Late British singer John Lennon is soon to have a comic book biography all of his own. The Beatles legend, who was murdered in New York in 1980, will feature in a new graphic novel Lennon, which will tell the story of his life from childhood to worldwide fame and his solo career and marriage to artist Yoko Ono. Lennon, which was announced at this year's New York Comic Con, is adapted from the 2010 novel by French author David Foenkinos, reports hollywoodreporter.com. Foenkinos' book told Lennon's life story through a series of imagined sessions between him and a fictional therapist and the black-and-white comic will have the same format. The book will be released in May next year.
The Beatles are also the focus of a new documentary from Ron Howard, which tells the story of the band’s touring years through behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and previously unreleased music. - The National staff
Kabir Khan collaborates with Salman Khan for next film
After delivering two blockbusters with Salman Khan, Indian director Kabir Khan has joined forces with the popular Bollywood actor again for Tubelight. The filmmaker says his journey with the superstar for movies Ek Tha Tiger and Bajrangi Bhaijaan have been great. "Tiger, Bajrangi, Tubelight, it's been a great walk together Salman Khan Tubelight," Kabir tweeted this week. The plot of the political thriller is still under wraps but Khan has also roped in Chinese actress-singer Zhu Zhu to make an appearance. - IANS
North Dakota pipepline protest sees actress Shailene Woodley arrested
Actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested in North Dakota while protesting a planned pipeline that Native Americans say will desecrate sacred land and damage the environment. The incident was streamed live on Facebook. According to spokesman for the Morton County Sheriff’s Office, Rob Keller, the 24-year-old actress was taken into custody along with 27 other people and charged with misdemeanour for criminal trespass and engaging in a riot. Footage of Woodley, who had videoing the event for Facebook Live, showed her being taken into custody. The actress narrated her own arrest, saying she had been heading peacefully back to her vehicle when “they [the police] grabbed me by my jacket and said that I wasn’t allowed to continue ... and they have giant guns and batons and zip ties and they are not letting me go”. As she was led away in handcuffs, Woodley can be heard saying she was among hundreds of protesters, but was singled out “because I’m well-known, because I have 40,000 people watching”. - Reuters
Emma Watson condemns child marriage during trip to Malawi
British actress Emma Watson openly condemned child marriage during a visit to Malawi this week, calling on authorities across Africa to end the practice that she believes puts young lives at risk and stop girls from getting an education and having a better future. Watson, 26, a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, was visiting the southeastern African nation a day ahead of the International Day of the Girl Child. In 2015, Malawi passed a law to raise the minimum age of marriage to 18, with UN Women working with traditional chiefs to change local practices. "Meeting with young girls, who like many in their country, are struggling with poverty and were pressured into early marriage ... made me realise just how important it is for women to be able to make their own choices," Watson said in a statement. "It's so encouraging to see how such a harmful practice can be stopped when communities work together," added the actress who rose to fame as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series. - Reuters
Drake cancels rest of tour due to ankle injury
Candian rapper Drake has cancelled the remainder of his summer music tour as a result of an ongoing ankle injury. A spokeswoman for the star, who E! Online is reporting has split with his girlfriend Rihanna, says doctors advised him to cancel the three remaining dates of his Summer Sixteen Tour "to allow him time to recuperate his ankle injury". The cancelled stops include Toronto, Philadelphia and New Jersey. The Hotline Bling singer previously postponed three concerts in New York and New Jersey. Drake announced on Monday that he will be back on the road for his 26-show The Boy Meets World Tour from January through March 2017 in Europe. - AP
Who has been sanctioned?
Daniella Weiss and Nachala
Described as 'the grandmother of the settler movement', she has encouraged the expansion of settlements for decades. The 79 year old leads radical settler movement Nachala, whose aim is for Israel to annex Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where it helps settlers built outposts.
Harel Libi & Libi Construction and Infrastructure
Libi has been involved in threatening and perpetuating acts of aggression and violence against Palestinians. His firm has provided logistical and financial support for the establishment of illegal outposts.
Zohar Sabah
Runs a settler outpost named Zohar’s Farm and has previously faced charges of violence against Palestinians. He was indicted by Israel’s State Attorney’s Office in September for allegedly participating in a violent attack against Palestinians and activists in the West Bank village of Muarrajat.
Coco’s Farm and Neria’s Farm
These are illegal outposts in the West Bank, which are at the vanguard of the settler movement. According to the UK, they are associated with people who have been involved in enabling, inciting, promoting or providing support for activities that amount to “serious abuse”.
Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
Six large-scale objects on show
- Concrete wall and windows from the now demolished Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in Poplar
- The 17th Century Agra Colonnade, from the bathhouse of the fort of Agra in India
- A stagecloth for The Ballet Russes that is 10m high – the largest Picasso in the world
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1930s Kaufmann Office
- A full-scale Frankfurt Kitchen designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, which transformed kitchen design in the 20th century
- Torrijos Palace dome
Sole survivors
- Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
- George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
- Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
- Jim Polehinke was the co-pilot and sole survivor of a 2006 Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49.
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