NEW YORK -- Lifetime Television will devote its entire primetime schedule to examining racism on Sunday, Oct 24, with a special two-hour episode of Any Day Now followed by a one-hour ABC News special titled I'm Not a Racist But... ... NEW YORK --...
THE FRIENDS of a 17-year-old boy stabbed to death in south London at the weekend said his attacker launched into a drunken, racist rant before lashing out. Nilanthan Murddi died after his throat was slashed during the attack in Croydon in the early hours of Saturday. The...
Home News IN BRIEF *The children's authors Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl have been named as the nation's best-loved writers - over Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, according to a poll of 2,000 people by One Poll, the internet market research company. The creator of...
BEIJING AFP — For seven years, David Tool has patrolled Beijing's streets hunting for embarrassing signboards, inspecting menus and teaching residents English to help the city prepare for the Olympics. The 66-year-old former US Army colonel played such a central role in helping Beijing raise its English standards...
Film 2 You Don't Mess with the Zohan Dennis Dugan 113 mins, 12A Star Wars: The Clone Wars Dave Filoni 99 mins, PG One of this year's most mystifying questions is why Mike Myers attempted a comeback with The Love Guru, a silly self-indulgence in...
My secret life The house I grew up in ... I lived with my parents and my older brother in a small, three-bedroom terraced house in Northfield Road, Hull. It was in the part of Anlaby Road that lay somewhere between commercial and suburban living. ...
BEIJING AFP — Beijing's China Ethnic Culture Park features what it calls "precise re-creations" of life for all China's 56 ethnic groups, but one thing seems in short supply: actual ethnic minorities. "There are no Uighurs here," said a Han Chinese security guard in the forlorn-looking section devoted...
BEIJING AFP — The Spanish basketball team's controversial pre-Olympic advert where the squad posed making slit-eye gestures was "inappropriate" but no sanctions will be taken, the IOC said Thursday. In the ad which appeared in sports daily Marca -- which has been widely circulated on the Internet --...
94 WYSP is considering flipping formats to classic rock around Labor Day, sources say. We're told that the plan is to drop contemporary artists and go back to hits of the '70s and '80s to go after 102.9 WMGK's listeners. Labor Day is a typical time for radio shake-ups. The...
WASHINGTON AFP — Ex-president Bill Clinton said in an interview Monday that he was not a racist, but refused to revisit his primary campaign spats with Barack Obama's campaign until after November's election. Clinton, who became embroiled in a string of controversies while backing his wife Hillary Clinton...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Republican candidate John McCain's presidential campaign is cynical, not racist, in its efforts to distract voters from real issues, Democratic rival Barack Obama said Saturday. "In no way do I think that John McCain's campaign was being racist," Obama said in his first meeting...
CASS (18, 108mins) THE STARS: Nonso Anozie, Nathalie Press, Leo Gregory, Paul Kaye, Tamer Hassan. THE STORY: An orphaned Jamaican baby, Cass Pennant Anozie, is adopted by an elderly white couple and has a tough upbringing, in which he's forced to endure...
As John McCain's camp dives more deeply into the Karl Rove playbook, his campaign has unleashed a number of harshly negative attacks against Barack Obama -- some sophomoric, some offensive, some outright lies. But among the more curious was the claim last week that Obama has "played the race card,...
Race, religion, sexuality ... no taboo is safe from the acid tongue of America's most outrageous comedian. But what will Britain make of her? Tim Walker reports Comedy with no limits Meet Sarah Silverman. Sarah's immature, self-absorbed and unemployed. She makes a habit of insulting her...
The Jets and the Sharks, the rival gangs of New York's street, are back on the London stage in the 50th anniversary production of West Side Story. Theatre critics can't stop themselves from becoming pseudo-sociologists as they flash up the "alarming" relevancy of gangland warfare. Britain fi nds itself gripped...
Hero or Villain? There could be something rotten in the heart of John Lydon. Last week came reports of a backstage fracas at the Summercase festival in Barcelona, when Kele Okereke, the Nigerian singer in Bloc Party, was allegedly subjected to a racist attack by the...
red & yellow, black & white it's time to end racist admissions It will be a great day for scholars -- red and yellow, black and white -- when state-sponsored racism ffnally ends. If Coloradans approve Amendment 46 in November -- the...
PARIS AFP — UEFA on Thursday fined Russian club FC Zenit St. Petersburg 60,000 Swiss francs (36,880 euros) after its Control and Disciplinary Body ruled some of the club's fans had racially abused players from French side Marseille in last season's UEFA Cup clash. The pair met in...
At the height of his power in the 1990s, the Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was disdainful, bombastic and vain. That he was credentialed as a psychiatrist and poet mattered little. No one who met him then would be surprised to find that he orchestrated mass murder. His signature...
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