“They propose that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day’s pay, and their company should own that scan of their image, their likeness, and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity,”
This was not a fit of undiplomatic pique, but rather candid advice from a supportive ally. He was saying that Ukraine should do more to understand better the political pressures constraining countries giving them military aid, especially the United States. Turning up
Charles Manson, considered one of America’s most notorious cult leaders, directed his followers to commit nine murders and hoped the killings would start a race war, called “Helter Skelter” after a famous song by the Beatles. He died in prison in 2017.
A huge metal construction girder has fallen onto a busy road in Bangkok, killing at least one person and critically injuring several more. Rescue workers rushed to the scene to search for survivors from crushed cars and damaged buildings. The girder was
In August last year, a knife-wielding assailant stormed a kindergarten in the south-eastern Jiangxi province, killing three people and wounding six others.In April 2021, two children died while 16 others were injured during a mass stabbing in Beiliu City, in Guangxi Zhuang
Chris Hipkins said the weapons were “indiscriminate, they cause huge damage to innocent people, potentially, and they can have a long-lasting effect as well”. The White House had been made aware of New Zealand’s opposition to the use of cluster bombs in
More than 100 countries, including the UK, France and Germany, have signed an international treaty – the Convention on Cluster Munitions – that outlaws the use or stockpiling of these weapons due to their indiscriminate effect on civilian populations.
Depression, or any mental illness, has long carried stigma in Chinese society. The Chinese word for mental illness, ‘jingshen bing’ sounds similar to a derogatory term for a mad person, ‘shenjing bing’, and people who have mental health issues would always be
They clamber over rubble, take photos on their phones of the wreckage and compare experiences, pointing out which homes were raided, whose sons have been detained, and where the dead fell. One man walks up to me saying it reminds him of
“Israel is internationally recognised as the occupying power over our land and people,” he tweeted. “[It] should be condemned for its use of force to destroy the camp’s infrastructure, facilities, and homes, and to kill, arrest, and displace innocent people.”