A 34-year-old mother accused of killing her three daughters over three years went on trial on Monday in Athens, in a case that has sparked outrage in Greece.. She stands accused of poisoning nine-year-old Georgina in January 2022 by administering ketamine, an anaesthetic.
French football boss Noel Le Graet on Monday apologised for what he dubbed his "clumsy remarks" about Zinedine Zidane's potential interest in coaching the France national team.. Le Graet also responded curtly to reports of Zidane's interest in coaching the Brazil team.
The American rapper Young Thug was set to go on trial Monday on charges that his record label is a front for a crime ring.. Young Thug, who founded the hip-hop and trap label YSL Records in 2016, also faces one count of participation in criminal street gang activity.
Naomi Osaka has not played a tennis match since September and her withdrawal from next week's Australian Open has raised concerns that the former world number one may never appear on court again.. Her last appearance was at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September, where the home favourite withdrew before her second-round match, complaining of abdominal pain.
Russell Banks, a prolific American fiction writer whose work charted the interior lives of marginalized people at odds with social forces, has died at age 82.. He claimed allegiance to an American literary tradition going back to Mark Twain "whose work is generated by love of people who are scorned and derided," he once told The Guardian.
Not surprisingly, James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" clung to first place on North American movie screens this weekend, pulling in an estimated $45 million, but an unexpectedly popular horror movie placed a strong second.. "Horror movies are showing no slowdown at the box office," said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
Cristiano Ronaldo's new club coach Rudi Garcia on Sunday compared the Portuguese star's arrival at Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia to Pele's signing with the New York Cosmos in 1975.. "It's a bit like Pele's arrival" in what was then the North American Soccer League, Garcia told AFP. "Especially for the development of football, sport and culture in Saudi Arabia."
Adriaan Vlok, a feared minister under South Africa's apartheid system and one of its few high-ranking officials to be prosecuted, died Sunday aged 85 in a hospital near Pretoria, his family said.. The former law and order minister, who oversaw a brutal police crackdown on opponents of white rule, "passed away early this morning in the Unitas Hospital in Centurion, after a short illness," a family spokesman said in a statement.
Getting shot, standing in a downpour, being surrounded by bees: None are ideal, but for gamers, feeling the sensations of each is the goal.. "People are not just using our vest for getting shot, but they can feel the wind or rain or even bees in virtual reality," Gwak said.
Past the sandbags and anti-tank obstacles in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, theatre director Mustafa Sheta ponders the fate of Palestinian thespians.. Other Palestinian cultural institutions across the West Bank, annexed east Jerusalem or Israel also face many obstacles.
