The anniversary of the world’s first COVID-19 lockdown passing quietly in central China’s Wuhan. Authorities imposed a strict shutdown on the Chinese city three years ago after COVID-19 first emerged there in late 2019. Chrysanthemums began to appear on Wuhan’s streets, but instead of celebrating the Lunar New Year, the blooms served a more somber […]
LOS CONDORES, Argentina—Lionel Messi has been immortalized in Argentina in tributes ranging from tattoos to murals after leading the national team to win the soccer World Cup. Now his face can be seen from the heavens too—on a specially designed corn field. The field in Los Condores in central Cordoba Province was sown using an […]
HONG KONG—A man who paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II near the British Consulate in Hong Kong was arrested for alleged sedition. Police said the 43-year-old man was detained late Monday near the consulate, where dozens of people had gathered to remember the late monarch. Elizabeth was sovereign in the city when it was a […]
Messages of condolences continued to pour in on Friday as a period of national mourning began in the UK following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The 96-year-old monarch, whose reign lasted for seven decades, “died peacefully” on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish residence Balmoral. In a speech to the citizens of the United Kingdom and […]
MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin privately laid flowers at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s coffin on Thursday. He won’t attend the weekend’s public funeral. Just before departing for a working trip to Russia’s western-most Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, Putin visited a Moscow hospital where Gorbachev’s body was being kept before Saturday’s funeral. Russian state television showed […]
Actress Anne Heche has died at 53. “Anne Heche has been peacefully taken off life support,” a representative for her family told CNN earlier Sunday night, and later confirmed the actress’ passing. Heche’s car crashed into a Los Angeles home and erupted into flames on Aug. 5. After the accident, Heche experienced a “severe anoxic […]
Tributes have been pouring in to honor the late Paul Sorvino. The “Goodfellas” and “Law & Order” star died Monday of natural causes at the age of 83. “My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed,” his daughter, actress Mira Sorvino, said on Twitter. “My heart is rent asunder—a life of love and joy and […]
World leaders are offering condolences ahead of Shinzo Abe’s funeral. The murder of the former Japanese prime minister stunned the world last Friday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tokyo on Monday. On behalf of President Joe Biden, he expressed condolences to the family of Abe.
The prime minister, the Labour leader, and over 800 other people paid their respects to Sir David Amess at a requiem mass on Tuesday. The long-standing Conservative MP and father of five was killed during a constituency surgery last month. Those paying tribute commended his public service, and Pope Francis in a message praised Sir David for his “concern for the poor and the disadvantaged.”
Normal business in Parliament was suspended Monday, as politicians paid tribute to Sir David Amess, the Conservative member of Parliament who was fatally stabbed on Friday while at his constituency meeting. As one of the country’s longest-serving MPs, he dedicated his career to the town in Essex that he represented, the Speaker of the House […]
