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Hans Zimmer’s piano teacher never thought his student would be one of the most successful composers in Hollywood. His pupil took lessons only for two weeks before his teacher gave up. As the story goes, he told Zimmer’s mother: “Either the boy goes or I do.” But the incident hardly left an impression on Hans Zimmer, six years old at the time. Now, around six decades later, the musician can look back at an illustrious career as one of the most famous film score composer in the world. Feelings through music Born on September 12, 1957 in Frankfurt Main, Hans Zimmer decided to…

South Korea’s government on Monday began taking steps to suspend the licenses of junior doctors still on strike, several days after its February 29 deadline for them to return to work passed.  Roughly 10,000 physicians walked out almost two weeks ago in a protest against government plans to drastically increase the annual medical student intake. The prolonged strike has led to the cancellation of treatments and surgeries, with the government raising its public health alert to its highest level in response. South Korean law permits the government to order medical professionals to end strike actions or risk suspension or even…

Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday, following several days of violence in the capital culminating in an attack on the country’s main penitentiary which left most of its inmates at large. It said a curfew would be enforced from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. through Wednesday in the Ouest region, which includes the capital Port-au-Prince, and added that both the state of the emergency and curfew periods could be extended. Police told to ‘use all legal means’  Haiti’s Economy Minister Patrick Michel Boisvert signed the government statement, deputizing for Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Security forces had “received orders to use…

A SpaceX rocket carrying a crew of three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut took off from Florida on Sunday night. The crew is heading to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six-month mission in Earth orbit. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endeavor was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral at 10:53 p.m. (0353 GMT Monday). It took about nine minutes for the capsule to settle into orbit as it prepared to dock with the ISS and relieve four other crew members. A first attempt to launch…

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley won her first contest in the Republican presidential nomination race in Washington D.C. on Sunday. Her triumph in the D.C. primary breaks rival Donald Trump’s sweep of the Republican presidential voting contests. In the US electoral system, voters head to the polls for either primaries or caucuses depending on the state they live, to elect a candidate for the presidential election. The presidential nominees are then declared during conventions held later in the year. The general election takes place on November 5.  Trump, Biden win Michigan primaries amid warning signsTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider…

A state of emergency has been declared in Haiti after violence in the capital led to two prison breaks as a major gang leader tries to oust the prime minister.The government decree follows a dramatic escalation in clashes over the weekend, which paralysed parts of Port-au-Prince and temporarily downed communications. Heavy gunfire has caused panic in recent days after calls by gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, a former police officer, for criminal groups to unite and overthrow Ariel Henry.In a bid to restore order, a curfew will apply from 6pm to 5am each day until Wednesday, which may be extended for…

Officials said the militaries of South Korea and the US began their computer-simulated commandpost training “Freedom Shield” and a variety of field exercises Monday, to counter North Korea’s saber-rattling.  What do we know about the military drills?  The joint military exercises are happening from March 4-14, and come as Pyongyang continues to develop its nuclear capabilities with missile and other weapons tests. It has twice the number of troops from both US and South Korea as compared to last year, in 48 rounds of combined field training, including live-firing, bombing, air assault and missile interception drills, said South Korea’s Joint…

A SpaceX rocket carrying a crew of three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut was launched into space from Florida on Sunday night. The crew is heading to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six-month mission in Earth orbit. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endeavor was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 GMT Sunday). This is a developing story. More to follow… tg/wd (AP, Reuters) Source link

Kamala Harris’s speech marked a shift in tone and maybe a subtle shift in language, but not much more than that. Yet the week ahead could still be critical.The vice president spoke of the situation in Gaza as “devastating… a humanitarian catastrophe” and she had some pointed messaging for Israel – “it must increase flow of aid, restore basic services – no excuses”.She echoed some of what President Joe Biden said on Friday when he called for “more routes to get more and more people the help they need. No excuses”.There was a tonal shift, but beyond that her speech did…

In a country like Ukraine, where entire cities are being bludgeoned to the ground, the human ramifications are so vast that they often overwhelm the ability of journalists to describe them. Instead, we rely on numbers – numbers, for example, from the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine which reports that 10,582 civilians have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale attack.We quote statistics from the Office of the President of Ukraine, which says 529 children have died as a result of the fighting since February 2022.It was in the city of Kharkiv, however, that I was confronted by…