College basketball This article is more than 1 year oldAlabama’s Darius Miles supplied gun used in murder of young mother, say policeThis article is more than 1 year oldJamea Harris was shot dead near university campus at weekendLawyers for basketball player say he maintains his innocenceInvestigators say a University of Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder provided the gun used in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman, but another man fired the weapon.

Alex Ferguson This article is more than 3 months oldCathy Ferguson, wife of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex, dies aged 84This article is more than 3 months oldFerguson family confirm death in statementShe is survived by Sir Alex, three sons and 12 grandchildrenLady Cathy Ferguson, the wife of the former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and the woman he called his “bedrock”, has died at the age of 84.

Business This article is more than 1 month oldDiversity policies face ‘full-out attack’ in 2024, leading HR boss warnsThis article is more than 1 month oldPresident of the largest human resources organization in country says national shift following George Floyd’s 2020 murder is fading Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies within US companies will “come under full-out attack in 2024”, the president of the largest US human resources organization in the US has said.

The age of extinctionWild flowers This article is more than 1 year oldGiant orchids found growing wild in UK for first timeThis article is more than 1 year oldRange typically found in southern and central Europe is expanding north as climate warms Giant orchids that can reach a metre tall have officially been found growing wild in the UK for the first time, having become established hundreds of miles north of their native range in the Mediterranean.

MoviesReviewMade to resemble silent-era shockers, this black-and-white ghost story is no classic but offers a smart study of historical trauma Set in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic, this period Hungarian horror directed by Péter Bergendy is imbued with shades of black and grey, a monochromatic colour scheme designed to feel reminiscent of classic silent horror films. Returning from the first world war where he has endured a near-death experience, Tomás (Viktor Klem) swaps his guns for a camera as he takes a job as a post-mortem photographer, a carnivalesque gig where he poses and takes pictures of the dead for their loved ones.

30 Aug 202302.58 EDTWe’re pausing our coverage now but you can read our main report here, and the main updates so far below: Hurricane Idalia is forecast to reach “an extremely dangerous Category 4 intensity” with maximum sustained winds of at least 130 mph (209 kph) before it is predicted to slam into the Big Bend region on Florida’s Gulf Coast early Wednesday. It was packing sustained winds of 110mph at 12am EDT on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center, making it just 1mph shy of a Category 3 storm.

Music This article is more than 5 years oldWas that it? Why I mistook the Strokes' album cover for a kneeThis article is more than 5 years oldElle HuntAfter misidentifying a body part on the Strokes’ Is This It, I realised I was the victim of the modern age where the LP sleeve has become irrelevant to most It’s the Strokes’ best album, it has been out 17 years, I could recite the track list from memory, I’m not blind and I’m practically 30 – but until Wednesday night I thought the image on the cover of Is This It showed a gloved hand resting on a knee.

DatingComedian Lane Moore has crafted an entire show out of swiping left, and right, on the app over the last four years. Here are her biggest takeaways In 2014, I started Tinder Live! – a comedy show exploring the crazy world of Tinder. This means that in the last five years, I’ve spent many, many hours browsing the app (so much so in fact that I am relieved there’s no way to know how many hours I lost on there).

The ObserverAmericanaReview(37d03d) The American folk trio’s second album keeps tradition alive with 10 newly minted originals A collection heavy on lovingly updated folk traditionals, Bonny Light Horseman’s eponymous, Grammy-nominated 2020 debut was an unalloyed pleasure, on a par with offerings from Jake Xerxes Fussell or Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. The three constituent parts of Bonny Light Horseman also run busy parallel careers; in 2019, Anaïs Mitchell’s took off with the Broadway transfer of her musical, Hadestown.

Politics booksReviewIn this powerful critique rooted in film and music, the scholar explains why Black consciousness poses such a threat to racist power structures Since the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020, there has been a tsunami of books, documentaries and commentary on racism. But the problem with the deluge of content (to use the modern lingo) is that it inevitably means a lack of quality and focus. If someone had nothing to add to our understanding of racism before the death of George Floyd, there is likely a good reason.