Giorno: 19 Maggio 2022

Morto Vangelis, firmò la colonna sonora di ‘Blade runner’

Read More Il compositore greco Vangelis, nome d’arte di Vangelis Papathanassiou, è morto a 79 anni. A dare l’annuncio il primo ministro greco Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “Vangelis non è più tra noi – ha trittato il premier – il mondo ha perduto un artista internazionale”. Tra le sue opere anche alcune colonne sonore come quelle dei film Momenti di gloria, Blade […]

The unbearable conceit of false comparisons between Israel and America

Read More Next Thursday’s event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem has been circled in red ink for months on the calendars of every aspiring member of Israel’s right-wing intelligentsia. It’s the “Israeli Conservatism” conference where exponents of reining in the bloated public sector, the rapaciously activist court system and the radical progressives who […]

Tazné van Wyk murder trial: accused twin sister brought in as state witness

Read More Moyhdian Pangkaeker, the man accused of murdering eight-year-old Tazné van Wyk, claims that while he was in a minibus taxi with the child, he was assaulted and only heard the child scream as the attackers cut off her hand.  Tazné was found dead in a stormwater pipe outside Worcester, Western Cape, two weeks […]

Court hears text message irrelevant to Mkhwebane’s legal fortunes

Read More A text message public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane insists points to serious impropriety at the constitutional court was no cause to suspend the parliamentary section 194 impeachment inquiry she faces, counsel for the legislature argued Thursday. Advocate Andrew Breitenbach, the recipient of the message, told the high court that parliament did not gain any […]

Joshua Cohen’s ‘The Netanyahus’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Read More In recent years the prestigious Pulitzer Prize has been praised and lambasted for the unorthodox award recipients. Critics have branded recent winners in music and literature as “non-traditional”. With a 105-year-old history, the Pulitzer Prize (administered by Columbia University), announces winners every May on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of […]

Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks, dies aged 79

Read More Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, has died aged 79. His representatives said he died in hospital in France where he was being treated. Born Ev?ngelos Odyss?as Papathanass?ou in 1943, Vangelis won an Oscar for his 1981 […]

At least 25m people in UK to be offered Covid booster this autumn

Read More Millions of people in the UK will be offered further Covid booster shots in the autumn under draft guidance published by the government’s vaccine watchdog. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said another round of jabs would help protect the most vulnerable adults and frontline social care and health workers against severe […]