The slap that swallowed the Oscars: Will Smith hits Chris Rock on stage, then wins Best Actor
LOS ANGELES — The 94th Academy Awards produced the most shocking moment in the ceremony’s history on Sunday night, when Will Smith…
The OSCE’s eyes on Ukraine go dark: monitors evacuate as Russia invades
Kyiv — The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, the unarmed observation force that has been the international community’s eyes on the…
Beijing’s bubble Games open: winter sport returns to the Olympic city of 2008, without the world watching in person
BEIJING — Fourteen years after the Summer Games that announced China to the world, the Bird’s Nest stadium lit up again on…
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ saves the box office Christmas: a pandemic-era opening like the old days
LOS ANGELES — For nearly two years, the question hanging over the film industry has been whether audiences would ever come back…
Stockholm Ministerial: Lavrov and Blinken meet as 100,000 Russian troops mass near Ukraine
Stockholm — Foreign ministers of the OSCE’s 57 participating states gathered in Stockholm this week with one subject overshadowing everything else: the…
At the frozen edge of the EU, the OSCE looks for a role in the Belarus-Poland border crisis
Vienna — Thousands of migrants remain trapped in freezing conditions on the Belarusian-Polish border this weekend, as the OSCE comes under pressure…
Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize: ‘The Promise’ brings a third shortlisting its reward
LONDON — Third time, as the saying goes, and for Damon Galgut it proved charmed. The South African novelist won the Booker…
Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: the Academy honours the novelist of the refugee experience
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 has been awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibar-born, Britain-based novelist, for what the Swedish…
Emma Raducanu wins the US Open: an 18-year-old qualifier’s impossible fortnight in New York
NEW YORK — In the end it took ten matches, twenty sets and not one of them lost. Emma Raducanu, an 18-year-old…
Tokyo closes the Games that almost weren’t: 17 days without fans, and a handover to Paris
TOKYO — The Olympics that were postponed, protested and pronounced impossible ended on Sunday night with a closing ceremony in an almost…