I got my weed from California: Justin Bieber launches joints named after song | Justin Bieber
Posted on April 3, 2024
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Justin Bieber This article is more than 2 years old‘I got my weed from California’: Justin Bieber launches joints named after songThis article is more than 2 years oldPeaches cannabis products will be available in California, where recreational marijuana is legal for over-21s
Justin Bieber has entered the cannabis industry launching $32 (£23.50) packs of pre-rolled joints named Peaches after his recent hit song.
Bieber, 27, on Monday announced a partnership with the Los Angeles based cannabis company Palms to produce the seven-joint packs that will initially only be on sale in California, where recreational marijuana use is legal for over-21s.
[Read More]Jane Birkin's daughter Kate Barry dies after fall from Paris flat | France
Posted on April 3, 2024
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France This article is more than 10 years oldJane Birkin's daughter Kate Barry dies after fall from Paris flatThis article is more than 10 years oldBody of British-born photographer, 46, found on pavement outside her home in French capital on Wednesday eveningBritish-born photographer Kate Barry, daughter of the actor and singer Jane Birkin, has died after falling from the window of her fourth-floor Paris flat.
Her body was found around 6.
[Read More]More wet weather forecast for Sydney as northern Australia braces for monsoonal rain and strong wind
Posted on April 3, 2024
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Australia weatherMore wet weather forecast for Sydney as northern Australia braces for monsoonal rain and strong windsSurf ironman and ironwoman competitors save 25 swimmers from a rip at Maroubra as severe weather warning issued for the Top End
Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Wet weather sweeping across Sydney and monsoonal rains swamping Darwin and north Queensland are creating the conditions for another sodden summer week for much of the country.
[Read More]Navajo cowboys impersonating John Wayne: Roswell Angiers best photograph
Posted on April 3, 2024
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‘An in-between place where people collided with each other’ … Indian Head Bar by Roswell Angier. Photograph: Roswell Angier‘An in-between place where people collided with each other’ … Indian Head Bar by Roswell Angier. Photograph: Roswell AngierMy best shotPhotography‘This was taken in the Indian Head Bar, a seedy place in Arizona. The men were fascinated by Wayne since The Hallelujah Trail was filmed around there. Yet Wayne wasn’t in it’
[Read More]The numbers that reveal the extent of the destruction in Gaza | Israel-Gaza war
Posted on April 3, 2024
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First EditionIsrael-Gaza warAnalysisThe numbers that reveal the extent of the destruction in GazaArchie BlandFrom death tolls to destroyed buildings and lost hospital beds, these are the figures that cut through the fog of war
This article is extracted from our First Edition newsletter. Sign up here Middle East crisis – live updates The situation in Gaza over the last three months has been so chaotic that much of the data available comes with some sort of asterisk: it might be incomplete, or out of date, or drawn from a source that is claimed to be unreliable.
[Read More]A 'miracle' healing gel, a cult-like following, and a fiercely protected empire
Posted on April 2, 2024
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Life and styleSelf described ‘gellers’ tout Somaderm as a double-barreled miracle elixir: a goldmine and a fountain of youth. But past users have reported alarming symptoms – and their attempt at speaking out is met with legal threats
Charli Johnson says she first discovered the gel last May, two and a half years after a semi-truck doing 75 miles an hour crashed into her car and launched her through the windshield, leaving her with “melted” eyelashes and a brain of “mush”.
[Read More]Ben Cross obituary | Film
Posted on April 2, 2024
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FilmObituaryBen Cross obituaryActor best known for playing Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film Chariots of FireThe actor Ben Cross, who has died of cancer aged 72, took the film world by storm in the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire when he played Harold Abrahams, the British Jewish athlete driven as a runner not just to win gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, but also to battle antisemitism. A fellow British team member, the devout Scottish Protestant missionary Eric Liddell, played by Ian Charleson, is similarly seen in a quest to combat discrimination.
[Read More]Japan cancels Mitsubishi SpaceJet, grounding dream of homegrown airliner | Japan
Posted on April 2, 2024
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JapanJapan cancels Mitsubishi SpaceJet, grounding dream of homegrown airlinerAfter years of delays, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries admits building Japan’s first homegrown passenger jet was too difficult and probably not viable
Japan has abandoned plans to build its first homegrown passenger jet after years of technical setbacks and soaring costs.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has said it will cancel the public-private SpaceJet project, a decade after the aircraft was supposed to have gone into commercial service.
[Read More]Love Never Dies
Posted on April 2, 2024
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MusicalsReviewAdelphi, LondonThere is much to enjoy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical. The score is one of the composer's most seductive. Bob Crowley's design and Jack O'Brien's direction have a beautiful kaleidoscopic fluidity. And the performances are good. The problems lie within the book, chiefly credited to Lloyd Webber himself and Ben Elton, which lacks the weight to support the imaginative superstructure.
I should say that I have no truck with those ghoulish groupies who've seen The Phantom of the Opera 852 times and regard any sequel as equivalent to painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
[Read More]Lynn Anderson obituary | Pop and rock
Posted on April 2, 2024
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Pop and rockObituaryLynn Anderson obituaryCountry singer best known for her massive hit I Never Promised You a Rose GardenIn early 1971, the sound of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden dominated the pop music airwaves. Its singer was the American country music star Lynn Anderson, who has died aged 67 from a heart attack after contracting pneumonia. She was also a talented equestrian, winning numerous awards and breeding quarter horses, noted for their speed over short distances and equable temperament.
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