Author: Michelle Korhonen
Joanne Froggatt cut a stylish appearance as she arrived at Virgin Radio studios on Saturday. The actress, 43, donned an all black ensemble as she opted for a long black dress for her appearance on Graham Norton‘s show. Pairing the dress with a smart black button up coat, the star wrapped the jacket around her shoulders as she beamed in snaps. The Downton Abbey star completed the look with some chic black gold heeled ankle boots and a Gucci black belt. Her appearance comes after it was announced earlier this week that Downton Abbey will be returning to screens. Joanne Froggatt, 43, cut a stylish…
Digging into the GOP front-runner’s claims on the stump and in legal filingsCourtesy of Washington Week With The AtlanticFebruary 17, 2024, 11:11 AM ETEditor’s Note: Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here.A New York judge has set March 25 as the start date in Donald Trump’s hush-money case, making it the first criminal trial against a former American president in U.S. history. A hearing that could derail Trump’s Georgia election-interference case is also under way, as…
Fury has been unleashed at an NHS hospital in York after a sign banning food in the library singled out samosas, pakoras and filled chapatis because they are ‘very smelly’.The official-looking sign was set up next to computers at the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust library before it was swiftly taken down on Friday. Bosses at the hospital have apologised and said they took it down as soon as they became aware. The sign read: ‘Food and Drink Policy: Hot and cold drinks are allowed in the library. ‘Please do not bring any food any food into the library space.…
Our writers’ perspectives on arguing and communicating in healthier waysDamir Sagolj / ReutersFebruary 17, 2024, 8 AM ETThis is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.In the 1887 essay “Silent People as Misjudged by the Noisy,” an Atlantic contributor proposed an economical approach to talking: “As we get on in life past the period of obstreperous youth, we incline to talk less and write less, especially on the topics which we have…
The TRUE story behind Kevin Bacon’s Footloose: Inside the Oklahoma town that BANNED dancing for 82 YEARS in a bid to crack down on drunken antics and ‘satanic’ worship – before an uprising from high school teens finally saw it overturned – Sound health and lasting wealth
“Venezuela is fixed.” Pundits began saying this on Venezuelan state media a couple of years ago, and it became a mantra for a numbed nation. But even Nicolás Maduro, the president, concedes that the phrase is not quite right. The country is not yet fixed, he said in a press conference in 2022, but it’s very much improving.“Venezuela is fixed.” Perhaps to Maduro’s annoyance, the mantra has become a sarcastic quip, invoked when the Caracas airport goes dark during a power outage, for example. Still, at least for some, in the parts of big cities that aren’t too far from…
Diseases once banished to the dustbin of history, so rare a younger medic may only have read about them in a textbook, are making a comeback.Experts told MailOnline how they fear younger generations of medics will struggle to diagnose illnesses which have largely disappeared for decades.But the danger is real and already here. Britain is currently gripped by a spike in measles, with hundreds of children laid low by the ‘forgotten’ illness.Medics were once incredibly familiar with measles, with outbreaks commonplace in the 40s, 50s and 60s. But these eventually fizzled out thanks to a hugely successful vaccination campaign. Nurses treating a room…
Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in January 2021. Right before he boarded the plane, he posted a film titled “Putin’s Palace: The Story of the World’s Largest Bribe” on YouTube. The video, nearly two hours long, was an extraordinary feat of investigative reporting. Using secret plans, drone footage, 3-D visualizations, and the testimony of construction workers, Navalny’s video told the story of a hideous $1.3 billion Black Sea villa containing every luxury that a dictator could imagine: a hookah bar, a hockey rink, a helipad, a vineyard, an oyster farm, a church. The video also described the eye-watering costs and…
King Charles will have plenty to keep him occupied at Sandringham House in the coming days and weeks as he embarks upon his treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer.There will be the usual red boxes full of government paperwork, of course. Like his mother before him, Charles will attend to these assiduously. There will be conversations with his Prime Minister and with other figures of note, here and abroad.There are, though, some other, more congenial, projects at hand in and around the redbrick country mansion should the King feel in a mood to take his mind off things.I’m told…
Does it matter if writers turn their back on their work?Actor Sean Connery and Ian Fleming on the set of “Dr No.” (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty)February 16, 2024, 10:34 AM ETThis is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Writing novels about the British superspy James Bond brought the author Ian Fleming immediate success. Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, was released in 1952; in the 12 years to follow, Fleming would pump out more than a dozen other books about his secret agent (two were published posthumously). But “by 1960,…