While details of the killing of Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street this week are still emerging, the assumption is that his murder relates to his profession …
Bloody Sunday: ex-soldier pleads not guilty to double murder in Belfast trial
A former soldier accused of two murders on Bloody Sunday has pleaded not guilty as he was formally returned for trial after an attempt to get the case thrown out was refused.
Ex-paratrooper Soldier F, who cannot be identified, is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney when members …
Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe lead 2025 Aacta award nominations
Better Man
…Call for greener planning rules after M&S London redevelopment given go-ahead
Campaigners are calling for planning rules to be consider the environmental implications of knocking down buildings after a controversial redevelopment of Marks & Spencer’s historic store on London’s Oxford Street was
by the government.Save Britain’s Heritage said national policy should consider the …
Russia and Ukraine warily wait for Trump transition … and subsequent peace talks
Nobody knows when the talks will happen, or in what city. It is unclear who might be sitting at the table, or what format the discussion will take. But at some point in the coming months, the incoming US administration will likely attempt to negotiate an end to Russia’s war …
‘Slapping therapy’ healer jailed for gross negligence manslaughter of woman
Hongchi Xiao was sentenced to 15 years after a …
‘I’m loving it’: why so many English players feel the pull of French rugby
It is the matchday bus rides to his new club’s stadium that, for Will Collier, perfectly capture the parallel universe of French club rugby. “You can hear the fans when you’re still a minute away,” says the former Harlequins prop, one of the latest band of Premiership pros to relocate …
Mitchell Starc rules as pink-ball king for Australia in second Test with India
Sporting songs from the outer are usually dross, partly because they’re most often sung tunelessly by annoying drunks, and partly because they usually consist of one cringey couplet jammed with no consideration of cadence or metre into the scarcely heeded melodic line of a mid-tier radio hit. The few that …
Trump to attend Notre Dame reopening as Macron weathers political storm
The restored gothic spire of Notre Dame is to provide a dramatic backdrop for Donald Trump’s return to the geopolitical stage this weekend, as America’s president-elect will make his first visit to Europe since the US election to mingle with world leaders at an official reopening ceremony in Paris on …