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Police arrested about 150 protesters at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University and New York University on Monday night, while Columbia University announced that classes would be held remotely for the remainder of the semester as anger boiled over at major U.S. campuses.Authorities arrested at least 47 protesters on the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut, on Monday night, the university said in a statement. Students arrested will be subject to disciplinary action.Hundreds of people, including hunger strikers, protested on Yale University’s campus, demanding the university divest from military weapons manufacturers and other companies with ties to Israel. Yale said it…

Baby Reindeer was only released a little over a week ago, and already it has become a sensation. Richard Gadd’s adaptation of his 2019 Edinburgh festival one-man show, which in turn was a dramatisation of the ordeals he had been through at the hands of a stalker and a powerful abuser respectively, has not only been the most watched Netflix show in the UK, but made the top 10 in 12 other countries.And quite right too, since it’s as gripping and queasy and uncomfortable a show as you’re ever likely to see. But unintended consequences can come with success. The…

LeBron James is furious after the Los Angeles Lakers watched a golden opportunity slip away.His frustration wasn’t about losing a 20-point lead. Or maybe he misses his final 3-pointer, ultimately tying the game. Or Jamal Murray’s fadeaway buzzer-beater to help the Denver Nuggets beat the Lakers 101-99 in Game 2 of their first-round series on Monday night.After a second-half foul on Michael Porter Jr. was overturned, James instead pointed the finger at the NBA Replay Center in Secaucus, New Jersey. Porter was initially called for a foul after hitting D’Angelo Russell in the face, but the league overturned the call,…

Anne Hathaway has revealed that in the 2000s, producers on a film she was starring in required her to kiss a succession of potential co-stars.Speaking to V Magazine, the actor said that in the 2000s, “it was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test for chemistry. Which is actually the worst way to do it.”She continued: “I was told, ‘We have 10 guys coming today and you’re cast. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ Because I wasn’t excited. I thought…

Novak Djokovic has given the strongest indication yet that he may not replace former coach Goran Ivanisevic, choosing instead to spend the final stages of his career on his own.Djokovic split from long-time coach Ivanisevic late last month and has been going through a trial period with compatriot and former Serbian Davis Cup captain Nenad Zimonjic, who Joined him at the Monte Carlo Masters two weeks ago. However, the 24-time Grand Slam champion is yet to decide whether to make his appointment permanent. Speaking at the 25th annual Laureus World Sports Awards on Monday, he said he was weighing up…

Donald Trump is already in jail. He is pressed into confinement every weekday, except Wednesdays, beginning bright and early, no excuses, at 9.30 in the morning, in the dreary courtroom in Manhattan, where his impulse to mouth off wearies and worries his lawyers, and he must listen, for the first time since his father slapped him down, to an authority telling him to gag himself. He had more leeway when Fred Trump shipped the problem child to the New York military academy where Donald bullied his classmates.Trump’s required attendance in the courtroom as a criminal defendant is his first loss…

oxygenOn April 25, the 89th annual NFL Draft will kick off in Detroit, Michigan. As owners, general managers, coaches and scouts take a closer look at the top prospects preparing to make the jump from college to the pros, four quarterbacks are likely to be selected in the top 10 for the third time in history. In fact, for the first time ever, the first four picks could all be quarterbacks.This is partly due to the talent at the most important positions in gaming this year. Caleb Williams, the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner out of USC, is considered a generational…

Five people including a child have died in an attempt to cross the Channel near the town of Wimereux, south of Calais, French authorities have said.The prefect’s office in Pas-de-Calais said that around 5am on Tuesday morning, a small boat “carrying more than 110 people” had departed near the Plage des Allemands beach at Wimereux.“After at first hitting a sandbank, the boat had continued to sea,” the prefect’s office said.In a statement, the prefect’s office said there appeared to have been a movement of people in the overloaded boat which led to several victims.A provisional assessment reported five deaths, of…

The Taiwanese government has pledged to remove nearly 800 statues of Chiang Kai-shek.In 2018, the government established a transitional justice commission to investigate the rule of the former generalissimo, who served as president in China and Taiwan until his death in 1975. Thousands of statues.Cabinet official Shipu said in a speech at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan on Monday that the Ministry of Interior would quickly evacuate the 760 remaining. The pledge comes in response to criticism that the government is not moving quickly enough.Taiwan is dotted with statues of Chiang Kai-shek, and for years the government and society have debated what…

I’m a 41-year-old man and I have been married to my wife for 10 years. I have always been bisexual, but because I wanted a family (we have two young children) I turned a blind eye to my gay side. I thought I could keep it up for ever, but after hiding it for so long I developed insomnia and other ailments. A year ago I decided to explore my sexuality. After a few meet ups with random men, I met a man who is 20 years my senior and quickly fell in love. I am now in a loving…