Riots

Third night of strong confrontations between independentist youth and the police after publicizing ... the sentences against the Catalan independentist leaders, with barricades and fires in the streets of Barcelona. In Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on Octob…

EC on Thursday issued show cause notices to BJP Mumbai chief Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Shiv Sena candidate Pandurang Sakpal. (File) THE ELECTION Commission (EC) on Thursday issued show cause notices to BJP Mumbai chief Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Shiv Sena candidate P…

Victoria Namkung | Longreads | October 2019 | 16 minutes (4,240 words) On March 16, 1991, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins went to a local convenience store in South Los Angeles to buy a bottle of orange juice. Owner Soon Ja Du accused the teenage girl of shoplif…

HBO Max has commissioned a four-part docuseries on the history of the LGBTQ+ movement. Titled “Equal,” the series will explore the true stories of leaders and activists of the movement. Each hour-long episode will feature interviews, reenactments, and never …

These days Riot Games may be more infamous for sexual harassment scandals and catering to Chinese censorship even more than Blizzard, but the developer is in fact still best known for League of Legends, the widly popular MOBA with a name more comprehensible t…

Earlier this week the bottom fell out at Blizzard when it banned an esports pro from competing after he spoke out in support of the Hong Kong protests. It seems half the gaming industry (to say nothing of the wider tech industry) has gotten caught up in the e…

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, where a hospital was shuttered because of the fighting. The photo was taken from the Turkish side of the border in Akcakale on October 10, the second day of Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces. Bu…

Back in 2002, Denzel Washington‘s performance in the riveting police drama Training Day won him Best Actor for his portrayal of Alonzo Harris, while Ethan Hawke got a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Jake Hoyt. Much of this success was due to the film…

Few Oscar-winning movies of semi-recent vintage have defied plans for expansion more aggressively than Antoine Fuquas Training Day, a perfectly nasty and fun little Denzel Washington/Ethan Hawke vehicle thats now better known (at least in some circles) for th…

Passengers on board a Norwegian cruise ship staged a "riot" and demanded a refund after bad weather forced operators to cancel most of its destinations, and customers complained of being served stale food, and problems with the ship's sewage system The Norwe…