"A customer became verbally aggressive during a routine refund and escalated to making explicit threats of violence, including threats to kill our staff."
Passengers can be at ease while travelling on Canadian carriers, some of the country's major airlines say, after a new study claims many U.S. airlines are using "potentially unhealthy water" for coffee, tea and hand-washing. Read More
Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London There’s no escape from the torments of the past in this show, which celebrates the German artist at his most Wagnerian, enchanting and sickening you simultaneously
Born in 1921, Joseph Beuys was the “perfect” age to fight for Hitler and he did, with the wounds to prove it. The Andy Warhol portraits that complement this exhibition, without actually being part of it, brutally catch his gaunt, ravaged face in the glare of a photo flash under the hat he wore to hide burns sustained in a plane crash while serving in the Luftwaffe. The most haunting portrait turns Beuys into a spectral negative image, all darkness and shadow, his eyes wounded, guilty, lost. This was in the 1970s when Beuys was a charismatic one-man artistic revolution, inspiring young Germans to plant trees, lecturing about flows of ecological and human energy – and, in breathtaking performances, speaking to a dead hare or spending a week locked in a cage with a coyote.
All that remains today of those actions, protests and performances are posters, preserved scrawls on blackboards and mesmerising videos. Yet the moment Beuys disappeared – he died in 1986 – his solid, material sculptures took over. He believed passionately in flow and flux, promoting an animist vision of humanity and the cosmos. When he stopped talking and acting, entropy gripped his art, making it a static, slumped set of dead objects. And all the greater for it.
The Long Island judge in charge of the notorious Gilgo Beach serial murder case blew his stack on Tuesday – berating lawyers for accused killer Rex Heuermann for dragging their feet.
Iran’s death toll from ongoing protests may be in the thousands, say activist groups, as U.S. President Donald Trump is urging Iranians to continue demonstrations against the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Read More
Actor and director Timothy Busfield allegedly admitted to police that it was “highly likely” he touched kids on the New Mexico set of “The Cleaning Lady,” explaining how there were no specific rules regarding physical contact with children on the show. The “West Wing” star was questioned by Officer Marvin Brown over whether he had...
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Yoon is on trial for insurrection charges, after trying to declare martial law in late 2024
South Korean prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, in the first insurrection trial of a Korean head of state in three decades.
Prosecutors characterised the case as the “serious destruction of constitutional order by anti-state forces”, telling Seoul central district court that Yoon had “directly and fundamentally infringed upon the safety of the state and the survival and freedom of the people”.
Hired as a systems coach, the manager was undermined at a club where players – and Florentino Pérez – call the shots
Pep Guardiola sat in the press room at the Santiago Bernabéu and told Xabi Alonso to do it his way but around here, he knows, it tends not to work out like that, which is precisely why he said so. Saying it is one thing, doing it another, doing it successfully something else entirely, and a month and day after being offered that advice, handed that defence, Alonso was gone. On Monday afternoon, not long after landing from Saudi Arabia, a meeting was held at Valdebebas and then came the statement, short and unsentimental. He was a “legend” as a player, but no longer coach at Real Madrid.
Alonso is the 11th manager to last less than a year in two decades under the president, Florentino Pérez. He had begun work only seven months before, and that was earlier than he intended. It had started with the Club World Cup in the US, his first big decision to accept the demand to take over sooner than he wanted, and it ended with the Spanish Super Cup in Jeddah, where it was an open secret that final judgment awaited. For a month it had been impossible to avoid the feeling of a manager on borrowed time, especially for the manager himself, exposed and undermined, and you cannot go on like that. There will be hurt pride, regret, but release too.
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