Swiss snowboard pioneer Ueli Kestenholz, who won bronze at snowboarding's 1998 Olympic debut in Nagano, died at age 50 in an avalanche, officials said Tuesday.
Spanish singer allegedly subjected women to ‘inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation’
The Spanish singer Julio Iglesias has been accused of sexual assault by two female former employees who say they were subjected “to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation … in an atmosphere of control and constant harassment”.
The two women – a domestic worker and a physical therapist who were employed at Iglesias’s Caribbean mansions in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas – allege the assaults took place in 2021.
Christmas Eve live broadcast showed holy child portrayed by female performance artist writhing in sticky rice paper
A Roman Catholic diocese in Germany has expressed regret over a televised Christmas Eve mass featuring a portrayal of the newborn Christ by an adult woman covered in sticky rice paper that was described by some critics as “slime Jesus”.
The broadcast on ARD television from St Mary’s in Stuttgart showed a manger in which a female performance actor was huddled up in a foetal position and covered with sticky rice paper.
Ms. Le Pen, whose far-right party leads polls in France, was convicted last year of embezzlement. The outcome of her appeal, which started on Tuesday, will determine if she can run for president next year.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte says ‘an illiterate pundit, YouTuber or influencer’ has more impact than a literary prize winner
One of Spain’s best-known novelists has launched a withering attack on the country’s leading linguistic authority, saying it ignores the opinions of writers when it comes to changes in language, and that its “anything goes Taliban” yields instead to social media, commentators and influencers.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte used a column in Monday’s El Mundo to accuse the Spanish Royal Academy (RAE) – of which he is a member – of failing to live up to the mission laid out in its celebrated motto of “cleaning, fixing and giving shine” to the Spanish language.
The Guardian's Peter Beaumont is in Kyiv where temperatures are expected to fall to -20C during the night. Many residents are forced to use emergency shelters to warm up and use electricity after a large-scale Russian attack on the capital on 9 January damaged energy facilities. Hundreds of homes have been left without power or heating after the strikes
50-year-old was snowboarding in Switzerland on Sunday
Kestenholz won bronze in giant slalom at Nagano 1998
Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, who won a bronze medal in the sport’s first Olympic race, has died after being trapped in an avalanche, the Swiss Ski federation said on Tuesday. He was 50.
Kestenholz was third in snowboard giant slalom at the 1998 Nagano Olympics – a debut event that became a story of the Games when Canadian gold medallist Ross Rebagliati fought to keep his title after a positive test for cannabis.
La première place de la poule 4 va se jouer entre les Bears anglais et les Unionistes, lors de la quatrième et dernière journée de la phase de poules de la compétition européenne.
The satirical title targeted in an Islamist attack 10 years ago published a racist, sexist caricature of me that speaks volumes about its values
The day before Christmas Eve, just as France readied itself to slip into the holiday slowdown, something abruptly shook me out of any festive torpor. The satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, known globally and tragically for being the target of an Islamist attack in 2015 published a caricature – of me. And it was appallingly racist. A huge, toothy grin, an enormous mouth, the cartoon depicts me dancing on a stage before an audience of laughing white men, adorned with a banana belt on a largely exposed body. The headline: “The Rokhaya Diallo Show: Mocking secularism around the world.”
Stunned by the violence of this grotesque cartoon, I shared it on social media with a brief analysis: “In keeping with slave-era and colonial imagery, Charlie Hebdo once again shows itself incapable of engaging with the ideas of a Black woman without reducing her to a dancing body – exoticised, supposedly savage – adorned with the very bananas that are hurled at Black people who dare to step into the public sphere.”
Rokhaya Diallo is a French journalist, writer, film-maker and activist
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Le ministre danois des Affaires étrangères, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, a confirmé une rencontre, mercredi 14 janvier, à la Maison Blanche avec le vice-président américain J.D. Vance et le secrétaire d’État Marco Rubio, en présence de la ministre groenlandaise des Affaires étrangères, Vivian Motzfeldt.
Le ministre danois des Affaires étrangères, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, a confirmé une rencontre, mercredi 14 janvier, à la Maison Blanche avec le vice-président américain J.D. Vance et le secrétaire d’État Marco Rubio, en présence de la ministre groenlandaise des Affaires étrangères, Vivian Motzfeldt.
En Géorgie, plusieurs milliers de personnes ont manifesté dans les rues de Tbilissi lundi 12 janvier 2026. Elles appelaient à la libération de Mzia Amaghlobeli, journaliste arrêtée il y a un an jour pour jour. Cette journaliste est devenue le symbole de la résistance pro-européenne contre un régime que beaucoup estiment vendu au Kremlin.
En Géorgie, plusieurs milliers de personnes ont manifesté dans les rues de Tbilissi, lundi 12 janvier 2026. Elles appelaient à la libération de Mzia Amaghlobeli, journaliste arrêtée il y a un an jour pour jour. Cette journaliste est devenue le symbole de la résistance pro-européenne contre un régime que beaucoup estiment vendu au Kremlin.
The offer of thousands of dollars a month was hard to refuse for those living in poverty in a war-torn country. But while some Yemenis have died on the frontline, others are now prisoners of war
The first time I heard Hussein’s mother’s voice, it wasn’t anger that came through the phone, it was exhaustion.
“There are rumours that he burned to death,” she said to me. “How do you think that makes me feel as a mother? Where are you, Hussein? I’m looking for you. Please my daughter, help me.”
The latest celebrity to be drawn into the MeToo scandal, Julio Iglesias faces allegations that he abused the two women in 2021 when the younger woman was aged 22
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