30 h. ago ‘It’s been really profound’: artists Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett on laying bare their marriage on film

Photographer Meyerowitz, 87, and artist and writer Barrett, 78, invited two documentary-makers into their lives for a year. The result, Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other, is an intimate portrait that all couples should seeWe might all have domestic arguments that demand to be preserved on film for their drama, but few of them would ever live up to the intensity, eloquence and glamour of the barneys between American photographer Joel Meyerowitz and his English wife, novelist and artist Maggie Barrett.The best (or worst) of those clashes comes toward the end of the extraordinary, intimate documentary of Joel and Maggie’s marriage, aptly entitled Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (their own private update on “till death us do part”). In that final set-to, Maggie conjures all the frustrations of the 30 years they have been together – years in which Joel has become ever more world-famous and celebrated as a photographer, and she has seen her novels rejected by publish...

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38 h. ago More than 1,000 people killed in two days of clashes in Syria, war monitor says

About 745 civilians among those killed in fighting in Latakia province between security forces and fighters loyal to former president AssadMore than 1,000 people, including 745 civilians, were killed in the two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and fighters loyal to the former Assad regime and ensuing revenge killings, a war monitor has said, one of the highest death tolls in Syria since 2011.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor, said 745 civilians were killed mostly execution-style, while 125 Syrian security forces and 148 Assad loyalists were killed. Death tolls from the two days of fighting have varied wildly, with some estimates putting the final death toll even higher. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas as execution method

Jessie Hoffman Jr, who would become first person state killed this way, says his religious rights would be violatedA man scheduled to become the first person executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana is challenging the method in court, arguing it violates his religious beliefs.A federal judge will decide whether executing Jessie Hoffman Jr by nitrogen hypoxia violates his constitutional right to practice his religion, which includes Buddhist breathing and meditation exercises that would be impeded by the gas during the capital punishment. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Chilling last words of death row inmate first to be executed by firing squad in 15 years

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, became the first US death row inmate in 15 years to be executed by firing squad when he was shot by three prison guards - his final words have now been revealed

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49 h. ago Death row inmate's chilling message and kind gesture before death by firing squad

Brad Sigmon bludgeoned his then-girlfriend's parents to death with a baseball bat in a crazed act of violence 23 years ago, although is believed to have converted to Christianity in more recent years

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52 h. ago Inside Gene Hackman's awful final days: How Hollywood great died after days of starving and confused horror not even realising his wife was dead as dogs went mad

Gene Hackman's lonely end in the mud room of his Santa Fe mansion - a week after the death of his wife in the bathroom from a rat-borne virus - was as far away from the spotlight as possible.

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54 h. ago Final words of first US death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6.05pm on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

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57 h. ago Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method

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62 h. ago Death row inmate is executed by firing squad after choosing how he would die

Brad Sigmon, of South Carolina, was terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" and so was given special permission to pick the manner of his execution

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62 h. ago Starving and confused. Dogs going mad... not even knowing his wife was dead: Awful way a Hollywood great died

Gene Hackman's lonely end in the mud room of his Santa Fe mansion - a week after the death of his wife in the bathroom from a rat-borne virus - was as far away from the spotlight as possible.

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63 h. ago South Carolina death row inmate executed by firing squad, first in US in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, had a target placed in front of his heart and three employee volunteers shot him

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64 h. ago Inside Gene Hackman's final week alone after death of wife as cops share heartbreaking update

Officials have given a new harrowing update regarding the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa and found that she passed away a week before the actor

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64 h. ago My brother is being executed by firing squad any minute now. Our mom still doesn't know

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm EST on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

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65 h. ago Gene Hackman's heartbreaking final days as police reveal sad details of his death

Hollywood star Gene Hackman's final days have been explained in a detailed press conference which stated it was probable he died days after his wife, Betsy Arakawa

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65 h. ago My brother is dying tonight. Our mom doesn't know... I won't tell her when the bullet is fired

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm EST on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

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3 d. ago Who is Brad Sigmon? The South Carolina death row inmate set for first U.S. firing squad execution in 15 years

Death row inmate convicted of the double murder of David and Gladys Larke has chosen to die by firing squad over fears the electric chair would ‘burn and cook him alive’

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3 d. ago Desperate final plea of death row inmate Brad Sigmon before he's shot dead in firing squad TONIGHT

Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to die the evening of March 7 for the brutal baseball bat beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents David and Gladys Larke in 2001.

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3 d. ago Pamela Bach's final heartbreaking message to daughter hours before death

The ex-wife of Baywatch's David Hasselhoff, Pamela Bach, tragically passed away on Wednesday but hours before her death, she left a heartfelt comment to her daughter Hayley

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3 d. ago Pamela Bach's bittersweet final post with heartbreaking wish before death

David Hasselhoff's ex-wife Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff was found dead just months after telling her followers to embrace every precious moment

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3 d. ago ITV set to show final hours of woman, 43, before her assisted death in the USA

Jessica Lantz from Portland in Oregon was diagnosed with terminal dermatomyositis a decade ago, a rare autoimmune disease affecting the skin and muscles.

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