Many are hopeful moment will be a turning point away from repression and unrest and a chance to revive economy
Bangladesh’s new prime minister has been sworn in, sealing a dramatic political comeback for the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) and formally closing the turbulent chapter that toppled Sheikh Hasina in 2024.
The swearing-in of Tarique Rahman restored an elected government after 18 months of caretaker rule led by Nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Continue reading...American fractured tibia in downhill last week
Vonn was initially treated in Italy for injuries
Lindsey Vonn is back home in the US to continue treatment after she broke her leg during the Winter Olympic downhill.
“Haven’t stood on my feet in over a week… been in a hospital bed immobile since my race. And although I’m not yet able to stand, being back on home soil feels amazing,” Vonn posted on X with an American flag emoji. “Huge thank you to everyone in Italy for taking good care of me.”
The 41-year-old suffered a complex tibia fracture after she crashed early in her downhill run on 8 February. She was initially treated in hospital in Italy and underwent several surgeries on her injured leg. She has said she will need further surgery in the US.
Nine days before her fall in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Vonn ruptured the ACL in her left knee in another crash in Switzerland. Even before then, she had been the focus of attention heading into the Olympics for her comeback after nearly six years of retirement.
The East German-born artist, who has died aged 41, came of age in a deeply dysfunctional landscape, using furniture to reveal schisms masked by unification
Mourning has many colours and many layers. One mourns people. But one can also mourn a state, a system, an ideology – even those that were deeply flawed. In 2019, the artist Henrike Naumann built an East German living room and rotated it by 90 degrees. The sofa, chairs and coffee table – all in the unmistakable aesthetic of the 1990s – climbed the wall. The carpet became vertical. Cabinets hovered near the floor alongside a CD rack, baseball badges and a flag bearing a slogan in Sütterlin script: “Beware of storm and wind and East Germans who are enraged.”
The installation – titled Ostalgie (a portmanteau of the German words for “east” and “nostalgia”) – made physical what many had felt but struggled to articulate: the collapse of the GDR and its aftermath for those who had lived through it and felt it on some level as a loss. That rupture was not abstract. It tilted the room. It unsettled the ground beneath your feet.
Continue reading...A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China.…
MILAAN (ANP) - De Nederlandse schaatsers moeten op de Olympische Spelen in Milaan genoegen nemen met de strijd om het brons op de ploegenachtervolging. Het team van bondscoach Rintje Ritsma met Stijn van de Bunt, Jorrit Bergsma en Chris Huizinga verloor in de halve finale in het Milano Speed Skating Stadium van het team van Italië.
Nederland kwam tot 3.40,67 tegen 3.38,88 voor de Italianen.
WAALWIJK (ANP) - Een bedrijf uit Waalwijk is verantwoordelijk voor het overlijden van een werknemer die tijdens zijn werk aan een schip in het water viel en verdronk, bepaalde de rechtbank Oost-Brabant. De onderneming moet een geldboete van 75.000 euro betalen.
Volgens de rechter liet het bedrijf na een veilige werkomgeving te creëren op de werkplek van de man. De risico's waren onvoldoende in kaart gebracht. Ook waren er geen maatregelen genomen om een val te voorkomen en was er onvoldoende toezicht op het gebruik van beschermingsmiddelen. "Met dit alles schoot het bedrijf ernstig tekort in zijn zorgplicht. Het bedrijf handelde aanmerkelijk onvoorzichtig, onachtzaam, onzorgvuldig en nalatig", aldus de rechtbank.
De medewerker was in januari 2023 bezig met snijbrandwerk op het achterdek van een schip. Hij verscheen in de ochtend niet bij een koffiepauze en was daarna onvindbaar. Drie dagen later vond de politie zijn lichaam in het water.
Naast de geldboete moet het bedrijf aan nabestaanden schadevergoedingen betalen van bijna 80.000 euro.
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For all of the “progress” associated with advancing technologies and the purported conveniences of having tiny, powerful computers at our fingertips, there are certainly some drawbacks. Smartphones today—and their millions of apps—are data-collecting devices as much as they are portals to search engines, maps, social media, the news, and anything else on the internet. And the market for regular hardware upgrades and software updates can trap us in a perpetual loop, spending big money for faster speeds and the newest features.
There’s certainly some merit in phones and gear that are a bit “less smart.” Just as the Luddite Club, members of which prefer to switch off or use “dumb phones,” citing the value of building real-life friendships rather than spending a ton of time on social apps. For a lot of Millennials who came of age as cell phones rolled out, they’re just old enough to remember AOL Instant Messenger, chatrooms, basic flip phones, and pixelated Game Boys. The generation can recall an earlier, simpler era of digital tech and the World Wide Web despite being the first to enter adulthood and careers that have been indelibly shaped by its transformations.
For one such Millennial, Nicole Nikolich, a.k.a. Lace in the Moon, throwback devices from the early 2000s like the Blackberry, T9 phones, and Nokia’s “Bricks” are sources of both reminiscence, play, and inspiration. Through the medium of crochet, itself a craft practice deeply entwined with comfort and nostalgia, the artist has created a series of larger-than-life fiber portraits of iconic digital objects and icons for her solo exhibition user_history at Paradigm Gallery + Studio.
Crochet—and by extension, craft—might be seen as something of an antithesis to the digital or virtual realm. One must use their hands to do a timeless, manual activity, and it doesn’t get much more analog than physical yarn and a needle or two. A stitch may also be likened to a pixel, as one tiny component is a building block that can add up to an entire image or object when combined with thousands of others.
By translating old phones, handheld video games, and outdated application icons into stitched fiber, Nikolich emphasizes the power of concentration, imperfection, and the handmade—not only in terms of making but in our daily interactions and relationships with ourselves and others. “In her largest body of work to date, Nikolich reminds us of the varied methods of human connection while combining traditional craft and the digital world,” the gallery says.
user_history runs from March 6 to 29 in Philadelphia. Find more on the artist’s Instagram.
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