Campus police officer Roger Smith was killed during a struggle and a ‘person of interest’ is in custody, police say
A police officer was shot and killed during a struggle in the emergency department lobby at a North Carolina hospital Saturday.
The shooting happened around 9am at the WakeMed Garner Healthplex, killing WakeMed campus police officer Roger Smith, according to a WakeMed statement.
Continue reading...Boris Johnson and White House criticise the corporation, but some journalists say criticism is part of campaign to destroy the BBC
The BBC is expected to apologise on Monday for the way in which a speech by the US president, Donald Trump, was edited in an episode of Panorama. The show is one of a number of examples highlighted by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s editorial standards committee, who detailed his concerns about the broadcaster’s impartiality in a memo published by the Telegraph.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Exhibition will reveal complex reality, featuring women and artistic creations, beyond armour-clad warriors
A groundbreaking samurai exhibition that promises to challenge “everything we think we know about Japan’s warrior elite” spanning a millennium of myth and reality is to open at the British Museum next year.
Titled Samurai, the blockbuster exhibition will reveal a world beyond armour-clad warriors and epic duels, as popularised by the noble, katana-wielding heroes of Akira Kurosawa’s classic action films and PlayStation’s hit video games.
Continue reading...Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all
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About 40% of Australian women without kids say they are hesitant to have children because of climate change, a new survey suggests.
The survey, on attitudes about the impacts of global heating, also found that half of Australians were very or extremely concerned about climate change and two in five believed the climate would be “much hotter” in 2050.
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