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Annie Nightingale, who became the first female disc jockey on BBC Radio 1 in 1970 and remained a popular personality there until her final show, late last year, died on Jan. 11 at her home in London. She was 83.Her family announced the death in a statement but did not cite a cause.“This is the woman who changed the face and sound of British TV and radio broadcasting forever,” Annie Mac, a longtime BBC Radio D.J., wrote on Instagram after Ms. Nightingale’s death.Ms. Nightingale became well known in music circles in the 1960s as a columnist in British newspapers. And…

For the sixth time in 10 days, the United States on Friday said it had destroyed Houthi missiles in Yemen that were poised to attack merchant and military vessels in the Red Sea, a pattern of strikes that the White House says will continue for the foreseeable future to weaken the militia group.The U.S. military hit three Houthi missiles and launchers, John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters on Friday. He did not say what weapons the United States had deployed in the attack, but previous strikes have used cruiser missiles and munitions dropped by…

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza started bonfires that partially blocked traffic on a major highway in Tel Aviv on Friday morning, in a sign of growing frustration over the government’s failure to bring the remaining hostages home.Police officers detained seven protesters who had “participated in disorderly conduct and unlawful behavior,” questioned and then released them, the police said in a statement. The police quickly cleared the highway and restored the flow of traffic before the start of the Israeli weekend.The Hostage and Missing Families Forum, the main group advocating for the hostages’ return, said it had…

It happened again. Of course it is.Two tennis players battled from midnight until sunrise in front of a crowd of fans, with a group of teenagers chasing the ball around four in the morning. Last year, Andy Murray dueled with Thanasi Kokkinakis until the night sky started to light up around 4am.From Thursday to Friday, it’s Russia’s Daniil Medvedev and Finland’s Emil Ruusuvuori is performing a tennis version of 2am jazz. “I’m not going to stay,” Medvedev accepted after coming back from two sets down to defeat Rusuvori 3-6, 6-7(1), 6-4, 7-6(1). said in an interview. 6-0. Judging from the…

“I was pleasantly surprised at how much chemistry we had,” she said.After they each spent a rainy New Year’s Eve with friends the next evening, she stopped by his new apartment in Hancock Park to celebrate with Champagne. They soon began dating exclusively.“How much time would you like to spend together?” she asked a few weeks later. His reply: “As much as possible,” to which she said, “How about every night?”So they broke their leases and moved into a three-bedroom apartment in West Hollywood together in late April.“It made our relationship better and stronger,” he said.On Dec. 1, 2023, he…

When Jan Sramek walked into the American Legion post in Rio Vista, Calif., for a town-hall meeting last month, everyone in the room knew that he was really just there to get yelled at.For six years a mysterious company called Flannery Associates, which Mr. Sramek controlled, had upended the town of 10,000 by spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buy every farm in the area. Flannery made multimillionaires out of some owners and sparked feuds among others. It sued a group of holdouts who had refused its above-market offers, on the grounds that they were colluding for more.The…

‘Tropic’Rent or buy it on Vudu or Microsoft.We are in the near future and the European space agency is preparing to launch a mission that will last years if not decades — a length that means filling it with a young crew. Teenage twins Lázaro (Pablo Cobo) and Tristán (Louis Peres) are training together for spots in the program. They are equally dedicated, but the confident Tristán is doing just a little better than his brother. Just as you settle for “Space Academy: The Early Years,” director Edouard Salier makes a sharp turn.One night, a strange green object — a…

Zvi Zamir, who as the director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency led a violent campaign to crush Palestinian terrorism after 11 Israelis were killed at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics — and who a year later relayed a warning to his government that Egypt and Syria were about to start the Yom Kippur War but was not taken seriously — died on Jan. 2. He was 98.His death was announced by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement did not say where he died.“Zamir led a determined and initiative-taking approach in the State of Israel’s fight against Palestinian…

In the summer of 2025, after Manchester City’s acquittal via appeal on 115 charges of breaching the Premier League’s financial regulations, the league’s clubs voted to abolish their discredited Profit and Sustainability Rules, the set of guidelines created years earlier in the failed hope they might prevent teams from spending themselves — and everyone else — into ruin.The decision brought an end to more than a year of increasingly bitter infighting among the league’s members, and even the final vote was hardly unanimous. Six teams lobbied furiously to retain the cost controls, though that number did not include City or…

Josh Radnor and Jordana Jacobs were married outdoors this month, amid a snowstorm, with their 164 snow-drenched guests shivering in the 20-degree evening air, as Dr. Jacobs read a 10-minute monologue about her beloved, and Mr. Radnor responded with a 10-minute soliloquy.No strangers to extraordinary circumstances, the couple fell for each other while tripping on mushrooms.It was February 2022, and Dr. Jacobs, a clinical psychologist, and Mr. Radnor, an actor and musician, were at a sound meditation retreat held in upstate New York, along with about 30 other people. There, they ingested a psychedelic mixture before lying on the floor…