67 h. ago ‘For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy’: Salman Rushdie talks recovery and resilience at Sundance

Sundance film festival: a new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed himOn 12 August 2022, as Salman Rushdie was about to launch into a lecture on the importance of protecting writers from harm at New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a man in a black mask rushed the stage with a knife. To the horror of the packed amphitheater, the man stabbed the Indian-born British-American author – once the subject of an infamous fatwa from the leader of Iran in the 1980s – 15 times in the face, neck and torso, before members of the audience rushed the stage and disarmed him. Rushdie survived, narrowly; the stabbing left him on a ventilator, severed tendons in his left hand, and cost him his right eye.A full recreation of that attack from Rushdie’s perspective — 27 seconds of struggle, the mysterious man’s face, several sickening punches of blade — opens a new documentary on Rushdie’s recovery and resilience, which drew a standi...

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3 d. ago Fresh bruises appear on Donald Trump's hands during chaotic speech as health mystery deepens

The 79-year-old could once again be seen with a large blue bruise on his left hand, stretching from the knuckle of his middle finger right the way down to the base of his thumb.

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5 d. ago Trump says he takes ‘the big aspirin’ in defiance of medical advice as he explains dark new bruise on his left hand

Donald Trump has previously bragged about taking over four times the recommended dose of aspirin

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5 d. ago Trump explains how he got bruise on his hand at Davos that sparked MORE health rumours... as he teases FOURTH term

President Donald Trump has revealed how he got a bruise on his left hand at his Board of Peace event in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.

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5 d. ago Trump describes excruciating moment that resulted in severe bruise on hand... as he teases FOURTH term

President Donald Trump has revealed how he got a bruise on his left hand at his Board of Peace event in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.

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6 d. ago Donald Trump's hand bruise 'sparked by fragile ageing' after 'classic dementia signs'

Donald Trump was seen with a huge blue bruise on his left hand during a ceremony for his 'Board of Peace' earlier today, which is just one more sign that he's getting very, very old

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9 d. ago We were nearly killed when our electric VW ID.5 lost control and swerved across motorway TWICE in three months

Ken Hadley, 51, claims his life was at the mercy of his VW ID.5 as it veered across a three-lane road into the left-hand reservation before swerving back again and into the right-hand side.

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1 week ago People are only just realising what common rude hand gesture really means

People have been left stunned after learning the origins of a common rude hand gesture - especially given how it has managed to keep its original meaning for centuries

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1 week ago ‘People saw dollar signs’: a year after devastating wildfires, an LA community is fighting displacement

As survivors face pressure to sell their land in Altadena, a historic Black community, experts say we’re witnessing ‘climate gentrification’Ellen Williams’ left hand played with her long dark hair as her right hand guided the steering wheel, her phone resting face-down in her lap. Born and raised in Altadena, an unincorporated area in Los Angeles county, she didn’t need to look at a map as she drove to where her home of 22 years burned down.We passed empty lots with gaping holes where foundations once stood. The banging of hammers rang through the neighborhood and wood frames rose from the dirt, the smell of fresh lumber in the air. Perched on street corners were signs declaring: “Altadena is not for sale.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump sparks health fears as new mystery bruise appears on other hand

Trump's tiny hands are now generating almost as much excitement as his big mouth, with mystery bruising now showing on his left hand, as well as the one he claims gets hurt in handshakes

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3 w. ago ‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all

Reading for pleasure rates are shockingly low in young people. So we should all get behind a new drive to turn them into avid readers. Why not start with books about art?A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages, ready to turn to find out what happens next. She has porcelain-like skin and golden hair seemingly full of air, executed in textures that contrast with the scratchy, loose marks that make up her shirt and the book’s pages. When I look at this drawing, I am struck by how the artist, the American-born impressionist Mary Cassatt, has perfectly captured the all-consuming sensation of being submerged in a book – the feeling that the whole world is dissolving around you. For a moment, only that story matters.Cassatt, who worked in Paris for most of her adult life when women were finally beginning to be accepted as artists (and deserving of state-funded art education), was hailed ...

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3 w. ago Trump’s aspirin dosing ‘makes no sense’ says Dick Cheney’s heart specialist

Trump takes high dose of aspirin because he wants ‘nice, thin blood pouring through my heart’ he told Wall Street Journal

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last month Fresh Donald Trump health fears sparked after 'weird mark' on president's other hand

Although its Donald Trump's right hand which is usually a subject of conversation between health experts, now his left hand is showing signs of strange bruising

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