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The Guardian - World News

2026-02-09 10:00:18 (40 minutes ago)

From nightmarish noir to Bolero on trampolines: the audacious Holland Dance festival hits dizzy heights

Shadowy urban terror gives way to airborne exuberance as the festival celebrates its 20th edition with a programme that disturbs and delights

Suited dancers swing around a streetlight in Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau’s Horses but it’s not exactly Singin’ in the Rain. The mood is more like a stray dog has sidled up to that lamp-post and cocked its leg. The lamps multiply on these squalid, mean streets: uprooted, they become giant props for performers to illuminate and edit the action on a vast stage with its wings exposed and no artificial backdrop. A suspicious figure roams the outskirts with a torch; another drives a vehicle back and forth in the distance. One long-necked light snakes down from above like a tendril, its glow deepening the chiaroscuro. Bodies melt and morph. It is as if a film noir has caught fire in the projector, distorting each scene.

Nederlands Dans Theater’s production, at the 20th edition of Holland Dance festival, confounds from its ragged beginnings to the final seconds, when even the curtain is not allowed to fall in peace. Horses starts with the house lights up and a solo with instinctive flinches and hoof-like hands suggesting hunter and hunted before a second dancer arrives nose-first, as if led by scent. The animality briefly evokes NDT’s Figures in Extinction but this is an acutely urban nightmare, with humans’ survival skills put to the test. Suddenly, the auditorium’s doors slam shut and we are plunged into darkness.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-09 09:59:13 (41 minutes ago)

‘Chia pudding is Cathy’s composed side’: the weird and worrying world of official Wuthering Heights merchandise

Emerald Fennell’s lust-fuelled take on Emily Brontë’s novel has cued a hot flush of merchandise ranging from themed snacks to thongs. What exactly are they buying into?

That appetite for Emerald Fennell’s bodice-ripping adaptation of Emily Brontë’s yarn of doomed romance is high is not in doubt. Whether it’s high enough to sustain sales for an official Wuthering Heights açai bowl seems less certain.

Yet this is exactly what is on offer in food aisles across the US, with two bespoke bowls churned up for hungry film fans with the explanatory slogan: “This is what happens when you turn yearning into flavour.”

Times of Israel - World News

2026-02-09 09:56:49 (43 minutes ago)

Astera Labs opens Israel R&D hub to tap into local talent, develop AI connectivity tech

US semiconductor manufacturer plans to hire hundreds of employees to help build solutions for AI infrastructure challenges

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Times of Israel - World News

2026-02-09 09:56:44 (44 minutes ago)

Lapid: Police may need to probe Netanyahu’s ‘intentional forgery’ of October 7 protocols

Opposition leader says 'biased editing of protocols of security discussions' goes beyond PM's usual 'lying'; Gantz calls Netanyahu document a 'rewriting of history'

The post Lapid: Police may need to probe Netanyahu’s ‘intentional forgery’ of October 7 protocols appeared first on The Times of Israel.

RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-09 09:56:23 (44 minutes ago)

Gitmo or bust: Have Epstein’s sexual predators been punished enough?

For all the lives they ruined, the actual criminals have faced remarkably little in the way of retribution
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The Guardian - World News

2026-02-09 09:56:23 (44 minutes ago)

Marseille dared to challenge PSG but the empire has struck back in style

Roberto De Zerbi’s team has stood up to PSG this season, but they were humiliated at the Parc des Princes on Sunday

By Get French Football News

To understand Marseille’s season, you need not watch all of their games; those played against PSG will suffice. After Marseille’s 1-0 win over the European champions in September – their first at the Vélodrome in the league in 14 years – the word “finally” was the word scrawled across the front page of local paper La Provence. That victory brought relief, but also hope and optimism: the Empire could be toppled. But it struck back on Sunday night.

“Rubbish,” read the front page of La Provence on Monday. And there really was only one word for it. It was a 5-0 defeat that could have been 10 – a humiliation. The Marseille defender Facundo Medina had spoken about “seeking revenge” for his team’s defeat to PSG in the Trophée des Champions in January, a defeat on penalties so narrow and frustrating that it left Roberto De Zerbi in tears in the dressing room.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-02-09 09:55:29 (45 minutes ago)

Patriots' Will Campbell avoids questions following Super Bowl LX loss

New England Patriots offensive lineman Will Campbell declined to talk to reporters after having a tough game in Super Bowl LX on Sunday.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-09 09:55:17 (45 minutes ago)

Gu beaten by Gremaud to Olympic gold in women’s slopestyle

For the second straight Winter Olympics, Mathilde Gremaud bests Eileen Gu in the women's blue ribband freeski event.

France 24 - World News

2026-02-09 09:55:15 (45 minutes ago)

Ghislaine Maxwell: From socialite to Epstein accomplice

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is set to be questioned behind closed doors by the US congress. Born into a life of privilege, Maxwell was the youngest daughter of British media tycoon Robert Maxwell. She went on to work for her father and became a well-known socialite, but her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein would eventually lead to her arrest in 2020. A year later she was found guilty of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors and sentenced to 20-years behind bars.

New York Times - World News

2026-02-09 09:54:19 (46 minutes ago)

The resignation of a key Starmer aide has accelerated the scandal.

Fox News - Video

2026-02-09 09:51:04 (49 minutes ago)

Desperate search for Nancy Guthrie enters day 9 with alleged ransom deadline

Fox News' Matt Finn reports the latest on the investigation from Tuscon. Fox News contributor Josh Ritter also weighs in on the ongoing search for Nancy Guthrie and her family's offer to pay an alleged Bitcoin ransom.

France 24 - World News

2026-02-09 09:50:54 (49 minutes ago)

Israel's security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over the West Bank

Israel ’s security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority. The office of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a statement announced the decisions that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land, adding that “we will continue to bury the idea of a Palestinian state.”