He is widely regarded as England’s greatest painter, but despite his extraordinary output, elements of JMW’s personality remain a mystery. Now, a groundbreaking BBC Documentary documentary on Turner’s 37,000 sketches in True Among the figures that help open the story of the artist’s life in Turner: The Secretary Sketchbookis actor Timothy Spall, who portrayed him […]
Orla GuerinSenior International Conservator in Syria BBC / GOKTAL KALALTAN Adnan Al Ezzeldin says that people are killed because of Alawites The killer arrives at night – a masked man on a motorcycle who strikes without warning and then leaves. This has become a familiar pattern in some corners of New Syria in recent months, […]
An agreement aimed at ending the US government shutdown has passed the Senate, paving the way for the end of registration destruction. After a week of negotiations in Washington, a minority of Democrats joined the Republicans and voted in favor of a deal. The vote is a first step towards reaching a compromise to fund […]
Joe TidyCyber correspondent, Colorado BBC Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka “Tank”, left thousands of victims across the world After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him in a Colorado prison, I hear the door click open before I see him walk into the room. I stand up ready to give this […]
John Law, the veteran Australian talk radio host known as the “Golden Tonsil” for his trademark voice, has died at 90. Laws, whose career spanned more than 70 years, was – at his peak – one of the highest paid radio commercials. His resume includes interviewing 17 Australian prime ministers and countless offers. Prime Minister […]
China has tightened export controls on chips vital to car production, the country’s commerce ministry said on Sunday. Exceptions are given to exports made by Chinese-owned NEXPERIA for civilian use, this should help carmakers who are afraid of European production being hit in Europe. At the same time, China also lifted an export ban to […]
The love crisis homeNity will be a landlord for the first time in its 60-year history, saying that the housing crisis in the UK has reached a “Catasrophic Scenario”. Matt Downie, the Chief Executive of the Charity, is preparing to launch a fundraising appeal to buy its own stock of housing that will not leave […]
The president of Syria, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, on Monday will talk to Donald Trump at the White House, the first Syrian official in 1946. He expects to push the rest of the sanctions on his country left at war. SHARAA, whose Islamist forces topped long-time ruler Bashar Al-Assad last year tried to attack the economy during […]
Indonesia has given the former leader of the Authority Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has set in motion changes in revolutionary democracy around the world. The Award deepened fears about the attempts to increase the rise of Suharo and decades of rule, a period marked by many human rights violations. […]
A trial began Monday for a man accused of attacking a Christmas market in the Eastern city in December in which six people were killed and more than 300 others were injured. The suspect is a doctor from Saudi Arabia, named Talab A., according to German privacy laws. He is accused of driving a BMW […]
