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Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood's first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, died Thursday evening in the Bahamas.
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A volcano on a Galapagos island that is home to a species of critically endangered lizard has erupted for the second time in seven years, national park officials said Friday. The Wolf volcano's slopes host the pink iguana, only 211 of which were reported to be left on Isabela, the largest island in the Galapagos archipelago, as of last August.
Source: france24.com
The Golden Globes will be a private event this year with no live-stream, organisers said, as they prepare to hold a pared-down ceremony on Sunday with no celebrity red carpet following controversy last year. Dramas "The Power of the Dog" and "Belfast" lead nominations with seven nods each, and winners will be announced online.
Source: reuters.com
Spain will consider a pet's welfare when couples divorce or break-up from Wednesday in a legal shift that strengthens the case for couples obtaining shared custody of their animals. The decision follows similar moves in France and Portugal and obliges judges to consider pets as sentient beings rather than objects owned by one or the other partner, a trend that was already underway before the law was passed.
Source: cnn.com
Two journalists in Haiti were killed Thursday by a gang operating on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince, as the country endures an ongoing security crisis six months after the assassination of its president. Wilguens Louissaint and Amady John Wesley were killed in a shooting, Radio Ecoute FM told AFP. A third journalist, who was with them at the time, escaped.
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who is thirty years younger than the star. Nicolas Cage and fifth wife Riko Shibata have revealed they are expecting a baby. It will be the Hollywood star's third child after sons Ka-El Coppola, 16, and Weston Coppola, 31, from previous relationships.
Source: the-sun.com
For the fifth year in a row, the Mediterranean diet was first across the finish line in the annual race for best diet, according to ratings announced Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.
Source: cnn.com
A Turkish couple have been left stunned after their 'stillborn' baby boy began crying just moments before he was due to be buried in a cemetery. Melek Sert, 32, and her husband Hasan Sert, 34, had been left heartbroken when doctors at the Yuregir State Hospital in Adana, told them their baby had not survived delivery. The child, born at just five months on January 2, was even given a death certificate by medics, who believed the mother had had a miscarriage. The tiny boy was rushed back to hospital where he is now fighting for his life.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against describing the Omicron variant as mild, saying it is killing people across the world. Recent studies suggest that Omicron is less likely to make people seriously ill than previous Covid variants. But the record number of people catching it has left health systems under severe pressure, said WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Source: bbc.com
French regulators have hit Google and Facebook with 210 million euros ($237 million) in fines over their use of "cookies", the data used to track users online, authorities said Thursday.
Source: france24.com
A total of 125 passengers who arrived in the northern Indian city of Amritsar on a chartered flight from Italy have tested positive for Covid-19. They will be placed in isolation, health officials said. They were among 179 passengers on the flight from Milan which landed in Amritsar on Wednesday afternoon.
Source: bbc.com
A new tree species has been named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a tribute to the Hollywood star's anti-logging campaigning, London's Royal Botanic Gardens announced Thursday. The evergreen with large yellowish-green flowers, which was found in Cameroon's Ebo forest, was the first new species to be officially named in 2022 by botanists from the renowned gardens in the London borough of Kew. The tree's scientific name is Uvariopsis dicaprio.
Source: france24.com
The 64th annual Grammy Awards Show due to be held in the US later this month has been postponed due to coronavirus, organisers have said. The event, which is regarded as music's biggest night, was scheduled to take place on 31 January in Los Angeles. It will happen on a future date to be announced soon, organisers said.
Source: bbc.com
A dog saved a hiker injured in the Croatian mountains by lying on top of him for 13 hours until they were rescued, according to local media. The dog, called North, kept Grga Brkic warm after he fell while out hiking and was unable to move. The other two hikers with him were unable to reach them, so they raised the alarm. First responders credited the eight-month-old Alaskan Malamute with having helped keep Brkic safe.
Source: theguardian.com
France is allowing health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients rather than self-isolate, an extraordinary stopgap measure aimed at easing staff shortages at hospitals and other facilities caused by an unprecedented explosion in cases.
Source: apnews.com
North Korea has said that Wednesday’s missile test was a hypersonic weapon and that it successfully hit its target. The launch, detected by Japan and South Korea, was the first since October and the second of a hypersonic missile, despite a United Nations ban on such activity.
Source: aljazeera.com
World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic's entry to Australia has been delayed over an issue with his visa. The player arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday, where authorities noticed that his team had made a mistake on his application. Djokovic is due to play in the Australian Open, after being exempted from vaccination rules. But his team had not requested a visa that permits medical exemptions for being unvaccinated.
Source: bbc.com
The Duchess of Sussex will receive £1 in damages from Associated Newspapers after the Mail on Sunday was found to have invaded her privacy. The nominal sum was set out in court documents which formally confirm the newspaper has accepted defeat. The Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter the duchess sent to her father Thomas Markle in 2018.
Source: bbc.com
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